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Big Ten conference leaders continue to conflict on Friday night games
Quote:Administrators from a number of high school associations in the Midwest met for two hours Monday with the 14 Big Ten athletic directors, who are having their annual meetings at conference headquarters. Phillips said it was vital for the college representatives to hear the high school perspective on the impending Friday night move.

The Big Ten’s new television agreements with ABC/ESPN and Fox stipulates the conference will play six Friday games per year over the next six seasons. The Spartans’ only Friday game in 2017 as part of that pact was the since-moved game against Northwestern.

The Spartans are scheduled to host Bowling Green on Saturday, Sept. 2 at Spartan Stadium, which was initially planned for the following week. MSU has opened its season with a Friday night game over Labor Day weekend for the past six seasons, five of them at home.

MSU athletic director Mark Hollis said moving the opener against Bowling Green requires Big Ten approval to move it to a Friday. Those MSU games, however, have not presented a conflict because Michigan high schools mostly play their games on the Thursday before Labor Day.

Hollis said Monday the Spartans would only agree to play home games either on the Friday of Labor Day weekend or the day after Thanksgiving. He said playing any other Friday at home “would not be ideal for us.”

“The networks are still going through that process,” Hollis said. “I’m uncertain if our Labor Day (game) is going to be Friday, but it’s obviously been what I would call a very good tradition and would like to see it continue. Just waiting to hear word on that one.”

Northwestern’s road game at Maryland also was moved to Saturday and now will be played Oct. 14. Illinois’ game at South Florida on Sept. 15 and Iowa’s conference game at Nebraska on Nov. 24 got bumped to Fridays with the Wildcats’ moves.

The other Friday games are Washington at Rutgers, and Utah State at Wisconsin on Sept. 1; Ohio at Purdue on Sept. 8; and Nebraska at Illinois on Sept. 29.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/colleg...324014001/
05-16-2017 12:11 AM
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(05-16-2017 12:11 AM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  
Quote:Administrators from a number of high school associations in the Midwest met for two hours Monday with the 14 Big Ten athletic directors, who are having their annual meetings at conference headquarters. Phillips said it was vital for the college representatives to hear the high school perspective on the impending Friday night move.

The Big Ten’s new television agreements with ABC/ESPN and Fox stipulates the conference will play six Friday games per year over the next six seasons. The Spartans’ only Friday game in 2017 as part of that pact was the since-moved game against Northwestern.

The Spartans are scheduled to host Bowling Green on Saturday, Sept. 2 at Spartan Stadium, which was initially planned for the following week. MSU has opened its season with a Friday night game over Labor Day weekend for the past six seasons, five of them at home.

MSU athletic director Mark Hollis said moving the opener against Bowling Green requires Big Ten approval to move it to a Friday. Those MSU games, however, have not presented a conflict because Michigan high schools mostly play their games on the Thursday before Labor Day.

Hollis said Monday the Spartans would only agree to play home games either on the Friday of Labor Day weekend or the day after Thanksgiving. He said playing any other Friday at home “would not be ideal for us.”

“The networks are still going through that process,” Hollis said. “I’m uncertain if our Labor Day (game) is going to be Friday, but it’s obviously been what I would call a very good tradition and would like to see it continue. Just waiting to hear word on that one.”

Northwestern’s road game at Maryland also was moved to Saturday and now will be played Oct. 14. Illinois’ game at South Florida on Sept. 15 and Iowa’s conference game at Nebraska on Nov. 24 got bumped to Fridays with the Wildcats’ moves.

The other Friday games are Washington at Rutgers, and Utah State at Wisconsin on Sept. 1; Ohio at Purdue on Sept. 8; and Nebraska at Illinois on Sept. 29.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/colleg...324014001/
Was happy to see both NU games moved to Sat from Friday. THe Big 10 is a big enough brand to do whatever it wants but scheduling Firday nite college games angers the HS coaches that Big 10 programs need support from. If the big 10 adds more Friday games, expect Notre Dame, Cincy, Louisville and Iowa State to focue even more on Big 10 state recruiting of hS talent as those programs avoid Friday games
05-16-2017 02:48 AM
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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.
05-16-2017 06:30 AM
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I wish they would have taken less money and just not done them. It completely changes a game day feel when a game (home or away) is not on a Saturday. I know why they did, but count me as a definitely against the move.
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http://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/nebraska...games.html

Quote:The Big Ten’s move to play some football games on Friday nights has been quite controversial, with high schools, some fans, and even some schools taking exception. Northwestern’s protests wound up clearing two Friday games off the 2017 schedule, but four others are still set to go ahead as planned, and that’s left many people unhappy. According to one of the aggrieved, Jim Tenopir (the executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association, who met with Big Ten officials Monday along with executives from six other states), though, Big Ten officials have been surprised by the amount of backlash they’ve faced. Here’s what Tenopir told Land of Ten’s Sean Keeler following the meetings:

“The commissioner [Jim Delany] made the comment that Friday night games have been happening all across the country,” Tenopir, executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association, told Land of 10 during Day One of the Big Ten Conference Joint Group Meetings.

“They did not expect the blowback that the Big Ten got on Friday nights.”

And by “blowback,” he means calls. Emails. Facebook comments. General social media hell.

Executives from seven state athletic or activities associations within the Big Ten footprint — Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, along with a representative from the National Federation of State High School Associations — met with league officials for two hours at the Big Ten’s suburban Chicago headquarters Monday to explain their concerns with the conference’s decision to play football games, including intraleague matchups, on Friday nights starting this fall.

Tenopir said Big Ten officials countered that the intent of Friday games was getting “some better prime-time coverage for some Big Ten teams that are traditionally second-tier compared to Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska.

“They downplayed the revenue. But if television’s involved, you have to know that revenue is a portion of that.”
05-17-2017 02:28 AM
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RE: Big Ten conference leaders continue to conflict on Friday night games
(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.
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