[NU Sports] NU-Nevada game to conflict with Rosh Hashanah

[John A. DeGroat]

Better question:  Why play Nevada at all?  Keady went ballistic when 
someone scheduled a Purdue game in Las Vegas and at a casino no less.  
He forced the game to be played in a highs school gym there.  That's the 
difference between good and ba judgment.

John DeGroat

Jonathan Hodges wrote:

>I'm sure he Nevada athletic department had more to do with the
>scheduling of the game to Friday, but I wouldn't see the NU AD nixing
>a nationally televised date for many reasons.  Especially since
>college football is all about the money, as we all know by now.  NU's
>academic schedule does get adjusted for some holidays (when the Jewish
>high holidays fall later in the year, the start of fall quarter gets
>pushed back a little), although the university still does not make it
>an official holiday (Good Friday/Easter weekend also gives no extra
>holidays unless it happens to fall during spring break).  So many
>sports are purposely scheduled on holidays now (lots of football on
>Thanksgiving, basketball on Christmas, more football on New Years),
>that I don't think they really give much regard to time spent by
>people doing things other than watching tv on any given holiday.
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>Jonathan
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>On 2/25/06, Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>http://nusports.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022306aaa.html
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>>So, I see that NU announced its football schedule this past week.  We
>>already knew the 12 games, but the one change is the date of the game at
>>Nevada.  Previously scheduled for September 23rd, that game has now been
>>moved up to Friday night September 22nd and will be televised by ESPN2.
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>>That Friday night is the first night of Rosh Hashanah.  This change
>>doesn't sit well with me at all.  I wonder whether our administration
>>even bothered to check out the possibility of a conflict with a
>>significant religious holiday.
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>>Jim B.
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