Even though we are seeing more and more canceled high school football games because of COVID-19, the LHSAA is moving forward with plans to have a postseason, with the championship games at the Superdome from December 26th to the 28th. Executive Director Eddie Bonine says teams must play four games to make the playoffs and the size of the playoff brackets will not change.
“It’s 32, it’s a 32, if it’s a 24, it’s a 24 and if it’s a 16, it’s a 16, no brackets have changed, no reason to deviate from what’s written in the constitution,” said Bonine.
Bonine says schools with a COVID issue during the postseason will be removed from the bracket and their opponent will advance to the next round.
There are still two more regular-season games left. Bonine is glad they’ve made it this far with a vast majority of the games being played.
“All coaches and families across the state wanted was a season, just let us play, we’ve managed to pull that off,” said Bonine. “We are not done yet, now we are looking at potentially having a postseason, we are trying to make it simple as a possible and as a fair as possible and in one way or the other someone is going to get eliminated.”
In December, the Saints are allowed to have 15-thousand fans at their home games. Bonine says he’s not sure the exact number that will be allowed in the Dome, but they’ll do what the local authorities ask.
“There’s going to specialized seating, we are going to follow all of the protocols, temperature checks, everything and anything they are doing right now …we want to be a good neighbor, we want to be good guests and we’ll do whatever we need to do to make sure we have the games,” said Bonine.
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