12-15-2015, 09:52 PM
The most annoying things about this schedule are caused by playing ND:
1) It's currently aligned so that we play them away during the same years we have 5 away conference games. This is stupid and should be changed and makes it impossible to get to 7 home games a year (people deride SEC scheduling but there's a reason they do it and I wish we got closer to it).
2) Playing them mid-season mean we're virtually guaranteed to get a conference game or a bye (or both!) before students arrive.
3) USC also playing them leaves a gap for us on Thanksgiving, which means we either get UCLA (bad idea, as we saw in 2012) or some uninspiring non-conference game there.
I've been inclined to drop ND for a few years now, I wish that the AD would, at the very least, work it out so they're aligned with 4/5 Pac-12 split. We're effectively on a 4/6 conference game split and it's dumb.
Eh, college football junkies aren't going out on Fridays anyway and this is a matchup of two teams that have both been good lately, I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the games of the week and it'll be all alone in its timeslot. But yeah, attendance at the stadium will probably be weaksauce, but that's just a sad, unfortunate given at this point.
1) It's currently aligned so that we play them away during the same years we have 5 away conference games. This is stupid and should be changed and makes it impossible to get to 7 home games a year (people deride SEC scheduling but there's a reason they do it and I wish we got closer to it).
2) Playing them mid-season mean we're virtually guaranteed to get a conference game or a bye (or both!) before students arrive.
3) USC also playing them leaves a gap for us on Thanksgiving, which means we either get UCLA (bad idea, as we saw in 2012) or some uninspiring non-conference game there.
I've been inclined to drop ND for a few years now, I wish that the AD would, at the very least, work it out so they're aligned with 4/5 Pac-12 split. We're effectively on a 4/6 conference game split and it's dumb.
(12-15-2015, 09:47 PM)82lsju link Wrote:and the KSU game is the Friday night of Labor Day weekend which will no doubt help boost both the TV audience and actual attendance...not.....
Eh, college football junkies aren't going out on Fridays anyway and this is a matchup of two teams that have both been good lately, I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of the games of the week and it'll be all alone in its timeslot. But yeah, attendance at the stadium will probably be weaksauce, but that's just a sad, unfortunate given at this point.