Surprised at the quiet about TSSAA mandated Thursday games

[The Drunken Sailor]

8 hours ago, chs1984 said:

I like this part. In Georgia you are not informed until Saturday morning of game week. 

Are you serious? That would suck for coaches trying to prep and also for fans that may need to make arrangements to travel or have plans already made for Thursday.

[chs1984]

13 hours ago, The Drunken Sailor said:

Are you serious? That would suck for coaches trying to prep and also for fans that may need to make arrangements to travel or have plans already made for Thursday.

Yes, sir, coaches hate it. Haven’t heard if there is any plans to adjust this season or not. 
 

[Rhea Co.]

On 2/16/2022 at 2:53 PM, RedStateReject said:

It's been mentioned that playing a HS varsity game on Thursdays could hurt middle school attendance. That is a definite truth, especially in small towns where fans attend both kind of games. The other thing is many of the MS game officials are also officials on Friday nights. So are MS games going to have to be moved or cancelled?

In the past our middle schools have changed their games to Tuesday or if it’s know well enough in advance they try to schedule around that game. 

[rlh]

16 hours ago, Rhea Co. said:

In the past our middle schools have changed their games to Tuesday or if it’s know well enough in advance they try to schedule around that game. 

Seems like Saturday games would be a better option than Tuesday.

[mrbigster]

On 2/16/2022 at 4:29 PM, tradertwo said:

I hope that they consider that Thursday night is a school night, and keep travel short. I (as a fan) actually love that there will be games on Thursday! When my school plays one of them, I'll have the option of any game in the area on Friday, and when they play on the usual Friday, hopefully one of the teams that I would be interested in seeing would play. There is the potential of lost gate money in playing short on Thursday, as most rival games (big gates) are short. 

  I wish that they would allow each school to submit a preference list of about 4 games in order of, and consider these lists when scheduling...hopefully coaches would be wise about their choices.

I agree

[CaptainLongbeard]

Do we know when we will be playing the Thursday game?

[fredjones]

TSSAA to release that information in Mid March

[TryNotToSuck]

I do think there's been one game in West Tennessee that has been moved to a Thursday night game.

[Beagle]

2 weeks a season I can watch 2 football games.   Seems like a win to me.  The week we play Thursday I can also  watch a Friday game and on the bye week I can watch a Thursday and Friday game.

[Southtowner]

Should a region game be played on Thursday since it's a school night & region games are 'supposedly closer'  in a sense?  or should those all important region games always be played on Friday?  

Our region games for the most part are usually one sided.  Honestly, if they were on a Thursday night it wouldn't bother me a bit.