All: here is the e-mail I sent to my acquaintance on the Ice Hockey committee. > [ name dwleted ]: > This represents a survey of about 25 people at most. > > My message was..... > yesterday, between the 2nd and 3rd periods, i went up to the > NCAA committee suite. Anyhow, a member of the committee (not > my neighbor, coach serratore) asked me about whether hockey-l > folk would like a change to a saturday/monday format. I > promised him that i would get some opinions. This e-mail is a > request for some brief opinions (to me directly) on this > issue. I'll sumarize and send you a copy of the e-mail. > Opinions, as always, carry more weight when justified. > > change to saturday monday 4 > do not change 11 > change to friday sunday 5 > indifferent 2 > > reasons given > sat-mon reduces conflict between tv and work > sat-mon makes dead day sunday. if attending, less things to do than on friday > sat-mon has players missing moday classes when schedule is already > dovetaiuled to missing thursday-friday classes > fri-sun less awful in screwing up work week > tv revenue might be better on sat-mon > do not change, we are not roundball > i'd rather watch final live than semi-finals > little to gain from change other than tuesday travel may be cheaper > if within driving distance, i can work friday and still attend > do friday sunday day before mens hoops > easier to get off later in the week > sunday "tourist day" a bad idea > > my observations > if one is flying, one most likely misses 3 days of work > wed-fri, thu-fri-mon, or fri-mon-tue > > having sunday as tourist day not nearly as good as friday > (don't have to compete with locals for attractions, more > attractions open, etc) > > there may be marginallly better air fare if a change is made > > i know nothing about impact on TV revenues > > the layoff between regionals and finals is long now. changing > days either increases the layoff or (if you go 5 days earlier) > decreases it to the point where the teams at the fri-sat > regionals have an advantage over the sat-sun regionals > > despite the suggestion of one of my colleagues, a dovetail > with hoops will not work unless we displace women's hoops as > women's hoops now occupies the friday-sunday (or > sunday-tuesday) around the men's hoops. > > the venue is sold out anyway, so the motivation can't be to > bring more fans in. /"\ ASCII Ribbon | charlie shub \ / Campaign Against | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs X HTML in e-mail | [log in to unmask] (719) 262-3492 / \ and news | http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash (fax) 262-3369