orc (onlyrealcat), Do you proof-read your posts? Skipping words, using the wrong tense of a word (present tense or past tense), using singular instead of plural words - your posts are not easy to decipher what you're (you are) trying to say.

And thanks for being the authority on all things "playoff." Just because you state it doesn't make me believe it.

I didn't say Bracket, I said there are 80 class AAAA teams in the state ... that sentence concerned rankings. Being ranked in the top ten out of 80 is more impressive then top ten out of ten, or 32.

How regions are set up, I know, is determined by proximity to like classed schools. But Region "1" having only four teams (all going to play off) and Region "4" having 15 teams split into A and B, then deciding where to place/seed after the fact regardless of records, is more than curious, I think.

I agree Baldwin does have a tough battle ahead of them. I think all top ranked teams with exceptional records should be rewarded by being seeded so that they don't knock each other off before reaching the semi-finals. I also know it is impossible for strange things not to happen ... but this is beyond strange. Baldwin should be a two seed, they are ranked higher than five of the number one seeds. Baldwin should be playing a three seed but your Region 4 coaches decided to work it this way.

Whatever, either White Water or Fayette County could, can, and will send Baldwin home early, and that isn't fair for Baldwin.

It was set, then reset, I was simply commenting on the Herculian challenge facing Fayette County's quest for the Championship against a stacked deck.

Would it make you feel better to play TCC in the 2nd round like Whitewater has to. The tigers first test will be Tuckerin the 3rd round.

I yam what I yam...Popeye

Fayette County will probably play TCC in fifth round anyway.

Would I rather have a team Play in a bracket that has only one team ranked above seven, than three teams? Let me think a second .... WELL, YEAH! We have our eye on the Championship ... can you remember who came in in 16th place last year? You worry about getting by second round, I worry for all the ranked teams Fayette is sending home early because of bad seeding. (sure i do)

SE Quadrant
#1 NS Warner Robins has a red carpet path to the quarter finals.

NW Quadrant
#2 Tucker has #7 E. Spaulding and #8 Mays in it's bracket

NE Quadrant
#3 Tucker has #4 Baldwin and #6 Fayette County in it's bracket.

Sw Quadrant
#5 Habersham Central has #9 Marist and #10 Ware County.

At this stage, rankings don't mean squat, only for colleges do they mean anything, at this level you have to play your way to the championship. I read the paper too, it's a tough draw, someone gets a tough draw every year. Like I said Tucker will be the first real test.

I yam what I yam...Popeye

I am aware it is show time. I am aware it is important to not be intimidated. I am aware rankings, trying to determine the best ten teams our of a given set, in this case 80, when in most cases they haven't played each other, is a best guess effort of people whose qualifications are not always stirling ... but it is a tool. I will bet you two to one, and give you the twenty two teams not ranked in top ten.

Hey ... This is Monday on the first week of play. Everyone is still digesting the bracket and the seedings, especially since there has been one seeding already; the change to it totally illogical. Allow me this final day to indulge my rightous outrage. Remember, right off the bat the number six and number four ranked teams play, for sure one will be knocked out ... that is wrong.

Pity poor 8-1 4th ranked Baldwin. They deserved better than having to take the fourth seed that should have gone to unranked, 5-5, Lovejoy. That bad luck has them facing the eventual Champion Fayette County Tigers the first round.

They are loaded. NS Warner Robins too. TCC also.

I would be very wary of Baldwin. If you look passed them to the next round you will be buying a ticket. I watched them play Starrs Mill last year and they are a very formidible opponent. Good luck in the playoffs.

I would go ahead and beat Baldwin. They've come too far to stop now.

GO TIGERS!

The Tigers look past no one, one game at a time is how they got here.

I yam what I yam...Popeye