Football Rutgers Football versus Howard moved to Thursday, other kickoffs announced
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It's Labor Day Weekend. Thursday evening make a lot of sense when lot of people head for the last hurrah at the beaches.
Early season home game:
Night > Day
Friday Night > SaturDAY
Saturday Night > Friday Night > Thursday Night
8pm KO > 6pm KO > 12pm KO
It is known.
Night > Day
Friday Night > SaturDAY
Saturday Night > Friday Night > Thursday Night
8pm KO > 6pm KO > 12pm KO
It is known.
Always love evening games early in the season when it's hot, so good with Howard; never liked 12/3:30 pm games early in the season, so meh on Akron. Unlikely to have any other hot games given the next one is UW at night on 9/27 and it's rarely hot after that.
The 2016 game vs Howard at noon on Sept 10 was brutally hot.
Completely agree a night game is better.
To add insult to injury, Howard was up 14-7 into the second quarter. That was a harbinger of the remainder of the Ash error.
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Bringing that game up counts as fan abuse...
While we are at it, that 2016 game was not the worst game Rutgers had against Howard. Rutgers is 5-0 against Howad.
IN 2014, the final score was 38-25 Rutgers. Completely forgot about that game in an otherwise successful inaugural season in the B1G for Rutgers.
Howard went up 7-0 early in the first quarter and led most of the first quarter.
Rutgers led 31-7 at the half, but Howard scored two TDs in the 4th quarter while Rutgers went without scoring in the 4th quarter.
www.espn.com
IN 2014, the final score was 38-25 Rutgers. Completely forgot about that game in an otherwise successful inaugural season in the B1G for Rutgers.
Howard went up 7-0 early in the first quarter and led most of the first quarter.
Rutgers led 31-7 at the half, but Howard scored two TDs in the 4th quarter while Rutgers went without scoring in the 4th quarter.
Rutgers 38-25 Howard (Sep 6, 2014) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Howard Bison NCAAF game, final score 38-25, from September 6, 2014 on ESPN.
See below. I forgot about the 2014 game vs. Howard. I wonder if the game thread exists for those games. . . . . 😀
Oh boy, is this thread a doozy- first #FireAsh is post #30 in the thread!!!:
And congrats to @Mr Magoo for this prescient post- "New Mexico will lay 30 on us next week-- Rutgers lost 37-28. But Rutgers "almost" beat Iowa the following week!
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Found it, edited my post above. That thread is a fun read, and a good reminder of how far we have come in 4 short years after years of mismanagement of the program.
Funny I think this is awesome - doesn’t break up the weekend like a noon Sat game
Thats overblown reasoning
More people actually work on Thursdays then head to beaches on weekend
Many people finish their work by 5 p.m.
Many people can flex their schedule to go in early and leave by 4 p.m. to make the game for kickoff. Or just roll in a little late. It's Howard. The game will be a snoozer.
Some people will whine and cry about start times no matter when they are. As noted, Rutgers does not have control over the start times with the TV slots governing the start times.
It’s not Rutgers’ fault that this game has a strange start time. It will be Rutgers’ fault, however, if they don’t do anything to try to boost what will surely be horrible attendance for this game. Give tickets away to youth groups and dramatically cut prices for everyone else. If not, enjoy seeing those 25,000 empty seats.
Here’s a while thread about how Sunday at noon is the worst time slot ever (including most complaining in this thread):
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...on-on-sunday-yes-sunday-sept-3-on-cbs.261523/
Moral of the story: people will complain about everything no matter what
8pm on Thursday and people would complain it’s too late on a work night for such a crappy opponent.
Any other day or time that weekend “but the shore!!! Rutgers should never play LDW!”
See the thread I just posted above about how Sunday at noon was the previous “worst time slot ever” last season.
mid day on Labor Day weekend would be brutal- likely extremely hot like the 2016 near disASHter when RU was down 14-7 to Howard early. And attendance would likely be very light.
I don't see what all the fuss is about
To me, this is awesome
Ideally, it'd be a 7pm or 7:30pm start time, but tv dictates these things
Frees up the whole weekend to grill, go to shore, watch college FB, etc.
