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No Joke Boise State/New Mexico State SUNDAY Football!!! - BRONCOBLAST - 03-30-2006 04:04 PM
http://www.broncosports.com/fb_headlines.asp?id=football&article=4101
BRONCO FOOTBALL GAME AT NEW MEXICO STATE MOVED TO SUNDAY FOR ESPN BROADCAST
by: Max Corbet (3/30/2006)
BOISE, Idaho
How bad does this suck!! - BRONCOBLAST - 03-30-2006 04:05 PM
What ever happened to Saturday football?
Has any other college team ever played on a Sunday?
- jediwarrior - 03-30-2006 04:52 PM
I recall Bowl games being played on Sunday....I think???
This is good though.
On Saturday, we're competing with 119 other teams for game recognition. On Sunday...you're the "show".
...unless you're competing head-to-head with the NFL.
I hope NMSU fills the stands.
- aggiefansince83 - 03-30-2006 05:29 PM
I hope we fill the stands too.
Although if the Cowboys or Broncos are playing a Sunday night game that night the stands will be empty. Doesn't NBC do Sunday night football now?
I think there is a hard core faction of college football fans that will watch Sunday games. I would rather watch a college game than a pro game.
If the team is having a good year the stands will be full. We need to win 1 of the 2 rivalry games for people to say we are having a good year.
- flipen - 03-30-2006 05:41 PM
sunday college football with NFL? thats too weird. why this game though?
- NuMexAg - 03-30-2006 07:22 PM
Get ready for more of this kind of action.
This is the down side to all the extra exposure we will get on ESPN. Overall I think it will be very good for the WAC - but it will come at a price of reduced attendance and difficult schedules for FB coaches and players.
- strangerocknrollers - 03-30-2006 07:33 PM
watta boring game that would be it, doesnt even deserve to be on the oxygen network
- Roughrider - 03-31-2006 12:32 AM
Supposed to be a night for the baseball playoffs (LCS) so the geriatric set won't be watching ESPN. Baseball died with the last strike and it's Cuba and Japan's game anyway.
aggiefansince83 Wrote:I hope we fill the stands too.
Although if the Cowboys or Broncos are playing a Sunday night game that night the stands will be empty. Doesn't NBC do Sunday night football now?
I think there is a hard core faction of college football fans that will watch Sunday games. I would rather watch a college game than a pro game.
If the team is having a good year the stands will be full. We need to win 1 of the 2 rivalry games for people to say we are having a good year.
- nwp - 03-31-2006 12:35 PM
FWIW, my two cents on college Sunday football. College football has no business going head to head on a Sunday against the NFL and if MLB is having post season playoffs it only gets worse. ESPN is continuing to turn the WAC and probably other selected conferences into their personal hookers. Heck lets have the WAC agree to a 3:00 am game , the national tv market should be wide open. Does that sound off the wall? IMO, not if ESPN thinks they can make a buck.
- clpack - 03-31-2006 01:10 PM
We don't know yet if the game is going head-to-head with the NFL. With a 6pm (MT) start, it's after the NFL day games are done, so it depends on whether they schedule a Sun. night game (I'm guessing they wouldn't have moved this game to Sun. unless they knew there was no NFL game).
As for going head-to-head with the baseball playoffs, there are a fair number of people that would watch any football over baseball any day, and hopefully, the baseball game will be rained out. ;-)
I'd rather see games get moved to Sunday, than to the middle of the week, but in either case the exposure makes it worthwhile. The WAC isn't going to move forward by playing exclusively in a Saturday vacuum.
- nwp - 03-31-2006 02:15 PM
I think when ESPN took over the Monday Night football slot for this season from ABC that NBC took the weekly Sunday Night NFL slot. 6:00 pm MT would be very close to when ESPN started their Sunday Night NFL coverage, so I assume that would also be the NBC start time.
- aggiefansince83 - 03-31-2006 02:50 PM
Well to me baseball season ends on college football opening weekend.
Hopefully there is no Sunday night NFL game that night or the stands will be empty.
