SMU vs TCU on ESPN

[East Coast Mustang]

They can see the highlights on SportsCenter or DVR it. That may hold more water for some of these young guys than seeing a game in person. This assumes we don't get blown out, if we did it might be best they couldn't watch it in person or live.

True, but I still think a Thurs. night game is better for exposure. But I'd rather have the ESPN exposure on Fri night than CSTV on Saturday, that's for sure.

[SMUSA2013]

Someone just forge a letter from whoever is kicking all these frats off campus threatening them if they don't show up, in full force, in SMU gear, to the game. ALL game.

If this is the way to get the greek system to come to the games after several hours boulevarding, we will have plenty of kids snoozing in their seats by halftime... and thats not because the games would be boring if you catch my drift.

[CalallenStang]

Only thing about a Fri. night game is none of the HS prospects would be able to see it.

A lot of high school players play on Saturday.

[mustang1108]

Not really in Texas. Thats why they make such a big deal about Friday Night Lights. Usually the teams who play on saturday are podunk teams who don't even have lights on their field

[Stallion]

Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Ft. Worth and other big cities or suburban cities with a lot of high schools that share facities (Ft. Bend for example) play a big percentage of their games on Thursday and Saturday. I'd say probably 30% of their games by guesstimate

[CalallenStang]

Not really in Texas. Thats why they make such a big deal about Friday Night Lights. Usually the teams who play on saturday are podunk teams who don't even have lights on their field

You must not be familiar with DISD, HISD, the school districts in San Antonio, etc. etc. etc.

I grew up in an area where almost every high school game was on Friday night...but in the playoffs, we often played teams that had 4 or 5 Saturday games on their schedules.

[mustang1108]

95 % of DISD games are on friday and usually are not the big name teams in the area. Its usually like pinkston or thomas jefferson and when was the last time they actually had a d1 recruit in football.

[CalallenStang]

95 % of DISD games are on friday and usually are not the big name teams in the area. Its usually like pinkston or thomas jefferson and when was the last time they actually had a d1 recruit in football.

On September 12, 2009 (the Saturday corresponding to TCU weekend in 2010), the following Dallas-area games took place (according to HSGameTime.com):

NON-DISTRICT
21 games for 09/12/2009

Away Home Time/Score
Lutheran 22 Scurry-Rosser 19 Boxscore
Molina 0 Fort Worth North Side
(Fort Worth's Handley Field) 3 Boxscore
Mansfield Legacy 27 Arlington Sam Houston
(Arlington's Wilemon Field) 24 Boxscore
Fort Worth Southwest 6 Everman 53 Boxscore
Keller 13 Arlington Martin
(Arlington's Cravens Field) 42 Boxscore
Hurst L.D. Bell 14 Burleson 34 Boxscore
Laird Hill Leverett's Chapel 22 Greenville Christian 62 Boxscore
Arlington Grace Prep 21 Fort Worth South Hills
(Fort Worth's Clark Stadium) 14 Boxscore
Mansfield 0 Irving MacArthur
(Irving Schools Stadium) 27 Boxscore
North Dallas 6 Fort Worth Diamond Hill-Jarvis
(Fort Worth's Farrington Field) 14 Boxscore
Mansfield Timberview 6 Belton 35 Boxscore
Springtown 39 Fort Worth Eastern Hills
(Fort Worth's Handley Field) 6 Boxscore
Irving 3 Carrollton Newman Smith
(Carrollton's Standridge Stadium) 35 Boxscore
Plano East 24 Colleyville Heritage
(Grapevine's Mustang-Panther Stadium) 7 Boxscore
Mansfield Summit 21 South Grand Prairie
(Grand Prairie's Gopher-Warrior Bowl) 24 Boxscore
Malakoff Cross Roads 0 Rice 12 Boxscore
Eustace 9 Edgewood 37 Boxscore
Fort Worth Western Hills 0 Azle 23 Boxscore
Cedar Hill 23 Euless Trinity
(Bedford's Pennington Field) 14 Boxscore
Fort Worth Arlington Heights 27 Fort Worth Paschal
(Fort Worth's Farrington Field) 0 Boxscore
Flower Mound 22 Haltom
(Birdville Stadium) 6 Boxscore
PRIVATE
5 games for 09/12/2009

Away Home Time/Score
Grapevine Faith Christian 0 Cistercian 6 Boxscore
Greenhill 14 Arlington Oakridge 52 Boxscore
Away Home Time/Score
Richardson Canyon Creek Christian 32 Carrollton Christian Academy 6 Boxscore
Rockwall Christian 42 Fort Worth Calvary Christian 8 Boxscore
Garland Christian 14 Colleyville Covenant Christian
(Fort Worth Christian) 42 Boxscore

[mustang1108]

since you clearly have nothing better to do you wanna let me know how many kids we recruited from those schools?

[BleedingRed+Blue]

I would think the tailgating on The Boulevard would be pretty lively on a Friday!

[Stallion]

I'm telling you I follow high school football, DISD and all the Districts I listed plus many others play a high percentage of games on Thursday and Saturday Nite. And I'm not talking some I'm talking ALL teams in those districts play a lot of games on Thursday and Saturday Nite during this particular week

Here's an example from last year-68 5A teams alone played on either Thursday or Saturday Nite. This doesn't include 4A or other classifications. I did a review of the schools on the list for Thursday and Saturday and in a matter of a few minutes I counted at least 21 schools on the list who have sent recruits to SMU in very recent years-and again that's 5A only

http://www.sportspower.com/football/sco ... 2009-09-27

[deepellumfrog]

since you clearly have nothing better to do you wanna let me know how many kids we recruited from those schools?

callahanstang wins...

[Bergermeister]

WhoTFCares?

[mathman]

WhoTFCares?

Depends on how the game turns out whether I care or not.

[CalallenStang]

since you clearly have nothing better to do you wanna let me know how many kids we recruited from those schools?

callahanstang wins...

See, the Frog gets it...