With the impending weather Friday who’s game are rescheduled?

[Wareaglefan1us]

Please list any games that have been moved up or back 

[Arashatora]

East Webster v Vardaman

Nettleton and whoever they play

[s1nglewing]

6 minutes ago, Arashatora said:

East Webster v Vardaman

Nettleton and whoever they play - Saltillo

 

[TheAnswer]

Wimps…

[Raiders 10]

57 minutes ago, s1nglewing said:

 

that right Nettleton playing Saltillo 

North Pontotoc at Itawamba 

Water Valley at Bruce

SE Lauderdale at NE Lauderdale 

TCPS at West Lowndes

Calhoun City at Aberdeen 

Amory at Mooreville

 

[Panther2015]

Quitman/Newton game has been moved to Thursday night. 

[Arashatora]

1 hour ago, TheAnswer said:

Wimps…

For most people it's to keep the field from getting destroyed 3 weeks into the season

[Raiders 10]

4 minutes ago, Arashatora said:

For most people it's to keep the field from getting destroyed 3 weeks into the season

it crazy it not like it use to be several years go a lot of Hs football teams playing in the rain now these days it ain't they scared of the rain and messing their field up

[JagsFan77]

Schools with grass spend thousands , and into the tens of thousands, of tax payer and/or booster dollars to prep and maintain their fields every year. If you play on your field in the rain to prove you're not a "wimp", then you are fiscally irresponsible and probably shouldn't be in charge. If you feel the need to ruin a field to try to prove your manliness, then you must not be very confident in your manliness to begin with. Thats a YOU problem. Quit trying to degrade responsible coaches because people were idiots "back in the old days".

[Tiburon]

i see your point of view Jagsfan...but i am not sure it's fair to call everyone back in the day idiots..... perhaps a counter point could be made here about "the old days" being back when schools were fiscally  responsible and didn't spend "tens of thousands of dollars of tax payer and/or booster dollars" on the field - at least in part because back then they knew rain happens.

[JagsFan77]

Perhaps "everyone" was a bit harsh. Field maintenance has always been expensive. Seed, aeration, fertilizers, irrigation equipment, the actual water, mowing equipment, gas, insecticides, top dressing, paint, rollers or sprayers, and everything else in the off season. I don't know many football coaches who paid for all that out of their own pockets. The money has always come from tax payers and boosters. We know rain happens now just as we did back then. But there's a lot less hesitation to move games now out of fear of being called a wimp and fields (and money) are saved because of it. Every year in these threads we see coaches and players called "wimps" or "soft" because they have the common sense to move a game and not ruin their field. I know its cool for everyone to pound their chest and talk about how tough we were back in the day (I'm guilty of it from time to time) but in the case of avoiding rain I am glad we aren't throwing money down the drain in the name of appearing tough.

Edited September 8, 2022 by JagsFan77

[TheAnswer]

If a field is properly maintained, then playing in rain will not ruin it at all. If all this money is being poured into fields and it can’t handle rain then that is a waste of money.

[lionpack]

2 minutes ago, TheAnswer said:

If a field is properly maintained, then playing in rain will not ruin it at all. If all this money is being poured into fields and it can’t handle rain then that is a waste of money.

A nice bermuda surface isn't always indicative of good drainage. 

[lionpack]

Mississippi has some great high school natural surfaces. They can literally be set back years of work if they get destroyed after a gully washing rain. 

[lionpack]

I remember the 2009 season being extremely wet.  I think Louisvilles field was a complete loss after an overtime game with West Lauderdale.

[JagsFan77]

7 minutes ago, lionpack said:

A nice bermuda surface isn't always indicative of good drainage. 

 

4 minutes ago, lionpack said:

Mississippi has some great high school natural surfaces. They can literally be set back years of work if they get destroyed after a gully washing rain. 

Exactly. Theres a lot of folks who have never maintained a field with a lot of opinions on things they know nothing about. 

