One Chicagoland veteran head football coach and athletic director, whose school voted in favor of Proposal 10, admitted that he wishes things would have gone a different way.
"I'm disappointed that this proposal failed to pass," the coach said. "I felt this proposal was a viable solution to a growing problem. Scheduling is getting harder and harder and schools keep wanting to jump ship on conferences."
So what's the possible solution?
"The only solution that would make sense to me now is letting everyone in the state playoffs," the coach said. "No one wants to see this happen but if everyone would be allowed in the state playoffs schools wouldn't need to play the scheduling game. You wouldn't need to 'find' five wins anymore."
Well, no surprise that this guy doesn't want his name put to this quote.
Whether 8 teams, or 64 teams, or 256 teams or 512 teams make the playoffs ... you still need to have proper seeding. And any proper seeding takes into account not only number of wins, but level of competition.
I'll suppose they'll understand when Sycamore draws Montini in the first round of the AYSO-style playoffs.