Hot Mic with Dom Izzo: Solutions to North Dakota’s broken spring sports season

Three years in the past on this section I joked that the primary outside observe meet could be the state meet.

This yr, we weren’t that far off. Sheyenne informed me that they had 4 complete outside meets earlier than State.

As a substitute of complaining in regards to the shortened season, I’ve some options:

Transfer the beginning of the spring season again. There’s no purpose any spring sports activities ought to start in March. April 15 could be an ideal beginning date, and provides these sports activities two months to play their seasons. Legion baseball would want to get on board, however I believe most gamers would wish to play with their highschool groups till the season ends.

Increase match weekend. I’ve railed on this, however there aren’t any sports activities that share title weekends within the fall and winter. But within the spring, six sports activities need to share the highlight. Why not unfold it out and have two a weekend? Begin with Tennis and soccer, then Class A baseball and softball after which Class B baseball and softball. Let’s have the spring sports activities be celebrated!

Establishment in thoughts shouldn’t be an possibility. Simply because we’ve carried out this manner and we had one unhealthy April with climate isn’t ok.

Spring sports activities athletes deserve full seasons identical to the autumn and winter athletes get.