Reaction to CIF's 'blunder' with Campolindo
The California Interscholastic Federation mistakingly left Campolindo out of the NorCal Division III playoffs when North Coast Section commissioner Gil Lemmon submitted Miramonte as the fourth team from the section instead of the Cougars.
Problems arise while filing brackets for state high school basketball tournaments[email protected] The addition of the new Open Division for the California Interscholastic Federation state basketball playoff...- As the brackets were revealed in an e-mail to the media (the CIF web site, which was supposed to release them at 5 p.m., had crashed), it was discovered that Campolindo was left out of the field in the Northern Regional Division III playoffs when it should've been selected after Bishop O'Dowd was moved to the Open Division. Miramonte was instead selected as the fourth team from the NCS.
- I sent an e-mail to Gil Lemmon asking about Campo's absense and then called Cougars coach Matt Watson to see if he knew why his team didn't make it.
- I later gave Gil Lemmon a call and at that point, he began to realize that he made a major mistake.
- Yes, one can imagine that Miramonte -- the close regional and heated rival to Campo -- being selected instead made the situation even worse.
@Jimmy_Durkin at least it wasn't like Campo's biggest rival or anything that benefitted....- Watson gave me a call to tell me that he spoke with Lemmon and the problem will be corrected, likely by having Campo replace Miramonte as the No. 10 seed.
- A logical idea seems to just add Campolindo to the field and keep Miramonte in there also.
@Jimmy_Durkin i acknowledge Miramonte shouldnt have been in there in the first place but to justify the committee's mistake,- @Jimmy_Durkin couldn't the brackets have 14 teams, put campo as the 10th seed, put miramonte as the 14th seed, and have the 4th seed a bye?
- But unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen unless the CIF makes an exception (the CIF hasn't responded to an e-mail asking if that would be considered).
@jgood2424 The NCS is only allowed to have four teams in the bracket. I think an exception should be made. Maybe it still will...- Lemmon e-mailed me with an update of the situation.
- As word spread to Miramonte, the Mats were understandably upset.
@Jimmy_Durkin @CIFState we should play Campo for the last spot in CIF state. Miramonte won the last match up between the two schools.- @MatsHoops @CIFState It's a sticky (and unfortunate) situation. A play-in game would have to be played tomorrow, I'd think.
- @Jimmy_Durkin @CIFState Give us the time and the place, we'll show up, the real question is: will they?
