A cruel, cruel joke?

I love mother nature; I love nearly everything about her.  I love the rain, I love thunderstorms.. and I used to love snow.  That's all changing, at the moment.  The "Storm of the Century" just swept through the midwest depositing around 11 or more inches of snow in the 217.  I didn't mind that, I didn't mind the drifts of 2+ feet that piled up on my patio or in my driveway.  In fact, I enjoyed being outside today and cleaning off the driveway.. since we haven't gotten many good snows down here like we're used to in Wisconsin.  That snow and my aching back weren't a problem... until now.

My basketball team is why it's a problem.  Last week Thursday we won our 7th grade regional game.  I had them practice Friday and gave them off Saturday.  Apparently that was a huge mistake and it gets worse.  Monday we got out of school early so no practice.  Tuesday?  No school = No practice.  Game was scheduled to be Wednesday.  Well... guess what?  No school = no game.  Of course, now we have to push the game back to Thursday.  EXCEPT WE ARE NOW OFF THURSDAY ALSO!  No school = no game.  There are snow drifts in the country and frigid temperatures tomorrow; with how sue happy people are today that's a recipe for failure for a school district.  That means our game gets pushed back to Friday.

This is where it gets even crazier.. since state starts on Saturday if our game doesn't get played Friday, how do they decide who goes?  Easy answer according to the IESA?  A coin flip.  No head to head, no common opponents, no overall record, nothing like that.  A coin flip.  Unreal.  I'm still in shock.  They can't even let the team captains rock, paper, and scissors their way to state?  A free throw contest?  Put a number behind your back?  I'm still in shock.  I really am.

Lets pray that Friday doesn't become a snow day.  The kids deserve to play the game for their chance to make it to state and if they don't because of a coin flip, I don't know what to tell them.  What would you say?  Sorry, but even though we beat this team by 20 earlier this year.. I called tails and it landed heads?  I just can't fathom having to do that.  NO SNOW DAY FRIDAY!  NO SNOW DAY FRIDAY!