First thought: Wow, that was quick.
Second though: Lots of Friday evening games followed by Early Saturday Afternoon games.![]()
Plattsburgh State only has ONE non-conference away game in 10-11
HOME GAMES: 16
Brockport
Buffalo
Cortland
Fredonia
Geneseo
Morrisville
Oswego
Potsdam
Elmira
Middlebury
Norwich
Williams
Cardinal Classic: vs. Curry NEC vs. Neumann
PrimeLink: vs. St.Johns Middlebury vs. Norwich
AWAY GAMES: 9
Brockport
Buffalo
Cortland
Fredonia
Genseso
Morrisville
Oswego
Potsdam
Skidmore
Plattsburgh State only has ONE non-conference away game in 10-11
HOME GAMES: 16
Brockport
Buffalo
Cortland
Fredonia
Geneseo
Morrisville
Oswego
Potsdam
Elmira
Middlebury
Norwich
Williams
Cardinal Classic: vs. Curry NEC vs. Neumann
PrimeLink: vs. St.Johns Middlebury vs. Norwich
AWAY GAMES: 9
Brockport
Buffalo
Cortland
Fredonia
Genseso
Morrisville
Oswego
Potsdam
Skidmore
First thought: Wow, that was quick.
Second though: Lots of Friday evening games followed by Early Saturday Afternoon games.![]()
Okay Utica![]()
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You saw their 09-10 schedule, right?![]()
Yeah, we've seen a lot of that at Adrian, too. The road team can get a couple hour head start on travel back home. It's not exactly a quick junket for most teams.
Exactly.
When most road trips last 3+ hours, you try to give each other a bit of a head start in heading back.
I remember Northland used to make teams stay for a 7:00 PM game on Saturday. Boy, would that suck... having to spend an entire afternoon in that town after being forced to check out of the hotel....
Yeah, we've seen a lot of that at Adrian, too. The road team can get a couple hour head start on travel back home. It's not exactly a quick junket for most teams.
Not sure how well the 3 o'clock games on Saturday are attended elsewhere, but at Adrian there is a noticeable drop from the Friday nite crowd.
How many 12 hour bus rides are there currently in the MCHA ?
jerrynu26, I fixed your post. Thanks for that clarification.While that is how most tournaments work, the Primelink tournament is different.
The home team doesn't choose. The tournament rules are set up for the home team in any year to always gets the outside invitee, with the other two rotational teams playing each other.
Not sure about 12-hour rides, but Google has Finlandia - Adrian at about 10.5 hours by car, so probably about 11.5 by bus.
Northland - Adrian is about 12 by car, again per Google.
Second though: Lots of Friday evening games followed by Early Saturday Afternoon games.![]()
A few years back, Brockport started having some 4:00 Saturday conference games (A number of schools do have Saturday afternoon games for nonconference games).
At that time, the SUNYAC did consider making the Saturday afternoon conference games a permanent fixture across the board. But, they decided against it, and kept to the Friday night/Saturday night scheduling. (The basketball SUNYAC schedule always has Saturday afternoon games.)
I do think that attendance is probably better when the game is in the evening than afternoon. I also wonder how much teams didn't like the shorter rest period between games.
Remember when games used to start at 7:30? Then, various leagues started to change that to 7:00, and everyone followed.