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Post by wingtol on Jan 22, 2016 10:10:48 GMT -6
Just wondering how long your average road trip is in your leagues?
We just had a re-alignment and some people are freaking out about the travel, which I don't think is bad but some teams were use to 5 min trips now have like 1 hour or so trips. When I started coaching at a big school we had several 3+ hour road trips in a league we were in so I guess I am a bit road tested and don't mind it.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 22, 2016 10:18:34 GMT -6
Iowa just redrew our district maps as well. For us personally, two hours is the longest and we actually had to make that same drive for a non-district game four years ago. Other than that, there is one more trip that will be around 90 minutes and then the other five schools are all within an hour.
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Post by gibbs72 on Jan 22, 2016 10:18:42 GMT -6
35 minutes is our longest road trip in the regular season.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 22, 2016 10:21:45 GMT -6
Our longest trip in the 6 years I've been here was a 3 hour bus ride Week 1 to play a Saturday afternoon game in 100 degree temps. The opposing team also had a 3 hour trip (we met in the middle).
Longest conference game is 1.25 hours, but we only make it once every 6 years. 12 team conference, 2 divisions, only play the other division's teams twice ever 6 years. Longest division trip is about 45 mins. 3 teams are within 10 mins of us.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jan 22, 2016 10:29:00 GMT -6
Within our region the longest we have is about an hour and fifteen minutes, another is about the same, the rest are all about 30 minutes or less. We used to have a team that was about 5 hours away and we had to make that trip every other year, but their population dropped and they moved down a league.
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Post by funkfriss on Jan 22, 2016 10:30:33 GMT -6
Average for us is about 45 minutes. Shortest is 10 minutes, furthest is 1.5 hours.
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Post by mikeyg on Jan 22, 2016 10:51:58 GMT -6
This season we had a 4 hour trip and a 3 1/2 hour trip. Was not fun at all. Our shortest road trip was 1 hour. Going into a different class next season and our longest road trip will be a 1 1/2 hour trip.
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Post by bluboy on Jan 22, 2016 10:58:00 GMT -6
Years ago scheduling issues forced us to get games that were 90-minute bus rides. Now, our longest ride is 60 minutes (can easily turn into 80 minutes).
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Post by fantom on Jan 22, 2016 11:06:38 GMT -6
Just wondering how long your average road trip is in your leagues? We just had a re-alignment and some people are freaking out about the travel, which I don't think is bad but some teams were use to 5 min trips now have like 1 hour or so trips. When I started coaching at a big school we had several 3+ hour road trips in a league we were in so I guess I am a bit road tested and don't mind it. We're in a metropolitan area so we don't have to travel much but sometimes it can be tricky because of traffic. Most away games are only a twenty minute drive but we have one outlier that's in the country. Google Maps says it's only a 45 minute drive but Google Maps doesn't make that drive on a Friday afternoon riding on a cheese-box. There's only one road into the county and you have to cross a long toll bridge. So, Friday with commuter traffic it's more like an hour and a half. Being in a metro area does mean that there are a lot of schools within less than an hour drive so even for non-district games we never have a long drive, theoretically. |
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Post by spreadpowero on Jan 22, 2016 12:35:21 GMT -6
1 hour during the regular season. Post season is a different animal. The last two seasons we have had 5-6 hour bus rides in the playoffs.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 22, 2016 13:17:22 GMT -6
Average is probably about 40 or 45 min. Our in county opponents are between 15 and 30 min, and out of county conference games are about 50-60 minutes. We do have one non conference game on the schedule next year that is about 2 hours
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Post by silkyice on Jan 22, 2016 14:48:43 GMT -6
We traveled
2:15
3:30
1:45
3:00
2:00
1:45
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Jan 22, 2016 15:33:11 GMT -6
Our closest
35 miles
56
68
And 68
The rest are all over 110 miles
Non district this year was 162
37
And 295
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jan 22, 2016 19:33:45 GMT -6
All of our district games are no more than 50-60 minutes.
