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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
For me to attend a weeknight game at Clemson it means my wife and I miss two days of work and the kids miss two days of school or like the past few years I have to find someone to take care of my kids until I get home somewhere around 4 AM Friday morning since they either have games or practice for their school ball.

Probably 60-70% of Clemson's fanbase travels 3+ hours to get to Clemson for a game and is in the same boat. That's why Clemson had 75k for our biggest conference rival on a Thursday and 81k the next week on a Saturday for The Citadel. We don't want Thursday night games because of the inconvenience it causes our fans and our school, and the only reason we had one last year was because GD ACC and ESPN forced us to do it.
02-26-2014 05:52 PM
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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
I think it works for the G conferences like C-USA and the MAC. They get to highlight a game that would probably never make the weekend slots.
02-26-2014 06:05 PM
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(02-26-2014 03:45 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I love watching weeknight games on TV. But they are a major PITA for ticket holders. MAC stands always look empty for Tues/Wed games. A better solution for ESPN would be to film all the lessor conferences games on Saturday. That way their fans get to have the true college football experience. Then show the best games on tape delay on week nights as those conferences' games of the week.

That all being said. Friday night is not a week night. It is the weekend. At least up here in NJ Friday night is not reserved for high school games. There are plenty of schools that don't even have lights on their fields, so they play old school on Saturday afternoon. This has always clashed with RU games. We could and should schedule one home game on Friday night every year. The TV audience would be bigger and more local recruits would be able to come.

I wondered whether that was still true in New Jersey. In my day, no high school had lights. The public schools in NY and NJ played on Saturday, and the Catholic schools played on Sunday. Of course, there was no conflict then between high schools and colleges because there weren't any major colleges playing football in New Jersey anyway.
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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
(02-26-2014 05:22 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  Why is it that NFL fans going to Monday Night Football don't have a problem with this?

How many NFL ticket buyers are traveling 100 miles or more to the game? I'd guess it's a lower percentage than for most P5 teams.
02-26-2014 06:20 PM
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(02-26-2014 06:20 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 05:22 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  Why is it that NFL fans going to Monday Night Football don't have a problem with this?

How many NFL ticket buyers are traveling 100 miles or more to the game? I'd guess it's a lower percentage than for most P5 teams.

It is a larger percentage than you think. the point being, it is not like Saturday games when you find out 12 days ahead. You find out 7 months ahead of time, or more (which is a lot more than NFL teams btw). There is plenty of time to make plans. No different than people who make plans to go to road games. Like people who go to bowl games. If we were talking about every week, I'd get you. But that is not that case. I've gone to weekday games at home, obviously, and on the road , one which was 100 miles a way and akin to driving a couple of hours to go to a home game. It is not that big of a deal unless you want to make it one (which some people prefer to do).


And please excuse Kaplony, he complains about anything ACC as a vendetta against Clemson 05-stirthepot)

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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
I'll go on record as being in favor of weeknight games. Some teams get way too much exposure on the weekend, and others don't get nearly enough. To me, playing on weeknights is kind of a compromise between the two. However, there's going to be a perceived stigma against weeknight games until you have all of the big names (Alabama, Texas, Notre Dame, even my UGa Dawgs) playing on weeknights as well as teams like Southern Miss and East Carolina, and until conference schedulers can figure out how to schedule weeknight games so that the transition from weekend to weeknight to back to weekend isn't rough on the league's teams.

(02-26-2014 03:45 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I love watching weeknight games on TV. But they are a major PITA for ticket holders. MAC stands always look empty for Tues/Wed games. A better solution for ESPN would be to film all the lessor conferences games on Saturday. That way their fans get to have the true college football experience. Then show the best games on tape delay on week nights as those conferences' games of the week.
Even better solution, or even a compromise requiring all schools just to play a maximum of two weekday games, and have ESPN, CBS, Fox, etc. show film from the G5 conference games that they didn't really want to show on the weekend on the weekday.
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(02-26-2014 05:43 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 05:34 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 05:29 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  As a fan, weeknight home games suck and I'm lucky enough to be flexible at work and take off and go, many aren't that lucky. The other issue for home games is traffic.

If you wait til the week of the game to try to arrange to leave early, yeah I can see the problems. But people have no problem arranging bowl plans to miss several days to go to games, with 2-3 weeks notice. I simply cannot fathom how a single day off, maybe two for a Thursday game, with 6-8 months notice, can be a big deal for someone who regularly travels long distances to games. And if you live in the town the game is on, we are not even talking days off. We are talking leaving an hour or two early. It's just not that hard to arrange.

People who work in factories and many retail and service jobs don't have the flexibility.

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(Good evening Sir, I would like to request Thursday off for this weeks NIU vs EMU game)

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(02-26-2014 05:34 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 05:29 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  As a fan, weeknight home games suck and I'm lucky enough to be flexible at work and take off and go, many aren't that lucky. The other issue for home games is traffic.

If you wait til the week of the game to try to arrange to leave early, yeah I can see the problems. But people have no problem arranging bowl plans to miss several days to go to games, with 2-3 weeks notice. I simply cannot fathom how a single day off, maybe two for a Thursday game, with 6-8 months notice, can be a big deal for someone who regularly travels long distances to games. And if you live in the town the game is on, we are not even talking days off. We are talking leaving an hour or two early. It's just not that hard to arrange.

When NIU is playing the schedule that Louisville is, it's easier. How many will make plans to take hours off of work to go see NIU play EMU on Black Friday? We don't have the fanbase built up and our extremely crappy home schedule over the past 10 freaking years doesn't help. Sorry, had to rant.
02-27-2014 12:38 AM
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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
For other teams, yes. It's fun to watch them. My team? If they're away, sure. Home? heck no.

Many ECU fans come from between 2-4 hours away, some more...so that really hurts. ECU has such an expansive tailgating atmosphere, it really sucks to see that ruined for a weeknight game.

Of course, on the flip side you can get about 3,000 (to make 15k)more students than normal. The student tailgating is crazy for weeknight games.
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(02-26-2014 12:05 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  The debate over the B1G Ten's idea of playing some games on Friday nights got me thinking about this question. Do you like weeknight games, or hate them completely, feeling that attending a weeknight game will somehow deny you a spot in heaven?

As long as they are confined to Thursday ( the college football equivalent of MNF) and Friday I think it is fine. Its the Tuesday and Wednesday games, especially for travelling teams, that I think is bad for student athletes.
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RE: Do you like weeknight games?
I hate them, don't want ND playing in them and rarely watch them.
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(02-27-2014 01:06 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 12:05 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  The debate over the B1G Ten's idea of playing some games on Friday nights got me thinking about this question. Do you like weeknight games, or hate them completely, feeling that attending a weeknight game will somehow deny you a spot in heaven?

As long as they are confined to Thursday ( the college football equivalent of MNF) and Friday I think it is fine. Its the Tuesday and Wednesday games, especially for travelling teams, that I think is bad for student athletes.

Thursday night games are just as disruptive to student athletes as Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday's are least disruptive, then Friday's.
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(02-27-2014 01:06 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  
(02-26-2014 12:05 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  The debate over the B1G Ten's idea of playing some games on Friday nights got me thinking about this question. Do you like weeknight games, or hate them completely, feeling that attending a weeknight game will somehow deny you a spot in heaven?

As long as they are confined to Thursday ( the college football equivalent of MNF) and Friday I think it is fine. Its the Tuesday and Wednesday games, especially for travelling teams, that I think is bad for student athletes.

But the MAC does them and they are basically a bus league. They all get home pretty quick.
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