What are they . . . stupid? If it were decided even TWO years ago, do you mean Trump can’t complain now? Just like Laura Ingraham’s “Nazi” salute crap, they just can’t find anything to hang their hat on, can they?
Regardless of when the debate schedule was being set up, it was utterly stoopid to do it without regard to the NFL schedule. Since the NFL schedule is not set until early in the current calendar year (after the SuperBowl), intelligent debate planners would decide to set the debate schedule after they learn the NFL schedule.
Ofc they may consider it demeaning to the lofty world of politics to work the debate schedule around the NFL schedule, but it would make sense.