CIF-Southern Section coaches ask for mercy

[Where Are They Now]

By Nathan Mollat Daily Journal staff​

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team and league in California. It features the most basic information: results, standings, average points scored and average points allowed.
Over the years, the site came up with an algorithm that allows Calpreps.com to rank every team in the state. As sections around the state — including the Central Coast Section— moved away from enrollment-based playoff brackets to a points-based system, the powers-that-be included Calpreps.com’s rankings as one of its criteria for deciding which teams will go in which bracket. In the CCS, the top 40 teams are ranked, in order by points, with the top eight going to Division 1, the next eight into Division 2 and so on.

Now, however, some Southern Section teams are pushing back against the Calpreps.com rankings, with coaches asking to be downgraded for a variety of reasons. This is a 180-degree turn for many high school teams, who used to beg to be ranked higher.

But as the gap between the public and private, and now also including charter schools, continues to widen, many programs are looking to avoid first-round playoff exits.

The situation has gotten so bad among Southern Section programs that Ned Freeman, one of the people who runs the site, had to post a memo on the front page of the website, which read, in part: “Please understand that we do not change ratings upon request so please save yourself the time/effort of asking for that,” Freeman wrote on the front page of the site.

The memo continued: “Rest assured, you will not receive a response to this insulting request. … We find it amusing that for two decades, we received emails of, ‘Our team should be rated SO (emphasis his) much higher’ type that now it’s suddenly flipped and we get ‘Our team should be rated SO much lower’ emails as coaches hope to work their way into a lower playoff division.”

It wasn’t too long ago that many coaches pooh-poohed winning a lower-level section title, believing it was worth less than winning a section crown in a higher division.

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CIF-Southern Section coaches ask for mercy

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team

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By Nathan Mollat Daily Journal staff​

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team and league in California. It features the most basic information: results, standings, average points scored and average points allowed.
Over the years, the site came up with an algorithm that allows Calpreps.com to rank every team in the state. As sections around the state — including the Central Coast Section— moved away from enrollment-based playoff brackets to a points-based system, the powers-that-be included Calpreps.com’s rankings as one of its criteria for deciding which teams will go in which bracket. In the CCS, the top 40 teams are ranked, in order by points, with the top eight going to Division 1, the next eight into Division 2 and so on.

Now, however, some Southern Section teams are pushing back against the Calpreps.com rankings, with coaches asking to be downgraded for a variety of reasons. This is a 180-degree turn for many high school teams, who used to beg to be ranked higher.

But as the gap between the public and private, and now also including charter schools, continues to widen, many programs are looking to avoid first-round playoff exits.

The situation has gotten so bad among Southern Section programs that Ned Freeman, one of the people who runs the site, had to post a memo on the front page of the website, which read, in part: “Please understand that we do not change ratings upon request so please save yourself the time/effort of asking for that,” Freeman wrote on the front page of the site.

The memo continued: “Rest assured, you will not receive a response to this insulting request. … We find it amusing that for two decades, we received emails of, ‘Our team should be rated SO (emphasis his) much higher’ type that now it’s suddenly flipped and we get ‘Our team should be rated SO much lower’ emails as coaches hope to work their way into a lower playoff division.”

It wasn’t too long ago that many coaches pooh-poohed winning a lower-level section title, believing it was worth less than winning a section crown in a higher division.

More at:

CIF-Southern Section coaches ask for mercy

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team

www.smdailyjournal.com

That's because you have a handful of teams in CA dominating, on a completely different rule system, and a complete violation of ethics, to proclaim superiority. It's a joke.

 

[Norcalnut]

By Nathan Mollat Daily Journal staff​

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team and league in California. It features the most basic information: results, standings, average points scored and average points allowed.
Over the years, the site came up with an algorithm that allows Calpreps.com to rank every team in the state. As sections around the state — including the Central Coast Section— moved away from enrollment-based playoff brackets to a points-based system, the powers-that-be included Calpreps.com’s rankings as one of its criteria for deciding which teams will go in which bracket. In the CCS, the top 40 teams are ranked, in order by points, with the top eight going to Division 1, the next eight into Division 2 and so on.

Now, however, some Southern Section teams are pushing back against the Calpreps.com rankings, with coaches asking to be downgraded for a variety of reasons. This is a 180-degree turn for many high school teams, who used to beg to be ranked higher.

But as the gap between the public and private, and now also including charter schools, continues to widen, many programs are looking to avoid first-round playoff exits.

The situation has gotten so bad among Southern Section programs that Ned Freeman, one of the people who runs the site, had to post a memo on the front page of the website, which read, in part: “Please understand that we do not change ratings upon request so please save yourself the time/effort of asking for that,” Freeman wrote on the front page of the site.

The memo continued: “Rest assured, you will not receive a response to this insulting request. … We find it amusing that for two decades, we received emails of, ‘Our team should be rated SO (emphasis his) much higher’ type that now it’s suddenly flipped and we get ‘Our team should be rated SO much lower’ emails as coaches hope to work their way into a lower playoff division.”

It wasn’t too long ago that many coaches pooh-poohed winning a lower-level section title, believing it was worth less than winning a section crown in a higher division.

More at:

CIF-Southern Section coaches ask for mercy

Twenty years ago, Calpreps.com came online, three years before the advent of MaxPreps.com. Calpreps.com was a rudimentary website that tracked the results and standings of every high school football team

www.smdailyjournal.com

That's because you have a handful of teams in CA dominating, on a completely different rule system, and a complete violation of ethics, to proclaim superiority. It's a joke.

So they are trying to pull a Folsom. Instead of playing the best they whine and cry until they can get the much coveted D1AAAAAAAAAAAAAA ALSO RAN BOWL trophy like Folsom did.

 

[Norcalnut]

That's because you have a handful of teams in CA dominating, on a completely different rule system, and a complete violation of ethics, to proclaim superiority. It's a joke.

Your just mad your recruited up transfer laden Folsom can’t keep up with the big boys. I guess they better step up Folsom’s recruiting and transfer game because the players they got coming in can’t cut it.