(11-09-2022 08:28 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 07:45 PM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 07:18 PM)Bull Wrote:  So what's better if you are cUSA... being the only game on TV on a weeknight, or playing on saturday and being totally buried under the avalanche of P5 (and 'other 4') games playing simultaneously?

If I was struggling to make a place at the table, I think I'd take the former. Will get a LOT more casual TV viewers tuning in then they would on a Saturday (essentially zero). Fans and students will get to the game.

Look at the MAC games that are on tv right now. These games aren’t well attended. It’s more difficult for people with early hour jobs or young kids to make it out to the games. This deal is only for tv purposes; and yes, CUSA will get some exposure playing these games rather than playing on ESPN+ on Saturdays.

I feel like the MAC is making a strategic mistake moving everything to mid-week. They get exposure then, but on Saturday when most people are paying attention, they aren't even there. They should keep a couple games on Saturday.

But then you have teams playing on short weeks, or having to transition back and forth, or splitting schools between midweek and weekend.

Let's say the MAC split 8 teams playing midweek, and four on weekends.

Everybody plays on October 22 (in 2022).

4 teams stick on Saturday October 29, while the other 8 teams wait until Tuesday/Wednesday November 1/2. This gives them 10 or 11 days to prepare/recuperate.

Then the teams stick on Saturday or Tuesday/Wednesday for the remainder of the season.

The weekday teams are going to resent the weekend teams or vice versa.

It will be interesting whether "all games" in "October" means that literally. The MAC plays 34 midweek games this season, or almost three per team. They only have a full 6-game schedule for this week.

They play:

4 games,
6 games,
5 games,
2 games,

on successive weekends.

A schedule transition to midweek, and then another back to weekend eats up the bye week.