(01-10-2018 04:58 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 04:53 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 04:05 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 03:37 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 03:20 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I'm fine with mid-week with this rider.

No team has to play more than 2 home midweek games in a season and no more than 3 home midweek games over a rolling two year period.

They aren't that bad but really one should be it, two just because sometimes that's how schedules fall.

It has been detrimental to both App and Georgia Southern. They've had 3 thursday night games in a row. This would be a 30,000+ person attended game in Boone if it were on a Saturday. With the Thursday attendance it gets barely more than 24k. ESPN could make up for that in my mind by moving the Thursday games to ESPN2 rather than ESPNU.

Five of the last six A-State / Louisiana games have been weeknight (Tuesday or Thursday) and the only Saturday game was Thanksgiving weekend so yeah I get it but there is value in weeknight games as long as it isn't gutting the home schedule. Only four Saturdays is tough, fewer than that and you are really killing your ticket sales.

The conferences that are really positioned to do mid-week games with minimal damage are the conferences with lots of city schools (as the vast bulk of their season ticket holders live in the same city as the school and dont require several hours to travel to the stadium). CUSA and the AAC could handle more of that kind of game than a conference like the Sunbelt. If they have the city schools handle the bulk of the mid-week games, the damage to attendance could be minimized.

But the city schools of CUSA aren't the schools with the best attendance to begin with.

Thats probably true--but its not the point I was trying to make. Im just saying the attendance delta between a weeknight kickoff and a weekend kickoff would be less at a city school than at a school like S Miss where people have to travel to the game from other area towns. Im not guaranteeing full stadiums--in fact, you'll see a drop in attendance even in the city schools. Im just saying the drop would be less at a city school than a more rural school. The point being, a conference like CUSA can minimize the adverse attendance affect by giving most of the weeknight games to city schools.