B1G Friday football losing momentum?
Two Friday Northwestern games moved to Saturday...
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/northwestern-managed-to-…
Northwestern is basically high school football. Friday night seems fitting.
by some high school football facilities, you gotta give Northwestern a little more credit than that for their on-the-field product.
Rutgers and Purdue, on the other hand...
Good, this whole Friday Night game business was a horrible idea, at best!
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Friday nights belong to High Schools. Playing college games on Friday nights is greedy. It is shitting on the institutions that are your source of future players.
Does it affect the scheduling with their Academic Rivals?
Leave Friday night games for the ACC, American, and PAC 12. The B1G doesn't need it.
I sincerely hope it falls through completely. Rutgers is the only team that should play on Fridays, due to their high school football quality of play.
Basically good news, I think.
Unpopular opinion but I didn't mind watching OTHER Big Ten teams play a game on Friday night.
It's better than:
- 4 Big Ten games at noon, of which I can watch 1-maybe 2, 2 at 3:30 when Michigan is generally playing, and then the Saturday night game, and that's just the conference season.
- Non-conference season there may be 14 Big Ten games in a weekend - can't fit them all into 3 time slots.
Michigan wasn't ever going to play on Fridays so it didn't really bother me. I'd love to watch MSU vs. Jeff Brohm-led Purdue or Northwestern vs. Indiana on Friday night.
I felt the same way, quite honestly - I really didn't care what other teams did or to waht other teams agreed. As long as Michigan wasn't playing on Friday nights, I was fine with everything else. If Rutgers wants to butt in on some Wednesday night Sun Belt Fun Belt action, they are certainly welcome to do so. Indeed, they are welcome - as far as I am concerned - to join the Sun Belt.
Michigan wasn't ever going to play on Fridays so it didn't really bother me
I don't know if we can assume this. If the rest of the league had been down with it, I'm not sure they'd have allowed us to veto it ourselves. Fortunately, a couple other schools were also opposed.
Maybe I'm wrong but we'd already said no and the Big Ten Commissioner accepted and publicly stated we didn't have to play Fridays.
Also, this is a business decision and there's not really a lot of reason to move one of your main draws to a timeslot that is less opportune to drive eyeballs. It wouldn't make sense to have Michigan play, it does make sense for IU/PU/NW/UI/MN/RU/MD when they would otherwise have to compete in a time slot with UM/OSU/PSU/NU/WIS.
Yes, but we weren't the only school to object.
My point is that I'm not sure the Big Ten would have given us the right to opt out if we were alone. If the other schools that refused Friday games go on to change their minds, I could see us being railroaded into accepting them (at least as the visiting team). Frankly, I expect that to happen at some point in the next few years.
The article suggests as much:
It will be interesting to see how the Big Ten approaches this going forward. When it first announced the decision to play Friday night games there was immediate pushback from schools like Michigan and Penn State, while others don’t seem to mind. That being said, if playing Friday night games would mean more money for the league and its schools in the future, you have to wonder how accommodating the Big Ten will be in the long run.
I can see why some people are averse to it, but I personally don't care what night Michigan is playing or who they're playing. I'm going to watch.
If they play on Wednesday at 2am, I'm going to watch.
Friday night I'm still at work at kickoff. Saturday morning I'm not. This is true for a lot of people, even more so the farther west you go to live. I'm going to try to watch everything, but it's a hell of a lot harder when it's not on Saturday. Let alone the difficulty of going to games (even if I still lived in Ann Arbor) on a workday.
I'm not sure Ann Arbor could accommodate 100,000 fans on a weeknight. Traffic and parking for last year's spring game (held on a Friday) was horrendous and that game only drew 40-50K.
It was bad.
US-23 or M-14 was shut down in places around Ann Arbor and the Spring Game started during rush hour (6PM). If the game was 8PM and all freeways were open, the traffic would've been a bit better. It would've still been a mess, but it would've been less of a nightmare.
the second Harbaugh shut it down........What a stupid idea it was in the first place.
Paranoid me points to this as a reason officiating may not have been totally balanced against Ohio State. But just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get paranoid me.
Good. Now when the pro's give up Thursdays we'll be in business.
I don't give a flying hoot about other conferences, but would hate to have UM play regular season games on anything but a Saturday. Glad to see other B1G teams feeling the same.
I do not mind experimentation, and some of the breaks wiht tradition (the occasional night game in the Big House) have been great. But, do not be afraid to ditch a shitty idea, and this was a shitty idea.
Friday nights should be for High school football.
...would be if NCAA played Friday night games after high school season ends in November. Akin to the NFL beginning Saturday play in Mid-December.
I like this idea
Losing momentum? Was it every really gaining momentum?
Michigan better never do the Friday thing (yes, WD...I know Michigan played a Friday game in 2003 and why). Thursday, too. Thursday is better than Friday, but Saturday just is not as fun when Michigan doesn't play.
For entirely selfish reasons, I like Friday night games. I live in Korea, so they'd be on Saturday morning. Noon games here start at 1 or 2am depending on DST. Ruins the whole weekend if I watch them. Having said that, seems like Michigan plays way more 3:30 and night games than they used to.
did it have any to begin with?