Big Ten ‘did not expect the blowback’ they got for moving football games to Friday nights
Apparently, Jim Delany and Co. didn't expect the backlash they saw after the announcement of the Friday night games. Did it seriously never occur to him to, oh I don't know, ask the schools first? Maybe float the idea and gage reactions prior to just blindsiding everyone and then having a bunch of schools refuse this and that?
Delany was aware, but not fully aware.
"Aware, but not fully aware..."
It's this amazing level of foresight that just earned him his bonus.
College football is getting fucked up. Between the possiblity of two night games and a Friday night game, my 30 years of season tickets might have to end because of the 3 1/2 hour drive I have to Ann Arbor. Right now if its a noon or 3:30 game, I can leave the house at 7 am, tailgate with friends, go to the game and then drive home and be there by 11:30 pm. No staying in a hotel is not an option. I guess I'm getting old and bitchy at 56 years old.
Friday night games are for no-name programs.
One marquee night game a year should be the max. They should be special and rare.
Delany certainly earned that huge bonus.
The 2018 tourney is slated for Feb. 28-March 4, with Selection Sunday following on March 11, meaning that a post-league tournament gap could be a week or longer.“Do you end up playing a nonconference game during that week that’s after the conference [tournament] finishes up in New York?” Phillips pondered. “That’s a possibility. But who do you get who’s available? Do you play another conference game, and it’s a ‘nonconference’ game, but you play another conference opponent during that week? And I think you’ve got to be creative … how long a layoff is too long, where it really starts to have an adverse effect when you go into the postseason, whether it’s the NCAA or the NIT?”
Two words:
Stakeholder Survey
+1 for the pumpkin lady.
Jim Delany is a fucking idiot. And I meant that with the utmost respect.