dailey247
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 23, 2010 11:29:36 GMT -5
Tangent question: Why is it that we haven't hosted cuse on a Saturday since 2006? In 07 we only played at the dome, and the last three years have been on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I know that we get last choice on dates at the booth, and the Big East TV contract has a lot to do with it, etc., but is there something someone should be doing to get us a weekend game?
Tangent-to-the-tangent. How come we never play the orangewomen, home or away, during "Rivalry Week" on ESPN?
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 23, 2010 11:39:50 GMT -5
My guess is that three concurrent factors come into play.
1. Many Saturday games are guided by CBS having first rights on "big" games. Syracuse can promise CBS any date they want, Georgetown must wait until Verizon Center gets the word from the NBA and NHL. 2. Next in line is ESPN. Unless it's the College Gameday package (which Georgetown is de facto eliminated from, owing to Verizon Center scheduling), they will keep Georgeown-Syracuse off the weekend and save it for its Monday night package (This year's Thursday was probably a Verizon Center anomaly). 3. In prior years, Georgetown-Syracuse used to be on the last weekend of the year, much like Duke-UNC was. With the front-loading of other conference tournaments and the creeping calendar of Spring Break (which used to be the week after the Big East tournament), this game gets slotted earlier in the schedule.
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dailey247
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 23, 2010 11:52:27 GMT -5
So, do CBS and ESPN start picking their games before the NBA/NHL schedules are out? If not, once those schedules are out and we know that we have 3 open Saturdays in Jan/Feb, why can't we (or the Big East, or ESPN, or CBS, or whoever is in charge of these things) say "this date is cuse, this one Duke, this one Nova," and then go from there? I guess I'm worried that nobody in the decision making process even cares about GU-cuse. As a California resident who can only make one game a year, and only on a Saturday, I'd really like to go to another cuse game someday.
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Grandpa
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Post by Grandpa on Feb 23, 2010 12:32:18 GMT -5
My guess is that three concurrent factors come into play. 2. Next in line is ESPN. Unless it's the College Gameday package (which Georgetown is de facto eliminated from, owing to Verizon Center scheduling), they will keep Georgeown-Syracuse off the weekend and save it for its Monday night package (This year's Thursday was probably a Verizon Center anomaly). I think you're probably right here about the de-facto elimination from College Gameday consideration, but assuming ESPN was looking to do a Gameday package at Georgetown, couldn't the Athletic Dept offer up the intimacy of McDonough (and easier ability to jam the 2k capacity) to get the "atmosphere" that they're looking for to do the 11am show, and then just have the big game (be it Cuse, Nova, or whoever) occur at Verizon later that night? Obviously that is predicated on being able to get Verizon for an evening game, and on the fact that setting up at multiple sites isn't too big a disincentive for ESPN.
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