Class A Playoffs
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LINCOLN - All 24 eligible Class A teams will be in the football playoffs, the NSAA Board of Directors decided Thursday. The postseason will start in Week #9, and the NSAA staff will form a seeding committee.
More than 45 minutes of Thursday's monthly NSAA board meeting was spent on hashing out the changes.
Because the Omaha Public Schools aren't playing football this fall and because other games have been canceled due to coronavirus reasons, not every Class A team will have a full nine-game regular season. Without OPS, one of the six football districts had only two eligible seasons.
The seeding committee will consider all games, including those the NSAA considers replacement games that do not count toward wild-card points.
With the playoff format change, Class B Plattsmouth loses its final regular-season game against Class A Bellevue East.
So....Class A the pickup games count, but in all other classes, they don't. Got it!
Seeding committee, what a joke. There's a way to seed teams. Let all the games count towards points regardless of class.
With so many cancelled games, teams playing a differant amount of games, etc..., I think they are handling it in a great manner. Unless they seed them in a bogus manner I bet it will come out better than if they used the points.
People just like to complain. In June we all worried that we weren't going to get to play any games. This format is not ideal, but it provides some form of a playoff for class A. Most importantly...kids are playing football. Tough to complain about that, unless you enjoy being grumpy.
I can be cantankerous, but all classes are in the same boat with missing games. For example, after this week,, Hartington/Newcastle will have 1 game that counts towards points. They beat Bellevue West hypothetically in a pickup game & it wouldn't matter.
Trust me, I'm happy as a pig in poop that the season is going though.
Trust me, I'm happy as a pig in poop that the season is going though.
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I thought the majority of everyone was on the same page....if you are good enough then you will make the playoffs. Now we let ALL class A teams in the playoffs. What happened to the "just win" crowd?! And don't tell me class A is the only class that's dealing with games getting canceled - it's happening everywhere.
I think is more based on the wildcard system is very compromised when you start missing half the games, with some team now on week 4 and only played one game and probably a good assumption that more games will be missed.
The Problem lies in district A3
District 3:
District 3:
- Lincoln Southwest (0-2, 0-0), 36.0000
- Papillion-LaVista South (0-3, 0-0), 33.0000
- Omaha South (0-0, 0-0), 0.0000
- Omaha Central (0-0, 0-0), 0.0000
- Omaha Burke (0-0, 0-0), 0.0000
NSAA board expands Class A football playoffs to include all 24 schools playing this fall
The vote comes amid COVID-19 issues disrupting the district and wild-card system currently in place.
There have been fewer cancellations in the lower six classes, so the board left the existing playoff qualifying process in place for the other six classes for the time being.
“The integrity of the process is still in place in (Class) B through D-6,” Nate Neuhaus, the NSAA assistant director in charge of football, told the board. “We can revisit that if we need to.”
“The wild-card standings (in Class A) probably aren’t going to provide a true picture of how teams should be seeded,” Neuhaus said.
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The NSAA board discussed what protocols and guidelines could be in place in terms of attendance limits at postseason district and state events as well as mask mandates, particularly in volleyball and football. No formal action was taken, but the consensus coming out of the board was to adhere to whatever restrictions and protocols are in place by the local health departments at the schools hosting district events rather than having a blanket policy from the NSAA.
There’s also concern about what state volleyball and the state football finals might look like in Lincoln in November. While the rest of the state is in Phase 4 of reopening (75% capacity for indoor facilities and 100% capacity outdoors), Lincoln is still in Phase 3, which limits indoor capacity to 50% and outdoor to 75%.
That could be a problem for some of the first-round state volleyball sites in Lincoln Public School gyms.
NSAA executive director Jay Bellar also mentioned the possibility that Grand Island Senior High may be prohibited from hosting playoff football games unless the district changes its policy on not allowing visiting fans into fall sports competitions.
Here's the problem I have and is just one example. Hartington/Newcastle is 1-0 and 22nd in power points. What if they had played their regular schedule and were 3-0. Wouldn't they be in a different position power point wise for the playoffs? So, to sit there and say that power points won't give a clear indication of where teams should be seeded doesn't just apply to just class A. It's going to be messed up in EVERY class.
And they could win, or lose by 50 tonight & still be 1-0 in NSAA's eyes. How difficult is it to make all games count?
