{"id":5499,"date":"2014-11-13T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T03:10:02","slug":"class-a-district-4-rematch-in-football-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/class-a-district-4-rematch-in-football-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Class A District 4 rematch in football semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, in an effort to cut down on travel in first-round (32) and second-round\u00a0(16) games, the IHSAA did not set football brackets. Instead, each round’s pairings were based on who was playing. After the games are played out, a full bracket can be created retroactively<\/em>, but not until then.<\/p>\n

Because of this non-structure, Gladbrook-Reinbeck and Denver, the first- and third-place teams in Class A District 4, will play each other Friday morning<\/a> in the UNI-Dome. Under the old arrangement they would have met in an earlier round.<\/p>\n

In another upcoming change to playoff structure, the IHSAA wants to move all the games to Friday<\/a>, which will require the beginning of the season to be pushed up a week. That means it is highly likely, at least in some years, that there will be football games the second Friday of the Iowa State Fair. I don’t think this would be on the table if districts weren’t using waivers to blatantly thumb their noses (August 13!<\/a><\/em>) at the law that’s supposed to stop school from starting earlier than the week before Labor Day<\/a>.\u00a0Thus, the ever-earlier school start dates make the overly expanded football playoffs possible. Call it a minor case of the Law of Unintended Consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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