There's a new format for the NCS D1 bracket called the Open/D1 bracket. The first-round winners in the top half of the bracket will play for the Open Division championship on November 19/20. The loser of the Open Division championship will play the winner of the bottom half of the bracket for the Division I championship in November 26/27.
Well they haven’t beat anyone this year. Their best win is 6-4 D3 American Canyon. They lost to Casa Grande who got handled by D1 Antioch. Vintage is good but they play in a D3/4/5/6 league. They aren’t D1 good, not this year. Maybe schedule some EBAL or BVAL schools next year and beat them. Or beat El Cerrito and Newman.
I believe Vintage had to forfeit league title for some reason. Not sure what the exact reason was
Then what’s the point of having leagues? Yea, they lost to Casa Grande by 2 but CG got beat by 18 to AC.
See the link. The bracket lays it out. The reason behind it is to allow the 2nd or 3rd best team in entire NCS a chance to play in NorCals. NCS version of Folsom rule. They just call it “Open” to distinguish between the split in the bracket
It’s the Folsom Rule of the NCS. Nobody wants to play the Machine.
Vintage should of took care of business and beat Casa. They don’t have a solid win on their resume. For better or worse they are in D1, pre season they need to play D1 opponents. Schedule CV, Antioch, Liberty, or Logan (who had has a weak league as well but they won it outright). Their league is extremely weak by D1 standards. Great coach, great kids, great program but D1 is rough.
I don’t think so. I believe the CIF agreed to grant the NCS an extra bid
What is this - some kind of consolation game? I know CIF ruled against losing teams advancing in the playoffs.
Same in D3 Windsor #1 travels to #8 Northgate. The auto home game for league champs is horrible.
… but, according to some, the NCS is the best system! What gives! How can it be ridiculous?
No. 1 De La Salle hosts No. 8 James Logan and No. 2 Pittsburg hosts No. 7 Amador Valley. The winner of those two games will play for the NCS Open Division championship. The loser of that game will advance to the Division 1 championship game for a second chance to advance to the state playoffs. For example, De La Salle and Pittsburg advance to the Open Division championship in their half of the bracket. Clayton Valley Charter and Monte Vista play each other in the Division 1 semifinal game in their half of the bracket the same week. De La Salle wins the NCS Open Division championship game and Pittsburg would then play Clayton Valley or Monte Vista the following week for the NCS Division 1 Championship. The winner of that game would advance to the state playoffs.
Got it so we still embrace this loser advances theme in every attempt to get the best possible teams to Rep Norcal. Norcal fans better hope SoCal doesn’t decide to operate this way or these ”state titles” will all end up in socal
Wow - I guess the NCS section found a loop hole in the CIF ruling of no losing team advancing to the RBG games by simply moving that losing team to a lower division for more playoff action. If that works, sections could theoretically daisy chain their losing teams down in every division. The SS section could leave slots open in their D2 through D7 divisions for their 6 losing teams out of D1 for a probable sweep of regional and state bowls.
How can an NCS team beat DLS? If it was that easy it would have been done long ago. Maybe you should take over Clayton Valley or Liberty or whoever. What would you do differently to overcome the Spartans? I’m really curious. I know Clayton Valley has tried everything LOL. We don’t have a comparable private school with that population base and support.
CV has the same if not better situation than DLS, open enrollment about 15k cheaper. What they don’t have is obvious If you can’t figure that out you never will. Same could be said for other programs in the area. (Even though they don’t have open enrollment which makes hill a little higher) But let’s be real no shortage of kids transferring around Ant, Oakley corridor either.
SoCal has the two IMGs of California. NorCal doesn't have anything close to that. Having said that yes, this loser advance BS needs to stop. NCS teams have been going through this for decades. They've seen other teams avoid DLS and advance to a state game( no need to name names) while they've stayed home. But adopting this BS doesn't help at all
You and I know that if they took away DLS rolling start, things would change.
Simply amazing so that it huh? The rolling start is the secret sauce to all that success? Here’s a thought why not do it yourselves if that is the answer? Me thinks it’s a little more than that. Lol.
Not a secret sauce. By the by, I am a professional Chef, so I do know about sauce.
Ok great. So I’ll say it again copy it, why haven’t Norcal teams copied it for same advantage?
Apparently every coach has been a complete oblivious idiot the past 30 years! LOL
That’s funny North Bay! Touché
Maybe a “old timer” like Marc shouldn’t make such painfully ignorant and obviously correctable excuses for 30 years of failure, right? LMAO!
