I Couldn't resist.... It is Such A Great read..... Enjoy!!!
I think the Funniest Part of this is where the Folsom guy who was Threatening a Lawsuit against the CIF is complaining about "Private Schools Being Able to Bring in Talent From Everywhere"... 🤣
At the Time, Folsom's Best Player was a Senior Transfer from GA (Jonah Williams), and Folsom in the future would win Back to Back D1AA Titles on the Backs of "Northern Nevada's Best Players"....🤣
Also, Note Kris Richardson's Quote that The LOSER of The Open Play In Game Should Be REWARDED.... Apparently Richardson doesn't understand that Determining The Best team in a Playoff is what Competition is all about....🤣
This is why No One Respects Folsom or Gives them Credit, They Whined and Cried About Having to Play DLS for a Championship to go to a SBG.... This is Also Why 2014 Folsom Had ZERO Chance of Beating 2014 DLS, Just Look at how the Coaches felt and Administration and Fans.... They Were already Defeated and Terrified of DLS.... 🤣🤣
"Folsom High football coaches Kris Richardson and Troy Taylor acknowledged that while they don’t mind playing De La Salle"...… Really? Then Why Did it Take Folsom 5 Years and Their Best Team Ever To Schedule DLS?....🤣
"THE LOSER OF THE OPEN SHOULD BE REWARDED"- Kris Richardson and Troy Taylor
Parents, fans argue football playoff system is unfair
Tuesday Dec 24 2013
By: Matt Long, Sports Editor
Folsom’s second blowout loss in as many years to De La Salle in the Northern California open championship football game have some parents and fans grumbling about the playoff system.
One, in fact, called Sac-Joaquin Section commissioner Pete Saco and left him what he described as the worst voice mail he’s received in 21 years.
While Saco provided the big push to start the state football playoffs in 2006, laying the blame at his feet is unfair. Saco, who’s been commissioner of the section for 21 years, recognizes the position of Folsom fans.
“I’ve been doing this long enough where I get all the positions,” Saco said. “I get where Folsom is coming from. I’m about doing what’s right. I want to defend and support the schools in the section.”
Jennifer Cartier, whose son Nick Bolling is a senior offensive lineman on Folsom’s team, wrote a letter to The Folsom Telegraph, and also to other media outlets and the California Interscholastic Federation,
the ruling body of all high school sports in the state. She points out the unfairness of public schools facing private schools. De La Salle, as Cartier states, “is a private school which can attract talent from all over the state, and in some instances, the country, to play for their team.”
Another Folsom resident, who wished to remain anonymous, also wrote a letter to the Telegraph saying a lawsuit should be filed against the CIF utilizing state sports title data to prove private and public schools should never play each other in the CIF state playoff structure.
The resident, who has no ties to the Folsom football program or the high school, said there should be a title path in which private schools play for a state title and a separate path for public schools to battle for the state title.
“A lawsuit would change the system and bring fairness back to public school kids who have been cheated out of a large amount of state titles by being forced to play private schools, which have more money … and the ability to bring in players from anywhere,” he wrote.
Folsom High football coaches Kris Richardson and Troy Taylor acknowledged that while they don’t mind playing De La Salle, they agree that the current playoff system is unfair because the second-best team in Northern California (the loser of the open regional game) is not being rewarded for being the second-best team, while the third-best team, the Division I winner, is being rewarded.
Richardson said after the loss to De La Salle that when the current playoff system was designed, the North would be sending their best teams down South to play for a state title.
“I don’t think they’re doing that right now when they’re sending the loser of the open game home,” Richardson said.
Saco, who said that Folsom High Principal Kathryn Allaman and Richardson and Taylor have been first-class folks to deal with, said there are a couple options to look at in terms of changing the playoff format.
One scenario has the best team in the open division having a bye in the regional playoffs and automatically play in the state title game. If that were in place this year, De La Salle would have had the bye and in all likelihood, Folsom would have played Serra for the Division I title and Del Oro would have been out of the loop.
The scenario that Saco is supporting would be to have every team that wins a section title moving on to play a regional playoff game, meaning instead of having five regional Northern California title games, there would be 12. Again, one team from the North and one from the South would be selected to play in the open championship game and would have a bye in the regional round. This new playoff system would increase the number of state champions in California from five to 12. If that sounds like a lot, that’s as many state champions that Texas crowns each year as well.
“I firmly believe it’s the wave of the future,” Saco said. “I think it can be done and it could happen next year if enough people get behind it. Problems are solvable; we’ve just got to get moving on it to get it better.”
While the plan doesn’t separate publics and privates, it would keep a perennial powerhouse private school, if chosen by the section commissioners as the best in the North or South, from eliminating a public school from the chance of winning a state title.
