MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In a change to previous policy, football teams from orange and red counties will be included in the playoff fields for the upcoming WVSSAC postseason tournaments.
The WVSSAC has announced that the top 16 teams in the playoff ratings at the close of regular season play Friday evening will be entered into the brackets. Previously, it was announced that teams from orange and red counties on the state’s COVID metrics map would be excluded and the brackets would be back-filled with teams starting at No. 17 and so on.
SSAC Executive Director Bernie Dolan announced the changes Friday night. He was a guest on MetroNews High School GameNight.
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Dolan said, to be clear to play however, counties must enter the green, yellow or gold category before game time. To accommodate teams that may still be in an orange or red county on this week’s Saturday 5 p.m. map release, a Sunday option has been introduced. Sunday games would kickoff at 1:30 p.m. If a team’s home county is still unable to enter a green, yellow or gold category, they will be forfeited and their opponent will receive automatic entry into the next round.
On Friday’s daily COVID map, seven of the top sixteen teams in Class AAA would be ineligible under the previous policy.
Gov. Jim Justice said during his Friday media briefing that the map and its metrics won’t be changing.
“I hate for one team to miss it (state championship) and it makes me sick, but at the same time I don’t know what else to do right now,” Justice said.
The governor described putting those questions — “knowing these decisions are flat-dog tough” — to officials like state Superintendent Clayton Burch, health leaders and Dolan.
In the end, Justice said, they recommended sticking with the color-coded map that halts classroom instruction and extracurricular activities when heightened rates of spread are depicted as orange or red.
Justice said, “they feel like they have to continue using the existing education map and DHHR county alert system map to guide us through the decisions on these counties.”
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