Perfect Playoff Bracket

[IUPNation]

Hey at least your region can be good at one sport.

We should have eight regions in football. Then the regions with the GLIAC and MIAA in them can finally meet in the semifinals and finals instead of the quarters!

Make it 8 regions and expand to 32 teams where four teams make the playoffs in each region for the first two rounds.

Region 1 - Pee Sack and NE 10.
Region 2 - GMAC and MEC
Region 3- CIAA and SAC
Region 4 - GSC and SIAC
Region 5 - GAC and LSC
Region 6 - GLIAC and GLVC
Region 7 - NSIC and RMAC

..and Region 8 can just be the MIAA Where after an 11 game SILO schedule they can have their own circle jerk to their greatness and have their top 4 teams in regional playoff to themselves and watch Northwest win that every year too.

Then you rank all 8 winners where the power teams will get the top dpots and get to host and then you get your final four wishes and then you all will ***** on here in a dick wagging contest that your team should have been the host for the Semi Finals

I should run not only the Pee Sack but the entire level.

[IUPNation]

Hey at least your region can be good at one sport.

We should have eight regions in football. Then the regions with the GLIAC and MIAA in them can finally meet in the semifinals and finals instead of the quarters!

That’s all this is about. You both got stuck in the same region. That’s not our problem. I gave you the fix. Flip the MIAA and NSIC. You should be playing Minnehaha State in the region not Northwest.

Iys hysterical how BIG fans from the Midwest hated eastern teams joining but in D2 you want a Midwest conference in and Eastern Region. Make up your minds.

[KleShreen]

Are you off your meds? I never once argued Region 1 is good nationally. I’m arguing against your arrogant statement that we don’t deserve playoff bids.

The mission of D2 is regional. The basketball playoffs are regional. You don’t like the regional format move up or shut up. That is a there is to it.

Hey at least your region can be good at one sport.

We should have eight regions in football. Then the regions with the GLIAC and MIAA in them can finally meet in the semifinals and finals instead of the quarters!

[IUPNation]

GV is 129-38-1 all-time against current SR1 teams, and 25 of those losses came in the first 25 years of the team's history, prior to 1997 lol.

I don't understand what we're arguing. You already admitted SR1 doesn't care about being good nationally. But then you're arguing SR1 is good nationally. So.

Are you off your meds? I never once argued Region 1 is good nationally. I’m arguing against your arrogant statement that we don’t deserve playoff bids.

The mission of D2 is regional. The basketball playoffs are regional. Baseball is regional and the winners advance to the championship round in the same place in North Carolina. You don’t like the regional format move up or shut up. That is all there is to it.

GV and Northwest are big fish in a smaller pond full of smaller fish. Your schools choose to stay in a small college level. GV is not a small college. You could be another useless MAC school. You should be an FCS school at most. You choose to stay at a level where most schools are far smaller. So stop *****ing when they don’t live up to your expectations when your school won’t man Up and move up. None of us peons are asking for any changes to make it easier for us. We just like the way it is because it gives each region a tournament and the elite teams still wind up in the title game. If a semi final game against Region 1 is a ticket punched to the finals why do you want to change it?

[KleShreen]

The record Shows they played Northwest in the 1999 SemiFinals and lost 20-12. Hardly a blowout and we barely made the playoffs that year..we were the lowest seed with three losses to D1AA Youngstown State (another close game) , a blowout loss to Slimey and Millersville. Did so with a freshman QB too put into service after the two
ayers in front of him got hurt . Paid back Slimey and Millersville in the playoffs and got sent to Marysville.

The last time GV made a Seni Final they lost to a team in Region 1 who is now in the Pee Sack. Opps.

GV is 129-38-1 all-time against current SR1 teams, and 25 of those losses came in the first 25 years of the team's history, prior to 1997 lol.

I don't understand what we're arguing. You already admitted SR1 doesn't care about being good nationally. But then you're arguing SR1 is good nationally. So.

