richmondhunters2 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Girls Tuesday night....Council and TV, Haysi and Honaker......Boys wednesday night.....Honaker and Council, TV and Haysi...Who wins??...and any other comments?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy10 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hurley lost the play-in game to GET INTO the district tournament but yet they are still going to the REGIONAL tournament. The Division Split is a bad idea.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skydusky 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 No the Division split is not a bad idea, never did think it was fair in Region C for our small schools to have to play Radford adn George Wythe. I like Region C plan take them all to regional tourney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1224hoops 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 If you want to take them all, then why play a District Tournament?? Shouldn't a 20 game regular season mean something. You don't want our "small schools" to have to play guys like GW...lol. GW has 444 students...JJKelly has more than that. Go to VHSL.org and look at who the "small schools" will have to play if they make it to the state quarterfinals and beyond. Division I in Region A and B have teams with 459--Mathews, 421 Franklin, 624--Nelson County, 618--Manassas Park, 588--Buffalo Gap. In Region B the smallest school is Rappahannock County with 341, that's 60 students larger than our, Region D, largest school in DI (Haysi--280). I'm just not sure how anyone can think this benefits anyone in the long run. Yes, it may help a few of the Div. I teams get past the Regional Tournament, but the bottom line is you still have to be a really good team to go any further. DIVISIONAL SPLITS IS NOT THE ANSWER!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvp 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 The divisional splits do not change anything really. When teams from SWVA got to state they had to play the largest of the large schools in single A anyway. TV a few years ago played Clarke County in the state finals. A school that until Lee moved down was the largest in single A. Just like you were saying, the larger schools in Regions A and B D1 are still larger than most D2 schools in Regions C or D. the splits didn't really change anything it just creates more games---more money for VHSL. Concerning was said above about Hurley and the importance of district tourneys. Why did they even play the "play-in" game the other night if the loser was going to regionals anyway? Why play a district tourney at all? Are all the teams from the BDD going to be in the regionals? I know Honaker is D2, but are all the others going to the tourney in D1? If so, what's the point? Just take the way they finished in the regular season and seed them accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1224hoops 10 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 The reason they play the tournaments is for points toward seeding. It justifies ranking a Rye Cove for instance higher than a Hurley. Or a TV higher than a JI Burton. I understand why they do it but it makes no sense to let teams in that are that bad. I read in the BHC today that Holston's girls qualified for the Region tournament. Taking nothing away from those coaches or kids, but a team that has an 0-20 record doesn not deserve a regional appearance. Same goes for anyone else with that type of record. If you want everyone to make the Regional Tourny, take the 24 teams in DI and DII put them into 4 brackets of 6, rank the teams 1-6, and have a DI and DII winner. Forget the district tournaments and seed based on regular season district record and non-district record. All the tie breakers could still apply. A lot of these teams face the challenge of playing any one particular team 4-5 times. Take the BDD for instance, you play each team twice in reg. season, most likely once in the district tourn. and run the possibility of playing that same opponent in the Regional tourny. Thats 5 times and your not even into the state tourny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvp 10 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I feel the same about the divisional splits, but on the bright side, for us as fans we get to watch twice as much basketball! Should be a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babyblue 10 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 The good thing... is you wont be playing Gate City, George Wythe or Clark County.. And you should'nt. At least they are trying something... still honaker and castlewood will be playing teams with almost twice their size enrollment!! Va needs a 4-A or 5-A classification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzo5 10 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 I agree with a 4A maybe with divisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanefive 11 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 [ QUOTE ] The good thing... is you wont be playing Gate City, George Wythe or Clark County.. And you should'nt. At least they are trying something... still honaker and castlewood will be playing teams with almost twice their size enrollment!! Va needs a 4-A or 5-A classification. [/ QUOTE ] But you will have to play Nelson County (624), Manassas Park (618) Buffalo Gap (588), so not alot of difference? The numbers way above even some of C & D's Division 2. The current system as everyone knows is flawed, but really is anything going to be done about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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