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...and the band needs to do something like this!

 

It would be nice to have a Saturday night game against a real opponent for once. Syracuse was a lot of fun several years ago.
 

Is there still a B1G rule that there can not be any night games starting in November?
 


We hosted Michigan State on Halloween night in 2009. It was a good sized crowd with lots of people in costume. We won too. The next year we hosted Ohio State the night before Halloween and got thrashed in Jeff Horton's first home game as stand in coach. Apart from the visiting Buckeyes fans, there might have been 5,000 people left in the stadium by the end. It was truly a depressing evening. The Big Ten hasn't seen fit to give us an evening home conference game since despite the fact that there's no need to truck in temporary lights and the ones we have actually have the power needed for a network broadcast unlike the dim lighting at some schools. My hope is the revival of the past two seasons will get us a Big Ten night game in 2015. Even if ABC/ESPN don't want to gamble on us, we warrant a BTN game. One issue is that since we play a Thursday nighter on 9/3/15 against TCU, the U of M may prefer the rest of the home games be in the aternoon.

Here is the home conference slate:

10/17/15: Nebraska
10/31/15: Michigan
11/21/15: Illinois
11/28/15: Wisconsin

The latter two are out since the Big Ten won't play at night in November. So it would have to be the Cornhuskers or Wolverines.
 


tinyarch said:
...and the band needs to do something like this!

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This was great. Innovative with the lighting and music that isn't from 1973, two things the MN Band could use a lot more of in their halftime shows. The show last Saturday was booooring. Pregame was excellent as always.
 

Ski U Master said:
This was great. Innovative with the lighting and music that isn't from 1973, two things the MN Band could use a lot more of in their halftime shows. The show last Saturday was booooring. Pregame was excellent as always.
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The band played at halftime?
 

Next year Halloween night game against Michigan.....you heard it here first! Keep the Jug!!
 




I must amend my previous statement. The Big Ten now plays November games. There are three scheduled for this season plus the conference championship game.
 



Why couldn't the game against tOSU be turned into a night game? If we're 8-1 heading into that game against a Buckeye team that could be either 7-2 or 8-1 why couldn't we get picked up by ABC/ESPN and be the National Sat. Night game? I guarantee you that the Bank would be jumping!! :eek:
 



Twinsfan007 said:
Why couldn't the game against tOSU be turned into a night game? If we're 8-1 heading into that game against a Buckeye team that could be either 7-2 or 8-1 why couldn't we get picked up by ABC/ESPN and be the National Sat. Night game? I guarantee you that the Bank would be jumping!! :eek:
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For one, tOSU @ Michigan State is the ABC National game @ 7pm central the week before. I doubt they want tOSU on back-to-back weeks. Secondly, the Big Ten likes to have all of the night games scheduled and booked before the season starts. Could it happen? I guess there is the ever so slight chance, just do not bet on it or even hope for it for that matter.
 

Stan The Caddy said:
For one, tOSU @ Michigan State is the ABC National game @ 7pm central the week before. I doubt they want tOSU on back-to-back weeks. Secondly, the Big Ten likes to have all of the night games scheduled and booked before the season starts. Could it happen? I guess there is the ever so slight chance, just do not bet on it or even hope for it for that matter.
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I don't, I'm a gopher fan, Optimism isn't in my vocabulary! lol :clap: (I'm of course joking about Optimism)
 

tikited said:
Why was this such a negative for you?
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I disliked it personally because I love the upbeat large-scale band performances where it's about what the band does (feels more like a college atmosphere in my opinion) rather than where you're straining to see 2 people on the far side of the field and are partially obscured by the rest of the band that isn't really having much activity. Seemed more like something you go to see at the orchestra or theater (which I also enjoy) rather than at a college football halftime.
 

Ski U Master said:
This was great. Innovative with the lighting and music that isn't from 1973, two things the MN Band could use a lot more of in their halftime shows. The show last Saturday was booooring. Pregame was excellent as always.
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I like good old fashioned MARCHING bands, who don't think they're putting on a Broadway musical.
 

Sports_Realist said:
We hosted Michigan State on Halloween night in 2009. It was a good sized crowd with lots of people in costume. We won too. The next year we hosted Ohio State the night before Halloween and got thrashed in Jeff Horton's first home game as stand in coach. Apart from the visiting Buckeyes fans, there might have been 5,000 people left in the stadium by the end. It was truly a depressing evening. The Big Ten hasn't seen fit to give us an evening home conference game since despite the fact that there's no need to truck in temporary lights and the ones we have actually have the power needed for a network broadcast unlike the dim lighting at some schools. My hope is the revival of the past two seasons will get us a Big Ten night game in 2015. Even if ABC/ESPN don't want to gamble on us, we warrant a BTN game. One issue is that since we play a Thursday nighter on 9/3/15 against TCU, the U of M may prefer the rest of the home games be in the aternoon.

Here is the home conference slate:

10/17/15: Nebraska
10/31/15: Michigan
11/21/15: Illinois
11/28/15: Wisconsin

The latter two are out since the Big Ten won't play at night in November. So it would have to be the Cornhuskers or Wolverines.
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One of my all-time favorite games at TCF.
 

B1G needs to get their act together quick on scheduling. Games should, at the very least, be equally split between 11, 230, and 7 starts. In all cases 11CST starts should be for games actually taking place in EST, preferably between two EST teams.

But by all means, let's get SDSU if that means getting in a better cable tier in SoCal.
 



upnorthkid said:
I disliked it personally because I love the upbeat large-scale band performances where it's about what the band does (feels more like a college atmosphere in my opinion) rather than where you're straining to see 2 people on the far side of the field and are partially obscured by the rest of the band that isn't really having much activity. Seemed more like something you go to see at the orchestra or theater (which I also enjoy) rather than at a college football halftime.
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I've seen a lot of halftime shows over the years. What we had last Sat. has been done in one way or another many times. It is called switching it up. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. Hardly anything to get upset about.
 

Night games are great but the high number of drunk A-holes often ruins things.
 


Stan The Caddy said:
For one, tOSU @ Michigan State is the ABC National game @ 7pm central the week before. I doubt they want tOSU on back-to-back weeks. Secondly, the Big Ten likes to have all of the night games scheduled and booked before the season starts. Could it happen? I guess there is the ever so slight chance, just do not bet on it or even hope for it for that matter.
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The Big Ten's prime time games are set before the season starts with no window for flexing games into that period. Michigan State-Maryland is set for a 7:00 CT kickoff that evening on BTN. That will be the only prime time Big Ten game that day.

As for our 2:30 CT kickoff on ABC possibilities, it's between Ohio State-Gophers and Nebraska-Wisconsin for the spot. The other games are Indiana-Rutgers, Iowa-Illinois, and Temple-Penn State. For other Big Ten teams, Northwestern-Notre Dame is at 2:30 ET on NBC. Michigan and Purdue have byes.
 

upnorthkid said:
all i know is it was some BS with some dancers and me and my fiance looked at each other and asked WTF we were seeing.
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The band was playing Latin themed show with some really awesome music and the dancers were members of the band. That is what you were seeing. If you paid attention to the PA when Halftime is going on, you would have been able to follow along.
 

Gopherdrummer said:
The band was playing Latin themed show with some really awesome music and the dancers were members of the band. That is what you were seeing. If you paid attention to the PA when Halftime is going on, you would have been able to follow along.
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I heard all of it. I couldn't see it from my location. Hence why I was lost. Band sounded great. I'm sure the dancing was great, especially as I know the U is well-known for this. It just was not my cup of tea for the venue. To each their own
 

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