TheSnake22
12-01-2006, 01:34 AM
I was going to just put this in another thread, but i'm feeling saucy and it's probably deserving, so...
What to people think about PIHA having some sort of pre-season exhibition schedule, whether it be a mandatory number of games, say 4, against a couple of the closer teams, or a weekend festival with a bunch of teams... it would help to get the season going, where as right now it seems like we're all just jumping into the deep end... It would be awesome to have a weekend with about 8-10 teams, everyone plays a round-robin, and then play it out... i mean 6-8 games in a weekend isn't really that much with 12 minute halves PIHA style... it would be great for teams to get some time together, good for building excitement, and definately helpful to get an idea of where everyone stands, but not have it count against you... Tournament series are over in july/august, im sure it could be fit somewhere in sept/oct/nov... Now you're saying, well everyone wouldn't be able to do a tourney on the same weekend...What if you had an Eastern conference tourney in Philly, Midwest tourney in St. Louis, and tourneys in Colorado and Canada... and if you couldn't put your team in, you would be required to schedule 4 games on your own with another team... Just imagine the night activities going on if you had 8 PIHA teams in the same place at the same time... who knows where havelocks sandal might end up!
Basically, i think it would be a good way for the league to get the season going, other than how it is now where there is nothing besides a fake draft and a couple teams who have tried to put something together on their own... it seems like there is this long dead period of time and all we can do is try to think of something new to talk about...
What to people think about PIHA having some sort of pre-season exhibition schedule, whether it be a mandatory number of games, say 4, against a couple of the closer teams, or a weekend festival with a bunch of teams... it would help to get the season going, where as right now it seems like we're all just jumping into the deep end... It would be awesome to have a weekend with about 8-10 teams, everyone plays a round-robin, and then play it out... i mean 6-8 games in a weekend isn't really that much with 12 minute halves PIHA style... it would be great for teams to get some time together, good for building excitement, and definately helpful to get an idea of where everyone stands, but not have it count against you... Tournament series are over in july/august, im sure it could be fit somewhere in sept/oct/nov... Now you're saying, well everyone wouldn't be able to do a tourney on the same weekend...What if you had an Eastern conference tourney in Philly, Midwest tourney in St. Louis, and tourneys in Colorado and Canada... and if you couldn't put your team in, you would be required to schedule 4 games on your own with another team... Just imagine the night activities going on if you had 8 PIHA teams in the same place at the same time... who knows where havelocks sandal might end up!
Basically, i think it would be a good way for the league to get the season going, other than how it is now where there is nothing besides a fake draft and a couple teams who have tried to put something together on their own... it seems like there is this long dead period of time and all we can do is try to think of something new to talk about...