Quote:Friday Night Football: Per Eichorst, Nebraska is slated to host one Friday night home game every third year under the new Big Ten Friday Night initiative. The Huskers can also be the road team once a season. Eichorst did state that the preference is “extremely limited” due to the ramifications of having a home game. The Huskers are set to take on Illinois in Champaign this coming season on a Friday night.

Basically, you not only have to shut down the campus and downtown Lincoln, but the thought of having a lot of Nebraska high school games go to Thursday or Saturday has to be considered. I do like the thought of several games at Memorial Stadium on a Saturday to combat that. However, one has to wonder about staffing and what teams would play, as I would think Omaha teams aren’t moving their games to Lincoln.

While there are no special financial bonuses for hosting a B1G home game on a Friday, there’s no known penalty if Nebraska refuses to host a game, like Michigan or Penn State has mentioned. There are merits of hosting a game, such as exposure on an evening not a lot of games are going. That being said, the weight of what has to happen for a game to go off needs to be weighted.