Big East conference games in Nov/Dec next year

[LMS]

According to Jon Rothstein, “The Big East is expected to play early season conference games in November or December when the league goes to 20 games during the 20-21 season.”

Not sure I love the idea of conference games in November.

[GoldenWarrior11]

I would not like conference games in November. December is almost a necessity at this point due to the number of conference games needed to be fit in.

[MUPanther]

Well, the new ACC Network is starting conference games on opening night.

With UConn now in the fold, I'm sure the TV contract will change. The conference games will be mid-week games in November. It's good programing for FS1.

[GampelCrazies]

I might be in the minority but I like the idea of playing conference games in November. I would rather see a conference team to open the season vs. playing a lower D1 team.

[adoraz]

I like this idea. Exciting start to the season with Big East play, tournaments, and at least one of our challenges. Also, other Power conferences are doing it too so no reason to let them get all the attention. Wagner vs UConn can't compete with an ACC conference game. Georgetown vs UConn can. Get fans invested from day 1.

[billyjack]

Late 80's or early 90's, PC would play Boston College just after Thanksgiving. Other BE teams would do this too. Not sure why.
It always seemed kind of random. In the Sports page, the BE standings would often show PC plopped in the basement at 0-1 for a month.

[MarquetteRustler]

I'd be happy to get rid of every buy game in the noncon schedules.