If I may ask, where are you guys finding all these schedules this early? Thanks guys for any info
The program that the VHSL, and all of the schools use to officially post schedules is called rSchool.
Often, the AD’s send their schedules to their District official and it sometimes gets posted early on the District website, (which is almost always the rSchool based format).
Schedules are not secret squirrel stuff, so often an email to an AD will get you a schedule.
Of course, if a school hasn’t locked down their schedules, it’s hard to pry what the schedule MIGHT be out of an AD or other school official. Understandably.
The deadline for AD’s to submit their schedules to the League office is May 1. But, a lot has to happen before the schedules can be posted. First, every year there are always schools that have not submitted their schedules and the League has to deal with that. Secondly, the League has an intense system of cross checking and correlating the schedules of over 315 Virginia schools, and that doesn’t include a good many private schools and a large number of out of state schools.
The simplest mistakes on the schedules, which are innocent, but numerous, often take the most effort to resolve. For instance, two opponents may have shown that they are both at home. Or one team list Thursday for the game, or the other shows Friday. Or one schedule shows game time to be 6:30, but the opponent shows 7:00.
And then you can throw in the occasional team or two that suddenly decides that they are not going to field a team and that leaves their opponents scrambling to find an opponent at the last minute.
It’s a maddening job. And that’s when things go well. Which is seldom.
So if we see the official schedule before the 4th of July, I’ll be pleased.