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please. there is no "continued community rage". Everyone is responding to tweets as they come.
I think this is probably an area of sharp differences in personal preference. I have gone out and celebrated NYE maybe twice in my entire life. I much prefer to stay in with friends rather than go out and deal with all the chaos. For years, the tradition among my family and friends is actually to stay in and watch whatever football is on, Hokies or otherwise. If I end up going out to a bar (extremely rare), it'll be one where we'll be able to see whatever games are on.
My old boss, John Nerud, would say that anyone could get a horse fit to race; the hard part of training a racehorse is teaching them to be a winner.
I don't know how many people listen to this, twelve?
We'll he's not wrong, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one listening to basketball radio broadcasts. Then again, I get all those juicy quotes for primo turkey legs on TKP so who am I to complain?
agree completely. no hard feelings, and I legged all the posts where you were -1 because nothing you said should have been downvoted.
Thanks for the info! Will go to the bait shop and grab some of those.
I intently watched the first half of the Clemson-OU game. As it started getting out of hand in the second half I was less interested in the game and I started getting ready for our New Years event. The game was still on the TV but I was only half watching.
I did not watch any of the Bama-MSU game because of New Years plans. I can say with confidence now, retrospectively, that I would have watched about 2 and a half quarters before turning it off if it wasn't on NYE.
I think it was a bad move to have those games on NYE because it made it difficult to watch the games for folks who had NYE plans...especially the more casual fans. The hardcore fans and fans for each team would have found a way to watch, though, I'm sure. Scheduling the games on NYE isn't the biggest problem though....
I think the popularity of every game decreases with the addition of more games. The market is becoming super-saturated with football games and there are more games on than most fans care to watch. Your hardcore college football fans who are going to catch the NYE games anyway will tell you that there is nothing wrong with more football games. "Who the heck is going to complain about more football??!?!" Right?... Well, when you overload the market with football it drives the interest down because most fans can only take so much of the constant stream of games. (supply and demand. more games to watch=less football starved fans willing to watch a game featuring teams they care nothing about) By the time the NYE games aired there had already been 30+ football games in about a two week period. If you're not a fan of one of the teams in the NYE games what motive do you have to watch them? You've been able to get your football fix and then some by watching as many of the 30+ games before hand which, for most fans, probably included a game featuring their own team (sorry LOLUVA...not sorry).
I wouldn't call myself a hardcore CFB fan but I'm definitely more invested than a casual fan would be. I tried to watch as much of the NYE games as I could but as hardcore (or, in my case, semi-hardcore) fans we have to realize that not all of the viewers watching the games are as interested in them as we might be. In fact, I'd wager that the hardcore fans are the minority. CFB can't be sustained purely on the hardcore fans alone. It needs to appeal to the casual fans to remain successful.
Also, as it turned out, the match-ups proved to be less than stellar. Nobody really wants to watch blow-out victories by teams they don't care about. I'm sure millions of fans tuned out once the games got out of hand.
True enough you have a point taken in aggregate.
Though why do you leave out the tweet Right After the Hokie Bird one from Barber, where he literally says he decided to wait by going to watch the Women and they were already up 5-0?
Parnousis (SP?) also got ESPNw player of the week during the PSU, UT week.
High recognition when normally out 10 school absolutely dominate and everyone else I playing for scraps
Man, do we need to start a new recruiting forum?
Awesome comments about his staff.
It's a huge net positive for the ACC, just like it would be a huge net positive for UVA to become relevant in football again.
Do ya think that maybe it was because it was on NEW YEAR'S EVE?
I like football, but that's a night when friends of all persuasions get together to do things other than watching football.
Move it to New Year's Day already! We have the day off to watch football.
I think you're right. And Anakin did bring balance to the Force by fathering Luke, a Jedi who was able to use his anger without letting it consume him.
I got the same response when I told them I turned down Carnegie Melon to go to Tech. There's nothing you can do for people like that.
Wow! Buzz' talk to the team in this one is great stuff and should help keep a chip on their shoulder. He knows, Duke is looming, and then GT and Wake - watch out for them, read ltrepeter's comments above. The journey has just begun - stay on the path.
On another note, the characteristic of this team has changed since Chris Clarke got injured. That kid is a stud, but that change has to mean something. Inputs from TKP members smarter than me on that effect would be nice to read.
Enjoy this victory Hokie Nation! JUST LIKE FOOTBALL!
13-1 now after knocking off BC. They are the second team in Others Receiving Votes in the AP Top 25 this week. Knock off Louisville and have some teams lose in the back end of the rankings and they could be in next week.
Huge fan of Hunter S. Thompson but had never heard that quote. Very good one.
I studied journalism and communication at VT, then graduated with a degree in it and really thought I wanted to make a career out of it. I've got an extremely small shred of experience in this. After writing at the Fauquier Times-Democrat in Warrenton, interning at WSLS in Roanoke and being an on air "talent" for local Blacksburg ESPN 980, I realized that besides not paying shit, the news business is repetitive, boring and frankly kind of comical, which is exactly what this media vs. coaches battle has become. So glad I stepped out of it a year after college.
Nowhere in the journalism industry are you taught that you as the reporter are priority number one. It is your job to go seek out the facts, truth, get the video, photos, quotes, etc. and spread the word to the masses. If that takes an extra two hours on one random night of the week, that's what it takes. These reporters know and understand this. Putting your main source of information on the spot on twitter is not a wise move in my opinion for someone who's job relies on that information at the end of the day. Grow up, let it go and move on to the next basketball game and next news story.
Also, look how ESPN tried to spin this into a positive.
http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/01/new-years-six-on-espn...
ESPN's second presentation of the New Year's Six (Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl, The Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual and the Allstate Sugar Bowl) averaged a 7.1 overnight rating, with four of the six games experiencing ratings increases (bowl to bowl and time slot to time slot) from last season's inaugural year. On WatchESPN, the New Year's Six experienced significant increases across the board, in all metrics, continuing a trend experienced all college football season. Digitally, the New Year's Six averaged 200,170 average minute impressions, 776,000 unique viewers and 43,871,000 total minutes for the six games, up 69%, 54% and 67% in each category, respectively. The 7.1 overnight rating average for the New Year's Six – in which average margin victory across the six games was 24 points — is down 13% from last season's 8.2. The four bowls which were not designated as a semifinal this season (Peach, Fiesta, Rose, and Sugar) averaged a 5.8 overnight, up 26% from the four bowls last season which were not semifinals (Peach, Fiesta, Orange and Cotton).
guy in the foreground is in full on grope mode
I agree. That's why I don't get why I've heard so many people (including Hancock) use the NYE competitive games (plural) argument to try to explain it. You can't use that argument for the Clemson-Oklahoma game.
2 games into league play, and we've already matched league wins from last season.
Breakfast of Champions AND damn fine motivational speakers!