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That’s great for you, but they were still meaningless unless you played for one of the few teams vying for the title. Players didn’t acknowledge that back then. They do now. Do you want it fixed or not?

Maybe meaningless. But people by the tons still talked about them and watched them.

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Considering there has yet to be an opt put for a playoff team, sure.

Not for 4 teams. But once the players see that the games for the lower teams truly are nonconsequential the players will begin to opt out.

You seem hesitant to address that the vast majority of the games in the semis are blow outs. How do you think the players and the fans are going to react when they lose closely matched games from the Sugar, Orange and the other NY6 games for blow outs?

It will be a horrible tradeoff for the fans.

You also never addressed this:
You would be happy with the system as is if we could find another way to stop opt outs?

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Posted by djsdawg

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Posted on 12/28/20 at 11:10 am to DawgsLife

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But once the players see that the games for the lower teams truly are nonconsequential the players will begin to opt out.

This hasn’t happened vs the vandys of the world, so I doubt it.

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You seem hesitant to address that the vast majority of the games in the semis are blow outs.

It’s beside the point we have been discussing, which is opt outs, so it makes sense to do that.

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How do you think the players and the fans are going to react when they lose closely matched games from the Sugar, Orange and the other NY6 games for blow outs?

I am not sure this is the trade off. Neither of our sugar bowls were good games. Would they have been better with championship implications? Perhaps.