(03-02-2018 04:26 PM)PaulDel2 Wrote: (03-02-2018 10:36 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: (03-02-2018 10:20 AM)MUther Wrote: (03-02-2018 09:59 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (03-02-2018 09:46 AM)EagNBran Wrote: Have fun playing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
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We'll make more on our Saturday gate than you will from ESPN and no crowd.
Would you give up one Saturday game to play on Thursday on national TV (real TV)?
The correct question is would you give up Saturday games to play on Tuesday or Wednesday, which is primarily where ESPN parks the SB games.
Actually they don't. Next year, here are the midweek game schedules
Thursday night games
Georgia State at Troy
App at Georgia Southern (will still draw well)
Georgia Southern at Texas State
Tuesday night games
Troy at USA (it will still draw 30,000 plus)
App at Ark State
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It does suck that USA/Troy (which would draw closer to 40,000 on a Saturday afternoon) and App/Georgia Southern (which would be much better attended on a Saturday than a Thursday) are midweek.
But please note that only 5 schools have midweek games at home. And for one of those teams (USA), the game will probably still be very well attended anyway.
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Unless there's a MLB playoff game that night, the Tuesday night games will be the only sports programming on television that night. These games do draw eyeballs.
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ESPN really sticks it to the MAC, rather than the Belt with the midweek games (but that is probably why they get more money). WMU plays FOUR of them. And their midweek games come later in the season when there's a lot more competition from other sports.
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Maybe if CUSA was willing to play midweek games, they'd not be facing such strong financial pressures. MTSU is going to 5 home games next year (and will probably only face the following OOC teams at home in the next 3 seasons Duke, Liberty-who is probably paying MTSU for a home and home, and FCS teams), WKU is cutting its athletic department budget. Certainly theres more to it than just a refusal to maximize revenue from TV, but that's part of it. Maybe a better way of looking at a Tuesday or Thursday night game is as follows....Better a midweek game than a ROAD game (or a poorly considered OOC schedule).