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Mike Drago

12:49

Yeah, I hate those guys.

Mike Drago Fan

12:50

How about we make this easy, District Champions only move on to the state tournament. No need for the 30th seed out of District 3 playing the 19th seed out of District 12.

Mike Drago

12:50

You're going back in time 40 years, Fan

Skippy

12:50

Mike if we’d use your weekly rankings Boyertown would be a 5 seed at 6-18. :). Lol

Mike Drago

12:50

Yep. Thanks for paying attention.

12:51

Actually, the Bears were 5-3 at one points, then faded.

So I had to get 'em out of there.

Spencer

12:52

Any chance Reading Eagle will live stream the coaches committee discussion?

Mike Drago

12:52

It's going to be a pay-per-view even.

event.

How much would you pay to watch that?

Skippy

12:53

It seems like some positive changes are coming to Berks County with league alignments and there is a strong possibility the boundary/non-boundary situation could change with the law being changed. Thoughts?

Mike Drago

12:53

I'd pump the breaks on the boundary/non-boundary thing happening.

Politicians have a way of burying things that could be too controversial for them.

12:54

I don't have a lot of faith in the state legislature moving forward with that.

Curious

12:54

Which Berks team do you give the best shot of coming away with a win?

Mike Drago

12:54

Kutztown, Muhlenberg and Reading all have the best chances.

ExBerksCoach

12:55

MD Fan, with that logic, Reading would not have won the state title in 2017? There have been a lot of non district champs, who have won the state title over the years.

Mike Drago

12:55

True

I don't mind taking second, third and fourth-place teams from the larger districts.

But I don't think we need six, 16-team brackets.

12:56

When they went to six classes they increased the size of the field 50 percent.

I'd cut it back to 24 teams, at most, per class.

Mike Drago Fan

12:57

Exactly, how weird is it to have a T-Shirt saying County Champs, District Runner-Up, State Champs...Reading while probably deserving of a state title shouldn't win. They should have been eliminated

Mike Drago

12:57

I don't agree. As I said, I'm fine for the larger districts to send up to four teams.

If you can't make the semifinals, then you have no argument.

Cards fan

12:58

I live in jersey. System here works great. Privet schools are broken into 2 groups and public schools are divided into 4 or 5 groups depending on the sport. We then play a tournament of champions to decide the “true” state champion. All the state classification winners then play each other. The event is great to watch for basketball.

Mike Drago

12:58

I'm for that.

Berksball

12:58

Was reading supposed to play lincoln this season?

Mike Drago

12:58

You might be right. That might've been the match-up in the Geigle Shootout that got snowed out.

I was told Lincoln wasn't too interested in a makeup date.

Berksball

12:59

I know the Red Knights had a game vs a Philly school that never got rescheduled

ExBerksCoach

12:59

Yes that is correct. They could not make up the Lincoln game.

Skippy

12:59

It was interesting how they did the football bracket this year with district playoffs overlapping with the state bracket as if it was 1 large bracket.

Mike Drago

12:59

It's been that way for a few years. The smaller districts form sub-regionals.

1:00

That allows District 7 to start a week earlier. They play nine regular-season games and squeeze in an extra round of playoffs.

They're all about playoffs in the WPIAL

ExBerksCoach

1:00

With that said...10 teams from District 1 is a bit over the top.

Berksball

1:01

I personally think Reading will get to the semis if they get past La Salle this weekend