Tuesday afternoon felt somewhat like a scene out of "The Wizard of Oz" around the state with tornado watches, intense wind and rain whipping through the state. This certainly wreaked havoc on boys soccer regional playoff games, as several contests were postponed.
Birmingham Brother Rice, Birmingham Detroit Country Day and Troy were area teams that had their games moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, and their potential regional final dates were affected as well.
It's possible with a win over Traverse City West that Troy would've played its regional final on Thursday against Grand Blanc (a shootout winner over Rochester Adams on Tuesday), but because the West-Troy game is Wednesday, the regional final will have to take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday as originally planned.
If Country Day wins its semifinal against Dearborn Divine Child, its regional final will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday instead of on Thursday night.
All this leads to an interesting question from Kosmo.
Did athletic directors and school administrators at these host sights panic over some bad weather and prematurely make a decision to postpone the games?
Yes, it was a bad weather system that forced some school districts to have their kids go to shelter areas within buildings. But by 3 p.m., it was all but over.
There was plenty of time to transport kids to games and thus not mess up the regional schedule for the rest of the week.
Kosmo does understand that in this day and age, administrators have to be overly cautious in an era of lawsuits by overly sensitive people.
That's why school is postponed over bad weather more than ever.
But in this case, it seems as if there was time for administrators to wait it out a bit on not make such a rash decision. Some sites didn't do that and got their games in on Tuesday.
Hopefully the revamped regional schedule for those that didn't though doesn't affect too many teams as a result.