Blue Cross Championship Games

[sheppy]

I just looked at the brackets for the championship games in Cookeville.

Did I read that the public schools are playing on Thursday and Friday and the private schools are playing on Saturday?  WTH

[FBGIRL]

Why not?

[sheppy]

Private Schools don't have enough teams in the 3 classes to play 5 playoff games.  Therefore some have bye's week 1 and they play their semi-finals games on Nov. 17. 

Public Schools have 32 teams in every class and play 5 consecutive weeks.  If you win your semifinal game, 6 schools will play their championship game 6 days later, 6 schools will play their championship game 7 days later.championship

Private schools will play their  championship game 15 days later.

[osunut2]

As long as we have 9(!) title games, here's a potential solution. Play the D2 title games on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the D1 title games on the Friday/Saturday after that.

[sheppy]

That has been done before.  But they decided they wanted all the games on 1 weekend.

[Southtowner]

7 hours ago, osunut2 said:

As long as we have 9(!) title games, here's a potential solution. Play the D2 title games on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the D1 title games on the Friday/Saturday after that.

Best solution there is.

[Justmy2cents]

And 11 a.m. is too early for the first game the game times should be 1 o'clock, 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock. 

 

[sheppy]

Went to Georgia State Championships last year.  1st game - 9 am I think.   10 years ago they played 5 semi final games on Friday and 5 on Saturday.  8 am - 1st game

[orngnblk]

On 11/13/2017 at 10:11 PM, Southtowner said:

Best solution there is.

Totally agree!