airmail wrote:How on earth does Langdon get the 1 seed over Thompson?
Flip wrote:Coaches rank the teams 1-7, not ranking their own team, I believe. What is stopping Langdon from ranking Thompson 7?
Flip wrote:Coaches rank the teams 1-7, not ranking their own team, I believe. What is stopping Langdon from ranking Thompson 7?
Ball4Him wrote:Flip wrote:Coaches rank the teams 1-7, not ranking their own team, I believe. What is stopping Langdon from ranking Thompson 7?
I don't think Langdon would be that petty just to get a higher seed. They still have to win 3 tough matches no matter what seed they get. Also, I think whoever is looking over the rankings would see what is going on there and do something about it.
The Schwab wrote:Ball4Him wrote:Flip wrote:Coaches rank the teams 1-7, not ranking their own team, I believe. What is stopping Langdon from ranking Thompson 7?
I don't think Langdon would be that petty just to get a higher seed. They still have to win 3 tough matches no matter what seed they get. Also, I think whoever is looking over the rankings would see what is going on there and do something about it.
This is NOT a comment towards Langdon at all, but if you don't think that some coaches would try to "stack the deck" you're probably wrong. I think if they're going to seed the tournament, use the qrf and seed 1-8. I don't have a problem with using the qrf when it doesn't determine location of the game.
HighSchoolSportsFan wrote:The Schwab wrote:Ball4Him wrote:Flip wrote:Coaches rank the teams 1-7, not ranking their own team, I believe. What is stopping Langdon from ranking Thompson 7?
I don't think Langdon would be that petty just to get a higher seed. They still have to win 3 tough matches no matter what seed they get. Also, I think whoever is looking over the rankings would see what is going on there and do something about it.
This is NOT a comment towards Langdon at all, but if you don't think that some coaches would try to "stack the deck" you're probably wrong. I think if they're going to seed the tournament, use the qrf and seed 1-8. I don't have a problem with using the qrf when it doesn't determine location of the game.
If they throw out the high and low as Run indicated in an earlier post, then one coach wouldn't really be able to manipulate the rankings greatly.
I could see the logic in ranking Langdon 1 and Thompson 2 based on the entire season of work. Langdon did win arguably the two toughest regular season tournaments this year, Valley City and Des Lacs. They may also have had the toughest schedule this year with 12 matches against teams that qualified for the state tournament (9-3) and have beaten every team that has qualified for state with the exception of Center-Stanton, whom they didn't play. They are also ranked 1 in the QRF (which I would assume is based largely on strength of schedule). That being said, I personally would have flipped the top two seeds as well. The rest of the seeding looks pretty well spot on and the random draws actually came out they way I would have seeded them 1 through 8.
HighSchoolSportsFan wrote:I wondered about that on the QRF as well. The last couple of years the final update had been just prior to the regional tournaments. It would have included two more regulart season games for each of the top three teams and of course all the district tournaments. Would likely have benefitted NC as they beat Oak Grove(#7) in one of those last two games. Langdon beat beat North Star (#15) in one of their last two games. Thompson would not have improved imo with either of their last two wins. Oakes may have moved up with their run through the dist. 5 tournament with wins over Lamoure (#9) and Carrington (#5). End of the day it doesn't really matter as you said Run as ND does not use the QRF for anything in VB.
B-oldtimer wrote:Is there any tv or live streaming of state volleyball tournament.
Sportsrube wrote:B-oldtimer wrote:Is there any tv or live streaming of state volleyball tournament.
BEK is televising a number of the games, not sure which ones.
Sportsrube wrote:B-oldtimer wrote:Is there any tv or live streaming of state volleyball tournament.
BEK is televising a number of the games, not sure which ones.
B-oldtimer wrote:For the most part I was happy to get to watch the volleyball tournament. We could get A on our dish service but not the b which I watched on the computer some. Class a had much more competitive games in the first round then did the b. Will the b get more competitive now in the semifinals. Also it looks like the east is dominate in class b volleyball this year and seems to have been that way for some time can anyone explain why this is.
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