(02-26-2014 08:34 PM)SeaBlue Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 07:59 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 03:39 PM)NittanyLion Wrote:  Maybe some B1G schools (Maryland? Northwestern?) would consider hosting Friday night games.


But for the vast majority of schools, I think it's a COMPLETE non-starter. There will never be a Friday night game hosted at any of Ohio State, Penn State, or Michigan, that's for sure.

Watch it be their MAC games...

I could see them making these games neutral-site games.

Purdue-IU at Lucas Oil ?
Purdue-Notre Dame at Lucas Oil ?
Northwestern-Illinois at Wrigley ?
Wisconsin-LSU at Lambeau ? (might be a stretch there)

Penn State/Michigan/Ohio State at Rutgers or Maryland ?

I bet they would make them 8-8:30 starts.

I don't believe ND has ever played a non-Saturday regular season game and doubt they would be interested in moving the Purdue game to Friday nights.

(02-26-2014 03:39 PM)NittanyLion Wrote:  Maybe some B1G schools (Maryland? Northwestern?) would consider hosting Friday night games.


But for the vast majority of schools, I think it's a COMPLETE non-starter. There will never be a Friday night game hosted at any of Ohio State, Penn State, or Michigan, that's for sure.

Rutgers has done it in the past without upsetting any of our high school coaches in NJ. Part of this is the fact that I'd guess that a good number of our HS football games are on Saturdays anyway.

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(02-27-2014 08:23 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 08:34 PM)SeaBlue Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 07:59 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 03:39 PM)NittanyLion Wrote:  Maybe some B1G schools (Maryland? Northwestern?) would consider hosting Friday night games.


But for the vast majority of schools, I think it's a COMPLETE non-starter. There will never be a Friday night game hosted at any of Ohio State, Penn State, or Michigan, that's for sure.

Watch it be their MAC games...

I could see them making these games neutral-site games.

Purdue-IU at Lucas Oil ?
Purdue-Notre Dame at Lucas Oil ?
Northwestern-Illinois at Wrigley ?
Wisconsin-LSU at Lambeau ? (might be a stretch there)

Penn State/Michigan/Ohio State at Rutgers or Maryland ?

I bet they would make them 8-8:30 starts.

I don't believe ND has ever played a non-Saturday regular season game and doubt they would be interested in moving the Purdue game to Friday nights.

ND football has played on Thanksgiving, IIRC.

1973? That is the last one I can recall?

(02-27-2014 11:30 AM)TerryD Wrote:  1973? That is the last one I can recall?

Yeah, I remember it from when I was a little kid; that would be the right timeframe.

That 1973 Thanksgiving Day afternoon game was the last non-sellout at ND Stadium (no students, no out of state fans) and I doubt that ND would ever consider doing that again.

(02-26-2014 03:55 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 03:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(02-26-2014 03:12 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  With the NFL and CBS having a prime time game on Thursday night.......Friday night in college football will be the new Thursday night.

Friday night is not that bad if the university playing coordinates with the high schools in that area about moving the games to another day. When Houston played UTEP on a Friday night back in 2005 due to ESPN broadcasting that game, UTEP offered the Sun Bowl at no cost to any HS that wanted to move its Friday night game to Saturday and I believe Thursday night as well. There were multiple games all day on Saturday and a game on Thurs night.

There are simply too many high schools just in the adjacent counties to Clemson for this to be feasible. We would have to host 20+ games on Thursday Night/Saturday to make that happen. That doesn't even begin to count the schools outside the area where our fans are coming from. We pull people from all over SC, NC, GA and beyond and when you draw 82k that's going to have a noticeable effect.

Not to mention the fact the SC High School League and Coaches Association have already gone on record as being vehemently opposed to Clemson playing on a Friday night, home or away. I can just see DRad calling up a Byrnes, Gaffney, T.L. Hanna, D.W. Daniel, or Pendleton and try to smooth that one over. Not going to happen. We might as well cease recruiting in-state because we ain't getting in any coaches offices after pulling that crap.

Each school's needs is different. Obviously what works for UTEP might be a non starter for Clemson which is in a different level. We had about 50k for the Houston game that year so it's not even comparable with the 82k that Clemson has on a regular basis.

El Paso has about 25 high schools. Of those 9 or 10+ games, at least half were played in the Sun Bowl. So in UTEP's case it worked and I'm sure it can work in a lot of places given the fact that it will be just one Friday game per season. The likes of Clemson, Florida State, literally the entire SEC and others like Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State and USC might object to playing on a Friday night. But I can see Maryland, Purdue, Indiana, Iowa, Rutgers, Minnesota, Illinois and probably a heavyweight like Nebraska hosting a Friday night game. From a fan's perspective (unless you have a kid playing HS football) Friday night is better than Thursday night. If you have to go out of town, you just ask for Friday off instead of the two days off. And if the school is nearby, you can work half a day or even work your regular schedule and then go to the game.

I remember when ESPN started Thursday night games and everybody thought it was a bad idea and how it was going to kill tailgating, etc. Now it's standard and the big schools play on that night. It became so popular that now the NFL is playing on Thursday nights. I expect the same to happen with Friday nights. The fans will slowly accept it as standard in a few years.

I think weekday games in general work better for schools in medium-large sized cities. Cincinnati, El Paso, Syracuse, Minneapolis, etc. But it won't work for schools in college towns like Purdue, Clemson, Illinois, Penn State, etc. The majority of the fanbase is too far away to make a weeknight game feasible.

Except for the opening weekend, the P-5 schools to host weeknight games last year were Arizona State, BC, Texas Tech, NC State, Baylor, Stanford, Georgia Tech, Utah, Iowa State, USC, Oregon State, UNC, WSU, Miss St, and Clemson. That's 15 games, 9 of which were in metros with over 1 million people.

I think it's actually more likely to see Ohio State host a Friday night game than Indiana or Iowa.

Jim Delany: "Don't listen to what I said on Tuesday! Today is Thursday! Of course we're not going to play Friday night football games in the Big Ten! Where did you ever get that idea?"

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ight-games

Quote:Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Thursday that the league is not looking to schedule more Friday football games, except on Thanksgiving and Labor Day weekends.

"Beyond that, I don't think while I'm around here you're going to see Friday night games," he said. "Down the road? Who knows?"

(02-28-2014 12:05 AM)Wedge Wrote:  Jim Delany: "Don't listen to what I said on Tuesday! Today is Thursday! Of course we're not going to play Friday night football games in the Big Ten! Where did you ever get that idea?"

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ight-games

Quote:Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Thursday that the league is not looking to schedule more Friday football games, except on Thanksgiving and Labor Day weekends.

"Beyond that, I don't think while I'm around here you're going to see Friday night games," he said. "Down the road? Who knows?"

Once again...I tried to tell folks. It's not really about what is being said but more about what is trying to be done with what is being said.

The only thing I am curious about is if the stunt was successful or not.