Gus sick of weeknight games
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I don't care for weeknight games either. Bring on the Saturdays!
In the BIG12 will have all Saturday games. Maybe a stray Thursday night but it will only be 1 if so. Thank Goodness
Gonna have to wait and see. If Big 12 signs a new deal , weekday games could be added for more money. Right now the networks hold the power. Not the schools.
I don’t mind one once in a while, but four in the first six weeks of the season is ridiculous. Even if one wasn’t supposed to be a weeknight game, three is still ridiculous.
True, and I wouldn’t count on a middle of the pack (or worse) team in the 3rd or 4th best conference getting many games televised.
"Televised" means nothing to me. Every game is accessible whether TV or espn+. I'd rather have Saturday games on streaming than Wednesday games on espn2.
These weekday games are terrible for attendance too. There are lots of tickets available on Ticketmaster for tomorrow's game. Looks like the crowd might be weaker than the SMU game. I want to go, but I can't make a Thursday game since I am three hours away.
bc it eliminates the season ticket holders that live in Florida but not Orlando anymore. The opening game on Labor Day weekend? Maybe they take the extra day but not this much
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Tomorrow night there are 2 games. Ours and WVU vs Baylor. They play weekday games. No one notices because they are weekday games.
Yes sucks to go against NFL. But people think when we go to Big 12 all of the sudden the weekday games will end. They won’t.
Obviously we have more this year than normal, even in the aac. I don't think going to the b12 changes much. This year is an anomaly. 0-1 weekday games per year seems about right.
1 Thursday and 1 Friday with the rest Saturdays would be good. The whole Thursday night labor day thing against FCS to open the season needs to end. Very hard to justify taking off work for that when there are more weekday night games slated later in the season against interesting opponents.
Hasn't that been something UCF athletics have pushed for, its been like that 8-9 times out of the last 12 years.
Yeah, and everyone says it's because athletics wants the long holiday weekend. Like, sorry, let's try to do what's best for the program, maybe? You can have a long President's day weekend off or something.
Very true. I mean WVU plays again tonight and I believe would make it's 3 week night game
Yeah joining a conference doesn’t eliminate weekday games. Same amount of games being played and not enough slots.
yes. They commit to put it on Thursday way before any tv guarantee. They don’t care and want their 3 day weekend
Thursdays are terrible. I can handle Friday night games. I would rather have two Friday night games if we have to schedule two-weekday games. I live in the real South Florida. I could just make it by game time after work for a weeknight game. So Fridays are not ideal, but I make it work. It sucks missing tailgating for those games. Everything is rushed and I can't enjoy any of the pregame activities. I will not take off of work for most of our games, especially when there against teams like SC State or Temple. So Thursdays are always out for me. Apparently, I am not the only one, I have a hard time selling my season tickets even when I set the price to $6 for Thursday night games.
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Wasn't the SC State game only on ESPN+. Why did that game have to be on a Thursday? It wasn't even on a real TV channel.
Just guessing here... Hasn't UCF made a habit of scheduling a Thursday night game before the Labor Day weekend to open their season?
A good example of why I don't believe the stuff about the TV networks telling us when we have to play games. Maybe we get pushed around on a Saturday to get upgraded coverage (eg: hey if you start at 4 we'll put you on ABC), but it's hard to believe ESPN has any leverage to move us to Thursday night on their finest streaming channel.
This is one of those really, really, weird things that T Mo needs to break.
I am a season ticket holder who lives 10 hours away . Stop your whining 😂. I couldn't make the SMU game nor tonight's game . I loathe weeknight games especially when they are at home .
I'm pretty sure the only school who would want to trade for our Week Day Warrior games would be BYU since they actually prefer to take the Sabbath off if they are given the option.
I don't know. It's Tuesday, and I feel like I could go for a game. Feels like it's been too long already since the last one.
Big 12 and their tv partners require X amount of weeknight conf games so UCF will still probably play 2 or 3 next year too.
That statement is based on what?
Quick math says that you're talking 20-30 times a b12 team will play on a day other than Saturday (10 teams times "2 or 3"), sometimes playing one another. Looking at the schedule this year. 4 teams in the b12 played one game not on Saturday. Three were in week 1 (Thursday/Friday, where a lot of teams played), and Baylor on week 7.
MAC plays the most during the week, but also the PAC.
What can you cite which says this is going to go up 5x-7x next year?
With the jump from 10 teams to 14 teams in the Big 12 as tv timeslots on Saturday will dwindle..so the Conf wants to spread out the games over more days (Marc Daniels hinted to this last week) so I wouldn't be shocked to see UCF have 2 or 3 weeknight games next year.
Also...add in attractive non-conf games that may also want weeknight exposure, this could happen as UCF has a road games next year (under the opponents tv deal) at Boise State.
WVU has already played 3 weeknight games (2 of those games were at ACC schools).
Its either more national Thur/Fri night games or more Sat ESPN+ games...and almost every school would prefer the weeknight game slot.
Sorry, forgot about WV. 7 weeknight games total then. (unless I missed some more).
Yeah, maybe you're right with the expansion if the b12 doesn't get more timeslots.
Yeah, maybe you're right with the expansion if the b12 doesn't get more timeslots.
I personally LOVE MACtion. Im an UBER CFB fan that bets on a ton of CFB though so there is that to consider. Historically, the MAC and Sunbelt have been great to bet on (not this year though).
