Scheduling six Saturday home games might not mean losing any TV revenue. CMU scheduled six this year, and I don't hear that they're forgoing any TV money.
The issue isn't that we need to have six Saturday home games. The issue is that we have only three. I think most of us would settle for four, if we also had a late Oct/early Nov game. This year, the last two home games are in late Nov.
One reason we have three is the open date in September. It takes away a week that usually has a Saturday game. Same thing might happen next year, unless the Sept 28 date is filled with a MAC game.
It's interesting that only two MAC teams -- Ohio and WMU -- have six home games, but only three on Saturdays. The other three teams with only three Saturday home games -- Akron, Kent and NIU -- play only five home games this year.
EMU and Toledo each play five Saturday home games (Toledo has seven home games this season). The other four MAC teams (BSU, BG, Buffalo and Fiami play four.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.