We Have A Schedule Mess

Both Wilson and Nash County schools will be closed again today which will be the third straight day.  Rocky Mount and Fike foresaw trouble coming and moved their Wednesday game to Monday.  They are so far the only conference games played this week.

This week was suppose to be a three game week to make up the one game for each missed from last week's weather.  Now here it is Thursday.  Last night the temperature  hit single digits.  Today it might get to 30 degrees which means there will be wet roads Thursday afternoon that might be frozen again Friday.  Do you see any chance for school Friday?

Unless the schools system' select to go on Saturday with the expected high Friday near 40 the roads may be close to drivable by Saturday.  If no school this week there will be four teams Northern Nash, Nash Central, Southern Nash and Hunt all needing to play seven games in the last two weeks  of the season.  Rocky Mount and Fike since they did play each other Monday they only six left to play.

Coach Mike Gainey told me this afternoon by text when I asked the question "How many games are you allowed to play in one week".  The answer is four  but he also added."we have a mess".  If no other games are played for the rest of this week that will put those four schools that have seven to play having to figure out how to schedule those games. I think my thought is I would rather play four next week and have only three the final week.

Another thing to remember is there is no telling what kind of weather we might encounter in the next two weeks.  Should weather cause anybody to miss any game the threat will be there to push the Big East Tournament a day or two in order to finish the regular season on the Monday when the tournament should start.

You know the way the tournament normally goes.  3/6-4/5 boys play Monday and then the girls on Tuesday.  In order to make sure the tournament  finishes by Saturday they just might have to go to three games per night.  I don't know anyone who wants to do that.