The brewing discourse between Brett Yormark and Cody Campbell received an input from Bob Thompson, the former president of the Fox Sports Network, in a quoted post from X on Friday.
Thompson argues that Campbell’s previous comments around raising revenue earned by college football media by pooling media rights and scheduling games on a variety of days other than Saturday.
It’s a valid point, and Thompson voiced it publicly online:
Campbell’s recent statements clarify that the rescheduling of Texas Tech‘s home football contest with Houston from Saturday to Friday contradicts both high school football and the ability to draw proper alumni numbers to Lubbock with it being a workday versus a weekend.
The College Football Schedule Debate
The first point – protecting high school football – is the moral high ground here but let’s not act like these television folks have disrupted that flow before. They’ve scheduled college football on Fridays for years now and have even dipped into earlier weekdays in an effort to capture more audiences with weeknight football. The NFL does it, so why not capitalize on the college crowd?
Thompson actually responded to one such criticism over disrupting the “sacred” day of high school football in Texas.
Thursday is a compromise, sure, but the issue remains that students and their adjacent families are being deprived of a Saturday game day just because the league would rather test the weeknight waters with an in-state rivalry purely for ratings.
And so the story rages on. Campbell’s comments on Friday seemingly look to taper tensions and bring some cooler waters to the matter but it only takes another fiery comment to serve as the next match.
