[Coach_Lockwood]

I agree that your word is your bond. and if you give it you should follow through. I all can recommend is to try and see if any of the coaches at next weekends coaching clinic have spots open in their schedules and making it work for this year and get a jump start on your schedule for next. I would also suggest that your new conference make rules, penalties for teams that fail to play a contracted (create a contract) game.

Bossdaddy,

It would be impossible to make kids play same schedule as high schools. Some high schools are formed by a couple middle school, so would you have the middle schools that join in high school play each other in middle or not?

I am in JCPS, so our kids can go to whatever school they can get accepted to. That would make it impossible to have middle schools match high school rivals. We however have rivals in JCPS middle. Most of the JCPS conference creates there own rivalries, we play each other every year and create the hype between the games.

I still feel that you should be able to schedule some games for next year (only need 7 by playoffs). True it may not be against teams you want or near where you want but get it done for the kids, in the end this whole thing is to prepare them for high school and beyond.