Opening Night
 

I'm scheduled for an October 5th start.

When do you all open up your basketball season?

What is opening on October 5th?

I am sure I will have a game sometime in early to mid-November when the college season starts. As of right now, the week of Thanksgiving is my known start.

Peace

My season is with a Jr. High game.

I really never consider the season to start until the HS and/or college season starts. All that other stuff is just practice and getting ready for the "real season." On October 5, 2006, that will be about Week 7 of the football season. None of my basketball meetings will be starting by that time.

Peace

I won't have attended any of my meetings yet either. But it's a game to gear up and get out there to get back into the swing.

I hear ya. I just do not consider the official start to the season until I am working on a regular basis. When I did work JH a lot before the "regular season" began, I did not work enough to consider that much of anything. I might work one week 1 game, and then go a couple of weeks before another game. I think it comes down to your personal perspective. I just worked a few basketball games just last week.

Peace

Yep, that's it. October 5th and then my next one isn't until the end of the month. So it will certainly be a quick warm-up before the next one.

The official start of my season is designated by my first coach ejection.

:D Ha Ha. I like this idea!

And usually this is my first game.

Even better. Run them early and often! ;)

season opener
 

we start in michigan on Aug 28th...varsity girls...

Is girls' soccer a winter sport there then?

Some states Start their season right after school starts for "A" Bball. In Va typically "A" starts in Last week of August AA and AAA and AAAA start about mid November..

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Who the heck starts October 5th? Must be a girls IESA team? My first (I only have 2 so far... still getting my name out in the area) is November 16. JH Boys - IESA. Also have one JV ... hope I start to fill up soon. Starting over in a new part of the state takes time.

I'm at St. Anthony October 5th.

If I were basketball only (also work football), I might like to see a girls' season early followed by a boys' season. I think the schools might even like that, as it would free up gyms for both practice and games. Of course, I might tire of hoops by December, when the boys/college season is just getting going.

Frankly, until I saw certain early starting seasons on this board, I had no idea anyone started playing interscholastic basketball until early November (very late October at the absolute earliest).

In Michigan, girls soccer is in the spring.

As a one-sport official, I like having the girls and boys seasons separated. I get to work a couple of times a week for six and one-half months rather than four times a week for three and one-half or four months. I know that there are a lot of other considerations -- and that officials' convenience is not high on the list -- but the more reasonable time demands sure are a lot more conducive to a happy and healthy family life. (Of course, there are a lot more significant factors to that as well...)

Maybe we need some clarification around the term "season"... "Coach hunting" may happen any place, any time... It's kinda permanent open season.
Seriously though, here we have all sorts of competitions running almost all the time, except for a break from mid-December to mid-February.

Is this an example of seasons being reversed in the southern hemispere? :cool:

Indeed... We celebrate Christmas by going to the beach. Summer break at schools is between mid Dec and mid February.