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medinabuckeye1

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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2018, 03:01:13 PM »
Quote from: TyphonInc on September 14, 2018, 09:08:29 AM
And with the TV contracts as the main motivator, is there a way to have 3 conference games every week? That way Fox, ESPN, and BTN all could have a potential conference game on thier slate.
My thinking is that it is less important in week 1 for two reasons:
  • We usually have at least one decent OOC game in week 1.  This year, for example, we had M/ND.  
  • After a nine month off-season people are eager to see live cfb even if they are crappy games so week one is probably the easiest to sell.  

I feel like week 3 is just awful this year.  

In week one we had the one conference game, M/ND, and UMD/TX.  

In week two we had one more conference game plus NU/DOOK, PSU/Pitt, MSU/ASU, UNL/CO, IN/UVA, IA/ISU so it was a pretty good week.  

This week after Ohio State / TCU the next best game is probably RU/KS.  That is a weak week.  

I am thinking about TV here both for the networks and to give us a better product to watch.  If you are a B1G fan this week you have basically your team's game and the tOSU/TCU game and nothing else very interesting.  I would prefer to spread these body bag games out over more weeks so that there are always at least a few decent games each week.  
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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2018, 03:18:43 PM »
It's not just the unattractive games this week

it's also the large number of home games this week that the BTN ends up responsible for broadcasting.  This spreads BTN pretty thin and pushes multiple games to the BTN overflow channels which not everybody gets.  So now they are forced to use BTN2GO, which is not always ideal.

If they could spread it out so you have at least 3 conference games each week, then the number of games that end up on the BTN overflow channels goes down.
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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #16 on: September 14, 2018, 03:21:18 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on September 14, 2018, 03:01:13 PM
This week after Ohio State / TCU the next best game is probably RU/KS.  That is a weak week.  

I would say Purdue-Missouri and Wisconsin-BYU are both better than Rutgers-Kansas in name value.
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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2018, 03:28:11 PM »
Quote from: LittlePig on September 14, 2018, 03:18:43 PM
It's not just the unattractive games this week

it's also the large number of home games this week that the BTN ends up responsible for broadcasting.  This spreads BTN pretty thin and pushes multiple games to the BTN overflow channels which not everybody gets.  So now they are forced to use BTN2GO, which is not always ideal.

If they could spread it out so you have at least 3 conference games each week, then the number of games that end up on the BTN overflow channels goes down.
Good point.  They get overloaded with content in a week like this where 11 B1G teams are playing home games.  
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medinabuckeye1

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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #18 on: September 14, 2018, 03:29:04 PM »
Quote from: ELA on September 14, 2018, 03:21:18 PM
I would say Purdue-Missouri and Wisconsin-BYU are both better than Rutgers-Kansas in name value.
Definitely in name value, no doubt.  However, I think KU/RU should be a competitive game whereas I do not expect that at all out of UW/BYU.  PU/Mizzou is closer to be sure.  
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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2018, 12:17:35 PM »
Quote from: LittlePig on September 14, 2018, 03:18:43 PM
It's not just the unattractive games this week

it's also the large number of home games this week that the BTN ends up responsible for broadcasting.  This spreads BTN pretty thin and pushes multiple games to the BTN overflow channels which not everybody gets.  So now they are forced to use BTN2GO, which is not always ideal.

If they could spread it out so you have at least 3 conference games each week, then the number of games that end up on the BTN overflow channels goes down.
+1
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TyphonInc

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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2018, 12:18:10 PM »
Quote from: ELA on September 14, 2018, 03:21:18 PM
I would say Purdue-Missouri and Wisconsin-BYU are both better than Rutgers-Kansas in name value.
OU and Iowa State, prolly will get more eyes as well.
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2018, 07:58:30 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on September 14, 2018, 03:01:13 PM
 

This week after Ohio State / TCU the next best game is probably RU/KS.  That is a weak week.  

Turned out to be a more imposing slate than we initially thought. 
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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2018, 08:01:16 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on September 15, 2018, 07:58:30 PM
Turned out to be a more imposing slate than we initially thought.
Yikes, sure did!
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: B1G Scheduling Proposal
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2018, 10:19:32 AM »
Seems like the general consensus is a back loaded schedule that includes at least one Conference game per week in September. I like it.
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