[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Here we play most of our games (all the league games plus a couple of others) on the same nights as the boys' team. If we are home, they are away. This is almost necessary due to the amount of available gym space. On a typical day, the JH teams use the two gyms (HS and JH) after school, and the HS teams use them in the evening. On non-game days, one of us practices 5-7 and the other 7-9. On the occasions where our boys' team is home but we are practicing, we are shuffled off to the less-than-suitable JH gym for a 5-7 practice. This only happens about two or three times a year (plus one or two more for Wednesday night home wrestling matches) so it's bearable. But if we played Mon/Thur and they played Tue/Fri, home on average one of those two games, we'd each be stuck in the JH once per week.

Also, I agree that it's unfair to give the girls' teams no weekend nights. If you have the gym space to go different nights for each gender, what's wrong with swapping halfway through the season? We get much better crowds for our Friday night games than we do for Tuesdays. If we had no Fridays we'd have fewer fans than we already do.

I agree many of the moves made to promote equality are going too far (like when existing men's collegiate sports are eliminated to balance the scale at a lesser cost than adding women's sports), but swapping halfway through seems awfully reasonable to me.