Friday Night Game VS Illinois

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Makes it exceedingly difficult to host recruits that weekend. I suppose it's Nebraska's turn to lose that weekend, since Illinois had to last year.

 
knapplc said:
Makes it exceedingly difficult to host recruits that weekend. I suppose it's Nebraska's turn to lose that weekend, since Illinois had to last year.
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This is the biggest detriment for me; you only get so many opportunities to use your best advantages in recruiting, and moving from Saturday to Friday hurts a lot in terms of getting kids on campus. 

 
Cdog923 said:
This is the biggest detriment for me; you only get so many opportunities to use your best advantages in recruiting, and moving from Saturday to Friday hurts a lot in terms of getting kids on campus. 
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It does.  But it's really not a ton different than having an 11 am kickoff on Saturday.  

Sounds like we may be getting a lot of night games on the other games.  So it all evens out.

 
I think the recruiting loss is overstated.  In-season recruiting is a shell of what it used to be with all of the early commits as well as having official visits allowed in the spring/summer.  The majority of our game visits are for local guys and underclassmen.  Add in there is a decent chance this was an 11am kick on Saturday, so there is a good chance there wouldn't have been any official visits anyways.

We also have the CU game 2 weeks prior, that will be the one they load up with 'croots, not Illinois.

 
Mavric said:
It does.  But it's really not a ton different than having an 11 am kickoff on Saturday.  

Sounds like we may be getting a lot of night games on the other games.  So it all evens out.
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Well, and the other side of that coin is there's not a lot of competition for TV eyes on a Friday night. So, even though we lose out on that weekend, recruting-wise, it's a large billboard to showcase the program on. 

Red Five said:
I think the recruiting loss is overstated.  In-season recruiting is a shell of what it used to be with all of the early commits as well as having official visits allowed in the spring/summer.  The majority of our game visits are for local guys and underclassmen.  Add in there is a decent chance this was an 11am kick on Saturday, so there is a good chance there wouldn't have been any official visits anyways.

We also have the CU game 2 weeks prior, that will be the one they load up with 'croots, not Illinois.
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Yea, but there's only 7 of them a year, and the gameday atmosphere is one of the absolute biggest advantages we have. It kind of evens out in the end, but it's still a bit of a bitter pill to swallow when you want kids to experience what an actual game is like. 

 
Cdog923 said:
Well, and the other side of that coin is there's not a lot of competition for TV eyes on a Friday night. So, even though we lose out on that weekend, recruting-wise, it's a large billboard to showcase the program on. 
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To whom? The high school players that are playing games on Friday night?

 
Cdog923 said:
No, but to the millions of other people who aren't high school football players and are looking for something to watch on a traditionally dead night for television, sure. 
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I get that marketing and brand exposure angle, but I don't think it helps recruiting.

 
When I coached HS football it always surprised me how little interest the guys on the team had on watching games.  

It was just not a big priority for them.  Usually when I would ask them about it I would get these responses.

1.  No, I did not watch it

2.  My parents had friends over to watch, I saw a little bit of it here and there

3.  Did you steal money out of my locker during practice??

RedDenver said:
I get that marketing and brand exposure angle, but I don't think it helps recruiting.
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I agree.

I just posted about it, most of my HS players just did not watch/care about games like we do.

 
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