The Perfect High School Schedule

The colleges play once or twice during the week and then a Friday/Saturday/Sunday series. They play 55 +/- games.

What's the perfect schedule for our High Schools?

It's always too cold early in the season and then the season ends too soon to suit me. Plus I'd like to see more non-conference games mixed in.

20 games just doesn't do it for me. Why can't they play on Sat/Sun?

What's good, bad and ugly about the current setup?

What changes would you make?

 

High schools have no reason to begin playing on Sunday!!!

 

Saturdays would be great...plus it would be an added revenue gate. The problem, in Charlotte, is the AD's don't want to work on Saturdays and they have to attend the home games.

 

Perfect Schedule

I wish high schools would go to a series type of play for conference games. That would bring the better teams to the top and would work towards eliminating a team with just one or two dominate pitchers from winning a conference.

If each conference had between 6 and 8 teams, you could play 15 to 21 conference games and schedule non-conference games to fulfill your schedule. The problem arises with the conferences that are split and have 9 teams in a conference.

An example would be the Metro Conference. There are 7 teams in this conference. Each team would play a 3 game series against each other with 2 of the 3 games being played at one field and the other game at the other school. This would rotate each year so the home field advantage would be even. Also, depending on how many teams are tied, the 3 game series could help break ties by the “head-to-head” standings.

When a school has to play 3 conference games in a week (I would suggest scheduling Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday OR Wednesday, Friday and Saturday – leaving Mondays for non-conference games) against the same team, it had better have some pitching or some real strong bats or both! This type schedule would prevent a school using their “stud” pitcher to beat a team twice.

It is just an opinion… You asked what we thought would be the perfect schedule…

 

I like it!!!! The teams with a strong staff and depth would love this. The schools with no pitching depth would not. But my feeling is this would force the weaker teams to develop some arms and would give the stronger teams more innings to give to their #3-4 pitcher.

From an outside observer, I would love Saturday games or at least in Charlotte a Saturday game of the week

 

I'm Exhausted

I'm exhausted from coming up with all these interesting threads! After the one someone did about Showcase/Legion I knew I had to do something fast. There weren't any phone booths around for me to change in so this is all I could come up with on short notice. A Diversionary Tactic!

 

Good job aguyyouknow. Especially since this is historically the slow time of the year on TBR. And it's especially tough to come up with something new....thanks for the help!!!! :newsmile39:

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but North Carolina limits the number of games that can be played by a High School team. (24-25??) Not sure?

FYI It works.
My nephew plays out of Cobb County Georgia (East Cobb). They play the majority of their games in double header Saturdays. Team travel is so difficult, which created the need for some Saturday double headers.

I believe that your are right..... the NC AD's are not going to work on Saturdays.

It would be great for the baseball programs. I think you would see larger gates. (2 cents worth)