I believe this is very detrimental to our schedule.  Why in the world are we playing FIVE home games on Sunday?...to my knowledge, no road games are played on Sunday.

Ridiculous!

Interestingly, all but one is during the non-conference schedule, and the one MAC game is the very first one, so they all occur in the first half of the season.

I'm sure I'm in a minority, but I am much more likely to be able to attend a Sunday game. I wonder what attendance numbers are like for Sunday games? I know when I went to the Ohio game at Akron last year, it was pretty packed.

I also wonder if the thinking is that since fewer teams are playing, there is more attention on that game. Then again, all of these are while professional football is still going on.

It could just be based on travel arrangements for the visiting team.

Yeah, I'm definitely open to someone explaining to me why we are playing these Sunday games...

Guess I have a personal ax to grind on this because I'm busy with church activities on Sunday and it's something of a personal inconvenience to arrange my schedule to attend the games.  But I understand the game scheduling can't be done to accomodate a few peoples' personal schedules.

I also don't think the Sunday games fit the culture of OU and Athens as far as encouraging attendance.   

Church, Homework, and Hangovers are 3 reasons why Sundays are bad.

Not good for student attendance, either.

As I recall from days long, long ago, Sundays were reserved for two things - physical/psychic recovery from Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and tutoring Bobcat Squared so he could (finally) pass the J-school grammar test.

Don't forget about your avatar...the NFL.  We play Miami the Sunday of the first round of the playoffs.  Correct?  Part of me is okay with the Bengals not making the playoffs in that case....I doubt we will see the rivalry atmosphere that we are accustomed to in the Convo on Jan 9.

Bobcat Love trying to tell someone not to complain?  Good grief.

I will have zero success getting out of town fellow alums to attend Sunday games.  Just doesn't work.  The guys from Cinci, Columbus, and Pittsburgh just aren't going to visit for a Sunday game.

Hey, I appreciate what the coaching staff and athletic dept have done to schedule 20 home games this season...an awesome accomplishment.  It's absolutely unusual for a midmajor to get that kind of schedule. 

My comments on Sunday have nothing to do with that at all. 

She's done stuff in the past with them (OHSAA basketball tournaments, etc.), and has been doing sideline for STO for the season.  I believe she'll be at the rest of STO's football games, as well.

Ohio69 is right on.  If the University wants to increase alumni visits to basketball games Sunday should NOT be in anybody's thought process.  Some people in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pitt, etc. actually still go to church on Sunday morning and will not make the trek to Athens for a game.  Throw in the student culture and i think you have a recipe for disaster attendance wise.  I much prefer Saturday afternoon or even evening games.  Heck, it's more fun and easier to take an hour or two off and get to a weeknite game than Sunday.

I'd love to hear the thought process on this one...I don't think any of these games are "National" TV games, so , why! 

I disagree, Love.  The question we should be asking ourselves is how to best maximize fan interest and attendance.  While I agree that more home games are better than fewer home games, and that weekend games are generally better than weeknight games, that does not mean that Saturday and Sunday games are both equally desirable.  There are a number of reasons why Saturday games are preferable, many of which have been stated in this thread. 

Of course there are sometimes valid reasons for scheduling games on Sundays.  In the case of some of the non-conference games, we may have needed to schedule the games on Sunday in order to accommodate the visiting team's schedule.  However, whenever we are given the choice, we should almost always schedule a game on Saturday rather than Sunday.

20 home games is great, no doubt.  But just because we have scheduled 20 home games does not necessarily mean that we have scheduled each of those games in a way that will maximize their benefit.  And as long as we are striving to expand our fan base, that is an issue that we should be open for discussion.

I'm so confused...

When it works for some people's arguments, we are the sisters of the poor when it comes to scheduling so we need to take any scraps thrown our way.

although...

When it works for other people's arguments, we should be re-scheduling our 20 home games to make sure it fits in with everyone's schedules and to maximize attendance. If Oakland and Valpo don't like it than they can go play someone else.

I'm on record, Groce, Fuss, and Co did a great job scheduling this year. 20 Home Games that I think will greatly help our RPI (some of the Non-Con opponents are going to surprise you people)...+ Kansas and Temple. It's your choice whether to attend or not, but they put a really nice schedule out there for you.

And also, I didn't want to be the first one to make the argument but the Recovering Journalist is 100% spot on...the games start at 2pm. You can easily have your church service and make it down to Athens from most points in Ohio. This Church argument holds no weight and even if it did...there is still separation of church and state in this country, no?...so does a public institution really need to schedule around some people's day of worship?

Other people's day of worship is Saturday until sundown. You don't hear them complaining about Saturday football games at 2pm. I'm sure there is some religion out there that forbids it's congregants from watching bad MAC football on Tuesdays...haven't heard a peep.

Save me the "majority rules" blah blah blah....point is, the church argument is not relevant.

OHIO69 you couldn't be anymore wrong in my case. I have season tickets for both the Steelers and Bobcats and you'll find me in Athens in the Convo at every Sunday game. Making it to the weeknight games in Athens is far tougher for me, it's that work thing that keeps interfering for some reason.