Video: Should Division II Overhaul the Playoff System? - with Mike Racy

[WBChargerDad]

Who else can get a thread to 34 pages on the always dead General Discussion page?

:-)

By taking a stance that a majority of the posters don't agree with and continuing to engage? It's the same thing Skip Bayless does, gets his watchers so frustrated with him that they take to social media and drive engagement. I guess every forum needs it's Skip Bayless to drive conversation!! And just like with Skip, I can't tell if you actually believe everything you say, or if you are picking some of your points solely to drive engagement!! So, thanks Skip!

[GorillaTeacher]

I don’t think the ncaa decides what the format is. The schools do, right?

[IUPNation]

We can sit here and debate all we want and come up with different plans but in the end the NCAA isn't going to do a damn thing. It's their tournament...

They aren't going to spend a penny more than they already do and they don't care about a level that barely gets a blip in the media.

It's going to stay regional, the money saved on not having to fly teams in the East justifies the NCAA in keeping it they way they do and giving us our allotted slots.

I bet in their eyes, if you don't like it, you have choices.

Then you have conferences that have literally no reason to give up what access they have to appease a vocal minority. I know how that feels being on the vocal minority end.

Unless there is more money and the haves can talk the have nots to give up their chances...what you see is what you are getting for the time being.

[IUPNation]

That should be a playoff ban, too.

Your school could have called us and traveled to PA.

[IUPNation]

The MIAA has nothing to do with IUP. As a matter of fact, the last two years, IUP has voluntarily made their schedule a SILO schedule by refusing to schedule anyone in their open week one.

Ok Hoggie.

[Brandon]

I do think rigid adherence to 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5 hurts the bracket. I would prefer allowing flexibility in placement of the 5-8 teams, so that Harding could be placed in a quadrant with West Florida or Valdosta.

Why?

[Predatory Primates]

The MIAA has nothing to do with IUP. As a matter of fact, the last two years, IUP has voluntarily made their schedule a SILO schedule by refusing to schedule anyone in their open week one.

That should be a playoff ban, too.

[KleShreen]

The MIAA was SILO. Just stop it.

The MIAA has nothing to do with IUP. As a matter of fact, the last two years, IUP has voluntarily made their schedule a SILO schedule by refusing to schedule anyone in their open week one.

[EastStroud13]

2021 FCS style bracket

This bracket does work out much better than it would in 2022. Much of that is the fact that the 8 seed, Bowie State, is not located so far from SR1. If, say, Kutztown were the #8 seed instead, the bracket would probably look the same, with the only difference being that Kutztown would host Bowie in the second round. So, I still favor a stipulation where every SR gets at least one seed.

I do think rigid adherence to 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5 hurts the bracket. I would prefer allowing flexibility in placement of the 5-8 teams, so that Harding could be placed in a quadrant with West Florida or Valdosta.

[Ram Tough]

Too bad they're all in one thread.

It also has more topics than any other forum.

[Predatory Primates]

The PSAC forum has more posts than any other forum here by far.

Too bad they're all in one thread.

[IUPNation]

The PSAC forum has more posts than any other forum here by far.

That's not my doing but it is mainly due to IUP fans. We have a lot of opinions.

[Matt Witwicki]

2021 FCS style bracket

[Matt Witwicki]

For reference....here is what the 2021 FCS style (no regions) bracket would look like versus the actual NCAA bracket (with regions)

**FCS bracket is simulating the favorites win each game in the process**

Actual NCAA bracket for 2021 = 2 flights in R1, 2 flights in R2. 2 repeat games in R1.

FCS bracket = had 1 flight in R1..2 flights in R2. No repeat games from the regular season in R1.

Both brackets end up with 9 flights total before TX. Regionalization saves zero flights here versus the FCS model.

Seeding was determined by where teams stood (combination of polls, true SOS, etc) at the end of the regular season and all conference champions are rewarded with a bid in the FCS bracket and are identified with an asterisk. The actual NCAA from 2021 is the first image here. (the next image will be the FCS)

[Ram Tough]

Who else can get a thread to 34 pages on the always dead General Discussion page?

:-)

The PSAC forum has more posts than any other forum here by far.