The Official Forum - How far would you go for the playoffs

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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie (Post 797379)

In Texas, we could be sent anywhere, including another state. Several years ago, the Austin chapter worked a game between 2 West Texas schools in New Mexico! That site was closer than any comparable site in Texas.

Our chapter, in North Texas, will work 3-4 games a year during the regular season on the Gulf Coast. San Antonio and Houston are fairly routine, Amarillo/Lubbock happens every so often, and Corpus Christi isn't out of the question. Heck, I've been in courtrooms in every corner of Texas, roughly half the basketball gyms in the eastern half of the state, so a football game 500 miles away wouldn't be anything new for me.

Then you should know that especially in Region I in all classifications both teams travel far and wide to play, even in the first round. There are often times this even happens in the first round.

Usually in the second round it isn't strange to see a team from the El Paso area play a team from around the DFW area.

Basketball is even like this sometimes since they always have predetermined sites for the region final. One year four teams from the very immediate DFW area had to travel all the way to Midland to play each other in Region I. All schools were probably no more than 20 miles from each other.

Even district contests in west Texas require long drives in all sports.

That has happened before where two teams meet in New Mexico. It was probably the place to go to get good facilities. I'm almost quite certain there have been some playoffs games in Oklahoma.