[NU Sports] Turkey and Big Ten football ...

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Starting the season later makes sense.  We've gone to games in September and the "crowd" looks even more like one for a high school game.

John DeGroat
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From: "Roy Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
> Personally - I'd also like to see the Big 10 [and NU] open the season at least a
> week later. We'd then have a better chance of getting students on campus, etc.
> It also might make for a fall atmosphere for the first home game, instead of
> playing in the middle of a Chicago summer weather with the Students still at
> their Summer jobs.
> 
> I know the players will appreciate the bye week during the season, and playing
> the week after Thanksgiving would also increase TV coverage, not that the Cats
> will benefit from that - we'll probably be in the bye week. 
> 
> On the bye week, I can remember seasons where Michigan and dOSU used to get us
> the week after their bye week - their guys would come in well rested and ready
> to defense the spread. Our guys were still nursing injuries from the previous
> week.
> 
> But anything that Gets NU, and maybe the Big 10 on TV after Thanksgiving has to
> be a good thing....
> 
> rsl
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> > Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:37 PM
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Subject: [NU Sports] Turkey and Big Ten football ...
> > 
> > Saw on ESPN that the Big Ten approved an additional
> > bye week to the football schedule, allowing games to
> > be played after Thanksgiving next year.
> > 
> > It's probably a good move - you could see the need for
> > it with the week after Thanksgiving and the title game
> > week making a season that ended before then long
> > forgotten. It helped this year, but this was an
> > extraordinary year in many respects. Without a title
> > game, the league needed to do something like this.
> > 
> > This will likely hurt the ACC and Big East, who used
> > to use our absence to get on ESPN (NU alum had that
> > great line in his SI column the week after
> > Thanksgiving this year about dreaming of a Saturday
> > morning and finding nothing but ACC football on TV ...
> > then waking up to find it a reality :) ). Maybe the
> > Big Ten will move times (and days?) around a bit for
> > BTN or other TV options. Maybe a Thanksgiving night
> > game? Friday game?
> > 
> > I know some fans won't like it, but I can remember two
> > post-Turkey day games. The NU-Illinois 2001 game was
> > probably the "case against" the move, with the game in
> > Champaign on a Friday, with the Illini playing for a
> > Big Ten title, and half the seats empty. It was fun to
> > have family in town for turkey, wake up the next
> > morning and pack the tailgate gear for a short (yet
> > dull:) ) drive down to Champaign for the game - but
> > the atmosphere left a lot to be desired.
> > 
> > The "case for" was in 1997 (or 98?) when we went out
> > to Happy Valley to visit my brother for Thanksgiving
> > and saw the PSU-MSU game. Turkey Day itself was
> > bizarre as State College was a ghost town with dorms
> > closed and no one in town. But things picked up by
> > Saturday and as usual, State College was buzzing for
> > game day and it was a perfect place for some holiday
> > weekend fun, festivities and football (but then again,
> > any gameday weekend at PSU seems like a little holiday
> > event).
> > 
> > We'll see how it works. We pretty much had to do it
> > and I'm sure the coaches and teams will appreciate the
> > bye week again during the season to rest up. Plus,
> > another weekend of Big Ten football can't be a bad
> > thing, right?
> > 
> > GO CATS!!!
> > -SjT
> > 
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> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!!
> > 
> > 
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