LHSAA playoffs are a mess again

I have a question to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association - who is running this ship?
Class 1A principals of both select and non-select schools voted in January to keep a 32-team Division IV bracket, rather than go to 16 teams.
The change was eventually made anyway in June as the Executive Committee sought ways to make the association’s nine state championship contests more accessible and financially viable, which included playing the select title games one week in advance of the nonselect games.
Division I, Division II and Division III had already used just four weeks of postseason, while Division IV was forced to cut its bracket in order to reach a championship match-up Dec. 5, rather than Dec. 12 or 13.
I thought the LHSAA was a principal-led organization - I thought wrong.
So the principals votes don’t matter it seems as the council can do what it wants.
But that is not the biggest issue I have with the football brackets.
Who will drive from Shreveport or Lake Charles for two straight weeks to New Orleans to watch nine championship games?
I understand why there are two different playoff brackets and why it will most likely remain that way when the LHSAA meets again in January.
The top seeds earned their way there including Byrd, Plaquemine, Livonia, Many, Mangham, John Curtis, University, Catholic-New Iberia and Vermilion Catholic.
The problem I have is with how the LHSAA filled the rest of the brackets - placing teams with 1-9 and 0-10 records.
In Division III, Westminster Christian Academy (I know my friends over there may get mad with me) enters with a 1-9 record and gets to face rival Opelousas Catholic (9-1) again the week after the Vikings rolled to a 49-7 romp in the regular season finale.
St. Edmund’s District foe North Central went 1-9 on the year and enters the Class 1-A playoffs as the No. 22 seed and will take on Block (5-5).
No. 5 Basile (9-1) gets a first-round bye, but their District 4-1A fellow members No. 16 Merryville (2-5), No. 21 South Cameron (1-9) and No. 20 Grand Lake (2-8) all made the playoffs.
Here a few other examples of how the playoffs have been watered down:
In 2A, No. 32 Homer (1--9); in 3A, No. 28 Westlake (2-8); in 4-A, No. 32 McDonogh 35 has a 2-7 record.
The Eunice Bobcats finished the season with a 4-6 overall record and missed the playoffs as the No. 33 seed in Class 4-A.
It was the first time the Bobcats missed the playoffs since their 3-7 struggles in 2007.
No offense to any team that made the playoffs with a sub. 500 record, but something needs to change if the LHSAA plans to keep the select and non-select systems.
Maybe the non-select brackets should be cut down to 24 teams.
Last year in the non-select playoffs, there were seven first-round byes with 34 teams with losing records receiving berths including 0-10 East Iberville and 1-9 North Central.
In the Select Playoffs, 14 teams received first- round byes with 12 teams below .500, including 1-9 False River Academy.
I can’t wait to see how they fix this mess.
But then again – the prinicipals’ votes may not carry any weight if the Executive Council ignores them again.