Football Schedule

[birdman]

bgfalcon24: waste our homecoming game huh The sky is falling has faith in our team

[birdman]

Birdman is lost for words. Grandma said never beat a dead horse

[hammb]

I'm inclined to agree that taking your biggest rivalry and making it your homecoming game seems VERY foolish. There are basically only 3 games that we ever have that are consistently big draws: The home opener, Homecoming, and the UT game. Doesn't make sense to me to overlap them like that.

And of course I will NEVER like the retarded weeknight games in November. They're cold, miserable, destroy any hope for a reasonable gameday atmosphere, and most importantly NOBODY WATCHES THEM ANYWAYS!

Seriously...the MAC is a joke for continuing to take it up the ass from ESPN to play these late season games on weeknights. Even if they are on TV they get put on ESPN2 or ESPNU while there is a BCS conference game on the main ESPN station. It really makes no sense whatsoever.

[daspollak]

Oct. 15 for the UT game is a smart move. A rivalry game in fair weather is an instant draw.

[BGSU33]

The MAC schdule makers didn't do BG an favors with a pretty tough draw in our MAC West crossover games and no Akron for the second consecutive year. NIU is likely to be the best team in the MAC this year and both WMU and UT whipped our tails badly. I do believe had we played Akron last year we would have beaten the Zips.

[Flipper]

October 9, 1983...over 33,000 were at the UT game. Playing the game in October will be great!!

[Class of 61]

If Oct 15th is Homecoming, we need to sell out the Doyt. When will it be known for certain the Toledo is Homecoming?

It IS "official" now.... My class ('61 of course) will be celebrating its 50th yr. reunion...and we've been waiting to get a verification as to the date of HC.... we got it this morning... Oct. 15 is a GO!!!

[takeoffeh]

I'm actually excited that homecoming is the Toledo game. I understand that some feel like we're wasting Homecoming on the Toledo game, or wasting the Toledo game on Homecoming, but I'd rather play a rival game then. You have to admit, it's better than playing Toledo after Thanksgiving. Let's pack the stands and make it a huge event!

[transfer2BGSU]

What is Ag day?

Ag is short for Agiculture or Agricutural

We should hear some good songs over the PA (finally) -

John Deere Green
She Thinks My Tractors Sexy

Maybe have the John Deere dealer south of town put in a nice display. Even some Kubota tractors.

Not quite like the tractor pull, but you will see some nice machinery.


As far as the ESPN midweek games go - well, I better not say what I want to-

This is FREE NATIONAL EXPOSURE for Bowling Green State University.

Everytime they come back and show they are live from Perry Stadium at Bowling Green State University, it's free advertising that we could not afford to pay for. There is a reason that we are agreeing to these and the main reasons are not football related. Prospective students see the university and it evens assists in bringing some alums back into the fold.

I like these games. Heck, I'd even tell the university to agree to play at 3:00 AM if it meant that we would get free national exposure. And you know what, some fans would show because it would be different from the norm.

[hammb]

What is Ag day?

Ag is short for Agiculture or Agricutural

We should hear some good songs over the PA (finally) -

John Deere Green
She Thinks My Tractors Sexy

Maybe have the John Deere dealer south of town put in a nice display. Even some Kubota tractors.

Not quite like the tractor pull, but you will see some nice machinery.


As far as the ESPN midweek games go - well, I better not say what I want to-

This is FREE NATIONAL EXPOSURE for Bowling Green State University.

Everytime they come back and show they are live from Perry Stadium at Bowling Green State University, it's free advertising that we could not afford to pay for. There is a reason that we are agreeing to these and the main reasons are not football related. Prospective students see the university and it evens assists in bringing some alums back into the fold.

I like these games. Heck, I'd even tell the university to agree to play at 3:00 AM if it meant that we would get free national exposure. And you know what, some fans would show because it would be different from the norm.

You're assuming that people actually watch these games. I would be pretty surprised if the ratings for those games were as good as reruns of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Nobody watches them. To make matters worse they seem to be pitted directly against a game from a BCS conference. I have a buddy who works for the marketing department of Buckeye Cable. Obviously they only cover the Toledo market, but in terms of the MAC I'd say that's a pretty good litmus test for ratings...he says the ratings for these games are basically non-existent even in Toledo.

When we first started doing the ESPN games I was all in favor of them. Mid-week college football was new, and the MAC mostly put premiere games there. Good teams that needed exposure, and got it by being the only game on a weeknight. Now a lot of the BCS conferences are playing mid-week games, and the MAC is throwing every meaningless matchup on a weeknight. Oftentimes these games end up getting pushed to ESPN2 or ESPNU (or even not televised at all) and are pitted head to head against a matchup that has far more national appeal.

The only people that are watching these games are the die hard MAC fans, and let's face it, there aren't many of us out there. Hell, I don't even usually watch the MAC games that don't involve BG because MAC football pretty well sucks right now.

I suppose I can see the argument that it's advertising for the university as a whole, and it at least gets the Bowling Green name listed in the TV Guides and whatnot, so the name gets out there. I just don't think it's this great advertising stream that we're led to believe it is. And the price for that advertising is alienating a pretty large portion of your fanbase. You don't build tradition and atmosphere by playing weeknights at 6:00 PM.

[kdog27]

What he said ^

[h2oville rocket]

You're assuming that people actually watch these games. I would be pretty surprised if the ratings for those games were as good as reruns of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Nobody watches them. .

I got two BIL's who are physicians in very different parts of the country (Indianapolis and Miami). At a family affair a couple years ago one asked me how Nick Moore was after the brutal hit he took against NIU that left him on the carpet for about fifteen minutes. The other one joined in and relived the play and they both discussed what had led up to it and how it affected the game. Both attended IU and their closest connection to the MAC is their mom went to Ball State. Not the first time this has happened to me. Many, many people watch these games.

[Falcon Fanatic]

October 9, 1983...over 33,000 were at the UT game. Playing the game in October will be great!!

If that was the game where it rained like hell and the score was something like 9-3 or 6-3...all field goals....then I was at that game!!! Got soaked!!

[BGGrad01]

+1 to everything in hammb's post.

This will be the third straight year where I don't buy season tickets because I can't make it to half the games. I'll watch the games on TV, but it's just not even close to the same for me. I enjoy the entire gameday experience of college football and not being able to be there for that has distanced me from BGSU.

The thing that I really hate is that I can't go to the games that really matter. Late season games that could have an impact on the MAC division race draw 4,500 people in person and another 2,500 at home.

[Ydfalcon]

You're assuming that people actually watch these games. I would be pretty surprised if the ratings for those games were as good as reruns of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Nobody watches them. .

I got two BIL's who are physicians in very different parts of the country (Indianapolis and Miami). At a family affair a couple years ago one asked me how Nick Moore was after the brutal hit he took against NIU that left him on the carpet for about fifteen minutes. The other one joined in and relived the play and they both discussed what had led up to it and how it affected the game. Both attended IU and their closest connection to the MAC is their mom went to Ball State. Not the first time this has happened to me. Many, many people watch these games.

I have to agree there. OSU fans that I know will talk with me about seeing BG on ESPN the other night and will discuss the performance of the team(s) and individual players in that game. On top of that, the Tennessee message board I read and occasionally post on will always have a discussion about these weeknight games, and they will have almost the same depth of discussion as I'd expect to see here. Point being, people who are followers of college football do in fact watch these games, and it is getting the university out there. On top of that, for those of us who can't easily make it to BG to attend a game, anything that gets Falcon games on national TV is a good thing, weeknight or not.