Article: WIAA, BCS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT THE STATE'S METHODS FOR DETERMINING FOOTBALL PLAYOFF MATCHUPS NEED TO FINDTHEIR WAY TO THE SHREDDER.(SPORTS)(PREP HUDDLE)(Column)

Byline: Rob Hernandez

The state's methods for determining football playoff matchups need to find their way to the shredder.

The best thing that can be said about the 2009 WIAA football playoffs is that we'll never again see them in their existing form.

Those pounding sounds you heard Friday were the final nails being driven into that coffin. While the selection of the 224 teams in this year's postseason field couldn't have gone more smoothly - there were exactly 224 teams with .500 conference records or better around the state - the process of assigning them to first-round games has never been so bungled.

We know this because the WIAA ...

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