How's your high school football season going?

We have one conference that holds the information until the last team is out of the playoffs. At worst, that means after the state title game. But the voting has already taken place and it's ready to go.
The AP in Ohio releases the All-Ohio football list over a period of days during the week of the state finals, and the district lists are compiled and released a week or two before that.

 

I can see up to a week after the season ends. Usually, in bigger markets, one of the teams will make at least the semifinal round. Maybe you get an occasional down year where no one does and you have to wait a while. It happens.

If they can get the list released in a timely manner after the season, great. I've been in states where the season ended before Thanksgiving and other places where it dragged on until almost Christmas, so I realize it varies.

 

They've already postponed the two Saturday games in Pennsylvania to Sunday.

Two to four inches of snow makes people crap their pants a lot easier than it used to.

 

I guess playing on Sunday doesn't make people crap in their pants as much as it used to. Used to be --- and someplaces still is --- one of the Ten Commandments: Thou must honor the Sabbath (or, in this case, Sunday) and play no games.

I see the logic there. But I also chuckle when I drive past a local soccer field on the way to church at 10AM and see it filled to overflowing with 9-and10-year olds and their parents.

 

In the Deep South, they don't generally play on Sunday OR Wednesday. Occasionally, they'll play on Wednesday during the state tournaments in baseball and basketball, but they won't play on Sunday unless there are multiple rainouts.

 

The day's first game, Old Forge-North Catholic, is going to OT tied at 7.

 

Interesting. Old Forge scores on second play of OT, kick makes it 14-7. North Catholic scores on QB keeper on first play of its possession and they never hesitate in going for two. The QB runs the same keeper off right tackle and fights over the goal line for a 15-14 PIAA Class A victory.

 

High quality idea right there. Mind if I steal it?

And the weather delayed playoffs begin anew tonight with the state title games for the larger classes. The smaller classes are next weekend. It has, of course, turned to shit here with sleet and freezing rain but they're still going to play.

Smaller classes have five rounds of playoffs, in case anyone was wondering.

 

The same thing happened with last week's football playoff games in Oklahoma — all postponed a week because of ice and snow.

Not that it affected me because all my area teams were out of the playoffs. But it did mean a lot of area games were postponed or canceled because of the weather.

And I'm not used to it happening at this level. Seems as though people were correct when they told me that snow and ice removal isn't something most of Oklahoma is prepared to do, so a half inch of snow means schools are shut down for days.

Then again, I lived most of my life in cities and towns close to the Rockies before coming to Oklahoma.

 

Yeah, it's ironic. When I worked in the south and on the west coast, we'd regularly get weather-related cancellations in the winter any time it snowed. In Montana, on the other hand, they could have a foot of fresh snow and they'd load up the bus and go 200 miles for a basketball game. Go figure.

 

When I lived and worked in Iowa and it snowed heavily, schools would send out word over the radio that parents had to get their kids to a paved road and the bus would pick them up there. Lots of gravel roads in Iowa.
There were still delays and closings, but they weren't as quick to pull the trigger on them.

 

Be my guest. I'm confident I stole that idea from someplace else.