I am going to need the NCAA to grow a pair and stick with their scheduling practices and not worry about the NFL. This goes way back and affects CFB scheduling more than just Thanksgiving weekend.
CFB use to rule Thursday nights. Sure at first we as fans made fun of the Virginia Tech's and Boise States of the world laughing that they were playing on scrub night which was Thursday nights. But then CFB started implementing some pretty big marquee match ups on Thursday nights and it became must-watch games. Then the NFL saw potential here and started putting games on Thursday night and now instead of even getting some ACC scrub night, we get Central Michigan vs Akron type games on Thursday nights.
Thanksgiving night used to have quality rivalries. I remember Texas/Texas AM being on a Thanksgiving night, or a Texas vs TCU. Bottom line, there were two teams worth a damn to watch on Thanksgiving night. Well now CFB seems to have conceded this entire day and night to NFL as there is not a single CFB game on Thanksgiving this year.
Now I think this is the second year the NFL has scheduled a game on Black Friday. A day that used to be all CFB. If CFB curls up and runs away from scheduling games on Black Friday due to the NFL plastering one game in the afternoon I am going to be highly disappointed. After all, CFB has coward away from scheduling their CFB Playoff Semifinal games from Saturday and put them on Thursday and Friday night because of the NFL playoff games on that Saturday. C'mon. Grow a pair and keep your scheduling you've always had and with what makes sense.
The NFL is good for gambling and fantasy football, that's it. This weekend used to be the best weekend in CFB because you had games from Thursday-Saturday. It was wonderful, add to it, it was rivalry weekend. Now it seems we are getting a crammed slate just Friday and Saturday and I worry it soon will be only Saturday once the NFL's Black Friday game starts to become tradition.
CFB use to rule Thursday nights. Sure at first we as fans made fun of the Virginia Tech's and Boise States of the world laughing that they were playing on scrub night which was Thursday nights. But then CFB started implementing some pretty big marquee match ups on Thursday nights and it became must-watch games. Then the NFL saw potential here and started putting games on Thursday night and now instead of even getting some ACC scrub night, we get Central Michigan vs Akron type games on Thursday nights.
Thanksgiving night used to have quality rivalries. I remember Texas/Texas AM being on a Thanksgiving night, or a Texas vs TCU. Bottom line, there were two teams worth a damn to watch on Thanksgiving night. Well now CFB seems to have conceded this entire day and night to NFL as there is not a single CFB game on Thanksgiving this year.
Now I think this is the second year the NFL has scheduled a game on Black Friday. A day that used to be all CFB. If CFB curls up and runs away from scheduling games on Black Friday due to the NFL plastering one game in the afternoon I am going to be highly disappointed. After all, CFB has coward away from scheduling their CFB Playoff Semifinal games from Saturday and put them on Thursday and Friday night because of the NFL playoff games on that Saturday. C'mon. Grow a pair and keep your scheduling you've always had and with what makes sense.
The NFL is good for gambling and fantasy football, that's it. This weekend used to be the best weekend in CFB because you had games from Thursday-Saturday. It was wonderful, add to it, it was rivalry weekend. Now it seems we are getting a crammed slate just Friday and Saturday and I worry it soon will be only Saturday once the NFL's Black Friday game starts to become tradition.
