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Post by Yote 53 on May 31, 2024 8:28:42 GMT -6
I can understand not doing a back-to-back game due to wanting to collect two sets of gate fees. Instead do a day-night doubleheader, WBB in the afternoon and MBB in the evening, then alternate that the next home stand. Fans could make the trip to Vermillion for the afternoon game, go out for a few beers and a bite to eat afterwards, and come back for the evening tilt.
It makes way more sense than mirror scheduling and could also reduce travel costs and logistics issues as the itinerary for the MBB and WBB teams could be set up together. Instead of having a team on the road every weekend it would be one large group every other weekend.
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Post by nodak651 on May 31, 2024 11:13:40 GMT -6
Mirror Scheduling also kills the value of the leagues new streaming contract with Midco. Spread the games out to give subscriptions a better value. Sucks when they all start and end at the same time.
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Post by Yotes on Aug 7, 2024 13:52:59 GMT -6
Conference schedule is out. Looks like they ditched mirrored schedules and do have some doubleheaders this year.
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Post by kiyoat on Aug 7, 2024 15:07:07 GMT -6
Conference schedule is out. Looks like they ditched mirrored schedules and do have some doubleheaders this year.
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Post by kiyoat on Aug 7, 2024 15:42:54 GMT -6
I just went through it and didn't see any double-headers. We do have our men's and women's teams both play SDSU on the same Saturday, but the location is split.
No times listed for any of the games yet.
Hopefully they will have the men's and women's teams playing at different times...
Looks like every game will either be on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. No Friday games, no Sunday games, no early-week.
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Post by GoYotes on Aug 7, 2024 15:59:51 GMT -6
I just went through it and didn't see any double-headers. We do have our men's and women's teams both play SDSU on the same Saturday, but the location is split. No times listed for any of the games yet. Hopefully they will have the men's and women's teams playing at different times... Looks like every game will either be on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. No Friday games, no Sunday games, no early-week. The men host UND & the women host Denver on Saturday, March 1.
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Post by GoYotes on Aug 7, 2024 16:13:21 GMT -6
A quick and definitely not very thorough review of the schedules show the following potential double-headers: Jan !8 - SDSU men host ORU & women host UND Jan 25 - NDSU men & women both host UND Feb 1 - ORU men host KC & women host Denver Feb 8 - KC men host UND & women host Omaha Feb 8 - Denver men & women host St Thomas Feb 15 - UND men host ORU & women host NDSU Feb 22 - ORU men host St Thomas & women HOST NDSU Mar 1 - USD men host UND & women host Denver
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Post by Yotes on Aug 7, 2024 17:36:20 GMT -6
I just went through it and didn't see any double-headers. We do have our men's and women's teams both play SDSU on the same Saturday, but the location is split. No times listed for any of the games yet. Hopefully they will have the men's and women's teams playing at different times... Looks like every game will either be on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. No Friday games, no Sunday games, no early-week. Sorry, I didn't look at it very closely, mostly went off the press release from the conference. Looks like there are 5 times where our men and women play a home and away game on the same day (and a couple more where they are both on the road the same day). 2 of these games are back to the old mirror scheduling against state though. Baffling. We ditch the mirror, except for this rivalry where many fans would attend all 4 games if possible. Move some to Sundays. Move them so they aren't on the same week. Do some doubleheaders. Anything besides having them mirror on the same day again!
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Post by kiyoat on Aug 8, 2024 7:09:25 GMT -6
We ditch the mirror, except for this rivalry where many fans would attend all 4 games if possible. Move some to Sundays. Move them so they aren't on the same week. Do some doubleheaders. Anything besides having them mirror on the same day again! Exactly. Depending on the timing between games, I'll guess the number of people trying to travel two hours to go to both games (four hours round-trip) will be small. Summit scheduling is always one step forward, two steps back.
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Post by kiyoat on Aug 8, 2024 7:13:36 GMT -6
A quick and definitely not very thorough review of the schedules show the following potential double-headers: Jan !8 - SDSU men host ORU & women host UND Jan 25 - NDSU men & women both host UND Feb 1 - ORU men host KC & women host Denver Feb 8 - KC men host UND & women host Omaha Feb 8 - Denver men & women host St Thomas Feb 15 - UND men host ORU & women host NDSU Feb 22 - ORU men host St Thomas & women HOST NDSU Mar 1 - USD men host UND & women host Denver I'm going to guess that they are testing the waters with the double-headers. By giving most teams one opportunity to host one, they are maybe seeing if the demand is actually there? So for any fans who like double-headers, maybe circle March 1st on your calendar, to fill up the SCSC.
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