Indiana, Ohio State to open 2017 season on Thurs. Aug. 31

[PiscatawayMike]

Indiana and Ohio State will kick off the 2017 college football season on Thursday, Aug. 31, it was announced Tuesday by Indiana, Ohio State and the Big Ten. The two schools and the conference were in agreement to move the game from Saturday, Sept. 2.

http://btn.com/2016/12/13/indiana-ohio-state-to-open-2017-season-on-thursday-night/

 

[OTBOTOR]

Times, they are a'changing

 

[RUTGERZ_R00LZ]

Big win for Delaney. Next up is to get Michigan in a Thursday night game.

 

[Mr_Twister]

Too much Saturday tradition out the window. Big Ten will kill the Golden Goose like the NFL. Play the games in a TV studio. Ticket buyers and tailgaters hate this stuff and Thursday football is baloney. They can fake cheering fans in the stands like they do the first down stripe. Can't wait for Big Ten to play game in Australia (?) like PAC-10. Stanford vs. Rice in opener. Snooze and greed fest. Where do you think Delaney will be on that Thursday night? At his Outer Banks beach mansion.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Too much Saturday tradition out the window. Big Ten will kill the Golden Goose like the NFL. Play the games in a TV studio. Ticket buyers and tailgaters hate this stuff and Thursday football is baloney. They can fake cheering fans in the stands like they do the first down stripe. Can't wait for Big Ten to play game in Australia (?) like PAC-10. Stanford vs. Rice in opener. Snooze and greed fest. Where do you think Delaney will be on that Thursday night? At his Outer Banks beach mansion.

LOL...please stop.... The B1G will still play ALL but 3(?) conference tilts on Saturdays during this new deal and 3/6 of this deal will be played on a holiday weekend.

SMH

 

[BeantownKnight]

I hope he doesn't have a mansion on the Outer Banks. Just a matter of time before that washes away.

 

[RURM85]

Love it! May have to make a trip to Bloomington to see the game

 

[Doctor Worm]

Too much Saturday tradition out the window. Big Ten will kill the Golden Goose like the NFL. Play the games in a TV studio. Ticket buyers and tailgaters hate this stuff and Thursday football is baloney. They can fake cheering fans in the stands like they do the first down stripe. Can't wait for Big Ten to play game in Australia (?) like PAC-10. Stanford vs. Rice in opener. Snooze and greed fest. Where do you think Delaney will be on that Thursday night? At his Outer Banks beach mansion.

Would that all our Golden Geese were as dead as the NFL.

 

[Kentor404]

Some history and perspective - this will be the seventh time Ohio State has opened a season on a day other than Saturday, and its third Thursday evening game. OSU's first Thursday night game was vs. Wyoming in 1997, the second was vs. Marshall in 2010.

 

[FanuSanu52]

Some history and perspective - this will be the seventh time Ohio State has opened a season on a day other than Saturday, and its third Thursday evening game. OSU's first Thursday night game was vs. Wyoming in 1997, the second was vs. Marshall in 2010.

So, you mean, some of our fans are just whining and talking out the wrong cheeky hole? Not sure I can believe that.

 

[MrsScrew]

LOL...please stop.... The B1G will still play ALL but 3(?) conference tilts on Saturdays during this new deal and 3/6 of this deal will be played on a holiday weekend.

SMH

We were already playing in the holiday weekend....Saturday at noon instead of Friday night.

While the Friday night game will probably interfere with tailgating I think its a win for weather.....no sitting outside under the direct sun in 90+ degrees...and it may even help attendance because people can head directly down the shore after the game and they will have all day Saturday to themselves.

 

[G- RUnit]

I think its great! Better than the nooners. Where are all those fans who said B1G will never have Thursday or Friday night games? Same fans who said Rutgers can never play a non conference team for Homecoming?

 

[MozRU]

over saturation = death kneel

 

[Dpgru]

Sucks for Indiana. Tough start to the season. We have Wash but at least it is not a conference game.

 

[RURM85]

Rather open up with them then play them in mid-season form. Indiana returning almost all starters and will get back their best WR who was out for the year early. Indiana played them tough in Columbus this year and in 2015 almost beat them in Bloomington. Should be a good game.

 

[RUfinal4]

You do realize this is an Indiana home game. They will not be giving Ohio St, Michigan, and Penn St a home Thursday night game because they have too many fans from out of town. Indiana struggles to sell out so it makes sense for them.

 

[MozRU]

Just another reason the have nots are getting the raw end of the deal.

Keep it up Puppet Masters. You ARE going to get what you wish for: Two power players per conference and 14 hacks not worth a d....

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

Just another reason the have nots are getting the raw end of the deal.

How so?

 

[MozRU]

How so?

The have nots get jammed with weekday games while the haves get to enjoy their Saturday games. The perception is, the losers play on weekdays and the winner get Saturdays. Its already the Friday morning water cooler talk. It will continue to build on itself over time.

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

The have nots get jammed with weekday games while the haves get to enjoy their Saturday games.

So Indiana, playing a home weekday game to open the season is getting the worse end of the deal than Ohio State, playing a road weekday game to open the season?

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

The have nots get jammed with weekday games while the haves get to enjoy their Saturday games. The perception is, the losers play on weekdays and the winner get Saturdays. Its already the Friday morning water cooler talk. It will continue to build on itself over time.

You realize Indiana is playing Ohio State in this game, right? With no game to prepare for the week before? Unless you're saying Ohio State is also one of the have nots, I'm still not following your line of reasoning.

 

[DJ Spanky]

We were already playing in the holiday weekend....Saturday at noon instead of Friday night.

