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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane Leg for the history lesson. I did not know that.
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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane I wonder if that was one of the three and Wikipedia is outdated.
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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane And I was thinking...
In addition, I think there will be a desperation element in play. If Trey, JCC and McMillian set the world on fire it'll be a lot easier to give Shai and Juice an extended recovery. If we struggle like we did early this season, Lefty will probably rush them back sooner than advisable in hopes of jump starting the run game.
I'd like to get two legs from Jennifer Lawrence. I'd wear one over each shoulder.
Dude... I'm giving Joe some grief over his pro-Thursday, anti-Friday stance too, but it sounds like you're taking this all in good fun offseason debate pretty seriously. I agree with you that there's a lot of positives playing on a Friday vs a Thursday for people who travel to attend the game, but there are also some drawbacks in other areas.
I rember when we first started playing Thursday games, I had a lot of the same conversations on campus that people are having here. So I'm not surprised by the reaction to a Friday game. In Joe's mind, Friday games = Pottery Barn. I don't agree with the opinion, but I understand it.
Plus, Joe is a salf-admitted asshole. It's why I love this place so much. His self-censor has been drowned by bourbon.
This is the one area I think the anti-Friday crowd has a valid point. I don't like competing with the high school level, for the same reason I didn't like it when the NFL started playing on Thursdays. The higher level is gonna win, to the detriment of the lower level.
As for the recruiting aspect, in this day and age if something memorable happens at a Friday game, recruits will see it on Vine, YouTube, WatchESPN or even on a goof old fashioned television set. Not being able to have official visits straight sucks, but there are five other games to host recruits.
Ideally, like I said somewhere else, I'd like to see Friday games happen only in November, when a lot of high school football is either over or playing playoff games on Saturday. (And maybe on Labor Day weekend.) But as long as Whit is right and we're able to rotate out of Friday games for a while and make them an occasional occurrence, I think we can use the national exposure and lack of competition for ratings by other football games in exactly the same way we originally used Thursday games once upon a time.
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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane Weaver would have been beloved in the B1G. He had their mindset in spades.
Didn't Frank Beamer come to VT with a bunch of insane passing numbers as a record holding high school quarterback? He got moved to DB after one day of practice.
Those fucks at the league office.
Nice catch!
Do you believe the sellout streak would have ended had the ten win streak not? Correlation does not imply causation, but it's awful damn suspicious that our attendance dipped simultaneously with the number in the wins column.
2004, 2010, 2011 and 2015. We're 3-0 when playing them after a bye week.
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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane What's even more surprising is, per Wikipedia, they are one of three B1G programs with stadiums that lack artificial lighting.
That was great.
Here's hoping the 2015 edition is twice as long.
Granted.
Thanks for clarifying.
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# | Virginia Tech Athletics Director Whit Babcock's Statement on no Thursday Night Game in Lane And further props for pulling off the unbuttoned-top-button look.
Well there are recruiting drawbacks. Hard to argue there aren't. But there are also other home games for officials, plus bye weeks and offseasons. Would it be great to get all our recruits to visit during a night game? Yes. But that has never happened, and one Friday night game is not going go keep it from happening this year. The bigger impact is that revenue generated at high school football games will probably be down on the Fridays that VT and UVA play, because people will chose to go see a college game instead of a high school game.
All that being said, we'll still get recruits to commit and high schools will still earn needed revenue.
Now from a purely fan perspective, some of the comments have already painted a pretty clear picture. Friday > Thursday if you don't live in the NRV and want to go to a game. I expect the NC State game to sell out quick and the local economy to get more of a boost from that game vs a typical Thursday game, as more people will extend it into a weekend trip. There are a lot of fan-friendly positives that counterbalance the recruiting negatives.
Last time we had extra time to prepare for GT was 2011, and we won 37-26. Unless you count opening against them in 2012 as having extra time, in which case we won 20-17 in OT.
In 2013 on short rest we won 17-10. Commendable but hardly our best performance.
Am I missing something? We didn't have extra time to prep for GT last season.
The rational discussion of divergent opinions is what makes me love your site all the more.
Here's a dumb question, but I haven't followed high school football in almost twenty years. Do high schools have bye weeks? Might we be able to pull some recruits to visit for the NC State game if they are on a bye?
Also, my understanding was that the entire team, coaches included, spend the night in a hotel in Roanoke before home games, so is there really scouting going on Fridays before a home game? I thought all the coaches were at the hotel as well.
Meet you in Chicago.
In am so glad to see this, as it means the Bears will no longer lay claim to the title of "uggliest goddam stadium in all of professional sports."