(05-16-2017 06:30 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Couple of thoughts.

1) If you expect networks to pay hundreds of millions to your conference for rights, they'll expect content in return. College football is good for ratings and it only makes sense that they'd want to spread those ratings around to days other than Saturday. Call it the price of doing business.

2) I wouldn't worry about the high schools. It's NOT "tradition". Before the majority of schools had lighted fields, they played on Saturday. It only became a "tradition" after. The first NFL game was played on Saturday, then moved to Sundays, then creeped into Monday and now into Thursday and Saturday. When you have a product people demand, it makes sense to offer said product to as many people as you can. Life is all about choices, so people are going to have to decide what they want to watch, and what they want to DVR.

Also more common once again for high schools to play on nights other than Friday, especially in more populated areas where it isn't uncommon for multiple high schools to share a stadium.