Three Noon kickoffs announced
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Indeed. We can only hope that at least one of Howard, New Mexico and Iowa gets a favorable kickoff time.
3:30 is certainly preferable over noon for tailgates. Also, if my kids have morning sports activities, the later start times helps me with making both work. It is what it is though I guess.
Breaking: Rutgers plays in the Big Ten
no way Howard is anything but a noon start. I figure we have a better shot at 3:30 or even later with New Mexico given that they are 2 hours behind us in time.
Hate how they insist to make homecoming games at noon. At least the other 2 are away.
Link for kickoff times of B1G homecoming games...
http://btn.com/2016/05/11/big-ten-announces-2016-homecoming-game-kickoff-times/
We are the homecoming game for Ohio State and Minnesota.
http://btn.com/2016/05/11/big-ten-announces-2016-homecoming-game-kickoff-times/
We are the homecoming game for Ohio State and Minnesota.
Dissappointing. Noon tailgates at Rutgers particularily more difficult as I would guess highest percentage of fans arriving on game day. No Mobil homes day before or hotels night before. Really hurts for Homecoming. Oh well price of B1G but still a huge bummer.
It's time to return to the American conference; Thursday night games worked best for most peoples' schedules, but only if 8 p.m. The 7 p.m. start were a little too early, but the 9 p.m porridge was a bit too hot.
I'll take noon games over 8pm games anytime. With noon starts you get two tailgate sandwiched around a football game and you can still get home at a reasonable hour to watch even more football. Getting home at 2am doesn't excite me at all.
I was joking, you obtuse clown. How the hell did one of the most confrontational people on the board become a moderator again?
And I wasn't joking at all! I was totally serious. Furthermore, I'm a thin clown, thank you. And if you had the pictures I had, you'd be a moderator too.
Noon homecoming games suck. 8 of 14 B1G homecoming games are at noon & the other 6 are at 3:30. We really need to be in the 3:30 slot, as students & many fans just won't show. We were spoiled with later homecoming game starts from 2002-12 as 9 of those 11 games were later than noon starts, whereas all 4 for 2013-16 are noon.
Thursday night games are coming and frankly preferable to the Nooners.
Vkj,
TONS of people can not make Noon kickoffs on time or at all because of kids having Scouts,football,lacrosse,youth rugby,soccer,karate,etc. practices or games on Saturday mornings. Many of these events do not even finish until 1:00 or later.Also,many Rutgers fans do not live in Middlesex or Somerset counties so they drive quite a ways to get to the stadium. I drive about 1 hour and twenty minutes and come in a back way that not many people use.I know there are fans out there who drive from far northern or far southern New Jersey or even out of state. In addition,when you have tens of thousands of people trying to get in the parking lots and stadium gates between 11:30-12:00,it is impossible to get everyone in their seats at Noon.One more thing, many people work half days on Saturdays these days.
TONS of people can not make Noon kickoffs on time or at all because of kids having Scouts,football,lacrosse,youth rugby,soccer,karate,etc. practices or games on Saturday mornings. Many of these events do not even finish until 1:00 or later.Also,many Rutgers fans do not live in Middlesex or Somerset counties so they drive quite a ways to get to the stadium. I drive about 1 hour and twenty minutes and come in a back way that not many people use.I know there are fans out there who drive from far northern or far southern New Jersey or even out of state. In addition,when you have tens of thousands of people trying to get in the parking lots and stadium gates between 11:30-12:00,it is impossible to get everyone in their seats at Noon.One more thing, many people work half days on Saturdays these days.
Why are Thursday night games coming? Who wants to compete with the NFL? Thursday night games were great when they were the only game going on. Now that's a terrible time slot. Let the AAC and ACC have it.
So we need to change the schedule to fit the few who work Saturday half day?? Oh jeeze.
Rutgers is in the Big Ten people! We knew this was coming. The fan base needs to adjust to the new conference not the other way around! We now know years in advance what Rutgers schedule will be and all of you are all complaining about start times. You know what days Rutgers is home and you need to be prepared that the game can be a noon start.
During our Big East/ACC games the schedule would come out only 3 months before! Rutgers even had a TBD on the schedule they handed out at the Spring game!
Would you all like to return the AAC??
I think his question was only about the 'away' games at 12pm (not the home games)
The only thing I would like is the ability to control that 1AA time. That would be nice for a night game when it is so early in the season.
HC would be great for a standard 3:30/2:30 central conference-wide but it is what it is.
HC would be great for a standard 3:30/2:30 central conference-wide but it is what it is.
Funniest thing in this thread is Spanky thinks obtuse means fat...
You ain't kiddin'. The noon kickoffs the past couple seasons of the early Sept. games reminded me of this scene from Biloxi Blues...
It's that kind of triangular thinking that got me to where I am today.
WhiteBus,
I just emailed Hobbs and Ash and said I think we should head back to the AAC,but add Towson,Bucknell,Fordham and Albany. They said they will reconsider our membership in the Big Ten and get back to me.
I just emailed Hobbs and Ash and said I think we should head back to the AAC,but add Towson,Bucknell,Fordham and Albany. They said they will reconsider our membership in the Big Ten and get back to me.
Vkj,
I was talking about our Noon home games which have really increased the last four or five years as compared to previous seasons.
I was talking about our Noon home games which have really increased the last four or five years as compared to previous seasons.
Definitely my opinion, but it's based on observing noon games the last few years.
Have they really? I haven't checked every game but I think you would be surprised. We also haven't exactly been world beaters which doesn't help.
I just checked for you..
In B1G
2015. We had 3 noon starts.
2014. We had 2
Non B1G
2013. 4 noon home starts
2012 3 home noon starts.
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