BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:ill be there as well, i was hoping for 330 kick worst case, 12:00 is a disaster.
Ill keep praying for this time to switch however unlikely it may be.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Why have the game at noon? Because the ACC is sick and tired of seeing BC win just enough ACC games to go to Tampa with their 300 fans.
In 2006 VPI played BC at night, and VPI got their asses kicked 22-3. In 2007 VPI played BC at night and VPI lost at home 14-10. But VPI plays BC in the afternoon at neutral site, and VPI wins. In 2008, VPI plays BC at night and VPI loses. But VPI plays them at noon at a neutral site and VPI kicks BC's ass.
Sooooooo.... if you are VPI and you want to beat Boston College (or if you are ACC officials angry at all things BC), it is real simple: don't have VPI fucking play BC at night!
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Why have the game at noon? Because the ACC is sick and tired of seeing BC win just enough ACC games to go to Tampa with their 300 fans.
NorthEndEagle {l Wrote}:cat hair pee fire
talon {l Wrote}:innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Why have the game at noon? Because the ACC is sick and tired of seeing BC win just enough ACC games to go to Tampa with their 300 fans.
BC fans who don't go to Jacksonville or Tampa for the ACCCG have forfeited the right to complain about other BC fans not going to Jacksonville or Tampa.
shockdoct {l Wrote}:No the ESPN and SEC have a multi-billion dollar tv deal.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:TV picks the game times, not the ACC, Innocentdumbass.
Well that is not entirely true, is it tw? In fact, the ACC isn't all powerful at picking game times (or gamedays) either. Afterall, BC is prohibited from having more than one Thursday Night game every 4 years. This prohibition was created by the local residents who live near Chestnut Hill lobbying with city and state politicians to create this little, fuck-you-football, restriction. So even if ESPN or the ACC wanted to have BC on Thursday Night once a year, because the game is highly rated, 3 of those 4 games would have to be away games. Ratings be damned, ESPN has NO POWER to force a Thursday Night game at Alumni that is for sure.
Now VPI may not have the anal retentive local residents that BC has, but they DO like playing on Thursday Night (Enter Sandman, "...off to never-neverland.") And VPI has an incredible winning percentage with Thursday Night games. In fact, there is only one team that has ever beaten VPI on Thursday Night (a team that has beaten them repeatedly on Thursday Night.) Take one guess as to who that team might be? Is it any wonder why BC wasn't already scheduled to play them on Thursday when we played them at Lane Stadium on Thursday Night in 1995, 2003, 2005, and 2007? (Perhaps there are other forces at work here?)
VT/BC nightgames have been some of the highest rated in ACC history.
On Thursday Night, yes. But this isn't Thursday.
I don't remember seeing the ratings for BC's game vs VPI last year (on Saturday Night) but it wouldn't surprise me if the ratings were so-so, certainly less than the ratings that were had at State College Pennsylvania last Saturday Night. The ACC is not the end-all, be-all, for night game tv ratings. Personally, I'd love it if that game was Saturday Night. We'd all get to see it on tv. The whole nation gets to see it. And BC plays well at night. But there are quite a few other games that week (Florida at LSU being the most obvious) that look to be even more interesting and draw more viewers than BC @ VPI. And if ESPN can't have that game (because CBS has it), then certainly, undefeated Michigan at undefeated Iowa will still be a higher rated game then BC @ VPI.
And the only way the ACC can guarantee that the game is in prime time is scheduling it for a Thursday night.twballgame9 {l Wrote}:The ACC wants one of its fiercest rivalries on in prime time.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:...but I do think it's an advantage to play at The Magical Lane Stadium at noon...
Not for BC it isn't. We really, REALLY want to play them at night, and it doesn't matter where we play them.
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