U of L Announces Changes to Football Schedule
by Mike Rutherford on Mar 1, 2007 3:05 AM EST
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PrintThe season opener on Thursday, Aug. 30 against Murray State, will be televised by ESPNU at 7:30 p.m.
The Middle Tennessee State game, which was originally slated for Saturday, Sept. 8, will be moved to Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. The game will be shown on ESPN2.
The Louisville-Utah game, which was scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 6, is being moved to Friday, Oct. 5 and will also be televised by ESPN.
The Cardinals will play on Friday night again on ESPN later in the month when they travel to face Connecticut on Oct. 19 at 8 p.m.
U of L now has six games slated for national television, which already included the Thursday night games against West Virginia and Rutgers in November.
The Sports Information Department is saying that this was ESPN's call and that since the Cards have been such a huge draw for the network on weeknights, naturally they want more.
While that may be true, this seems like an awful large step in the wrong direction for a program coming off of an Orange Bowl win and preaching that it belongs among the nation's elite.
We have just two Saturday home games and play as many on Friday night. We supposedly moved the Murray game to Thursday because we wanted it to be on TV, and now we find out that the it's not even on a channel that the majority of Cardinal fans have. Something just doesn't seem right here.
I'm not a season ticket holder, but I can understand the frustration felt by those who are. Rushing to the stadium from work on Friday night just isn't the same as spending all day Saturday with people you love, basking in the glory that is Cardinal tailgating.
So yeah this bugs me a little, but as long as the product on the field on these weeknights is up to snuff, then I think I'll be able to handle it.
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This sucks.
by MissPants on Mar 1, 2007 6:12 AM EST reply actions
only 2 Saturday games???
This news comes the day after I get a letter from ULAA which not-so-subtly told me that unless I fork over more donations, my seats in the expanded PJCS will be higher up than they are already. Apparently, I wasn't accruing "priority points" during all those years I was going to the Fairgrounds when they couldn't give tickets away.
still bad
the schedule
Schools take the piss-ant dates for TV because they want to get notice, because they're trying to 'arrive.' U of L is alleged to have already 'arrived.' Apparently, that's not true, and season ticket holders and other fans pay a price for the deception.
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It doesn't matter what we think
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talking out of your a$$
What in the blue hell are you babbling about? Can you provide one iota of support for this statement? I doubted UK last year (and the year before, and the year before...) and it had nothing to do with non-believers in their fan base.
If anything, I "believe" college football is meant to be played on Saturday afternoons.
Season ticket holders are the customers of the product ULAA provides, for you to assert the customer should not voice their opinion is absurd.
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