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Dawgsfan wrote:

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FoulOut138 wrote:

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Staxawax wrote:

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FoulOut138 wrote:

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Of course, in most states North Central and Hamilton SE would have some degree of separation with seeding. Nope not in Indiana. Blind draw them into the first round. Ridiculous to have #1 and #3 play in the first round. At least seed the top two teams in each sectional and put them on opposite sides of the bracket.

Why?  The game was a sellout, and was on "over-the-air" TV.  It was a classic, and everybody that could see it did.  Shouldn't matter if they play 2 games later.  Would North Central feel so much better with the title "Sectional Runnerup"?

By that logic, it's fine for the Patriots and Ravens (top two seeds in the AFC) to play in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. I know that there is a bunch of "we've always done it this way" built into the high school tournament (blind draw, two game/one day regionals, etc.), but that doesn't mean you can't make it better. The Ohio model (which does have some drawbacks, such as a bit more travel and sometimes a lack of rivalries) would have allowed NC and HSE to put themselves in totally different sectionals if they chose, meaning they wouldn't have had to meet until the regional finals, where they would have probably played in a bigger gym, with more focus being able to be drawn to it since there are only x number of teams left instead of every team in the state.

And by that logic, if the Patriots and Ravens are the 2 best teams in the NFL, the Ravens should be able to opt to play in the NFC.  Indiana's system is regional based, which builds rivalries and regional pride.  It was great that our sectional included 5 of the 6 county schools because winning the sectional meant that you had bragging rights over the other players with whom you played summer ball and would run into for the next year.  While class basketball has gutted much of the tradition of Indiana basketball, going to a seeding system would only finish the job. 

While we are talking apples and oranges here (HS basketball vs. college), this (the "have nots" being able to play and beat the "haves") is often why the first weekend of the NCAA tournament is the most entertaining.  While the last couple of years haven't always followed that script, once you get past the unpredictable things that happen that first weekend, it's often pretty much chalk until the higher seeds face each other to see what happens.

Overall seeding for the high school tournaments is a ridiculous idea, IMO.  Most school corps are cash strapped as it is, and throwing this at their feet would only make it worse.  The attendance at games would also suffer if a team had to drive way out of their area to play because they were seeded one way or the other.  I could see maybe seeding within the sectionals, but even then, some sectionals the teams don't play in the same conferences so how do you account for that if two teams have the same record and never played each other during the season?  The blind draw will always create issues like this (#1 Central Catholic ended up playing #2 Pioneer in the class A football sectional first round this year), but going to a seeding arrangement (unless they could figure out a way to do it effectively by sectional) would cause as many problems as it would solve.