Well, maybe when they play football on Saturdays. You know, like College teams.
I know you have the grin there, but you can't really give any team too much grief on the day and time the game is played. It's all about the TV money. There aren't any other games on, so they get a better rating and share for the broadcast. Better ratings and higher shares mean the network can pay more money to the teams. Offer them more money to play on Friday and they'll play on Friday. Or Thursday. Besides, the games start so late on the East Coast it's not like anyone back there stays up late to watch them...
And everyone in Texas is at a High School game on a Friday so they aren't watching either.
The big gripe I have about scheduling is that if you are going to schedule a quality opponent, schedule a home and home. One game at each location. I don't mean when somebody is paying a lesser team to come and get beat on for a payday; nobody expects Florida to go to UAB or Furman for a game. I mean a BCS conference opponent.
Big Ten and Big 12 teams come to the west coast, and PAC-10/12 teams go to the midwest. Have done for years. I'm actually getting kind of sick of playing Nebraska.
Miami came out to Washington in the 90's as their part of a home and home. So did LSU, in 2009. Texas came out to California to play UCLA this year. I'm sure there are other examples that don't immediately come to mind.
Maybe I'm talking out of my butt here, but when was the last time Florida or Auburn played an out of conference non-bowl game west of the Mississippi? It hasn't happened for at least 8 years. Both Washington State and USC went to Auburn for games in that span - where is the return match out west? For at least the last 8 years the only non-conference away game Florida has played is Florida State or Miami. I suppose it could be argued that their conference away games are so tough that they don't need to go elsewhere. But it would be nice to see them travel just a bit. It must be nice to have your longest road trip be a 2 hour flight.
I'm not trying to start a flame war, or anything like that. I don't talk trash or get in anyone's face about their team. Not even Oregon Duck fans. I try to give respect to people about their allegiances and hope they do the same back. It's just that it's always bugged me when a team schedules three cupcakes for home game beatdowns so they get halfway to bowl eligibility without hardly trying. I'm irked that Washington played a FCS school for the first time this year. Up until now, only USC, UCLA, Notre Dame, and Washington had never scheduled a FCS team.
Thanks for letting me get my peeve off my chest. Sorry to be so long-winded.