Night game early in the year when it's hot during the day
Ample time to tailgate
No traffic on the way home
Noon last year on a Sunday of LDW was awful
That was worth complaining for IMO
I hope we lock down this day and timeslot for the next 100 years
It's literally nearly perfect
To me, this is awesome
Ideally, it'd be a 7pm or 7:30pm start time, but tv dictates these things
Frees up the whole weekend to grill, go to shore, watch college FB, etc.
Night game early in the year when it's hot during the day
Ample time to tailgate
No traffic on the way home
Noon last year on a Sunday of LDW was awful
That was worth complaining for IMO
I hope we lock down this day and timeslot for the next 100 years
It's literally nearly perfect
No.
The Friday night (at 8pm) one is the one you want to lockdown, especially if they are asking for volunteers. And they were asking just a few years ago.
Disagree
Friday = Traffic nightmare heading DTS
Thursday ideal
Whole weekend now open
Take 1/2 day work, leave around 130 for a nice 4 hour tailgate
Lots take off or WFH on Friday, giving them an extended 4 day mini vacation
Come on Spanky! Overall, this is a good time. Doesn’t mess up the weekend, evening games early in the year are better temperature wise, and we’ll get home at a reasonable time. Just get to the blue lot on time to stop by our tailgate and visit a group of fans that are glass half full people; as long as the glass is not half full with scotch.
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Pretty much everyone does this year. The season runs from Labor Day weekend to Thanksgiving weekend. That span generally covers 13 weekends. This year it's 14 weekends.
School starts earlier in many parts of the country (South and West).
Starting school after Labor Day is a big thing in NJ and the Northeast. So it is indeed a bigger holiday, especially for those that enjoy the beach. And for many people who have second homes, it is the unofficial end of summer, and for locals the official beginning of locals summer. It is quite unique to NJ and the beach areas of NJ because of the influx of the Taylor Ham crowd and New Yorkers.
That's why Hobbs is a genius for starting the Boardwalk on Scarlet Knight Way. 😀
Football Season Opener Moved to Thursday, Aug. 29
Agree! Either evening is great when you're retired... and I would've been fine with either when I was working too.
Admittedly, I understand that it can be a hassle for some people to takeoff work, but in my humble opinion, if you have ample PTO, it comes down to priorities
Most people work on Thursdays BUT some here hint hint are very underemployed. You will be fine pal the internet works fine outside and inside the station.
When I was working, I had complete freedom to work whatever 60-70 hours a week I wanted to. That's only a slight joke - I worked my ass off, but because of that nobody would ever think of giving me grief if I took off at 2 pm on a random Thursday for a football game. I get that it's harder for people committed to a set schedule, but even most of those folks can make arrangements with a few months of notice.
I agree my man, as this most things in life, it comes down to priorities more times than not
It’s Christmas morning when college football schedules come out in the smooth household, and I make every effort to attend as many games as possible, regardless of work, using pto, etc. trying to maneuver when I can
Admittedly, being in sales, I’m afforded a little more freedom than most in regard to traveling and hitting away games as well, but at times, it certainly can be tricky
Well the RU-Al quote was obviously an oops, so just you and smooth, basically saying either of your choices was fine with me.
The one benefit for us is now we don’t have to wear our Rutgers sombrero to the game.🙂
Glass half full and all that. 👍
It's nice that you either have no co-workers, or have co-workers that don't want to extend their extended holiday weekends either. There are businesses out there that require ample coverage to operate, regardless of the date or how much PTO an individual has accrued.
If one is so inclined to plan ahead, or potentially ask for a favor (e.g. I’m a big Rutgers fan and they’re playing this night, can you take my shift and in return, I’ll take yours another day), chances are, this far in advance, they’d be able to make it happen
Or, use a sick day
Get a doctors note
Maybe leave early with a headache
Point is, I’d imagine for the majority of the posters on here, if they want to go, they’ll be able to go
If this was Louisville 06, I don’t think we’d be hearing the same type of complaining bc, wait for it… peoples priorities were to be at the game, no matter what