[IUPNation]

You determine the best teams by seeing the same conference constantly beating teams from all around the nation in the playoff semifinals and non-conference games, and the same conferences and regions constantly getting crushed in the playoff semifinals.

NW Missouri has won 10 national semifinal games, and won six titles. The idea that they haven't proven themselves one of the top programs is laughable lol. All because your IUP squad has never been able to even make it to a national semifinal or national championship to face them lol.

MIAA has proven year after year in the playoffs that they are one of the best, because they keep winning national semifinal games against conferences and regions from all around the country. Maybe if the PSAC actually starts winning some semifinal games or national titles, people will respect them.

The record Shows they played Northwest in the 1999 SemiFinals and lost 20-12. Hardly a blowout and we barely made the playoffs that year..we were the lowest seed with three losses to D1AA Youngstown State (another close game) , a blowout loss to Slimey and Millersville. Did so with a freshman QB too put into service after the two
ayers in front of him got hurt . Paid back Slimey and Millersville in the playoffs and got sent to Marysville.

The last time GV made a Seni Final they lost to a team in Region 1 who is now in the Pee Sack. Opps.

[IUPNation]

Well that's interesting, because he really didn't get any playoff bids while losing to IUP lol. Lost in 1992 - didn't make playoffs. Lost in 1993 - didn't make playoffs. Lost in 1994 - made playoffs, lost to IUP again, as it should be. Lost in 1995 - didn't make playoffs. Made playoffs in 1998 - Lost to Slippery Rock. Made playoffs in 2001 and...oh gosh, what happened? Went undefeated, beat down Bloomsburg in the first round, lost the national title game by 3 points with a wide receiver playing QB. 2002 - beat UC Davis on their way to FCS, demolished IUP in the playoffs, demolished UNC on their way to FCS, won the title. 2003 - beat FCS UC Davis, went to the playoffs, demolished Bentley, won the title. It's almost like he proved after losing to IUP a bunch that he needed to keep improving, and when he did, he beat a bunch of teams that were great programs, and then showed playoff success and won championships.

Thus far, not a single team currently in SR1 has shown themselves capable of consistently beating good programs in D2 outside of their own region.

I'm not sure why this is even a discussion. It's all right there in black-and-white, where current SR1 schools have only made it to the national title game five times in 50 years, and lost all five times. Not a single national championship resides with current SR1 schools. Because y'all suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

..and Region 3 swallows.

We still get our 7 playoff slots. We still get our regional playoffs and the GLIAC and MIAA won’t get their way. Love it!

Suffer in Region 3…it’s what you deserve.

[KleShreen]

How do you determine the best teams when your conference plays a conference only schedule? When nobody really travels far for games anymore because it’s too costly?

Your Bearcats have never played in Pennsylvania. How good would they be so far from hime? We’ll never know.

The only time IUP played you guys (on your field…where Friggen else) we barely made the playoffs that season. They Made it to the final four and only lost by 8 to the Bearcats. We ended up being one of the final four teams despite not having a record going into the playoffs thst said they’d get that far.

The only way you way works is everyone playing multiple farOOC games each season meaning your Bearcats would need to show their faces in Pennsylvania from time to time.

You determine the best teams by seeing the same conference constantly beating teams from all around the nation in the playoff semifinals and non-conference games, and the same conferences and regions constantly getting crushed in the playoff semifinals.

NW Missouri has won 10 national semifinal games, and won six titles. The idea that they haven't proven themselves one of the top programs is laughable lol. All because your IUP squad has never been able to even make it to a national semifinal or national championship to face them lol.

MIAA has proven year after year in the playoffs that they are one of the best, because they keep winning national semifinal games against conferences and regions from all around the country. Maybe if the PSAC actually starts winning some semifinal games or national titles, people will respect them.

[KleShreen]

Then Brian Kelly never deserved a playoff bid when he sat at 0-6 against IUP..using your ****ed ip GV logic.

