Friday only playoff games

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

Like or dislike?

I HATE IT.

[The Flash]

Hate it. I loved being able to see a game on Friday and then seeing another on Saturday

If the OHSAA wants to solve their problems then lower prices for the casual fan

[Raider6309]

Sucks

[Mad-Dogg]

it's a mistake. personally i think it will affect the crowds

[fortdawg]

Does anybody know the rationale they gave for making this move?

This has to lower the crowd sizes because many people took in two games each weekend.

[NY BUCKS]

I heard that it was because of college playing on Friday nights..thinking it would impact high school.

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

I am going to head to PA or W.Va for Saturday playoff football.

I think this is a gigantic mistake and will hurt the crowds even more, especially in the 2nd,3rd and fourth rounds.

[Orange and Brown]

Does anybody know the rationale they gave for making this move?

This has to lower the crowd sizes because many people took in two games each weekend.

The OHSAA gave a few reasons.
1. People were staying home on Saturdays to watch college football and thus it was affecting attendance at Saturday games.
2. Kids want to play on Friday nights.
3. They reason they now have enough officials and sites to do them all on Fridays.
They had a couple more but I can't remember them.
I personally don't like it. I like being able to go to multiple playoff games each week.

[55buckeyes98]

I would like to see the divisions play the day their championship game would be. For example if I knew my division title game was going to be thursday night I would rather my first playoff game be on thursday rather than lose a day of practice for the state title game. In the long run I guess it only affects two teams losing a day, but as a creature of habit it would be better to play all the games in the playoffs on that day.

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

I like this format

Friday
I would go with Div 1, 3, 5 & 7
Sat 2,4 & 6

Friday 7:30 kickoff
Saturday 7:00 kickoff

I could even live with every other year switching D-1 and D-2 every other year.

[Orange and Brown]

I like this format

Friday
I would go with Div 1, 3, 5 & 7
Sat 2,4 & 6

Friday 7:30 kickoff
Saturday 7:00 kickoff

I could even live with every other year switching D-1 and D-2 every other year.

The only thing different with this is that they swapped the Friday Saturday for divisions every year the old way.

[The Flash]

Does anybody know the rationale they gave for making this move?

This has to lower the crowd sizes because many people took in two games each weekend.

The OHSAA gave a few reasons.
1. People were staying home on Saturdays to watch college football and thus it was affecting attendance at Saturday games.
2. Kids want to play on Friday nights.
3. They reason they now have enough officials and sites to do them all on Fridays.
They had a couple more but I can't remember them.
I personally don't like it. I like being able to go to multiple playoff games each week.

Reason 2 is bogus. If kids are in the playoffs they’ll want to play whenever

[Orange and Brown]

Does anybody know the rationale they gave for making this move?

This has to lower the crowd sizes because many people took in two games each weekend.

The OHSAA gave a few reasons.
1. People were staying home on Saturdays to watch college football and thus it was affecting attendance at Saturday games.
2. Kids want to play on Friday nights.
3. They reason they now have enough officials and sites to do them all on Fridays.
They had a couple more but I can't remember them.
I personally don't like it. I like being able to go to multiple playoff games each week.

Reason 2 is bogus. If kids are in the playoffs they’ll want to play whenever

They aren't my reasons

[The Flash]

The OHSAA gave a few reasons.
1. People were staying home on Saturdays to watch college football and thus it was affecting attendance at Saturday games.
2. Kids want to play on Friday nights.
3. They reason they now have enough officials and sites to do them all on Fridays.
They had a couple more but I can't remember them.
I personally don't like it. I like being able to go to multiple playoff games each week.

Reason 2 is bogus. If kids are in the playoffs they’ll want to play whenever

They aren't my reasons

Lol Orange and Brown I know that. I’m just saying I disagree with their reasoning

[EasternDspy]

Blows

[baseball16]

Trying to find enough quality refs to cover this amount of games will be impossible. Congrats your team just made the playoffs, now you will go play in a game with some very mediocre referees!! Good Job OHSAA, way to think it through again!!

[teach1coach2]

Trying to find enough quality refs to cover this amount of games will be impossible. Congrats your team just made the playoffs, now you will go play in a game with some very mediocre referees!! Good Job OHSAA, way to think it through again!!

I was scrolling down through this thread ready to say pretty the same thing as baseball16.

[EasternDspy]

I don’t think refs will be hard to find I mean it’s still going to need a 1/3 of what we have on a normal Friday night.

[Crab's Brother]

Trying to find enough quality refs to cover this amount of games will be impossible. Congrats your team just made the playoffs, now you will go play in a game with some very mediocre referees!! Good Job OHSAA, way to think it through again!!

Doesn’t change a thing. Playoff officials only call one game a weekend anyway. So your argument isn’t valid.

[Crab's Brother]

In reality, this actually increases the amount of good officials available.

Many of the best OHSAA refs also call college games. When they have to choose Saturday playoff games or college games, the college games win every time.