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[QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 4062713, member: 8152"]
I've been starting to work on 2022 season stuff these last few days. I fully expect there to be 3-5 games played the last weekend in January this season - a few are already announced.

The schedule creep into February the last 5-15 years (it varies by program as to when this really started) has been because of two main factors, in my opinion:

1) More and more programs having legitimate claims to the final few at-large spots in any given season

and

2) Expansion of and increased emphasis on conference tournaments

Has led to: fewer mid-week games being scheduled - particularly by top teams - due to their worry that they are going to suffer a bad loss on (because of?) short preparation time and wreck their at-large chances.

I don't like the creep into early February and [B][I]particularly[/I][/B] now January. I would prefer the hard date for first scrimmages to be Feb 1 and then hard date for first games to be mid-February. But it seems that the coaches don't want that, so I suspect that the fans are going to continue to suffer from a whole month of terrible weather lacrosse.

This is something that I made ahead of the 2020 season for Hopkins, when I was trying to lock down our schedule for that year, but it still applies here and demonstrates the point that you are making about schedule creep:

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