With the sizable number of rainouts this weekend, you have to wonder if it wouldn't make sense for the county school systems to build in an extra week into the sports schedules, just as many of them do for snow for the general student population.

That way, if there are delays, weather or otherwise, the systems could simply use the extra day or week to reschedule games rather than attempt to push them into a short period of time. For instance, because of the drenching rains Thursday and Friday, a number of football games were postponed to tonight, meaning those teams will play two games this week. That can't be good for the health and recovery of the kids, particularly as they head to the state playoffs.

With an extra week built into the schedule, those games could have simply slid back a week, rather than be forced into a tiny window. In those years where the week isn't needed, the teams would have time off between their regular seasons, county championships and the state playoffs, which wouldn't be such a bad thing.