[NU Sports] TV for the Syracuse game

[Jim Bendat]

I think I'll add to this discussion re the Jewish holidays. I think what's happened this year with the Syracuse game is about as good as can be expected: playing the game where most of it will be after sundown.

Things could have been worse, and have been worse as recently as 2006. We played at Nevada, a game that was originally slated for Saturday, the day of the holiday. Jewish holidays actually begin at sundown the night before. NU and Nevada agreed to move the game up to Friday night for television purposes. The timing of that game was therefore in direct conflict with the Jewish holiday.

Jim B.

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> Yes, Jonathan, but I don't expect NU (or ''Cuse) not to schedule games on Jewish High Holidays--just not with each other--that's the rub, as the Bard might put it.? 
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>This was just announced:
>http://nusports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082809aab.html
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>The game will be at 6PM CT and will at a minimum be streaming on the internet via Syracuse's athletics web page.? Per the page, "TV plans are still being finalized."? I would imagine this likely means ESPN+ coverage with syndication, especially given the time of the game.? Also note that I believe ESPN+ games are available on ESPN360.com.
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>Finally, regarding holding games on the Jewish high holidays, this happens every few years due to the college football schedule and the fact that games basically have to be held on Saturdays and must also fit into the TV schedule - neither of which account for the holidays.? There's not much the individual schools can do about that outside of just not scheduling a game for that week, which wasn't an option for NU this year (technically NU could have scheduled a nonconference game for Thanksgiving weekend or later, but there are very few teams available to schedule games then); only if there was a shift across all of college football would something really change and there isn't a large enough outcry for that to be a factor.
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>On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM,  <NEONRye at aol.com> wrote:
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>A couple of comments, in response to the last few emails:
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>1) As an XM subscriber, I can tell you that they don't cover all of the Big
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>?Ten games (usually just 2 or 3), but since NU-'Cuse involves two of the
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>largest ?markets (NYC--see below--and Chicago), I think they will cover this
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>2) I am very confident that ESPN+ will pick up the game in the NYC area, as
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>?'Cuse has been marketing itself aggressively as New York City's "home
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>team" for ?the past year or two--with even a billboard in Times Square. ?And, as
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>the ?father of one of them, I can tell you that 'Cuse has a HUGE alumni
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>base in the ?NYC/Long Island/Westchester/etc. area.
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>3) The Administation and Athletic Departments of both schools should ?be
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>strongly rebuked for the scheduling of this game--on Rosh Hashanah ?(Jewish
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>New Year)--given the large percentage of Jewish students and alums
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>(especially NU alums in the NY metropolitan area like Yours Truly, and others on ?our
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>List like Willie Weinbaum, who planned on going, but then learned of the
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>conflict and realized we couldn't attend). ?My disappointment was somewhat
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>mitigated by the scheduling of a game at Army in two years, but is still
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>palpable.
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