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Still have Todd Blackledge's incredulous, voice-cracked call of Reggie's endgame against UGA in '04 in my head. How do you throw it away on 4th down?
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vyst posted:Todd’s Taste of the Town was the best segment ever and i miss it even though i don’t like him Yeah he's whatever but that was a prime Gameday segment. I always want to look at and hear about tasty food related to my football.
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May 20, 2021 22:40
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General Dog posted:Friday night has kind of become the new Thursday night for college football, which sucks. I'd much rather have decent college games on Thursday night, but they were getting crushed by whatever garbage the NFL was airing in the same slot. Thursday night used to be good for low-end P5 games, upsets, and random PAC-10/12 games. 
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May 20, 2021 23:09
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nfl thursday night games are such loving horse poo poo. i HATE IT!!!!!!
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May 20, 2021 23:18
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LLCoolJD posted:Thursday night used to be good for low-end P5 games, upsets, and random PAC-10/12 games. I remember Thursday night used to be big for a few Big East marquee games
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May 21, 2021 00:11
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Bo Nix is Nick Fitzgerald with a semi-famous dad
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May 21, 2021 01:33
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Rude to Nick Fitzgerald and really stretching the definition of famous
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curried lamb of God posted:Bo Nix is Nick Fitzgerald with a semi-famous dad And a fanbase even more like the Hitler youth
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May 21, 2021 01:48
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MourningView posted:https://twitter.com/Hlas/status/1395396936774062081?s=19 go jacks don’t get k-state’d R.D. Mangles posted:Northwestern and Nebraska are playing in 2022 in Dublin. Lmao, sorry to Ireland. oh gross
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May 21, 2021 11:43
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Thursday nights are special and they need to leave Friday for the HS kids.
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May 21, 2021 16:02
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Tennessee opens our season with Bowling Green on a Thursday and I don't really like it.
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May 21, 2021 16:18
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I would like them to bring back decent Thursday games, but since I do not have a kid in high school and am not in high school myself I also like games on Fridays. Seems like a fake conflict to me, are people skipping their kids game to watch kansas or app state football? No one expects this weird deference to other high school sports
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May 21, 2021 17:38
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No it's not functionally causing any issues, and was probably inevitable, the old grump porch man in me just prefers that Friday Night Lights be something special for those kids since 90% of them will never get the spotlight after they finish their HS athletic careers. I think it takes some of the special part of it away, but that's just old man yells at cloud poo poo. I would hate to be the kid in Champagne Illinois who would have been the local Friday night sports highlight that got cut due to needing to show The Illini sucking it up in a B1G game that went on a Friday, because the local media didn't send a crew out because B1G was a better draw. It doesn't really matter I get it.
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May 21, 2021 17:46
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I know that growing up and all through high school, the local sports team was a big deal. There definitely is a regional difference in how folks approach their HS sports, often depending on the availability of college or pro sports in the area. The Rio Grande Valley is awful at football. It's a big deal when a team makes the regional championship, where they almost invariably get destroyed by a San Antonio team. BUT the stadiums every week are packed and people travel. We met up with the family at a game at the Alamodome for one of said regional championships as an adult, one of the few years that both my HS and (somehow) our cross-town rivals made the game (in different divisions) as well. So it was a Harlingen vs San Antonio double-header and it felt like the entire town showed up. Stadium was packed and 70% of them were from Harlingen. Honestly is the best fan environment short of a good college team. But aside from liking to visit football stadiums, and the occasional game on a lark (a $5 place to hang out with another sportsfriend and catch up, with the always entertaining side-effect of being confused for college scouts and thereby getting invited into the good seats), there isn't much reason for a non-kid-afflicted adult to be at a HS sports game.
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I've only ever seen local high school football on public access with a quick recap on local news channels 11 sports segment and that's with one of the main perennial state champ favorites in the area, so I don't get what the big deal is about a college game on a Friday night on ESPN 
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The only issue I really see with it is that people are more likely to be out on Friday nights. Especially if you already dedicate your Saturday to this dumb sport.
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May 21, 2021 19:09
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The Notorious ZSB posted:No it's not functionally causing any issues, and was probably inevitable, the old grump porch man in me just prefers that Friday Night Lights be something special for those kids since 90% of them will never get the spotlight after they finish their HS athletic careers. I think it takes some of the special part of it away, but that's just old man yells at cloud poo poo. I think if your argument is premised on people caring about Illinois football it might have some flaws, but no one seems to care if they play at the same time as the volleyball team or the cross country team or whatever which I'm sure happens all the time.
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May 21, 2021 19:28
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I do have a sort of sentimental feeling about Friday Night Lights and the religion of HS football in Texas, but I don't really see how having some third-tier CFB game on TV that night changes it. There can't be many people who were planning to go to their local HS game but decide not to because they could watch TV instead. They already could have stayed home and watched TV instead.
