From the Courier-Journal

 

 

All 13 of Friday’s football games involving Jefferson County public high schools this weekend have been called off because of continuing power problems associated with Sunday’s storm.

 

Henderson County, which was scheduled to play at Manual Friday, will instead play at Bullitt East, at 8 p.m.

 

Cincinnati St. Xavier’s game at Trinity has been moved to Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium at 7:30 p.m. Friday; Trinity’s stadium had no power as of Wednesday afternoon.

 

At least two games involving local schools will go off as planned.

 

Holy Cross, which resumes school Thursday, will play host to Caverna at 7:30 Friday.

 

Beth Haven will play at Berea at 7:30.

 

Public school athletic directors will probably try to work some of Friday’s game into their bye weeks, said Jerry Wyman, athletic director for Jefferson County Public Schools.

 

Among the scheduled games that won’t be played Friday:

 

Central at Bullitt East (Bullitt East will instead be host to Henderson County)

 

Ballard at Butler

 

Pleasure Ridge Park at Eastern

 

Valley at Fairdale

 

Moore at Fern Creek

 

Anderson County at Jeffersontown

 

Henderson County at Manual (Henderson County will play at Bullitt East)

 

Waggener at North Bullitt

 

Doss at Shelby County

 

Male at St. Xavier

 

Iroqouis at Southern

 

Atherton at Western

 

Johnson Central at Shawnee

Is Trinity and Cincy St. X still playing?

 

Trinity is private, so yes.

Fairdale and Western were already working with a 4 home game schedule - if the games aren't made up, both will only have 3 home games. I'm quite sure that lost gate will put a dent in their football accounts.

Fairdale and Western were already working with a 4 home game schedule - if the games aren't made up, both will only have 3 home games. I'm quite sure that lost gate will put a dent in their football accounts.

 

I'll tell you this... there was already a huge dent in the budget at Fairdale. Losing the gate to a home game against a big rival in Valley would be a really huge blow. Let's hope that the game can be re-scheduled.

 

Fairdale has a bye week on October 31.

 

Valley is playing a non-district game at J'Town on Halloween night. There has been some speculation that the Valley @ Fairdale district game could be made-up on that night.

I hate that Henderson doesn't get to play Manual but at least they get to play someone.

The teams aren't making the decisions, the school district is.

 

Everyone understands who made the decision. No one is the winner in these situations. This should be treated like any other natural disaster. In the event that you can meet your obligations shouldn’t you have to forfeit? If a team had the flu and couldn’t make it that would be the same. It looks like at least one team has schedule a replacement but all the teams can do that as quickly.

FORFEIT? No offense but this isn't the FLU. These families and school districts are dealing with a natural disaster that the rest of us don't even think about during our daily life. If high school sports don't teach us gamesmanship and compassion then let's just quit playing all together. The schools that are scheduled to play these county schools should QUICKLY send word that a forfeit is not required and that the game will simply be cancelled and our prayers and thoughts are with them as they try to clean up the mess that mother nature has left them.

 

Forfeit? I hope you were joking!

FORFEIT? No offense but this isn't the FLU. These families and school districts are dealing with a natural disaster that the rest of us don't even think about during our daily life. If high school sports don't teach us gamesmanship and compassion then let's just quit playing all together. The schools that are scheduled to play these county schools should QUICKLY send word that a forfeit is not required and that the game will simply be cancelled and our prayers and thoughts are with them as they try to clean up the mess that mother nature has left them.

 

Forfeit? I hope you were joking!

 

I wasn't joking. I was asking if anyone knew the KHSAA rules for these situations. Again, no one is the winner in these situations. So, if they use your term " canceled " what does that mean? Aren't all the teams required to play a minimum amount of games unless there is a forfeit?

I wasn't joking. I was asking if anyone knew the KHSAA rules for these situations. Again, no one is the winner in these situations. So, if they use your term " canceled " what does that mean? Aren't all the teams required to play a minimum amount of games unless there is a forfeit?

 

I was under the impression teams had to play 9 games to qualify for the playoffs. They also HAVE to play all district games. I would expect the late season schedules in Jefferson County to get shuffled around a bit to make it all work out.

I was under the impression teams had to play 9 games to qualify for the playoffs. They also HAVE to play all district games. I would expect the late season schedules in Jefferson County to get shuffled around a bit to make it all work out.

 

If you have to play 9 games to qualify for the playoffs then Valley may be in some trouble. They already had the game vs. PRP cancelled due to the unfortunate death of a player at PRP. Now the district game @ Fairdale has been cancelled.

If you have to play 9 games to qualify for the playoffs then Valley may be in some trouble. They already had the game vs. PRP canceled due to the unfortunate death of a player at PRP. Now the district game @ Fairdale has been canceled.

 

This would be a shame...surley something could be worked out under these circumstances.

Valley at Fairdale has been rescheduled for Friday October 31st.

 

Fairdale had an open date for Oct 31. I'm not sure what this does with Valley's schedule because they were supposed to play J'town on October 31.

FORFEIT? No offense but this isn't the FLU. These families and school districts are dealing with a natural disaster that the rest of us don't even think about during our daily life. If high school sports don't teach us gamesmanship and compassion then let's just quit playing all together. The schools that are scheduled to play these county schools should QUICKLY send word that a forfeit is not required and that the game will simply be cancelled and our prayers and thoughts are with them as they try to clean up the mess that mother nature has left them.

 

Forfeit? I hope you were joking!

 

Very well stated -- alot of people are really struggling with this situation. If you are not in the middle of it -you have no comprehension.

Why should Valley have to cater to Fairdale? Valley already could not play against PRP, because of their tragedy, so how is it fair that Valley only gets to play 8 games? Play two games in one week, its football, not boxing!

Why should Valley have to cater to Fairdale? Valley already could not play against PRP, because of their tragedy, so how is it fair that Valley only gets to play 8 games? Play two games in one week, its football, not boxing!

Because Valley and Fairdale have to play ... it's a district game.

 

And football coaches think it's inherently unsafe to play two games in a week. That is why nobody does it.