Oakland Tech vs Redwood
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Redwood has played a tough schedule so far!
Doing it right, challenging themselves and even though losing some games and not having a gaudy record because of it, is positioning themselves for a low division seeding and possibly making a late season run.
Doing it right, challenging themselves and even though losing some games and not having a gaudy record because of it, is positioning themselves for a low division seeding and possibly making a late season run.
Scheduling has always been the most underrated aspect of high school coaching, but now with competitive equity, it is mandatory for coaches with any postseason ambitions to consider every non-league game an opportunity to both improve their teams and create the most advantageous postseason scenario.
Of course, there's a lot of luck involved, and it's more art than science, but scheduling is incredibly important for any high school coach.
Of course, there's a lot of luck involved, and it's more art than science, but scheduling is incredibly important for any high school coach.
In the pre competitive equity days is was much easier to schedule when u knew what division you'd be in, in Norcals. It's a crapshoot now and of course as we all have now seen (unfortunately) ...often it's advantageous to lose certain games along the way before NorCals.
I wouldn't call it "gaming" the system. Rather setting up a schedule that was advantageous to you come seeding time.
With no one knowing now what division one may end up in for playoffs it makes it almost impossible to schedule accordingly.
Since you can't predict that a win over a really bad D2 team will look good in the D4 seeding meeting, you're better off just creating a schedule that will make your team better. With locked-in divisions, you had to go for that "advantageous" schedule to guarantee a nice-looking resume or you might yourself on the road against a team that manipulated the process a little more skillfully. Now, you have no real clue, and you could do it perfectly and wind up the 16th seed in D3 instead of the first seed in D4.
Oh, and schools no longer make sure their enrollment numbers keep them down a division. St. Joseph Notre Dame was notorious for always being five students below the number that would have put them in D4.
Oh, and schools no longer make sure their enrollment numbers keep them down a division. St. Joseph Notre Dame was notorious for always being five students below the number that would have put them in D4.
