The Saturday thing really screws up the "other student" side of things. Last Saturday wasn't too bad but there were a lot of absences in the band and drill teams as well as regular student populations I assume (it was a small student group there for sure). Now you figure a lot of that was Thanksgiving conflicts, but I know some was Saturday related.
This Saturday is the regional band tryouts and something like 70 members of the band (and the more senior and/or talented ones) will be in Waco for those tryouts. That along with a few other conflicts will cut the band probably in half. Similar challenges with drill team, cheerleaders and likely some fans. Most would likely be able to attend a Friday night game.
The following Saturday is Freshman region band tryouts and so forth, most of which would not be affected Friday night.
So a Saturday game after the first one or two really cuts into some of the support groups and fans that can attend on Saturday versus a Friday night game. Seems like it would dampen the atmosphere the team was used to all year.
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