All of this talk about who should be there and who shouldn’t is moot! The real problem is that the Moore League gets to send 4 teams due to their 7 team league! Take perennial heavyweight Poly out of the equation and a sometimes good .500 ball Lakewood team and you have the weakest league in the Pac-5!

Don’t bemoan the system. 5 teams were at 3-2. That’s it! You’re unhappy that there isn’t a system that would have put the Sailors in the playoffs! Boo-Hoo! Are you just going to complain about it or offer a suggestion how to do it better?

Maybe they should use you! You’re Magic, right? Maybe you think a bunch of Newport Beach ersatz football gurus should sit around in a cigar smoke filled room and do it! How about consulting an oracle, or maybe a ouija board?

Wishing ill on some fine Sunset League young men in the playoffs, who have laid it on the line, week after week, in the most consistent, evenly balanced league in the Pac-5 is both mean-spirited and small-minded!

Best wishes to the Sunset , Trinity and South Coast Leagues! Go O.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT WAS THE LUCK OF THE DRAW.

Newport Harbor had the same odds of making it as did the rest of the 4 schools.

Unfortunatly it came down to an odd tiebreaker and two very strong teams got left out.

Just shows how strong the Sunset League was this year. No need for anything negative against the other teams.

Newport Harbor is the only team in that league that has played well the past three weeks; waxing a weak Esperanza team 35-6 (the 6 pts were scored in 4th quarter on Harbors 3rd team D), crushing Marina (who esperanza beat by 3), and beating Los Al @ Los Al by overcoming a -3 turnover margin and putting together a game winning drive. Newport didn't punt the entire game by the way.

This was a unique situation with the 5 way tie for first place, so a unique solution should have been implemented. At least let all 5 teams get a chance at applying for the at large bid. If the committee truely believes that esperanza was the best team in the league and Harbor was 5th, then disregard this rant.

It's a shame that the team playing the best football at the end of the season doesn't even get a chance to represent the league. Isn't that why we have a playoff system in HS? Is this the BCS? No wait, if this were the BCS then Harbor would have at the very least been the 3 seed in the Sunset.

I predict that all Sunset teams get beat convincingly in the first round, not because the league is weak, but because Harbor is the only team playing good football at this point in the season.

The only teams that deserved to be left out were Edison and Los Al. They were the only team that had a chance to control their own playoff fate and blew in front of their home crowds. Esperanza and Foutain valley will be wishing that they DIDN'T get randomly selected to the playoffs when they're getting blown out by their first round opponents.