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Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 3:19 PM
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I know a lot of people are not thrilled with the prospect of a Friday night game this season, but I talked to one person who deals with the television portion of the ACC and they told me that Friday night games are not only not going away, they will eventually replace Thursday night games.
Here is what I was told: When ESPN first came out with the Thursday games, they were the only thing on TV and were a great lead-in to the football weekend. There were always some really good matchups and the ratings were good. Then the NFL came along and saw the gold mine that was Thursday and now there is a 7-1 ratio of people watching NFL vs the college game on Thursdays. The truth is that ESPN is losing money now and it's because the NFL has taken over the market. So they came up with Friday games, and they get good ratings.
So the thought is more Friday games will appear on the schedule and the ACC will be part of that. I've even heard that one of our closest rivals will have a Friday night home game at some point in the next few years.
It's all about money.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 3:23 PM
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closest rivals as in GT, FSU, NC state, or USuCk. I'm assuming one of the first 3 because you mentioned ACC.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 3:27 PM
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Yep..I was told an ACC school we play every year. That's all I know.
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FSU already has a Friday home game this year***
Jan 28, 2016, 3:45 PM
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umm- did you you hear that from the 2016 football schedule
Jan 28, 2016, 3:46 PM
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announcement?? because our biggest ACC rival(FSU) is hosting BC this year on Friday night.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 3:25 PM
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Also as a high school football coach this royally sucks even worse than Thursday. At least you could catch most of the second half on Thursday after JV games but now I'll miss the whole thing due to Varsity being the exact same time.
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One of our closest rivals has one this year
Jan 28, 2016, 3:28 PM
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FSU is hosting BC on a Friday - November 11th.
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Right which i took to mean SCAR. Funny that all that SEC $$
Jan 28, 2016, 3:33 PM
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and their own network and they still want more greed $$. SCAR is one of the bottom dwellers in the SEC so this makes sense (but not cents).
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 3:33 PM
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to my knowledge Clemson has never hosted a Thursday night game? '
this could mean we may never host a Friday night game?
I hope we don't anyways.
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2013 GT.***
Jan 28, 2016, 3:39 PM
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the Thur games screw up our academic schedule so badly
Jan 28, 2016, 3:44 PM
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that we have solid reasons to keep them away from Clemson. Since our whole town/campus is overtaken by traffic and tailgaters, it causes major headaches.
Schools in larger cities don't have these issues.
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You serious Clark?
Jan 28, 2016, 4:10 PM
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2002 NC State ring any bells? or have you blacked it out? If so, I envy you.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 8:04 PM
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I know Clemson has hosted Georgia Tech several times and N.C. State once on Thursday night.
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one of our biggest rivals has one this year...
Jan 28, 2016, 3:41 PM
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either the ACC made a deal with FSU, or FSU caved to the ACC...
I can't see them willingly doing that
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if all acc teams will participate, the only choice that
Jan 28, 2016, 3:46 PM
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remains is home or away?
i know clemson for numerous reasons[school closing] chooses to travel, maybe fsu chose to host?
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i know... it just seems odd to me that they would
Jan 28, 2016, 3:55 PM
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prefer that... I'm sure they have their reasons, but I would think they would be similar to Clemson in the Friday night/importance of high school football arena...
If what Jimbo was saying is true {about FSU not wanting to host them}... it just makes me wonder if the ACC pulled rank on their preference
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why? the lesser of the two evils in their mind?
Jan 28, 2016, 3:59 PM
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and drad has already said no to a home one, so if enough say yes it seems a none issue.
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good point.. will be interesting to see the evolution
Jan 28, 2016, 4:01 PM
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of this for sure
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yeah, it's amazing what we'll buy into eventhough it might
Jan 28, 2016, 4:04 PM
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not sit quite right.
we have only ourselves to blame for what it's become.
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Re: yeah, it's amazing what we'll buy into eventhough it might
Jan 28, 2016, 8:09 PM
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Dvr'ing a game counts towards ratings btw. I personally think it a good idea, college football thur-sat. What's the issue?
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i don't, i believe cfb belongs on saturday; hs football on
Jan 28, 2016, 9:44 PM
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fridays and in some places thursdays?
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I'm still trying to figure out what dvr'ing a game
Jan 28, 2016, 10:11 PM
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has to do with anything
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idk, a good bit of the nation supporting hs football while
Jan 28, 2016, 10:26 PM
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dvr'ing the friday night college football game they could have watched live on any given saturday?
perfect...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-iPiN_YHjY
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maybe the powers that be are counting on everyone
Jan 28, 2016, 10:38 PM
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dvr'ing the game while attending HS games. It's a fool proof plan to keep the ratings and the common man happy.
probably decided by the playoff committee
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yes, thought that's what i was implying that lostlocal
Jan 28, 2016, 10:46 PM
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might be implying...
go footballs.
