So the DoubleCork League has 26 teams this year. A pretty healthy number. Unfortunately, only SIX of thos teams have any BALLS. The rest of the Manginas have decided to cower in lower divisions to win meaningless trophies and make themselves feel good about themselves by crushing weaker opponents instead of trying to raise their game and play some REAL competition. This year DoubleCork has 3 levels of competiton. Division 1, Division 1A, and Division 2. Division 1 has a SIX team division where you play everyone THREE times during the regular season, then the top 4 teams play each other TWO more times in a race to 9. So basically you end up playing 2 teams FIVE times in ONE season if you go to the Championship. The other 2 divisions are TEN team divisions. YES....you read correctly... There are TEN teams in ONE division. You play SOME teams twice, and other teams just once. If you are LUCKY, you get to play the weakest teams twice and the strong teams just once. If you aren't, and you get the opposite, well, you're just shit out of luck. You would THINK that with 26 teams, the divisions could be a little more balanced. Unfortunately, this league allows the players to play/sandbag wherever they feel they can crush their competion the best, and NOBODY wants to play in the top division because it has been dominated by the same 2 teams over the past 6 seasons. It's very unfortunate. This is what happens when you let teams just do whatever they want and you REWARD them with awards that are just as good in the lower divisions as they are in the upper divisions. There is no incentive to move up. You can either crush weak opponents in the lower divisions and win big shiney trophies, or play REAL competition, come in 4th or 5th place, and never have a shot to win a Championship. As long as you keep rewarding teams for beating up little kids, they will never want to play with the men. Even the division NAMES don't make it sound that bad. Division 1 and 1A??? 1A sounds like it's practically 1. It's not. It's not even close. Division 1A is a joke with 2 teams pretty much destroying the rest of the division. You mean to tell me that Geno's & Just The Tip BETTER the league by playing DOWN a division instead of giving us a FULL division of 8 at the top so that we can have a NORMAL 14 week season and face everyone just twice? It DOESN'T.
Geno's played in Division 1 in the Fall of 2011. They came in a respectable 5th. Because they missed the playoffs (BY ONE GAME), they were allowed to DROP to the LOWEST division in the league (DIVISION 2) in the Spring of 2012. There they completely dominated going 15-0 during the regular season and winning their CHAMPIONSHIP game 9-0. They were rewarded with a plethora of trophies and individual awards commemorating their historic run of crushing a bunch of teams that were not even CLOSE to their level. Last year they moved to division 1A and went 12-3 in the division before losing in the CHAMPIONSHIP. This year they STAYED in 1A and are now 6-1 in the division losing their ONLY game to Just The Tip.
Speaking of Just the Tip, they have spent 4 of the past 5 seasons in 1A. They have gone to the Championship EVERY SINGLE YEAR they have been in that division, and have WON that Championship 2 out of the 3 times they played in it. They look to be on YET ANOTHER trip so said Championship this year as they are currently 7-0 and in first place. In the 3 1/2 seasons they've played in division 1A, they have gone 38-11 with 3 Championship appearances and 2 wins.
How is it that NEITHER of these teams are good enough to fill out a top division of 8??? They may not be able to win the Championship in that division, but they are OBVIOUSLY TOO good for division 1A. I've personally played BOTH these teams & I KNOW that they could compete for a 4th seed in Division 1. They WON'T though because they DON'T WANT COMPETITION. THEY WANT DOMINATION. They only want to play weaker teams to feed their egos, and as long as the league allows them to do that, they will NEVER move up, and we in the upper division are going to be faced with playing the SAME teams FIVE TIMES every season. We ned to freshen things up here!
Geno's played in Division 1 in the Fall of 2011. They came in a respectable 5th. Because they missed the playoffs (BY ONE GAME), they were allowed to DROP to the LOWEST division in the league (DIVISION 2) in the Spring of 2012. There they completely dominated going 15-0 during the regular season and winning their CHAMPIONSHIP game 9-0. They were rewarded with a plethora of trophies and individual awards commemorating their historic run of crushing a bunch of teams that were not even CLOSE to their level. Last year they moved to division 1A and went 12-3 in the division before losing in the CHAMPIONSHIP. This year they STAYED in 1A and are now 6-1 in the division losing their ONLY game to Just The Tip.
Speaking of Just the Tip, they have spent 4 of the past 5 seasons in 1A. They have gone to the Championship EVERY SINGLE YEAR they have been in that division, and have WON that Championship 2 out of the 3 times they played in it. They look to be on YET ANOTHER trip so said Championship this year as they are currently 7-0 and in first place. In the 3 1/2 seasons they've played in division 1A, they have gone 38-11 with 3 Championship appearances and 2 wins.
How is it that NEITHER of these teams are good enough to fill out a top division of 8??? They may not be able to win the Championship in that division, but they are OBVIOUSLY TOO good for division 1A. I've personally played BOTH these teams & I KNOW that they could compete for a 4th seed in Division 1. They WON'T though because they DON'T WANT COMPETITION. THEY WANT DOMINATION. They only want to play weaker teams to feed their egos, and as long as the league allows them to do that, they will NEVER move up, and we in the upper division are going to be faced with playing the SAME teams FIVE TIMES every season. We ned to freshen things up here!