Here's what our home SEC schedule looked like:

Texas A&M, Tuesday, 8PM
Kentucky, Saturday, 3PM
Auburn, Saturday, 7:30PM
Florida, Tuesday, 8PM
Missouri, Tuesday, 8PM
Vandy, Saturday, 7PM
Georgia, Saturday, 7PM
USC, Tuesday, 6PM
Ole Miss, Tuesday, 6PM

Montgomery is at least a 2 hour drive away. The only game I would have really been able to get to is Kentucky. All mid-week games are out of the question unless I want to leave work at least 1.5 hours early. Those 8PM start times I'm getting home after midnight. All the Saturday games, I'm getting home at 11PM at the very earliest. I would have gone to all of the home games on Saturday if they started between 11AM-5PM.

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Posted by FairhopeTider

Fairhope, Alabama

Member since May 2012

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Posted on 3/15/15 at 11:37 am to pvilleguru

This whole argument is why I think we need to play a few of those December games and midweek SEC games in Birmingham. It's a great way to market the program and you'll probably get a better crowd for there than you would for an 8pm tipoff.

I loved going to Coleman from Birmingham for those midweeks games but 6pm is tough to make and depending on the week, that 8pm tipoff becomes less and less attractive as I get older. Of course I'd be more inclined to go if our program was relevant & contending for something other than the occasional trip to the NCAAT.

This post was edited on 3/15/15 at 11:39 am

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