FireDaveLee
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I don't know about anyone else, but here is the situation I am in with my friends/family. We live outstate. It takes three hours one way to get from home to the tailgate lot. On Saturday we can leave early AM- tailgate- game- tailgate- head home. We don't need to worry about work, how early/late we are traveling, or anything else.
Then we started playing Thursday games. Sure, fine, whatever. Some of us can take work off at noon, some cannot or would not. No biggie, it's one game out of seven. Now this is also happening Fridays? So two of the seven homes games are played on a weekday? That's something that many people cannot swing. Hope the people who works weekends can pick up the slack and attend the weekday games I guess...
It definitely may not work out for some, for sure. What I'm finding out for me is our kids' activities are much busier on a Saturday now, so games, specifically 11AM games, are almost to the point where both my wife & I cannot both go, especially after October 1. But I get what you're saying, especially now that the Thursday night opener before Labor Day seems to becoming more of a regular thing.
I'm not advocating every game be moved to Friday, and I would not be a fan of it. But if one Friday home game is inevitable every two years, I want the U to make the best of it rather than everyone b!tch about it. Sounds like Coyle is already reaching out to the MSHSL regarding it, so it looks like he's taking that approach.