College games infringing on traditional HS game night
- Thread starter mike salem
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Why should the NCAA ban Friday night games? Everything trickles down from the shield. When the NFL went to Thursday then Friday essentially became the new Thursday for colleges. Everybody is scrambling to squeeze the last dollar out of TV contracts and colleges are not going away from Fridays anytime in the near future.
Very good points. I didn't both to respond to him because that is an absurd comment. People are used to Fridays HS, College Sat, Pro Sun, but with all this TV money colleges and pros are playing whenever to number one get the tv money, but in many cases with colleges increase exposure. You can walk into a recruits house and say we played on tv X amount of times last season who cares if it was a Tues, Wed, Thurs, or Fri you are getting exposure on tv and a lot of people will look at the game. I know personally if I'm flipping through the channels on a Wed night and see a college football game I will watch it.
I agree Devils. TV in an earlier life was a recruiting advantage and teams like Notre Dame, OSU, Michigan, etc. who were media darlings had a significant advantage but, most kids expect to be on TV now. As you said, the coach says we played on TV and there is little need to differentiate Tues., Wed versus Sat. or ESPN versus ESPN3 Any real differentiation there is MIGHT come from the marquis/made for TV match ups but, exposure is exposure. The old college model has now trickled down to the HS level with ESPN searching for inventory. Virginia and DC have been involved to some extent but, HS football hotbeds(Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, California, etc.) were more active earlier. It gets bigger each year though. I expect you are much more familiar with the economics of this new market than I am and how schools cover their expenses. I would guess for the HS it truly is more about exposure than money as long as they don't go too deep in the hole playing the game.
I generally agree with the author. I rue anything that takes folks away from interest in our high school kid's athletics. But, it is what it is. Everything in life changes. You don't have to agree with changes. You don't have to embrace the changes. But, to deny that things will change, accomplishes nothing. This is basically "is there any lemonade that can be made from the lemons that you have been handed"? IDK! Maybe there is something positive that will develope for high school football that we just haven't identified yet. I don't see it, but who knows?
PS. You are always welcome as my guest on Friday nights at Dinwiddie! (Yep, even you HR6).
PS. You are always welcome as my guest on Friday nights at Dinwiddie! (Yep, even you HR6).
For a LONG time it was an unwritten rule that college and pro wouldn't play on Fridays. This is the kind of stuff that saps the popularity of your sport in the long run. Short term gain, but taking revenue from your pipeline isn't smart in the very long run. Of course, the people making these decisions won't be around in the very long run.
