Five National TV Games Highlight 2013 Football Schedule

[cajunref]

Only 2 home games before November.

Bad for attendance. Bad for tailgating.

Gonna be hard to maintain momentum with this team with all of the early travel, and midweek games.

For the record, this schedule sucks.

Quoting Hud, how can I continue recruiting to a schedule/ conference like this....

[Hudsheen#Fired]

Quoting Hud, how can I continue recruiting to a schedule/ conference like this....

Yes midweek games sucks
But im prettysure being on national tv helps ALOT. Kids want to play on national tv

[RedTails]

I give this schedule a good ole /

[basinbear]

Gonna be very interesting to see hour home crowds this year. Only one weeknight game. But, the schedule is littered with Former 1-AA's and New Mexico State who is arguably the worst team in FBS.

If we take care of business and post W's it will not matter.....

[Zeebart21]

Quoting Hud, how can I continue recruiting to a schedule/ conference like this....

Repeat what HUD said ref, you know.... For those that are hard of hearing or have ____ing reading comprehension probs.

Thanks,

Z

[SlappyCajun]

If we take care of business and post W's it will not matter.....

Like last year?

[ULtimateCajun]

I dislike this schedule very very much. I said last season after the Ark. St. game after our second sunbelt midweek loss on National TV that we would be fools to schedule more of these mid week games. Team just seems off playing on a tuesday night. I liked our schedule until the dates came out. Two tues/wed games and a Thurs. game, no good. That means 4 saturday home games. I know you have to find a way to get on National TV "for recruits" but is it proven that these random tues night games are a tipping point to get a kid? I'm really asking. Because while i was watching the North Texas debacle, i was surfing twitter to see if there was any talk about our game and it was mostly crickets. If we get a win over Kstate or Arkansas i'll feel a lot better about it but after last years performances for these non saturday games you have to figure one of those to be a loss. Hopefully come November I'll be eating my words. JMO

[Bankruptcyman]

The casual fan will have lost interest in football by November. Fans want to see their teams early in the season when optimism is high. FIU and FAU don't care because no one goes to their games no matter when they are played. But we have fans who will attend. Only 5 home games to begin with and one of them is a Thursday night game. Only 2 home games in September and October is inexcusable. I can live with 5 home games occasionally but for God's sake don't bunch most of my already meager home schedule at the end of the year.

[ULGrad@HOU]

Not an attractive home schedule, no doubt. One of the worst ever in terms of opponents. As far as the dates and times, I don't think it's terrible, just not really good. 4 games home, up to Nov 7 isn't bad. Only the ULM game around Thanksgiving. The Tuesday mid-week games are away and on national TV, at least it doesn't screw up home attendance. Those games on Tuesday really throw off the schedule, and I would rather not have them. The Thursday night game would have been better on a Saturday. Overall schedule, I give it a C- for fan friendliness. For the chance of UL being successful and having a winning record, I'll give it a B+, mainly because this team is going to be good.

[CajunNation]

But hey, CUSA isn't really any better then the Sun Belt.

Schedule could just as easily suck there too. Just ask Southern Miss.

[RedTails]

Schedule could just as easily suck there too. Just ask Southern Miss.

I would trade schedules with them right now, but as someone else said earlier...I go to watch the Cajuns play.

[CajunDreDog]

Just want to point something out, ESPN scheduled these midweek national tv games.

When they come calling asking if you want to be on national tv, you say yes!