The leaders of Illinois Futbol Club have spent months planning this weekend's 195-team IFC Spring Invite, and a few weeks ago, they finally produced a schedule.
This week, they had to completely remake that schedule.
With the constant rain over the last few days, the University of Illinois fields at the intersection of Florida and Lincoln avenues, where they planned on holding many of the games, were unplayable. So it was back to the drawing board.
"The schedule was out two and a half weeks ago," Illinois FC assistant director of coaching Rosalee Edsall said, "and I basically spent all day Tuesday and Wednesday redoing the schedule.