Recently, we've been heaping praise on the PIAA for making smart decisions.Earlier this month, the sport's high school governing body made another good move. The PIAA announced, in its Football Championships Telecast/Cablecast Memorandum that the state finals played on Saturday, classes AA and AAAA, will begin at noon and 5 p.m., respectively.
The PIAA changed from those traditional Saturday start times in 2005 when they made the switch to 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. kickoffs. Two years later, the games began at noon and 5 p.m. due to an approaching winter storm.
Last season, the games were bumped up to 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. because of a winter storm that had already hit the area in the early morning.
But the weather issue we can potentially be dealing with Dec. 17 and 18 is beside the point. We're glad the PIAA moved the games back to noon and 5 p.m. At that point in the season, it's best to get the games in as early as possible. If we aren't talking about potential blizzards, there's always the biting cold, so why wait until 7 to start a game when it can be just as easily started at 5?
As for the 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. times for Friday, we don't have a problem with that due to schools being in sessions and people traveling from work.
Again, we say good job to the PIAA for making another smart move.
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