[Pantherdreams]

For us around here it depends on the quality of the games.

The last couple of years the 2A schools on the girls side have all been pretty good, and boys have been down but all of them have been down. I find in those cases we don't see many. I often find when there is 1 or 2 very good teams in a league/conference and weaker teams you get more high emotion high conflict sort of games.

The example I will use is the 1A games in our area we have 2 girls teams and 1 boys team that is dramatically better than the rest of the league for a few years. None of the other programs seem to be building just happy to compete with each other and complain about having to play these programs. Meanwhile the top schools always feel like playing the weaker schools isn't a positive experience. These are the games that can get chippy, where emotions run high, where" how" the game is being officiated seems to be a much more emotional deal for someone. I tend to end up with more T situations in those games.

We don't have any 3A schools in our region but when they come for games I very rarely have problems as they know why they are there.

I'm not saying the level of school matters I've had great 1A games and 2A or 3A games that were gong shows. But if everyone in the game is at a competitive level even if that level is bad we don't see a lot of it, even in rivalry games. If you get matchups where both people resent being in the game, anything that happens either way that can be perceived as upsetting seems to tip the apple cart in those games.