Thursday night football is coming to the Big Island.
There had been whispers for weeks that the BIIF would have to host Thursday games to accommodate a shortage of referees, and the league made it official with the release of the 2015 schedule on Wednesday.
After a meeting over the weekend, it became apparent that the league would not have enough officials to regularly cover three or four games across the island on a single day. The BIIF athletic directors ironed out the new-look schedule during a meeting on Tuesday, moving six regular season games to Thursdays.