Yeah, just busting your balls a little bit. No serious hard feelings or any such.
And so it begins, Big 10 on Fri. nights
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Yeah, just busting your balls a little bit. No serious hard feelings or any such.
Yea, not arguing about how many games, I was commenting that more NJ HS games are on Friday night.
Maybe a good thing? Less games for recruits to see us get clobbered in?
Kidding of coarse.
Nebraska might be willing to play on Friday. The mindset of Nebraska fans is football anytime anywhere. They are not stuck-up like PSU fans or Michigan fans.
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No, no, it's that Central Jersey folks can't even imagine the insane levels of traffic they get in the PA bush.
I do have one issue it's Michigan's refusal to even consider. They could always use the Ohio State and Penn State excuse of large Stadium, but if they flat-out refused it should reflect in their cut of the new deal.
14. Only 6 games per year. 3 willl be OOC and no more than 1 home game per team per year. So 9 B1G teams will play, per season, with a max of 6 playing at home. Right?
Good thing it's wasn't this year or we'd be playing at Piscataway HS and they'd be at HPSS. Next year, have to see.
Yep, and the HS kids will be able to watch the final quarter when they get home from their games.
Look for Washington at Rutgers at 6PM that Friday, followed by Nevada at Northwestern at 9:30 (which is 8:30 local time). They could possibly move Ohio State at Indiana but I doubt it.
So if the BIG office schedules these programs for a Friday night game what exactly are they going to do? Not play? Leave? There's no exit fee in the BIG. Mich and PSU are going to have to eat some humble pie and play when the games are scheduled. This ain't the B12 with Texas. Cracked up after reading tweet from State Penn athletic dept that they informed the BIG office that they won't be playing Friday night games. If Ohio St plays a Friday night game you can damn well be sure State Penn will play one unless they decide to join the SEC.
Heck the P12 plays Friday night games all the time. USC and Stanford included.
GO RU
If you think it so unfair then perhaps the B1G should base all pay outs on how much the teams make for the conference. You will find the schools who are forced to play on fridays would be making a lot less. If funny that you whine about this being unfair when you have no problem taking the money that the conference makes off of schools like Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State. The next tv contract is not huge because of Indiana against Rutgers.
Maybe covered already, but from the NJ.com article:
"Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany told the Chicago Tribune the conference is reluctant to ask schools with massive seating capacities to host Friday night games, which means Penn State and Michigan won't be asked to host Friday Night football anytime soon. The Chicago Tribune also reported that Michigan ruled out playing Friday night games, both home and on the road, because it favors a traditional Saturday schedule."
"Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany told the Chicago Tribune the conference is reluctant to ask schools with massive seating capacities to host Friday night games, which means Penn State and Michigan won't be asked to host Friday Night football anytime soon. The Chicago Tribune also reported that Michigan ruled out playing Friday night games, both home and on the road, because it favors a traditional Saturday schedule."
I am NOT understanding this move at all. How can this be in the best interest of Rutgers and the fan base?
This can only drive actual game attendance downward, correct?
This can only drive actual game attendance downward, correct?
Rutgers fans love a night game. Bet the students show up in huge numbers. The die hards will make it happen, whatever it takes. My bet is a packed house.
ESPN or Fox or whoever the broadcaster is might want OSU, Michigan or PSU, but I'm perfectly fine with them saying no.
Let's be real, those guys, especially OSU and Michigan, are the B1G engine, what they bring to the table does benefit everyone else in conference, significantly. So if they want to say no, then fine, I think they do carry enough weight to make that call.
And imo this is one of those instance where those guys saying no benefits Rutgers. So it's not an instance where those guys pulling rank negatively affects RU, and we should feel slighted, it's more an instance where our B1G brothers are letting us wear some of their cool clothes that they don't want. Hopefully those clothes fit well enough that we don't look like a little kid in big kid clothes.
Let's be real, those guys, especially OSU and Michigan, are the B1G engine, what they bring to the table does benefit everyone else in conference, significantly. So if they want to say no, then fine, I think they do carry enough weight to make that call.
And imo this is one of those instance where those guys saying no benefits Rutgers. So it's not an instance where those guys pulling rank negatively affects RU, and we should feel slighted, it's more an instance where our B1G brothers are letting us wear some of their cool clothes that they don't want. Hopefully those clothes fit well enough that we don't look like a little kid in big kid clothes.
When Illinois, Rutgers, Maryland, Iowa or Purdue etc plays on a Friday night, they will enjoy MORE national exposure than they would receive on a Saturday game at noon or 3:30.
And people think that is somehow a bad thing?
And people think that is somehow a bad thing?
Attendance will actually improve. As others have noted, diehards as passionate as any fan base. Will bring out the students. RU is a game day experience rather than a weekend experience so in many ways Friday night actually easier.
Aside from buy-in periods, all member schools get an equal cut. In the long run that philosophy will benefit us much more than it will the traditional powers. Let's not start the idea of cutting someone else's cut, because then tOSU & Michigan could claim that their game represents a huge percentage of the TV contract.
I'll one up that... none of this is possible without Rutgers 1869.:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I just don't like how they can say no, while others have to fall in line. OSU isn't against playing (away) games on Friday, so what makes them special.
I'll go with their on field play and fan following. As well as various other stuff related to those 2 things.
Funny as hell how many people here babbled about non-Saturday games being a sign of "small-time" conferences and how the Big Ten would never stoop to anything like that. Now it's like a lot of NJ high schools play on Saturday (a whole lot fewer if you don't count Group I and II schools) and other rationalizations.
If it was bad when the American/Big East did it, it's still bad. If it was OK when they did it, it's OK.
I happen to think it's OK. One home game a year, maximum? BFD.
If it was bad when the American/Big East did it, it's still bad. If it was OK when they did it, it's OK.
I happen to think it's OK. One home game a year, maximum? BFD.
I get that hosting Friday night games could be problematic for schools with an on-campus 100K+ seat stadium. It's something we have done multiple times, but even our operation of the school is very much affected (use of parking lots, traffic, etc.)
I agree about others opting out of Friday night away games. (I though Michigan was the only one who has said that? I did see Pedd State said they would do no more than 1 Friday road game per year)
Many on this board have been saying, since our invitation, that the B1G (and BTN) should expand to Thursday and Friday night games. We have too much game inventory to play them all on Saturday in three timeslots.
Michigan's on-field play has not met Ohio State the last several years and Ohio State fan base is similar. Ohio State doesn't have a problem playing on Fridays for away games.
