Why are there not more home games on home football weekends?
First of all, the conference schedule is set by the league. You have no control over that. Our non-conference, we don’t always even have complete control over whether we can make that happen on a football weekend. For example, if we play Memphis at home, we may only have one weekend or date that works for both of us. Scheduling on a home football weekend is not really a priority for us. In fact, it can often be a distraction. If we’re playing on Friday/Sunday and the girls are going to a football game on Saturday, well we have to train on Saturday and if they’re out in the sun going to a football game, they may lose their focus. But we never intentionally schedule based on football. In fact, we schedule so far in advance that we don’t usually even see the football schedule that far down the road. Q: If there is an obvious shortage of ballboys/ballgirls, do you want adults to volunteer? A: I think it would be better to have adults than no one. Soccer is a free-flowing game, and we want