Well that's interesting, because he really didn't get any playoff bids while losing to IUP lol. Lost in 1992 - didn't make playoffs. Lost in 1993 - didn't make playoffs. Lost in 1994 - made playoffs, lost to IUP again, as it should be. Lost in 1995 - didn't make playoffs. Made playoffs in 1998 - Lost to Slippery Rock. Made playoffs in 2001 and...oh gosh, what happened? Went undefeated, beat down Bloomsburg in the first round, lost the national title game by 3 points with a wide receiver playing QB. 2002 - beat UC Davis on their way to FCS, demolished IUP in the playoffs, demolished UNC on their way to FCS, won the title. 2003 - beat FCS UC Davis, went to the playoffs, demolished Bentley, won the title. It's almost like he proved after losing to IUP a bunch that he needed to keep improving, and when he did, he beat a bunch of teams that were great programs, and then showed playoff success and won championships.

Thus far, not a single team currently in SR1 has shown themselves capable of consistently beating good programs in D2 outside of their own region.

I'm not sure why this is even a discussion. It's all right there in black-and-white, where current SR1 schools have only made it to the national title game five times in 50 years, and lost all five times. Not a single national championship resides with current SR1 schools. Because y'all suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[IUPNation]

It's not fine.

The best teams should get the top seeds. It doesn't matter what conference they play in.

I checked the past brackets to look at interesting first round matchups in the 16 team era.

1988

Portland State v. Bowie State
Jacksonville State v. West Chester

1989
Portland State v. West Chester
North Dakota State v. Edinboro

1990
East Texas v. Grand Valley

1991
East Texas v. Grand Valley

1993
UC Davis v. Fort Hays

How do you determine the best teams when your conference plays a conference only schedule? When nobody really travels far for games anymore because it’s too costly?

Your Bearcats have never played in Pennsylvania. How good would they be so far from hime? We’ll never know.

The only time IUP played you guys (on your field…where Friggen else) we barely made the playoffs that season. They Made it to the final four and only lost by 8 to the Bearcats. We ended up being one of the final four teams despite not having a record going into the playoffs thst said they’d get that far.

The only way you way works is everyone playing multiple farOOC games each season meaning your Bearcats would need to show their faces in Pennsylvania from time to time.

[IUPNation]

SR1 teams can gladly have playoff spots if they actually beat some decent teams outside of their own region and then dominate their conference.

Then Brian Kelly never deserved a playoff bid when he sat at 0-6 against IUP..using your ****ed ip GV logic.

[IUPNation]

Yea it's not provable because your conference refuses to play anyone halfway decent outside of their own garbage super region, as I already showed. But hey, keep beating on the bottom of the SIAC and CIAA I guess lol.

The MIAA plays a full conference schedule. You literally played the worst team in Region 1 last season. Next.

[IUPNation]

But you're the expert.

It’s not whining when you are always right and im
always right.

Ihave a better winning percentage than the Bearcats.

[IUPNation]

You think IUP is going to come out and say "yea, we turned down a home-and-home with GVSU because we're scared of losing and we're usually a fringe playoff team so we can't afford losses in non-conference" ? Of course not.

You have zero proof. You are full of ****.

[Brandon]

Well...even in IUP's national heyday they never played anyone far in the early rounds of the playoffs. So even though they did not have actual regionds, they still paired teams up that were closer together.

This is just an exercise to see how the playoffs can be made up so the top teams in the MIAA, GLIAC and GSC all get the top seeds in every playoff and make the have nots grovel and force them to travel their fields every post season. In this scenario, IUP would never see a home playoff game because we would always been deemed inferior and forced on the road every time we made it in.

It's about making the playoff field in D2 more uneven and making the rich get richer.

The playoff format is fine. The elite always win the title.

It's not fine.

The best teams should get the top seeds. It doesn't matter what conference they play in.

I checked the past brackets to look at interesting first round matchups in the 16 team era.

1988

Portland State v. Bowie State
Jacksonville State v. West Chester

1989
Portland State v. West Chester
North Dakota State v. Edinboro

1990
East Texas v. Grand Valley

1991
East Texas v. Grand Valley

1993
UC Davis v. Fort Hays