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Boycott Friday games
Jan 28, 2016, 3:44 PM
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Attend your local high school's games instead. DVR/record the game and watch it the next day and skip all of the commercials.
If enough of the viewing audience does this it will have a significant impact.
Fridays are for high school football and that should be preserved.
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Re: Boycott Friday games
Jan 28, 2016, 10:53 PM
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My response about dvr was to this post, you can't boycott and dvr record, it still shows your household in the rating numbers for viewing/recording it which will then equal advertising dollars which is why this is happening in the first place.
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DVR doesn't get reported until you watch
Jan 29, 2016, 9:50 AM
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there are several types of ratings: overnight ratings and then ratings taken several days later.
DVR recording would severely damage the overnight ratings, which are considered the most valuable because they are mostly live views in which the commercials weren't skipped. Later ratings are considered less important because people fast forward through the ads.
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Re: DVR doesn't get reported until you watch
Jan 29, 2016, 10:04 AM
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Overnight ratings are the least important these days, the several days later dvr ratings are what matters now due to Internet Hulu, other streaming sources; movement started with TiVo. The sponsors for the games with ads during the games(scoreboard, brought to you by, etc) are becoming more valuable because no one watches commercials anymore, 10 more years there won't be live tv commercials.
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I think you are inflating the importance of high school football
Jan 28, 2016, 11:43 PM
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I understand that it has always been a Friday night game, but most people who attend high school games are high school students and parents of the players/band members. Yes, I realize that there are others who attend because they enjoy it, but these make up a very small percentage.
I realize that some like to think of high school football as this incredible gathering on Feiday night when the small town shuts down to cheer for their beloved team, but I just don't think that is the case anymore unless you live in Texas or small town USA. Those days are gone.
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You and I must be from very different places
Jan 29, 2016, 5:54 PM
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in the town I'm from all of the stores close down early on Friday nights so the employees can get to the stadium and people convoy behind the team buses to go to away games.
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We should play that rival on Fri. after Turkey Day & prefer
Jan 28, 2016, 3:44 PM
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the afternoon.
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is there any chance
Jan 28, 2016, 3:56 PM
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it could be a day game so kids won't have to stay up late? I know some are concerned with this!
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David: Do you think Clemson will still protect our
Jan 28, 2016, 4:48 PM
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home games for Saturdays? Because many Clemson fans work M-F and are spread across the South--and because of our great tailgaiting tradition (which isn't the same with classes going on) this seems like a no-brainer. We are different. We are Clemson. Saturday home games are our "sacred" days in the fall.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 4:48 PM
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It gets down to if you want to support your local area HS team or your college team. Especially tough if your kid plays or cheers for it.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 4:59 PM
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THAT IS A NO BRAINER. IF MY KID IS PLAYING I AM THERE. HELL I EVEN GO WATCH MY SON COACH. LOL
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 8:21 PM
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I have another reason to hate the NFL now.
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ESPiN doesn't control the NFL broadcasting?
Jan 28, 2016, 5:01 PM
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Mickey Mouse just went cardiac.
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As far as one of our rivals playing on a Friday in the near future
Jan 28, 2016, 7:47 PM
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I hear SC will have a Friday night game in the very near future. Might as well get used to it, it's here now and it's not going away
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In 2015 SoCal, Stanford, FSU, Va. Tech, Utah, BC, AZ
Jan 28, 2016, 8:33 PM
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State, Miami, Utah, and Louisville all played Friday night games. ACC and Pac-12 with some pretty elite programs / pedigrees doing this already.
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Re: In 2015 SoCal, Stanford, FSU, Va. Tech, Utah, BC, AZ
Jan 28, 2016, 10:12 PM
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I don't remember watching more than one or two of those
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 10:05 PM
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If Clemson's playing, come #### or high water, I'm watching. No mater the day of the week.
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Re: Friday night game/nugget
Jan 28, 2016, 10:13 PM
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That's what ESPN is counting on.
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ESPN making money is the most important thing about
Jan 28, 2016, 10:54 PM
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College football. That should be our goal.
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Friday is definitely the lesser of two evils and if the ACC
Jan 28, 2016, 11:16 PM
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insists on scheduling games on short weeks, Friday is certainly a better option
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