(10-03-2022 11:24 AM)eastisbest Wrote: (10-03-2022 11:00 AM)UofToledoFans Wrote: (10-03-2022 10:24 AM)PaulJ Wrote: (10-03-2022 07:51 AM)indianasniff Wrote: (09-28-2022 11:13 AM)PaulJ Wrote: BG should be UT homecoming game every home game year
BG homecoming eliminates a large gate game from the schedule. Lost dollars.
All depends on when it is held at other point on schedule, but if held during homecoming and that draws lets say 5,000 more fans than another homecoming opponent, that increase could off set attendance loss for another home game without BG. Also home games in last half of MAC schedule are often more impacted by weather, teams record, and games mid week (this year UT is stuck with two mid week Nov home games).
Having the Battle for 75 game in a November mid week game is just stupid.
150k to 800k national viewers for midweek MACtion... 2-9 BG or 9-2 BG it will draw because its a rivalry. CMU or any other MAC team could also suck and that REALLY hampers our attendance. Like 7k fans ON NATIONAL TV.
Might as well say 0-2 million.
Is that what the range HAS been? Is that why you quoted it? What games got the upper end and was that in the current era of B10 and NFL having games also during the week?
I havent paid a ton of attention to the nielsons, but I know the 3rd MAC game (rarely us), not on the day after thanksgiving, gets about 90-125k viewers. Toledo lately has been getting about 200 to 400k as the 1 or 2 MAC game on said day. In 2015 when we played at BG with a NY6 game on the line, we had 850k on ESPN2. NIU in the 2011-2014 years hit a million a couple times. Same with that WMU team in 2016. Our Friday night game with pseudo gameday in KZOO had close to 1 million.
Every degenerate gambles on MACtion...
NFL games on cable draw over 5 million. Now on Amazon Prime? No clue. But we dont play on Thursdays. And the SBC doesnt play midweek in November... if they do its Friday night.
If we want to showcase MACtion, we want good Toledo, good WMU, good BG, and good Ohio at home. We draw the most, and the stadiums show well on TV. I know we recruit to those games and its why we get potential transfers and 3*s on campus.
CUSAs TV deal is dog doo compared to ours. And because we are a commuter school, with most alums close by... we draw far better than our MAC foes. Embrace it. I love BG on national TV to witness that a$$ whoopin.
Scott Van Pelt talks about us 3 times a season. All midweek days.