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Post by phantom on Jul 8, 2010 10:55:21 GMT -6
HS coaches- I'm curious how long you have to travel for regular-season away games. If you have one game that really throws off the average please mention that.
Our average trip is about 20 minutes but every second year we have an hour trip.
If the poll thing is broken (I can't see mine) please just answer in a reply.
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Post by blb on Jul 8, 2010 11:11:34 GMT -6
Each of last two years we had a three-hour (150 or so miles) trip.
This year (new school) longest is 80 miles, hour and a half.
All three non-league games BTW/FWIW.
Otherwise our trips are about 25 minutes on average.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 8, 2010 11:21:18 GMT -6
One school is actually just down the street (long street), one is also very close, one about 15 min, one about 30 min, but after that you start leaving the city and it jumps up to 45 min-1 hr, depending who is in what division in a given year.
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 8, 2010 11:28:02 GMT -6
No more than 40m, but they're way out in the boondocks. The rest are within 20m by bus, less by car.
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Post by coachguy83 on Jul 8, 2010 11:55:39 GMT -6
Our closest opponent is about 30 minutes away. The rest our anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours away.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 8, 2010 11:57:28 GMT -6
In high school my soph. year we played Imperial HS for the section championship. We were at Paso Robles, pretty much the northernmost school in the CIF Southern Section, Imperial is just above the Mexican border. 416 miles 1 way. Lost 13-6.
The next year we played at 29 Palms, that was only 350 miles. Won 42-18.
These are not the "lets go out of state for a pre-season game", these were regular games. I know there are probably longer games in Texas, but that is still a far ways to travel.
Traveling 90-120 miles was a normal occurrence given we were a farming community.
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Post by coachmacplains on Jul 8, 2010 14:00:49 GMT -6
This year the range is from 55-105 miles...pretty average.
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Post by struceri on Jul 8, 2010 16:16:17 GMT -6
we play 2 conference games a year on the complete other end of the state. Anywhere from a 4-5 hr trip one way. We usually have 1 other road game and that wouldnt be any farther than 2 hrs. Otherwise any other away game is in town vs fellow city schools.
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Post by tmeert on Jul 8, 2010 16:41:56 GMT -6
Private school in central virginia.
This year we play in DC, Baltimore, on the border with NC, and 3 games about an hour away in richmond.
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Post by carookie on Jul 8, 2010 16:49:09 GMT -6
In high school my soph. year we played Imperial HS for the section championship. We were at Paso Robles, pretty much the northernmost school in the CIF Southern Section, Imperial is just above the Mexican border. 416 miles 1 way. Lost 13-6. The next year we played at 29 Palms, that was only 350 miles. Won 42-18. These are not the "lets go out of state for a pre-season game", these were regular games. I know there are probably longer games in Texas, but that is still a far ways to travel. Traveling 90-120 miles was a normal occurrence given we were a farming community. HAHA Oddly enough I believe my dad was on that Imperial team (was it in the mid 70s?) I coached in the CIF SS for a few years and had to make that same type of trip in the playoffs. This year, as the crow flies, the farthest we'll have to go this year is about 12-15 miles, although pending freeway traffic that could take a while |
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Post by rpetrie on Jul 8, 2010 20:55:31 GMT -6
4 road games this year...each one is about an hour by bus...a little less by car.
We've also had years in which all 4 away games were less than 15 minutes away. All depends on divisional schedules from year to year.
When I was in VA @ Patrick-Henry Roanoke, we were in the NW Region and had some games in Northern VA area. Nice 3.5 to 4 hour drive one way.
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Post by phantom on Jul 8, 2010 21:35:20 GMT -6
In high school my soph. year we played Imperial HS for the section championship. We were at Paso Robles, pretty much the northernmost school in the CIF Southern Section, Imperial is just above the Mexican border. 416 miles 1 way. Lost 13-6. The next year we played at 29 Palms, that was only 350 miles. Won 42-18. These are not the "lets go out of state for a pre-season game", these were regular games. I know there are probably longer games in Texas, but that is still a far ways to travel. Traveling 90-120 miles was a normal occurrence given we were a farming community. How do you handle the travel on these treks ? |
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Post by creid on Jul 9, 2010 5:19:27 GMT -6
Boarding school in CT. We have four away games this fall. 2.5 hrs, 1.75 hrs, 1.75 hrs, 1.25 hrs. We ride a coach bus, so we throw in a movie that is football appropriate. The kids also travel with ipods and other types of electronic devices. About half of the kids sleep. We eat a meal just before we depart and have snacks for the kids on the longer trips.
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Post by highball007 on Jul 9, 2010 9:06:29 GMT -6
We got the shaft on the new districting of the state. We get 3 home games and 5 away, with the closest away game at 28 miles, and the furthest at 183 miles away, with three others at 156 miles away! Needless to say our kids will be missing school on Friday's and one of our motto's has to be Road Warriors!
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Post by wingtol on Jul 9, 2010 9:07:10 GMT -6
Our trips now are not bad most under and hour. I coached at another school several years ago and we played in a conference that had us traveling to several schools that were 4 hours away one way. We are located in the little corner of PA by Ohio and NY and the league we played in had schools located past Penn State in the middle of PA. In one stretch of our schedule we had 3 of 4 games on the road, leave at noon and get home at like 3 in the morning. Was a great time!
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Post by k on Jul 9, 2010 18:52:23 GMT -6
Four years ago we went about 1:15 away. Since then the longest is like 30 min.
6 home games, 2 away games within ten minutes, and two 15-30 min away. Well scheduled this year.
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Post by pvogel on Jul 11, 2010 1:29:40 GMT -6
6 road games this year.
and of those 4 home games, 3 of em are against the teams from our city
haha
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Post by coachk12 on Jul 11, 2010 9:32:15 GMT -6
We share a stadium with the other school in town and it's on our campus, so that's one of our away games this season. 4 other schools in the conference are all within 15 minutes, while the last two are about 45 minutes away.
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Post by coachjd on Jul 15, 2010 5:35:23 GMT -6
2 games within 10 miles and the rest are 45 min to 2 hours.
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Post by kboyd on Jul 16, 2010 8:09:11 GMT -6
We have two opponents in the same city, one about an hour away and the rest are all 2 hours away.
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Post by coachwilley on Jul 18, 2010 21:19:53 GMT -6
4 Road Games,
Closest game is 1 hour. The other three are 2-3.5 hours.
Looks like we'll need to start a thread on how to handle these trips the best!
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