While the Friday night game will probably interfere with tailgating I think its a win for weather.....no sitting outside under the direct sun in 90+ degrees...and it may even help attendance because people can head directly down the shore after the game and they will have all day Saturday to themselves.

This game may go a long way to keeping some people in our tailgate group. I know the overabundance of noon games this past season, and the strong possibility that we'll see more of them this year along with the game in the Steinbrenner Memorial Whorehouse, has a number of people hedging on buying season tickets this year. Going to Friday night is definitely a bonus.

I know I'm planning on taking that day off and having a nice, long, lazy tailgate beforehand.

over saturation = death kneel

There's a lot of truth to this. The NFL is starting to run into just this issue.

You do realize this is an Indiana home game. They will not be giving Ohio St, Michigan, and Penn St a home Thursday night game because they have too many fans from out of town. Indiana struggles to sell out so it makes sense for them.

I was wondering if anyone was going to comment on that. We'll never see a weekday game held at the Shoe, the Big House or Jerry's Pavilion because those programs are too sacred.

 

[RUfinal4]

Looking at the history:
- Big East took over Thursday nights and some Friday nights in the mid-2000s
- ACC jumped on the bandwagon when they expanded

A Thursday / Friday game each week is not the end of the world if scheduled correctly:
- Thursday of Labor Day weekend and a few during the season
- Friday of Labor Day weekend, Thanksgiving weekend, and a few during the season

if you get 1 game each week on a Thursday or Friday:
- OOC weeks - you have 8-12 home games a week that need to be scheduled on BTN and ESPN networks
- Conference weeks - you have 7 games a week to schedule (3 BTN games and 4 ESPN netowrk games)
- 1 on Thurs / Fri night
- 2 at noon on Saturday
- 2 at 3:30 on Saturday
- 2 at 7/8pm on Saturday

 

[e5fdny]

I have said it earlier but I have no problem with us being the lead off every season for the Friday night thing...even more so if is is against a big time OOC opponent.

And how about that...Indy is playing a conference game at home. What a novel idea.

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

You do realize this is an Indiana home game. They will not be giving Ohio St, Michigan, and Penn St a home Thursday night game because they have too many fans from out of town. Indiana struggles to sell out so it makes sense for them.

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I was wondering if anyone was going to comment on that. We'll never see a weekday game held at the Shoe, the Big House or Jerry's Pavilion because those programs are too sacred.

Ohio State has played at least two Thursday night home games.

 

[RUBigFrank]

Love Friday games!

Great way to start the weekend!

 

[e5fdny]

Ohio State has played at least two Thursday night home games.

Nice.

How long ago was that?

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

Nice.

How long ago was that?

2010 was the most recent. The other was back int he 90's.

 

[e5fdny]

2010 was the most recent. The other was back int he 90's.

Against Marshall.

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

Against Marshall.

And...?

 

[FanuSanu52]

You realize Indiana is playing Ohio State in this game, right? With no game to prepare for the week before? Unless you're saying Ohio State is also one of the have nots, I'm still not following your line of reasoning.

Perhaps I can help out: Some posters here on SN need to act all insightful all the time, even when they are just pulling @!#$ out of the air. Some are pretty good at it, some are okay, some are not great, some are terrible, and some are Moz.

 

[e5fdny]

And...?

And nothing.

Just putting it out there for those too lazy to look it up, that's all.

I like the Friday night thing for us and wouldn't mind it being our thing going forward....

"From the Beach (shot of Spring Lake) to The Banks (shot of RU tailgating scene) and welcome everybody to High Point Solutions Stadium for tonight's B1G season opening telecast between the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers vs. the _______."

Yeah, I could get used to that.

 

[cicero grimes]

Can RU - Purdue on a Tuesday night be far behind?:sunglasses:

 

[BuckeyeLegion]

And nothing.

Just putting it out there for those too lazy to look it up, that's all.

I like the Friday night thing for us and wouldn't mind it being our thing going forward....

"From the Beach (shot of Spring Lake) to The Banks and welcome everybody to High Point Solutions Stadium for tonight's telecast between the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers vs. the _______."

Yeah, I could get used to that.

[cheers]

 

[Blitz Pakage]

Sucks for Indiana. Tough start to the season. We have Wash but at least it is not a conference game.

Actually, this is not a bad thing for Indiana! You gotta catch the Buckeyes early in the season before they gel. That's your best chance anyway and you have to play them at some point during the year. They have them at home and have been playing them tough for the last few years. If I'm a Hoosier fan. I'm happy with this.

 

[Dpgru]

Actually, this is not a bad thing for Indiana! You gotta catch the Buckeyes early in the season before they gel. That's your best chance anyway and you have to play them at some point during the year. They have them at home and have been playing them tough for the last few years. If I'm a Hoosier fan. I'm happy with this.

You may very well be right. OSU does have a recent history of playing some of their OOC pre BIG season games closer than they should have been so I could easily be wrong. The Hoosiers, however, might have like maybe one game against an easier OOC opponent just to get their feet wet. The BIG does get that game as a stand alone and then on the following day they get RU against Washington, and if we do well that night it could be a good start for the league.

 

[herdof3]

Too much Saturday tradition out the window. Big Ten will kill the Golden Goose like the NFL. Play the games in a TV studio. Ticket buyers and tailgaters hate this stuff and Thursday football is baloney. They can fake cheering fans in the stands like they do the first down stripe. Can't wait for Big Ten to play game in Australia (?) like PAC-10. Stanford vs. Rice in opener. Snooze and greed fest. Where do you think Delaney will be on that Thursday night? At his Outer Banks beach mansion.

it's the 1st day of the season before a long weekend. It is not some random Thursday in October.