- ultramagnus - 03-31-2006 04:02 PM
As long as we are stating our preferences...
For me, baseball ends in Omaha.
Plus, anytime the WAC is on ESPN, I'll be watchin'.
- jediwarrior - 03-31-2006 06:56 PM
I'm not crazy about Sunday games.
But I wouldn't slam ESPN too hard.
They "don't" own all WAC TV rights. They only own a certain number of games...and if they want to air more than what the contract states...the WAC has all the power in the world to negotiate, accept, or decline ESPN's offer. Period. The WAC and NMSU are 50% responsible for this Sunday game.
...and plus, I view ESPN's willingness to air another NMSU game as a sign of a good partner. They're giving NMSU a chance to redeem themselves for the Cal game.
...and I wouldn't put CSTV on a pedestal just yet.
From everything I've read, the MWC people thought they were going to play on Saturdays only.
Well, surprise, surprise. Now that CSTV owns "ALL" rights to MWC sports, they have informed the MWC that they will be playing weekday games.
Hummmm... Isn't that one of the reasons why the MWC Villanized ESPN? I luv it.
I tell you what. It's a beotch when you no longer own any part of your product.
- nmsufootball - 03-31-2006 07:19 PM
And NMSU will not be as bad as they were last year. There has been a lot of changes. We will have a new QB, and people moving to other positions. Like Joey Vincent, our QB last year is going to be playing DB this year. He was actually recruited as a DB out of high school. Then Jolla the transfer from Miami, and I'm telling you the offense will get it done.
- aggiefansince83 - 04-01-2006 04:18 AM
I read somewhere in this thread that ESPN is giving NMSU a chance to redeem themselves for the Cal game. If you are talking about another chance to win then I say sure. If you are talking about a chance to have a large crowd I don't think that will happen. People aren't used to Sunday games and will just stay home and watch the NFL or baseball. If the football team is undefeated at that point in the season no more than 20k will show up.
If they are having a rough year with the only wins against the 2 1-AA schools then ouch.
Horrible time to showcase AMS on national tv. Now if the Lobo game was on tv that would be a good showing by the fans.
- jediwarrior - 04-01-2006 11:40 AM
I was talking about the crowd.
One thing you can say about ESPN, they have their finger on the pulse of what's happening in sports.
...and they're not going to be interested in showing a game to the nation...when the local community isn't even interested.
Let's just hope that NMSU gives ESPN a reason to want to come back. Because if you don't...they wont.
- aggiefansince83 - 04-01-2006 02:55 PM
well then if that is the case then the Boise game will be the last time ESPN comes to Las Cruces for a while.
Attendance for the North Texas game was lousy, Cal game was lousy, and I can see the Boise game being just as bad.
Hopefully the team will be having a good year and we can get at least 20k.
For me Baseball Ended After the Dodgers beat Oakland - broncobob - 04-03-2006 10:46 AM
in the World Series....no loyalty, players jump teams every year for the big dollars...
I am a college sports fan. Screw pro sports.
And I absolutely hate college football on Sundays..........
I am tired of being ESPN *******......
- nwp - 04-03-2006 11:10 AM
aggiefansince83 Wrote:well then if that is the case then the Boise game will be the last time ESPN comes to Las Cruces for a while.
Attendance for the North Texas game was lousy, Cal game was lousy, and I can see the Boise game being just as bad.
Hopefully the team will be having a good year and we can get at least 20k.
This is exactly the problem with this game. Who is to blame if the crowd doesn't show? Well start with the NMSU fan base, but they are what are, right now, last year was a tough season for Aggie fans, if still losing most of the fans will probably stay at home on a Sunday evening and watch the NFL and MLB. In reality, The WAC and NMSU Adm will be to blame. both want national exposure, but if it turns out to be bad exposure and an embarrassment to the WAC and NMSU because of fan support, that's a black eye. IMO, this is what wrong with the WAC ADM, they need to grow balls and tell ESPN, this is the wrong game to televise, if indeed that's the truth. Sometimes no exposure outweighs bad exposure.