The Advocate said this morning that we will only play on Thanksgiving when we to to College Station. When they come here it will be on Friday or Saturday.
I always like the Friday after Thanksgiving game. I'm always in Baton Rouge for Thanksgiving, and the Friday game is easier on me because if I need to drive back to Dallas on Saturday (to avoid the shitty traffic on I-20 on Sunday), I can. Now that it'll be Texas Freakin' A & M? I'm really, really happy. ETA: Although I am female, my ass will NEVER, NEVER go shopping on "Black Friday" because the marketers tell me to--and that pisses me off.
That's pretty much the underlying point of what I was saying, red. I'm looking at the overall picture and remember the launch of the SECN. Scheduling UofSC vs A&M to launch the first game is a good move by the conference. But, I believe it also demonstrates a direction. We'll likely see an SEC team play every Thursday night in the near future. Thanksgiving day doesn't fit with ticket holders. To that, there is no doubt. Going back to the first point... I don't see how the SEC office isn't going to base the schedules from here on out on what will attract the best TV audience. That in itself isn't anything new. I believe it'll be more evident. ________ I wonder if in three years we look back to this conversation as we're sitting at home on Thanksgiving weekend with two games on Thursday (aft and eve,) one if not two Friday, and all day Saturday with two for the mid-afternoon kick.
So obviously traditions mean nothing anymore, the sanctity of the regular season means nothing anymore, so if that's the case, these East/West "rivalries" should be gone. Start with Alabama and Tennessee and swiftly move to LSU and Florida and get rid of that one too.
Traditions mean nothing in college football because Texas and Texas A&M don't play anymore, OU Nebraska don't, you can look all over the realm of college football and rivalry games that are older than shit are gone, as far as the sanctity of the regular season that was shit down the toilet in 2011. Any more questions?
Those teams left their conference which destroyed their rivalries. Alabama/Tennessee, we are the SEC.
No. It's pretty clear decisions made with regards to the Big12 conference should be considered heavily and after said consideration the SEC make reactive moves based on their scheduling...that is, according to how you've just phrased your response. On the other hand, considering A&M has been playing a game at home on Thanksgiving day long enough they consider it a tradition the scheduling is doing just the opposite of what you implied.
