Upon further review
After a flurry of instant messages with Option Spread about the fact we have to play on Fridays year after year I decided I might have been premature in my comdenation. So I've decided to create a list of pros and cons to Friday games.
Pro:
Nationally televised game.
Leave Saturdays open for Bed Bath & Beyond trips (if there's time).
It's not Tuesday.
Shows that ESPN wants us more than Fla. A & M v. U.C. Santa Barbara.
Pam Ward only announces Saturday early games.
Drinking at noon on a Friday.
If we lose, no one watched anyway and I probably won't remember it.
An excuse to do even less work on a Friday.
ESPN2 is like the second most important ESPN station.
Cons:
Fridays are for high school football and recruits are playing not watching.
Makes it hard for people to travel to the game without skipping work (that may be a pro).
Lou Holtz has announced a Friday game or two.
No one remembers the game by Sunday morning.
Leaves Saturdays open for Bed Bath & Beyond trips.
My whole weekend is essentually over on Friday.
Makes the Big East reek of small time compared to Big10, Pac10, ACC, and SEC.
After some more thought Fridays still suck.
4 comments:
I seem to remember the conclusion of our discussion was that the Big East had the worst leverage position of the BCS conferences with respect to television deals, not because of the relative strength of the conference, but because of the lack of Tranghese backbone.
And that we are stuck with ESPN's schedule manipulations until 2013 pursuant to the most recently signed television deal.
That is true, but I did re-think the whole "is Friday bad" idea. And it still sucks.
One pro I may have thrown in there, albeit a mild one, is the fact that you have all the other games on Saturday to help you through any hangover you may have from the Friday night post game. Not missing all the other games while you are at our game is not entirely a bad thing, and drinking on the couch is fun too.
Not getting a 9 a.m call from you to start drinking on a Saturday is a BIG pro I forgot about.
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