[cstevens4]

Philadelphia @ Leake Central

Leake Academy @ Union 

Moved to tonight.

[Tiburon]

hey i respect your opinion jagsfan. i know it comes from experience. remember though this is a forum…other people have opinions as well.

 

im not calling anyone a wimp. i’m just saying i prefer we play on unless people are evacuating. that’s my preference.

[Tiburon]

i would be interested in hearing how well bassfield drains. was up there last week and noticed the field is below everything. the improvements there look great. but i saw all the pavement on 3 sides with about 3’ of sloped grass down onto the field itself. 

Edited September 8, 2022 by Tiburon
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[JagsFan77]

Understood. I’m guessing it’s mostly aesthetics and 1 night of playability of the field most people are considering. Forget about the rainy night gate loss…  it’s also ruts which makes for uneven ground to play on for at least that game if not weeks. Uneven ground that can lead to not just trips and falls but also sprained or broken ankles, ACL, MCL tears. When a D1 star player tears an ACL and loses a scholarship it’s gonna be tough to tell him that a completely avoidable injury is just part of the game. At some point it goes from personal preference to outright negligence. But to each their own. Each school has to decide risk and reward for themselves.

[TheAnswer]

Once again, a properly maintained field is a safe field. With proper rolling, top dressing, aeration, irrigation, and mowing, it usually takes a field about a week to repair itself.

[Tiburon]

so how much rain is too much?

 

i dunno, maybe mhsaa can lure Fauci over from cdc to make the call for us when it rains. 

 

“everbody just stay home. water is dangerous, it causes drownings and wrinkled finger tips and billions of dollars in flooding. it washes out roads and kill crops and destroys ligaments.      you cant deny the science. that maga biatch red shoe wearing dorothy melted that defenseless witch with just one bucket of it! and its going to be raining buckets tonight.”

 

“oh, and everyone MUST wear these inflatable arm floaties while in the stands. but really you should all stay home…away from the shower.

 

[maroontide06]

56 minutes ago, Tiburon said:

so how much rain is too much?

 

i dunno, maybe mhsaa can lure Fauci over from cdc to make the call for us when it rains. 

 

“everbody just stay home. water is dangerous, it causes drownings and wrinkled finger tips and billions of dollars in flooding. it washes out roads and kill crops and destroys ligaments.      you cant deny the science. that maga biatch red shoe wearing dorothy melted that defenseless witch with just one bucket of it! and its going to be raining buckets tonight.”

 

“oh, and everyone MUST wear these inflatable arm floaties while in the stands. but really you should all stay home…away from the shower.

 

Tib, I'm trying to give you a like and a laugh on this one, but it's only letting me pick one.  This post deserves both.

[U Remember When]

Those "idiots" from the past stormed the beaches of Normandy, its why we're not typing in German now.  Those "idiots" flew to and walked on the moon.  Today we are hitching rides into space with adversaries and other nations. Some of the most iconic games in history were on the "frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.  Many things have changed for the better over time like diversity among players and coaches.  But I have noticed an overall decline in physical toughness in society at large.  My grandmother talked for 30 years about waiting under the stands of the then new D'iberville stadium until the storm passed.  It never occurred to me she was stupid.  Grandma came to see me play and I thought she was awesome.

[lionpack]

14 minutes ago, U Remember When said:

Those "idiots" from the past stormed the beaches of Normandy, its why we're not typing in German now.  Those "idiots" flew to and walked on the moon.  Today we are hitching rides into space with adversaries and other nations. Some of the most iconic games in history were on the "frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.  Many things have changed for the better over time like diversity among players and coaches.  But I have noticed an overall decline in physical toughness in society at large.  My grandmother talked for 30 years about waiting under the stands of the then new D'iberville stadium until the storm passed.  It never occurred to me she was stupid.  Grandma came to see me play and I thought she was awesome.

With the way society is looking right now maybe typing in German wasn’t the worst outcome. All jokes aside people hammer the new generation all you want but don’t forget your generation raised them.