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May 21, 2021 19:38
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Wvu is all about playing cotton eyes Joe multiple times a game. Texas too liberal blue ivy league school to enjoy such an iconic song?
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May 21, 2021 19:41
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I just personally would rather have a decent game to watch on Thursday night than on Friday night. On Thursday night I could use the appetizer. By Friday night, it's almost Saturday, and I may even have something better to do.
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May 21, 2021 19:42
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I guess "The Yellow Rose of Texas" won't work as a replacement?
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General Dog posted:I guess "The Yellow Rose of Texas" won't work as a replacement? Too much of a love song. Not slow enough either. Need a down-tempo song for the alma mater.
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May 21, 2021 19:49
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MourningView posted:I think if your argument is premised on people caring about Illinois football it might have some flaws, but no one seems to care if they play at the same time as the volleyball team or the cross country team or whatever which I'm sure happens all the time. I picked a random place. And yeah there is crossover but football is also objectively way more culturally relevant and important in America than Volleyball or the cross-country team. Make it small town TN where people showed up but if you had a Vols game in Neyland Friday night they might not. Or Texas or anywhere that gives af. The location is ultimately not what it's about. It's a tradition thing, it has no actual bearing on the players or what income they'll get from locals showing up to Friday Night Lights. Which is why yeah, its fine, and my objection is really only rooted in old man liked things the way they were. If CFB is on every night is Saturday even special anymore? I don't really mind the G5 teams digging for viewers, but the P5 don't need to be diluting their schedule playing on Friday nights. The NFL has really fought to keep their day special and I think that's more what I'm getting at. Friday was for HS, Saturday was for College, Sunday was for the pros. I liked that even if it is completely meaningless.
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May 21, 2021 20:04
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aren't you a virginia tech fan?
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My favorite part about non-saturday games is when my team has one and wins it because then I get to spend from noon until midnight on Saturday watching football without a care in the world My least favorite part about non-saturday games is when my team loses one and then I have to stew about it for extra days til the next one
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MourningView posted:aren't you a virginia tech fan? Yeah thus my defense of Thursday Night CFB, but I've hated our Friday night games the last few years. I like you a lot MV, but I feel like you're always paying attention to my posts and I'm not sure if its cause you hate my takes or you just know I'll reply back.
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PostNouveau posted:Too much of a love song. Texas Flood
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Yeah thus my defense of Thursday Night CFB, but I've hated our Friday night games the last few years. I just like arguing about dumb sports stuff it is not personal
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May 21, 2021 21:59
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MourningView is just the FBI agent assigned to monitor only your internet activity and can shitpost on the job
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MV was the FBI agent assigned to monitor us after the LF fiasco but like Whitey Bulger, we turned him
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Where I grew up, Wednesday was for middle school football, Thursday for ninth grade, Friday for high school, Saturday for college and Sunday for the pros. My brain will never let go of this hierarchy.
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Declan MacManus posted:you don’t have to be nick saban to be successful at texas. mack brown managed it and all due respect to mack brown but he’s not some top down micromanaging genius texas racist boosters arent scaring off the talent. they've pretty much never had a problem recruiting and never will because texas state pride basically guarantees half of the kids in the state grow up wanting to be a longhorn and the other half want to be cult members. like even at their nadir they still pull in top 15 level classes. like the racist boosters are abhorrent and need to be dealt with (though i dont really see any realistic option that UT will ever go with other than just waiting for the older ones to die) but it isnt the reason for the on-the-field failure their problem, i submit, is that they are texas
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The racism of the Texas boosters isn't the problem, because as pointed above jesus look at the successful teams and the chuddiness of their donor base. The problem is that no administration has ever been strong enough to tell them shut up and write checks. Saban gets all the credit for Bama, but it's just as much due to Mal Moore and Robert Witt publicly booting a few shitbirds and telling the rest of the check-writers to fall in line. Robert Witt was a career UT system guy before becoming the President at Alabama. You think he didn't get a heaping handful of lessons of What Not To Do coming up?
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May 22, 2021 03:00
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The only thing I'm not enjoying about the Eyes of Texas controversy is that Joe Jamail isn't around to weigh in on it
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What if they just did the actual railroad song and the old racists could sing whatever they wanted under their breath
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May 22, 2021 06:02
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you’re asking a proud longhorn to be quiet about their texas pride?
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Listen bud, Texas DESERVED 9/11
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Just replace it with Neck.
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Declan MacManus posted:you’re asking a proud longhorn to be quiet about their texas pride? Look pal my grandfather paid for the ramp in the west parking garage and I demand you make those people sing the eyes of texas.
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