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The only football on TV on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the entire month of November will be exclusive to #MACtion.

That's kind of like the booby prize - the networks need to fill the time slots that no one else wants

...and we're damn proud of it.

SSF,

five years ago maybe... But the NFL and other conference have all started to play weeknight games.

Yeah, nothing like these meaningless games this week. OU-UB, CMU-BSU, Stanford-Oregon. What good team would ever play except on Saturday?

Cold and dreary in Nov. Not exactly big crowds showing up either.

Why have MACtion relegated to Nov?

(11-05-2013 08:22 AM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]Cold and dreary in Nov. Not exactly big crowds showing up either.

Why have MACtion relegated to Nov?

Because if you're going to have bad crowd due to weather *or* a Tuseday why not put the two together

(11-05-2013 06:56 AM)axeme Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, nothing like these meaningless games this week. OU-UB, CMU-BSU, Stanford-Oregon. What good team would ever play except on Saturday?

Baylor-Oklahoma is Thursday too.

(11-05-2013 08:22 AM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]Cold and dreary in Nov. Not exactly big crowds showing up either.

Why have MACtion relegated to Nov?

ESPN can't fill their weeknight time slots with Baseball Tonight I suppose. But I agree with you, these MACtion games should be spread out over the course of an entire season.

(11-05-2013 10:57 AM)Love and Honor Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-05-2013 08:22 AM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]Cold and dreary in Nov. Not exactly big crowds showing up either.

Why have MACtion relegated to Nov?

ESPN can't fill their weeknight time slots with Baseball Tonight I suppose. But I agree with you, these MACtion games should be spread out over the course of an entire season.

My take is to have the Saturday games when the weather is nice for the students and fans..

The MAC games are not in November because the MAC wanted them there. They are there because ESPN wanted them there. Every conference wants their games on ESPN on Saturday, but if the MAC wants to be on the network more than a couple times per season, it's mid-week November.

It actually is better to have the Saturday games in Sept. and Oct. than mid-week games then that screw up the whole schedule.

I should have clarified my statement - I would like to see some weeknight MAC games earlier in the year, but only as a "Game of the Week" kind of thing instead of the random matchups that we see in November. As part of the next TV deal, I'd love to see us hype up the MACtion and get some games on the actual ESPN in a time slot that would just be something like poker otherwise. If the weather is decent and the home team draws a big (by MAC standards) crowd, it'd be great exposure for us. Wouldn't it be great if a game like NIU-Ball State were played under these conditions?

Knowing ESPN that'll never happen, we can't even get anything more than ESPN2 on a Friday night for the MACC. Nonetheless, it would be good to see.

We could play a game like Ball State and NIU on a weeknight in September, but it would not be the same as playing in November when the two teams are 9-0 and 9-1 and have become bracket buster possibilities. Playing when they were both 3-0 in September would not be that big of a deal. This game this year is going to be a big deal.

(11-05-2013 03:19 PM)DICK Wrote: [ -> ]We could play a game like Ball State and NIU on a weeknight in September, but it would not be the same as playing in November when the two teams are 9-0 and 9-1 and have become bracket buster possibilities. Playing when they were both 3-0 in September would not be that big of a deal. This game this year is going to be a big deal.

It is.

And it's going up against Miami @ KSU on ESPNU at the same time, the #LACKOMACTION game of the season!

I wish there was some way to kill Black Friday MACtion, even if it meant killing Saturday before football which I would also support. Cap all of MACtion with the entire conference playing on Tuesday. Black Friday. MAC Tuesday. Boom. #MACtion

Yeah, there would be some meaningless games that Tuesday... No different than meaningless Friday games and I doubt the Saturday before is even that special with plenty of other conferences going on and students prepping for the holiday.

MACtion has its downside but i think the MAC nailed it limiting it to November. We get exposure at a time we would have crowd issues anyway.

(11-05-2013 03:33 PM)The Optimist Wrote: [ -> ]I wish there was some way to kill Black Friday MACtion, even if it meant killing Saturday before football which I would also support. Cap all of MACtion with the entire conference playing on Tuesday. Black Friday. MAC Tuesday. Boom. #MACtion

Yeah, there would be some meaningless games that Tuesday... No different than meaningless Friday games and I doubt the Saturday before is even that special with plenty of other conferences going on and students prepping for the holiday.

MACtion has its downside but i think the MAC nailed it limiting it to November. We get exposure at a time we would have crowd issues anyway.

I agree completely. Those Black Friday games are are waste of resources and opportunities. Let our guys go home for Thanksgiving and the two teams left standing an extra couple of days off before the MACC.