Monday, October 17, 2016

This Weather Perdicament Who's Advantage

This weather is nothing new.  Basketball has had to play up to four games in order to catch up the schedule.  Just last spring baseball had almost three weeks without practice or games.  During Hurricane Floyd  Several teams lost three non conference games in 1999.   This is  a new experience for football playing three games in eight days.  There has been many times when a rainout has caused a Monday/Friday two game week.

When this begins on October 21st there will be three teams that will have 1-0 conference records at the start.  Northern Nash will be the only team that already knows what it will take to survive three games in eight days.  Will that be an advantage for them having already lived through this experience?

Here's what's ahead for the Big East.  First Northern Nash.  Friday the 21st they host Nash Central
0-1.  Tuesday 25th host Southern Nash 1-0 and on the 28th travel to Fike 0-1.

Southern Nash host Hunt 0-1 next Friday 21st.  They are on the road to Northern Nash 1/0 on the 25th and on the 28th host Rocky Mount 1-0.

Rocky Mount has Homecoming against Fike 0-1 on the 21st.  A visit to Hunt 0-1 on the 25th and they finish up on the 28th at Southern Nash 1-0.

Of those three that are tied for the lead now Northern Nash has two of the three games at home.  Southern Nash two and Rocky Mount only one.  Both Northern and Rocky Mount play two games that lost  their first conference where Southern Nash gets both Northern and Rocky Mount in this three game stretch.

Since this three games in eight  days effects everyone what is the three games for the three teams that stand 0-1.  Hunt 0-1 travels to Southern Nash on the 21st, host Rocky Mount on the 25th and finish their three game sprint at Nash Central 0-1. So Hunt gets  two of the heavy weights.

Fike 0-1 begins the 21st at Rocky Mount 1-0, the 25th at Nash Central 0-1 and finish off their venture
hosting Northern  Nash 1-0.  Fike has two of the heavy weights.

Nash Central 0-1 will travel to Northern Nash on the 21st. They will host Fike on the 25th and Hunt comes to Central on the 28th.  So Nash Central has only one of the heavy weights in this stretch.

So who has the advantage in the next 11 days.  60% of the conference schedule will be in those upcoming days.  This conference could be turned upside down by just one injury this Friday by any teams best player who might be out for just one week and that would be two games missed instead of one.  There is no doubt that this is the uncharted territory for every team when conference games were involved.  This would be a bad time for any team to have a bad week.



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