There is one advantage to crappy TV package. Getting to choose our own game times. As I look through today's schedule, five of the seven games are at 7 p.m. EDT. Only one at noon and that was because of a non-conference road game.

Would you all rather have a better TV deal money wise but potentially playing a bunch of early games (keep in mind that's 11 a.m. for the Central TZ) or even a bunch of non-Saturday games?

Or are you good being able to have your home games on Saturdays at a time that is best set by the ADs rather than the networks?

(09-30-2017 03:25 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  There is one advantage to crappy TV package. Getting to choose our own game times. As I look through today's schedule, five of the seven games are at 7 p.m. EDT. Only one at noon and that was because of a non-conference road game.

Would you all rather have a better TV deal money wise but potentially playing a bunch of early games (keep in mind that's 11 a.m. for the Central TZ) or even a bunch of non-Saturday games?

Or are you good being able to have your home games on Saturdays at a time that is best set by the ADs rather than the networks?

I would prefer our own conference owned network, if we can't have a real television deal. But our network would need a good streaming component.

Weekly Conference Schedule

Thursday night game 7pm kickoff
Friday night game 7pm kickoff

Saturday 11am kickoff (below .500 teams), 3pm kickoff (.500 teams), and 7pm kickoff (above .500 teams)

A couple of teams get byes every week. The worst match-up of the week will only be streamed. All the other games will be on TV. The best match-ups of the week get the prime time kickoffs. Teams would only be scheduled for Thursday or Friday games if they are coming off bye weeks.

We need our own conference network.