Originally Posted by
War Machine Dawg
This. We're a doormat for the blue bloods. Night games will be a rare event for us in the super conference era. Unless we luck into a few billionaire alumni willing to go all in on football and bankroll us being competitive, we'll be stuck with mostly day games moving forward. We don't have the cache or draw the ratings of the big boys. It's also why our fans who bitched and moaned about the Battle for the Golden Egg being on Thanksgiving night until the school moved it were short-sighted idiots. It was a guaranteed night game in prime time, the only one we had. It was never going back to Saturdays. So now we're stuck with an 11 AM or 3 PM game on Black Friday pretty much forever, which is objectively worse than Thanksgiving night for basically everyone but teachers and retirees.
When conferences decided to cede their scheduling power to the TV networks, this was always the inevitable and foreseeable result for programs like us. KY, Vandy, SCar, Arkansas, etc will be in the same boat with us. While we needed to invest in the upgraded LED lights for DWS, it was always a bad investment. They'll barely be used.