Lots of games were moved to Thursday night, understandably.  It is a better experience, good for the fans and the gate receipts to play in good weather vs. bad.  But if you are a team that hopes to make a playoff run, is it perhaps a good decision to keep the game on Friday night and give your team a little November weather experience?  

It saves the school on their water bill so they don’t have to use their hoses to muddy up the field for their opponents to have to deal with terrible field conditions. Mother Nature does it for them, (IYKYK- 1992)

I think there is a lot to consider and there isn't one right or wrong answer. 

As a fan, no thank you to a rain game but as a fan watching at home, bring it on!!

4 minutes ago, FrankNicodemus said:

It saves the school on their water bill so they don’t have to use their hoses to muddy up the field for their opponents to have to deal with terrible field conditions. Mother Nature does it for them, (IYKYK- 1992)

I believe that strategy is still being used on some grass fields in southern KY. Almost know for a fact it is.

4 minutes ago, FrankNicodemus said:

It saves the school on their water bill so they don’t have to use their hoses to muddy up the field for their opponents to have to deal with terrible field conditions. Mother Nature does it for them, (IYKYK- 1992)

We showed up to a game in Owen County one time, late August. Hadn't rained in days, three inches of water on the field. ?

I believe the main reason for moving the games is the potential for lightning. Furthermore, even though the severe threat has diminished, some of the potential storms may still produce damaging winds, isolated hail, and a quick spin-up tornado. 

17 minutes ago, Watusi said:

But if you are a team that hopes to make a playoff run, is it perhaps a good decision to keep the game on Friday night and give your team a little November weather experience?  

One thing for sure is they are not changing the game days or times on Championship weekend. Even though playing on actual Thanksgiving day would be as cool as it gets. Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers style.

1 minute ago, nWo said:

I believe the main reason for moving the games is the potential for lightning. Furthermore, even though the severe threat has diminished, some of the potential storms may still produce damaging winds, isolated hail, and a quick spin-up tornado. 

I do like teams avoiding a bus ride in bad weather.

1 minute ago, Honey Badger said:

I do like teams avoiding a bus ride in bad weather.

After I posted my previous post, I started thinking about the school buses. I drive a rear-engine school bus that measures about 40 feet long and 10 feet high. Wind gusts of around 20 mph make it difficult to stay in your lane. Consider winds of 30, 40, and perhaps 50 mph. Leave alone a crosswind. I drove last year when Helene's remnants passed through Kentucky. Some of the torrential rain and wind gusts were close to the range I mentioned earlier. It was extremely difficult to transport all of those kids home safely. 

3 minutes ago, nWo said:

After I posted my previous post, I started thinking about the school buses. I drive a rear-engine school bus that measures about 40 feet long and 10 feet high. Wind gusts of around 20 mph make it difficult to stay in your lane. Consider winds of 30, 40, and perhaps 50 mph. Leave alone a crosswind. I drove last year when Helene's remnants passed through Kentucky. Some of the torrential rain and wind gusts were close to the range I mentioned earlier. It was extremely difficult to transport all of those kids home safely. 

Yes and taking into account the amount of long bus rides going on across the state. It was very smart to get as many Thursday games in as possible. Saturday is for college football but that would not have been a bad option this week either even though losing a day of game prep and recovery for round 2. ?

34 minutes ago, FrankNicodemus said:

It saves the school on their water bill so they don’t have to use their hoses to muddy up the field for their opponents to have to deal with terrible field conditions. Mother Nature does it for them, (IYKYK- 1992)

 

29 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

We showed up to a game in Owen County one time, late August. Hadn't rained in days, three inches of water on the field. ?

I'll just say Lloyd is lucky they will be playing at home next week....big advantage in home "field" advantage.

5 minutes ago, FrankNicodemus said:

It saves the school on their water bill so they don’t have to use their hoses to muddy up the field for their opponents to have to deal with terrible field conditions. Mother Nature does it for them, (IYKYK- 1992)

Love this comment @FrankNicodemus! Reminds me of Friday 11/29/1996 & that seasons Class A state semi-final game. That particular Friday was preceded by approximately 4 weeks of very little, to no rainfall at all, in Eastern Kentucky. As our 3 hour & 20 minute bus ride was coming to an end, and we were entering into a certain school & stadium, a truly "meteorological miracle" occurred that our team was lucky enough to witness: A natural grass field, that hadn't seen hardly any rainfall in a month, was somehow transformed into 3 inches of beautiful Kentucky mud!

As my bewildered teammates & I looked at each other in amazement, all of us spoke & nodded in agreement, there was NO POSSIBLE WAY that the sudden appearance of this "magical mud" had ANYTHING to do with the 5 local FIRETRUCKS that were literally pulling out of the stadium as we were pulling in. If you missed it & you weren't there that late November night in 1996, then it saddens me to say, you missed a true Kentucky miracle that night! ????

Yes, should play in the rain. This is football. I coach track and we have track meets in the rain. Storms with lightning no. Just rain then yes.

2 minutes ago, Tigerpride94 said:

Yes, should play in the rain. This is football. I coach track and we have track meets in the rain. Storms with lightning no. Just rain then yes.

Does that go down to the freezing mark for track?  Something else?

10 minutes ago, Tigerpride94 said:

Yes, should play in the rain. This is football. I coach track and we have track meets in the rain. Storms with lightning no. Just rain then yes.

Isn't a newer track the perfect place to be during lightning? Them track kids got to toughen up!