How does your state schedule?

The state (Nebraska) does all our scheduling. The mad dash comes at 9:00 AM on Feb. 2 (the day the schedule is out) when all 346 schools try to get officials for Friday night.

I don't like having the state do it... We are on power points and 9-0 with a weak non-conference can get you playing on the road in the playoffs... and there is nothing I (AD/HC) can do about that.

^{One of the main things I don't like about the new way Kansas does things is that it makes it tougher to schedule out of state opponents. With the state setting your schedule can you play out of state teams?}

It can be done... but it is tough to do (need a waiver beforehand). We have not (though we are much closer to several SD schools then we are to schools in our own district/conference).

How do they do that? Aren't a lot of ADs also HFCs? This is Wednesday, a hard practice for just about everybody.

Not a lot of HCs are ADs in Kansas period. Maybe a few in the larger schools. Most smaller schools the AD or Principal schedule the games, HC has very little say.

coachnorm and midline, pm me, let me know where your at!

Around here most of the ADs are retired coaches who have an extra planning period in which they are AD. We're talking about small schools though.
I'm sure for some schools it's the principal or an assisstant AD who is at the meeting if the AD is the head football coach.

In Wisconsin, we still go by conferences, same conference opponents every year. Lately we've had a lot of realignment, so it's almost like having districts. Some teams have 5 conference opponents, some have 9. Teams schedule their non-conference games (if any), conference scheds are set up for them.

In Minnesota they divide the state up into 8 sections. Then it is predetermined what sections play each other it has been a two year deal for those sections to play each other because each section would get one home game. This year all state quarterfinal games must be played on field turf. So it will be interesting to see if some of the teams do get a home game The state realigns the sections every two years based on school enrollment.

Our district schedule is determined by a blind draw. We used to have regional scheduling in which each team submitted a list of regional teams you want to play 1,2, and 3. They'd them match up the numbers. Some of the districts have gotten too big for that, though. We have 4 districts in our region and one has 11 teams and ours has 10. We've gone back to the old way of ADs calling each other and setting up OOC games.