Non-district games usually are 20 or 30 minutes, at most.
Depending on how the playoffs work, though, we can travel 4 hours or so.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 22, 2016 20:08:54 GMT -6
In one league we travelled two hours because every team in the league was in one city except us.
Same team different league mostly local but one team three hours and one team five hours.
Different team anywhere from local to five hours
Next team was all localish, some games walking distance, some games 45 minutes by bus.
Now we fly thousands of miles...
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Post by coachg125 on Jan 22, 2016 20:32:34 GMT -6
District games are 5 mins, 20 mins and 30 mins. In 2016 we are only doing the 5 minute trip.
Non-district games vary by season.
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Post by fballcoachg on Jan 23, 2016 7:07:31 GMT -6
Last job, rural area but all of the schools were clustered w the exception of 2. Longest league travel was roughly 60 minutes, the rest averaged 15 minutes
Here, suburban area. As the crow flies distance isn't too bad but traffic etc feeds in to everything. Average travel time is probably 30 minutes in league.
Both places the out of conference was completely up in the air...very hard to schedule at the first which was a small school power so we had games that wer 45-60 minutes then one out of state that was 4ish hours. Here we have a lot of close schools but our out of conference games this year (if we traveled to all and neglecting any traffic issues) would be 1.5 hrs, 25 minutes, 1 hour, and 2.5-3 hrs. Some of that by design some by necessity.
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Post by dytmook on Jan 24, 2016 14:54:00 GMT -6
We can make 2 or 3 one hour trips in a year. Then one more possibly about 35 minutes.
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Post by wolfden12 on Jan 24, 2016 19:17:35 GMT -6
Years ago at a parochial school I coached at we didn't have a field and had to travel 20 minutes to host site.
Away games were:
2 hours
2 hours
3 hours
40 minutes
1 hour
1 & 10 minutes
6 hours
At current school we travel no more than 25 minutes.
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Post by tigercoach11 on Jan 24, 2016 19:34:05 GMT -6
I am extremely jealous of some of these posts. Things got better at the new job I started this year (bigger school a little closer to more big schools). But last place I was at the CLOSEST district game we had was 110 miles. Pre-district was tough to schedule anything. Always had to play up or out of state. I was ok with that because we were always a deep run playoff team so playing TX teams and good OK teams made us tougher down the road.
I scheduled a week 2 game that was 330 miles ONE WAY last year, and I also chose to play it Friday night not Sat afternoon. Whole town was complaining, but, guess who we saw in second round of playoffs...same team. In our state I firmly believe you can benefit come playoff time if you're willing to sit your butt on a bus.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Jan 25, 2016 11:01:51 GMT -6
Coach you must have been in sw corner of Kansas, not much out there but a lot of quail , lol
Did you guys ever schedule anybcolorado teams?
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Post by PSS on Jan 25, 2016 11:13:05 GMT -6
The last two years we have had 4 games that travel was 4 to 5 hours to each game.
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Post by fugulookinat on Jan 25, 2016 12:22:42 GMT -6
My longest was 4 1/2 hours. Drove there, game postponed due to lightning. Drove home. Went back the next day, played, drove back home. 18 hours total.
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Post by crock1615 on Jan 25, 2016 12:57:42 GMT -6
we are a rural team that was placed in a metro district. So while all of the other schools in our district are within 20 minutes of each other, we are 1.5 hours from each of them. For our non-district games we usually have about a 45 minute to 1 hour drive, except for our game against the school right across the state line, which is 6 minutes away.
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Post by coachclark73 on Jan 26, 2016 10:30:11 GMT -6
This was a good year for us, not as much travel as usual. only 4 road games:)
4.5 hours
5 hours
1 hour
1.5 hours
year before
5 hours
2 hours
5 hours
3.5 hours
15 minutes
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Post by The Lunch Pail on Jan 28, 2016 1:15:04 GMT -6
Our longest road trip is 2.5 hours. And it's a conference game. It can usually be even longer because the roads are always under a lot of construction.
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