Where is the 2025 schedule

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Every year the schedule is out before Christmas. I always print it and give it to my daughter with her season tickets. Why is it so late this year?

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I know, it’s frustrating.

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TSN people reported on twitter that the reason the schedule is not out yet is because it has not been finalized yet.

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Q. Why is the schedule not out?

A. Is Randy still commissioner?

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temp until a new one is hired

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I don’t see the what the holdup can be.

Go back 24 weeks from the Grey Cup (November 16th) and you have some idea when the season will start.

Unless there is an unusual number of other bookings taken up by other events I don’t see difficulty requesting 10 dates for each team.

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Making any schedule is extremely difficult at the best of times and it was recently reported that that there are an unusual number of conflicting requests holding up finalization of next year’s schedule. Literally hundreds of schedules are prepared. It’s the farthest thing from easy you can imagine, even in only a 9 team league.

The article below is 4 years old but I have linked it more than once. It gives an insight into the schedule making process.

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The NFL schedule is even more complex with Thursday, Sunday and Monday being used week after week.

Trying to find competitive balance is more challenging than we realize.

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I wouldn’t even try to have competitive balance. Give Calgary, Edmonton & Hamilton a cupcake schedule and increase the challenges for the rest of the league. Obviously I’m including the Lions with that statement.

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The NFL schedule is heavily weighted to games on Sunday. In most weeks, there are two non-Sunday games (out of 14 to 16 games in total). And the NFL of course allows multiple games to be played not only on the same day but at the same time as each other. A range of factors affect schedule-making in the NFL, as in any sport, but to suggest the NFL is more complicated seems a bit overstated.

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It may be very difficult to make a schedule for a 9-team league with a 5-team division and a 4-team division, but that’s the way it’s been for 65 years or so. And they’ve never got it anywhere close to right. No matter what the schedule ends up being, sometime over the course of the year, the Argos will have 3 games in 13 days at some point.

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What is most perplexing is the fact most CFL stadiums are single use facilities.
For instance, in Winnipeg, the stadium rarely has rock concerts anymore and these are planned at least a year, if not two in advance. The Bisons trot out their same old/same old story for 500 to 1200 fans so barely worth opening the concessions on those 4 home games.
Much the same I would think in other CFL markets, especially Regina. Commonwealth used to host the odd big league track meet before falling on death row. Don’t know how many other major activities booked for places like Tim Horton Field and Frank Clair in Ottawa but its gotta be super low.
Bombers now have to play footsie with the Winnipeg Jets on some weekends so they don’t have direct conflicts. Same in Edmonton & Calgary but the overflow of fans from one to the other prolly pretty low. Edmonton was barely putting 20,000 in their place for most of 2024, Calgary wasn’t much better.

Auto shows, rodeos, big box rock concerts don’t really like what a typical CFL stadium has to offer. Toronto, of course has lots of stadiums, arenas, etc. for just about any sized event.

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It looks like the CFL fails this year as a total failure:

  1. Failed to have 2025 CFL Schedule out to help an Outstanding Owner in BC sell Season Tickets with real games with real dates during a Grey Cup Week!
  2. Failed to have the 2025 CFL Schedule out to help Fans especially in Western Canada buy the Lowest Cost Flights of the next year during Black Friday Sales, so Fans can go to away games!
  3. In a tougher economy failed to have the 2025 CFL Schedule out to help all CFL Teams sell Tickets at Christmas Time as maybe a Canadian family’s “ONLY PURCHASE” outside of absolute essentials!!!

This Kamikaze Commissioner is hurting the CFL as this failure slowly inches towards the Exit Door!

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The Dandyman (Randy) just hanging on to the commissioner title to milk the final salary vestiges from his employer and maximize his pension plan. Other than getting an appointment to the Canadian senate ($155k + travel) there’s really no employment opportunities available for an abject executive failure like Randy A. Maybe entering Hunky Bill’s look-a-like contest?

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Wonder if the commish is going down with the ship like the Titanic (slow and painful) or will he bail before it’s too late.

Normally if he’s still in charge the schedule will be out by now.

But now it’s a wait and see :see_no_evil: approach.

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I’d milk it for all that it’s worth.

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Even the CFL is divided on him continuing after he chose not to run.

Lame duck commissioner indeed.

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Yeah but you can’t get more money for doing nothing :rofl:

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I’m sure that the unbalanced odd number of teams creates a LOT more headaches than most of us realize. I recall that when everyone played eighteen games over twenty weeks there was always one or more weeks when one team had to play two games in the same week! I Believe that was one reason the League went to a twentONE week schedule.

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