With our current division alignment, would it more fairly represent the best 4 teams in the south, if the  #4  and #5 teams were voted on by the coaches while they are voting on the top 3 seeds.

In other words the Southern Conference was the weakest conference last year.  Should the 3^rd lowest conference champion get an automatic trip to the playoffs when they aren’t the 4^th best team.  For example (6-4) SB goes to the playoffs over (8-2) RCC and it could have just as well been over (8-2) BC.  RCC beat SB 51-13.  The injustice is evident.  IMO - To let a 6-4 team into the playoffs over an 8-2 just isn’t right.   

And yes this could affect BC in the Nothern Conference next year with VC, Cerritos, COC and AHC all fielding pretty good teams.   

acdad0330 wrote:

With our current division alignment, would it more fairly represent the best 4 teams in the south, if the  #4  and #5 teams were voted on by the coaches while they are voting on the top 3 seeds.

In other words the Southern Conference was the weakest conference last year.  Should the 3^rd lowest conference champion get an automatic trip to the playoffs when they aren’t the 4^th best team.  For example (6-4) SB goes to the playoffs over (8-2) RCC and it could have just as well been over (8-2) BC.  RCC beat SB 51-13.  The injustice is evident.  IMO - To let a 6-4 team into the playoffs over an 8-2 just isn’t right.   

And yes this could affect BC in the Nothern Conference next year with VC, Cerritos, COC and AHC all fielding pretty good teams.   

acdad0330 wrote:

With our current division alignment, would it more fairly represent the best 4 teams in the south, if the  #4  and #5 teams were voted on by the coaches while they are voting on the top 3 seeds.

In other words the Southern Conference was the weakest conference last year.  Should the 3^rd lowest conference champion get an automatic trip to the playoffs when they aren’t the 4^th best team.  For example (6-4) SB goes to the playoffs over (8-2) RCC and it could have just as well been over (8-2) BC.  RCC beat SB 51-13.  The injustice is evident.  IMO - To let a 6-4 team into the playoffs over an 8-2 just isn’t right.   

And yes this could affect BC in the Nothern Conference next year with VC, Cerritos, COC and AHC all fielding pretty good teams.   

DD Wrote:  Why do we even have conferences then if you think a conference champ does not deserve to make the playoffs? You're just taking the overall record in consideration which just makes conference play irrelevant.

Good point – SB was 5-1 in conference, I forgot about that, and they did have a tough schedule.  There is just something about 6-4 that I don’t think belongs in the playoffs.  Looking at it, the conferences were pretty well balanced and I was surprised that the Central Conference was actually the toughest by the numbers.  NC – 2 top 10 (+COC #11), CC - 4 top 10, SC – 3 top 10. 

So I guess you make a good point.  I just know I thought BC was getting screwed, for a  as good of a team as we had, when I thought it was BC going to get aced by SB.  This proved to be true.  As it turned out it was RCC – but it was really basically the same thing (they beat SB 51-13).  Fair for everyone is hard to come by, I guess someone’s always going feel like it should have been them.

acdad0330 wrote:

DD Wrote:  Why do we even have conferences then if you think a conference champ does not deserve to make the playoffs? You're just taking the overall record in consideration which just makes conference play irrelevant.

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Good point – SB was 5-1 in conference, I forgot about that, and they did have a tough schedule.  There is just something about 6-4 that I don’t think belongs in the playoffs.  Looking at it, the conferences were pretty well balanced and I was surprised that the Central Conference was actually the toughest by the numbers.  NC – 2 top 10 (+COC #11), CC - 4 top 10, SC – 3 top 10. 

So I guess you make a good point.  I just know I thought BC was getting screwed, for a  as good of a team as we had, when I thought it was BC going to get aced by SB.  This proved to be true.  As it turned out it was RCC – but it was really basically the same thing (they beat SB 51-13).  Fair for everyone is hard to come by, I guess someone’s always going feel like it should have been them.

GoBruins:  Not that I have anything against SB but…….Just for the sake of argument, when SB was on a 5-0 end of the year roll, as you say, their winning streak was against #9, Unranked, #19, #17 and Unranked.  I guess I was just trying to make the “weak conference” argument. 

To me the losses are more revealing.  Did SBs losses justify them to be in the playoffs more than RCC?  Or it could have just as well been BC?  SB didn’t fare too well out of their weaker conference for 2012.  And the Southern Conference #2 team, 8th ranked Fullerton, also lost every significant game out of the Southern Conference (Cerritos, BC & RCC). 

But Kudos to SB for their playoff performance against MS – a mud bowl game if there ever was one.  Your Gauchos are due to beat SAC again one of these years... hopefully soon!

SB

Lost to Mt SAC     #1 CC

Lost to RCC          #2 CC

Lost to VC            #1 NC

Lost to SA            #3 SC in your own conference

RCC

Lost to VC            #1 NC

Lost to MS            #1 CC their own conference       

BC

Lost to VC            #1 NC our conference

Lost to MS            #1 CC

ACDAD0330,

Well, there you go again with the numbers thing.

Can’t argue with ‘em unless you’re jj or hamo (Just kidding)

As always – good job putN everything into perspective

Ps specially when it shows just how good BC was this year

after a 2-2 start

BCFan wrote:  Can’t argue with ‘em unless you’re jj or hamo (Just kidding)

I got a good chuckle out of that one.  I don’t know what JJ does for a living but he would have made a great attorney.  And Hamo – there’s only one Hamo.  He’s the only one I know that can piss Murph off.