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Yeah we should wait until Saturday when it is cooler....LOLDo we have to be the 1st game of the year every year? It's gotten stupid, and it will only be 95° at gametime.
6 p.m. on a Thursday night for a neutral site game. Absurd. It's almost like each year they try and make the game more difficult to attend and watch. Give it a few years and we'll be opening in Timbuktu at 9:00 am on a Tuesday. A significant amount of the country will be at work or on the way home from work at the time this game is played; thus, I don't entirely buy the argument that it gets us "so much more exposure." The SEC and ESPN refused to release the TV ratings for last year's opener vs. Texas A&M on the SEC Network, but the other big Thursday night opener (Boise St vs. Ole Miss at 8:00 on ESPN) had 2.42 million viewers, which was significantly less than the big Saturday games: 6.4 Alabama/WestVA, 6.03 FSU/OK St, 4.68 Wiscy/LSU, 3.95 UGA/Clemson, 2.92 UCLA/Virginia.
We need to quit playing these opening games on Thursday nights, particularly at such early start times. It reeks of substandard football, and is something I'd expect from a team in the MAC or the Sun Belt. It's not something an SEC team should be doing.
rod the retard would never admit we are right.jeff2001 & ipull4usc:
No but maybe at 7:30 or 8 it might be a little better.Yeah we should wait until Saturday when it is cooler....LOL
Do we have to be the 1st game of the year every year? It's gotten stupid, and it will only be 95° at gametime.
But 6pm? Most Californians will still be on their lunch breaks at that time.
And why should we, a University in the deep south, care about those wackos?!
If it's an 8 pm kick people complain that they're home too late on a work/school night. If it's 6 pm it's too early.
The game time should be great for the kids that we are recruiting as most of them are in our time zone and have class the next day. I can't recall how many kids are on our list that are in California?
The game in Charlotte will be very convenient for me as well (Rock Hill). The game time should be great for the kids that we are recruiting as most of them are in our time zone and have class the next day. I can't recall how many kids are on our list that are in California?
We were at that game against East Carolina. You are right, attendance was a joke. By USC standards, it was like sitting in an empty stadium,"Keep thinking this game won't be a sell-out & you're fooling yourselves. Plenty of CLT-area fans like me will likely walk from work to the stadium. For me it doesn't get any more convenient."
This is tremendously laughable. Just a couple years ago, when we had a badass nationally ranked team with Gilmore and Clowney and all that crowd, we opened the season in Charlotte against East Carolina -- a school from North Carolina which has a much more fervent football following than UNC -- and the game was NOWHERE NEAR sold out.
I don't expect any different this year with the expectations for our team being much lower and UNC having finished last year on a very sour note, plus we now have this 6 p.m. start time.
All that said, I'll be there.
"Keep thinking this game won't be a sell-out & you're fooling yourselves. Plenty of CLT-area fans like me will likely walk from work to the stadium. For me it doesn't get any more convenient."
This is tremendously laughable. Just a couple years ago, when we had a badass nationally ranked team with Gilmore and Clowney and all that crowd, we opened the season in Charlotte against East Carolina -- a school from North Carolina which has a much more fervent football following than UNC -- and the game was NOWHERE NEAR sold out.
I don't expect any different this year with the expectations for our team being much lower and UNC having finished last year on a very sour note, plus we now have this 6 p.m. start time.
All that said, I'll be there.
I certainly hope you're right, but I don't see where our fans are foaming at the mouth to face North Carolina in football anymore than we would East Carolina, as far as a neutral site game is concerned. But, again, I'd love to see a good crowd.
Carolina people in their mid-30s & older crave matchups vs. the Tar Holes.
Agree our dumb obsession to be 1st.No self-respecting SEC team should be playing at 6 p.m. on a Thursday, particularly a neutral-site game.
That time slot should be reserved for teams in the MAC, Sun Belt, etc.
Good thing scar is not a self respecting sec team. Who do u think u are? Alabama, LSU, auburn? Not quite. Just because u had 3 good seasons does not change the fact that y'all are perennial bottom feeders in the sec. Y'all are the perfect team to play a Thursday night opener. Just like a MAC team or a sunbelt team.
Good to see the tatertards coming out the closet it's been a while.Good thing scar is not a self respecting sec team. Who do u think u are? Alabama, LSU, auburn? Not quite. Just because u had 3 good seasons does not change the fact that y'all are perennial bottom feeders in the sec. Y'all are the perfect team to play a Thursday night opener. Just like a MAC team or a sunbelt team.