(11-10-2015 10:13 AM)boroeagle2 Wrote:  It would be good for all of us (well maybe not the players and coaches) if we could have the weekend after Thanksgiving be a road P5 game every year, takes out a normally poor attendance game for us, and maybe if the P5 team has a poor crowd (by their standards) it helps us pull off an upset. Don't know how realistic or possible that is, but it would sure be nice.

Last year ESPN made us play Navy on Black Friday, which was our second Friday game of the season.. Our other Friday game was against Troy. I hate how we bend over backwards and affect our own attendance to accommodate ESPN so much when they don't have any sort of priority on our conference.

(11-10-2015 10:18 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(11-10-2015 10:13 AM)boroeagle2 Wrote:  It would be good for all of us (well maybe not the players and coaches) if we could have the weekend after Thanksgiving be a road P5 game every year, takes out a normally poor attendance game for us, and maybe if the P5 team has a poor crowd (by their standards) it helps us pull off an upset. Don't know how realistic or possible that is, but it would sure be nice.

Last year ESPN made us play Navy on Black Friday, which was our second Friday game of the season.. Our other Friday game was against Troy. I hate how we bend over backwards and affect our own attendance to accommodate ESPN so much when they don't have any sort of priority on our conference.

At least King Karl negotiated some big bucks for those games.