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

[John Labbe]

Does it make any difference to you that we'll be playing in Reno, not Vegas?

Do you really mean that we should never play teams in Nevada just because they have gambling there?  There's gambling elsewhere, too.

I agree that college games shouldn't be played at a casino.  I don't see what the reason would be for that, not to mention the wrong signals it would send.  But I haven't heard anything about the NU game being played in a casino.

Maybe a few video poker machines by the concession stands, but nothing serious.

 
On Wednesday, March 01, 2006, at 05:21PM, John A. DeGroat <johnadeg at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

>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.
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
>>
>>On 2/25/06, Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>http://nusports.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022306aaa.html
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Jim B.
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