There is no way the scheduling this week creates a fair environment for us on saturday....Aggies play at home last night and sit tight til saturday. We play thursday night then trvl with one day to prepare and they get 2 extra days preparation. THAT IS CRAZY UNFAIR
i don't care how this sounds .....
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You have to play on short rest in the post season. This is good preparation.
Actually that is incorrect. And we have it twice. . Don't mind the quick turnaround, but shouldn't have to travel in between
You maybe right. I haven't looked. But I'm with Dsmith21. It's good preparation for the post season.
The Thursday then road Saturday is what everybody gets a max of one of.
I recall other SEC coaches whining about this with regard to UK. Sounded pathetic then too.
I've never seen a team have to travel between the Thursday/Saturday or Friday/Sunday games before. When did they start that?
This would be twice for us. There are, I think, 4 teams in the SEC that don't have to do it even once.
It's not a huge deal but that aTm game is a big game, I would rather get Auburn or Georgia in that second game.
The OP has a point. Many feel the Tenn loss or that second half might be explained by fatigue after the Kansas game and a short turn-around time. However, playing a lousy Tenn team at home hopefully will result in frequent substitutions and an easy game. If that occurs, then it should not be an issue.
I think it's just an excuse for fans to use if we lose. I think we win and I'm not using that as an excuse if we don't. Auburn beat us with like 3 days rest between games. We're a different team now.
You play every day until you lose in the SEC tourney. Sometimes with less than a 24 hour turnaround.
Just go win the durn games. Wait until you have to play 3 games in 3 days in the SEC tourny. Now, that is not fair
Its not like they are taking a bus to A&M. A 48 hour turn that includes a 2 1/2 hour charter flight is no worse than playing on consecutive days in the SEC tourney.
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Yeah, the travel is the unfair part. Otherwise, it's similar to an NCAA-T weekend, where you play either Thurs-Sat or Fri-Sun.
But the thing that would be a simple fix would be to let the team playing Thursday night have a home game Saturday. That would be much better.
I'm sure the logistical issue is the fact that ESPN likely doesn't pick their games until after the schedule is already out, which would make sense. They want the best match-ups they can get. So, my simple fix likely wouldn't be so simple. The only other thing that might work would be to ask ESPN to choose their Thursday night match-up based on those who have a home game Saturday. They are choosing a Tuesday and Thursday match-up, and sometimes a Wednesday too, so they could just move those around to accommodate the schools.
But the thing that would be a simple fix would be to let the team playing Thursday night have a home game Saturday. That would be much better.
I'm sure the logistical issue is the fact that ESPN likely doesn't pick their games until after the schedule is already out, which would make sense. They want the best match-ups they can get. So, my simple fix likely wouldn't be so simple. The only other thing that might work would be to ask ESPN to choose their Thursday night match-up based on those who have a home game Saturday. They are choosing a Tuesday and Thursday match-up, and sometimes a Wednesday too, so they could just move those around to accommodate the schools.
my biggest grip is the distance...if we UT, jr, mizz, ark...not nearly the travel issues. But if we don't stink against UA, UT and OSu...then it is not a big a deal
It's been going on at least since 2010
"In the three years of the SEC's agreement with ESPN to play Thursday nights, the Cats have done Thursday-Saturday once: beat South Carolina at home and then lost at Tennessee on Feb. 25 and 27, 2010."
And that's at the center of it. If TV weren't involved, then they could just schedule everything on the same night, say Tuesday or Wednesday and move along. Media likes to spread things out. More events to watch means more advertising, means more dollars. It boils down to take the money, take the schedule.
It's just like the tournament: game, one day rest, game. We need it. If we can't do this, we can't win a title anyway.
That being said, if we're up big on Thursday, I'd like to see Ulis get a little rest. He's more than earned it.
That being said, if we're up big on Thursday, I'd like to see Ulis get a little rest. He's more than earned it.
Yeah most games I don't worry about Ulis playing 38 minutes, but we should be able to run up a lead on UT and rest some guys with the quick turnaround.
Why doesn't the SEC just have Sunday games for the teams that play Thursday? We use to have lots of Sunday games, now the SEC schedule has very few, if any.
The simple solution is to give the Thursday teams an extra day and play on Sunday.
That would be a fair fix and improve Sunday afternoon bball. There are only so many ACC Sunday night Georgia Tech vs. Wake Forest yawnfests I can take.
The simple solution is to give the Thursday teams an extra day and play on Sunday.
That would be a fair fix and improve Sunday afternoon bball. There are only so many ACC Sunday night Georgia Tech vs. Wake Forest yawnfests I can take.
Wrong. I have never heard of a team having to travel, for an NCAA tournament game, between the Thursday/Saturday or Friday/Sunday games.
I know the regular season schedule has Thursday/Saturday games but that wasn't what I was referring to.
Again, I'm not upset about playing aTm on Saturday after a Thursday night game but I do think, as others have said, that UK should get a home game on Saturday in tgat scenario.
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I agree with this, especially now that football season is over. There are too many games to watch on Saturday and few decent games on Sunday.
Well you missed my point on two different items.
Sigh.
Look, I never said anything about the SECT, don't know where that ever came from. I was referring to the NCAAT since that was what this was compared to .
It was stated that this was no different than an NCAAT format where you play Thursday and Saturday or Friday and Sunday. Well yes it is…. Sort of.
Secondly, nobody here is concerned with playing on one day of rest. It's the travel part that everyone is talking about.
But again, in what tournament does a team travel between games that are two days apart?
However, I'm not really concerned about it, I'm just stating the (what I thought was) obvious. The travel is the tough part of this and the fact that the Saturday game is a huge one for UK makes it a little more difficult.
