Start in September with the football game of the week. Every school hosts one Wednesday night home game.
If we go to 12 teams then the Big East Conference Championship Game is the second Wednesday in December.
Once football season ends you have four or five straight Wednesdays of OOC BB games (Memphis vs. Tennessee, UConn vs. Syracuse, Temple vs. Duke, Cincinnati vs. Xavier).
In January you begin conference BB games every Wednesday night.
I would be ok with a Friday night game of the week. A little better for travel and people would be more likely to stay up to watch the whole game.
That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
(02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
(02-25-2013 01:55 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ]Start in September with the football game of the week. Every school hosts one Wednesday night home game.
If we go to 12 teams then the Big East Conference Championship Game is the second Wednesday in December.
Once football season ends you have four or five straight Wednesdays of OOC BB games (Memphis vs. Tennessee, UConn vs. Syracuse, Temple vs. Duke, Cincinnati vs. Xavier).
In January you begin conference BB games every Wednesday night.
I seriously thought you meant for football.
Then I realized Memphis fans don't believe in the football.
Then it all made sense.
(02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Memphis drew more football fans for a Wedesday night ESPN game than your "football school" ever has in its history.
(02-25-2013 02:08 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Memphis drew more football fans for a Wedesday night ESPN game than your "football school" ever has in its history.
And you drew less on a Tuesday than our average attendance in basketball. Save attendance smack for someone else.
(02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
(02-25-2013 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
Not really.
(02-25-2013 02:09 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:08 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Memphis drew more football fans for a Wedesday night ESPN game than your "football school" ever has in its history.
And you drew less on a Tuesday than our average attendance in basketball. Save attendance smack for someone else.
It's a poor excuse. Now I hope we do the Wednesday thing just to piss off the crybaby ECU fans.
Some folks used to whine and cry about Thursday night games. It was such a bad idea that the NFL stole it.
(02-25-2013 02:11 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
Not really.
Really? Taking off one day (Friday) and making it a long weekend isn't easier than trying to travel down for a Wednesday and drive back for work?
(02-25-2013 02:12 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:08 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Memphis drew more football fans for a Wedesday night ESPN game than your "football school" ever has in its history.
And you drew less on a Tuesday than our average attendance in basketball. Save attendance smack for someone else.
It's a poor excuse. Now I hope we do the Wednesday thing just to piss off the crybaby ECU fans.
Weekday games don't bother me one bit...Its a good excuse to take a half day off work and start tailgating at 2pm...I Work in downtown Houston so it takes about 7 minutes to get to the UH campus, and about 15 minutes to get to Reliant.
(02-25-2013 02:16 PM)billetingman1 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:12 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:08 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Memphis drew more football fans for a Wedesday night ESPN game than your "football school" ever has in its history.
And you drew less on a Tuesday than our average attendance in basketball. Save attendance smack for someone else.
It's a poor excuse. Now I hope we do the Wednesday thing just to piss off the crybaby ECU fans.
Weekday games don't bother me one bit...Its a good excuse to take a half day off work and start tailgating at 2pm...I Work in downtown Houston so it takes about 7 minutes to get to the UH campus, and about 15 minutes to get to Reliant.
Yeah, try living 2 hours away from the stadium.
(02-25-2013 02:14 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:11 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:03 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ]That works fine for basketball schools, not so much for football schools
Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
Not really.
Really? Taking off one day (Friday) and making it a long weekend isn't easier than trying to travel down for a Wednesday and drive back for work?
The amount of traveling fans for these game will be negligible. The increase in home fan attendance created by the novelty of the Wednesday night Game of the Week experience would probably more than make up for those handful of visiting fans who couldn't make the trip.
If ECU plays at SMU or Houston on a Wednesday night how many ECU fans will back out that would have gone if it were on a Saturday? 50? 100?
UConn has almost always had two weeknight FB games. One Thursday and one Friday, etc. I don't mind it at all, and it hasn't hurt our attendance too much. We've had a captive college FB audience on those nights on ESPN or ESPN 2.
I prefer to have a few of those mixed in with all of those damn 12:00 noon Saturday starts on ESPN 3.
(02-25-2013 02:20 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:14 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:11 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ]Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
Not really.
Really? Taking off one day (Friday) and making it a long weekend isn't easier than trying to travel down for a Wednesday and drive back for work?
The amount of traveling fans for these game will be negligible. The increase in home fan attendance created by the novelty of the Wednesday night Game of the Week experience would probably more than make up for those handful of visiting fans who couldn't make the trip.
If ECU plays at SMU or Houston on a Wednesday night how many ECU fans will back out that would have gone if it were on a Saturday? 50? 100?
Considering how many bring families to games and how many stay overnight each weekend and how many commute 2+ hours for each game my guess is a pretty high number that would come on a Saturday wouldn't be able to swing a Wednesday night. Probably in the thousands. ECU doesn't have a handful of visiting fans, it's more like most of the fans who don't live in Greenville.
(02-25-2013 02:20 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:14 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:11 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote: [ -> ] (02-25-2013 02:06 PM)3601 Wrote: [ -> ]Yea, those Thursday night games have been terrible for the SEC.
You just said it.... Much easier to make Thursday night work for people with work schedules, travel, etc.
Not really.
Really? Taking off one day (Friday) and making it a long weekend isn't easier than trying to travel down for a Wednesday and drive back for work?
The amount of traveling fans for these game will be negligible. The increase in home fan attendance created by the novelty of the Wednesday night Game of the Week experience would probably more than make up for those handful of visiting fans who couldn't make the trip.
If ECU plays at SMU or Houston on a Wednesday night how many ECU fans will back out that would have gone if it were on a Saturday? 50? 100?
You're talking about away games now. I am fine on ECU playing away on a Wednesday night. That is not my argument. I'm talking about those traveling to Greenville on a Wednesday night.
Sometimes you can tell the fans who don't actually go to games very often