(06-30-2016 09:55 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-29-2016 09:33 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  For teams that play Thursday night games, having a bye the week before a Thursday is pretty important. This would enable them to do it twice a year - or just have one "regular" bye week.

I would expect that this would drive ESPN and Fox to also ask for more Wednesday night and Friday night games involving P5 teams. Maybe Tuesday as well.

The conferences will have to start thinking about that anyway. Right now they're playing on Thursday night with only a minimal TV benefit given that the NFL is now on Thursday night every week.

ark,

FCS doesn't have a special exemption to play in week 0, that I'm aware of. Unless you're talking about a special one-off game that FCS seem to have played last year and this year, to kick things off -- though now that's also been "big footed" with the Hawaii exemption itself.

And as I proposed, you either just ratchet the HI Exmp. back to "week -1" or you live with it.


However, I do think it's important that they shouldn't be allowed to start fall camps a week earlier. Two weeks is plenty enough time to get ready, and as long as it's the same for everyone then no one is at a disadvantage.

(06-30-2016 10:50 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  ark,

FCS doesn't have a special exemption to play in week 0, that I'm aware of. Unless you're talking about a special one-off game that FCS seem to have played last year and this year, to kick things off -- though now that's also been "big footed" with the Hawaii exemption itself.

And as I proposed, you either just ratchet the HI Exmp. back to "week -1" or you live with it.


However, I do think it's important that they shouldn't be allowed to start fall camps a week earlier. Two weeks is plenty enough time to get ready, and as long as it's the same for everyone then no one is at a disadvantage.

Until I hear the NCAA turned down an FCS request to play week 0, it is an implied exemption.

NDSU is the only FCS team doing it this year, and I think NDSU-Montana was one of only two games in FCS that did it last year.