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Big Ten to include Friday night games

tomdalton22

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Big Ten to include Friday night games, beginning in 2017

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ten-include-friday-night-games-beginning-2017


The Friday night games will be limited to September and October and won't include every team. Schools with huge stadiums, such as Penn State and Ohio State, won't be asked to host them. And Michigan has declined to participate in Friday night games at home or on the road
 
huh. is the rationale that the league makes more money by spreading games over the maximum amount of time? so if on any given weekend, there are 3 good or at least decent Big Ten games, and two crappy ones, they can play one of the crappy ones on Friday night, meaning they can sell more ads or whatever, instead of having one of the crappy ones overlap with a decent one on Satuday?

otherwise I'm not sure why they would want to do this.

Sounds like we can start referring the MSU, UI, Purdue, & Rutgers as "the Friday night teams."
 
Also... gee now youre requiring kids to have game days on school nights? So the visiting team may need to travel Thursday night, or if its close, Friday morning to get there and have time to settle in?

your farce of "amateurism" and "a great free education" is getting even flimsier.
 
Also... gee now youre requiring kids to have game days on school nights? So the visiting team may need to travel Thursday night, or if its close, Friday morning to get there and have time to settle in?

your farce of "amateurism" and "a great free education" is getting even flimsier.

as far as travel among student athletes, football players have it the easiest.
 
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