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She's from Arlington. I looked her up on FB because I intended to send her a message letting her know she doesn't know enough about football to write that piece but decided not to waste my time.
She is clearly not from NOVA or the traffic wouldn't bother her at all.
There are two 'downsides' to a Thursday Night Games (neither of which I consider a downside, but other fans do, and, neither of which were addressed in this article):
1) It can be a hassle for traveling fans to take two days off of work.
2) The academics on campus down like having their teaching schedule interrupted.
I don't know for sure, but I assume the fans who complain about point 1) are older, wealthier, and probably donate more to the university/athletics then the average fan, thus their voice is a little louder. As a student, who pays a very expensive tuition, and actually lives in Blacksburg, I like to think my voice should be more important than said donor. Even though I am graduating this spring, and likely wouldn't be able to make a Thursday night game, I understand what Thursday football means to Blacksburg, and was equally appalled as the rest of Hokienation.
In response to point 2), big time college sports are a university's largest marketing tool. In Michael Vick's two years playing here, admission increased 30%, Research spending and revenue increased drastically. Given the positive benefits, professors can change their routines one afternoon a year.
Now to address the article's real stupidity:
"Why not a Friday night game? Or a Saturday night? Even a Sunday night would be better because nothing happens on Sundays."
Friday night is when high school football plays. Given that one of our goals is to increase visibility to high school football players, this is counterproductive. Not to mention that traveling fans would still have to spend a work day traveling, so this does nothing to address point 1), thus is an awful idea.
We would all love a Saturday night game. Unfortunately, VT cannot request this time slot; this is prime time slot, and TV networks will put the most attractive game of the weekend here. Unless we are that game, it won't happen.
On Sunday night, our team would have to compete with the $9 billion/year entity known as the NFL. I'm sure our visibility would skyrocket if we played then (hopefully everyone could catch my sarcasm there).
While I understand that Thursday night games can be a hassle, please do your research before posting such an ignorant editorial. I'm not an English major, but I am well aware that if you make an opinion, you need to support it. This writer failed to do so, and failed miserably.
Agree with you 100%!
I bet it's Dinich writing under a pseudonym. Would explain a lot of the grammatical errors.
Well said.
I wouldn't even go so far as to say 25 years ago. You could go back only 10 years and have a good argument. The hilarity is it is ONE DAY. ONE. ONE.
Get over it.
If you don't like how your bus can't make the turn, RIDE A BIKE. WALK.
And if the "games are tiring," how exactly does moving it to another night make it less tiring? Are Saturdays less tiring? I don't know about you, but I would go to bed at 4 AM after a long Friday night just to get up 3 hours later to start tailgating. Thats tiring. And love of school.
surely they'd be able to beat up on the MAC East division... which currently consists of Bowling Green, Miami University, Ohio, Akron, Kent State, Buffalo and UMass. Not exactly a bunch of powerhouses there.
She went to the wrong university.
Or something.
I understand the argument. We are an institution of higher learning first, so why should the athletics department dare to affect the academia in any way.
Well, Virginia Tech hasn't always been as highly regarded of an institution as we are now. As our football team became more nationally prominent, so did the name of our school. It bought us extra exposure nationwide, forming a "brand" for the school. The administration has been able to feed off of that, bringing in extra revenue from both endowment and from corporate partners that we wouldn't have had 25 years ago.
And even then, I don't buy the argument that it severely disrupts the learning environment. The students taking a break from tailgating to make that "skip-or-fail" (sic) class are going to try their damnedest to sit in the back and not draw attention to their drunk selves. Any other class (which is to say, most), they just aren't going to show up.
I am going to disagree with Mr. Weaver and the rest of the Hokie Nation that is all for us NOT having a Thursday night game in Blacksburg. I am actually outraged at Mr. Weaver for pulling this bs without consulting the Hokie Nation first! Some of my favorite memories have come on a Thursday night in the Burg. Even with some of the losses, sitting in the rain watching us give away a game to num 2 BC and so on... I think people have forgotten that Thursday night kickoffs in the Lane, or just night games period in the Lane are a STAPLE of what Virginia Tech Footbal is all about. Its Thursday night, it's cold outside, you can see your breathe everytime you cheer, you are drinking Wild Turkey to help keep you warm.. its pitch black outside except the bright lights of Worsham Field that you can see as you driving down 64 to exit to the stadium.... Then the first notes of Enter Sandman play and 65K+ start jumping and screaming all in unison... tension, excitment builds, anticipation grows with each jump and each blaring note of enter sandman... then the All maroon Hokies come out and the fireworks burst over the scoreboard..... HOW CAN YOU TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US MR WEAVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
did this chick transfer from LOLUVA?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but she clearly doesn't know enough about football to write a piece about something so important to the VT community. That's my beef. College football on a Sunday night??? I'm confused.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but jeeze. What a stick in the mud. "Fun inconveniences me! Traffic being slow for one day makes my life harder!"
I don't even know if it's possible for them to dominate in football period. It's painful to watch them. I had the displeasure of one of their games being on when I was in Buffalo Wild Wings last season.
She suggests that we have a game on Sunday night. That proves that she knows nothing about football and her whole piece is complete nonsense and her opinion is completely invalid. College football on a Sunday night? What is going on in Blacksburg these days smh
Why aren't they jumping ship with the 7 Catholic schools? Are they afraid that their football program would suffer too much to eventually get into one of the Big 5 conferences? Because I can tell you now, being in the "new and improved Conference USA" won't do them any favors there either... they might as well save as much face as they can by following the basketball schools, and join a lesser conference for football only and dominate.
What a moron. This is the stereotypical girl who goes to the homecoming game and then leaves at halftime because they finished announcing the Homecoming court. You don't like that there isn't much parking? Then take the freaking bus! You're telling me you can't walk a little farther for the bus or for class one day per year? I really wish people like this didn't get tickets to games, we'd be louder without them.
next time we have a "what's wrong with the student section?" thread this should posted as exhibit a
I read that like this man:
I say, let loluva have all the pickings of these thoroughbreds, because if there are actual NCAA violations involved, wouldn't it be great to watch loluva go down in flames, while we stay high and dry?
I mean, I know a bowl ban would be pointless, but c'mon!
Remember there were a couple of Vicks from the 757 that still have some influence!
More importantly, UConn is screwed. They are gonna lose a good basketball conference and that's the only sport they care about.
Her CT profile says Arlington. Nuff said.