ESPN and SEC

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Will the Thursday night games on ESPN feature SEC teams only? I believe the last time Tennessee played on Thursday was against Ole Miss in 1996.
 
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A couple of years ago, Mike Hamilton made a comment about not wanting to have a Thursday night home game because of concerns of disrupting the academic side of the university (or something like that.) So I am not sure we will see a Thursday night game at Neyland, unless something has changed.
 
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espn, sec, thursday nights, wow i havent heard about this. I do remember that game though, Leonard Little destroyed ole miss qb's all nite long !
 
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SEC and ESPN signed a contract right? I rather tennessee play on saturdays but if the sec is the only conference that can play on espn thursday night the games will be alot more fun to watch.
 
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I would absolutely hate Thursday night games. Takes the fun out of the college gameday experience.
 
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Well Hamilton's right about disrupting academics. There is no way I would attempt to find parking to go to class on a gameday.
 
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IPorange said:
A couple of years ago, Mike Hamilton made a comment about not wanting to have a Thursday night home game because of concerns of disrupting the academic side of the university (or something like that.) So I am not sure we will see a Thursday night game at Neyland, unless something has changed.
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It has....CLK!
 
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Is the contract making it only SEC teams play on ESPN..

Or just All SEC games on ESPN plus others on as well
 
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jwells said:
I would absolutely hate Thursday night games. Takes the fun out of the college gameday experience.
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False. Thursday night games are nuts. Classes usually get cancelled or you don't have to do anything that day and all day is just one big party. I love Thursday night games.
 
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Is it bad that I think that we should only play on Saturdays or Holidays. I know there are some very good schools that play on Thurs. nights occasionally, (USC, FSU, Auburn etc) but I think we are somewhat bigger than Thursday nights. To me Thursday night games have always been for schools that need the exposure. I know it's great exposure, but I don't see UGA, Fla or Bama playing Thursday nights. That's just my take, tell me if I'm wrong.
 
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I wasnt asking if tennessee will be playing thursdays. Im asking does the thursday night game have to feature a sec team since espn has rights.
 
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It won't matter, TV wise, as long as Mike Patrick is doing play-by-play.

He is just pathetically awful. Too many reasons to list.

If there are Thursday night games, I hope ESPN brings back Ron Franklin or puts Mark Jones on that duty.

Worst thing possible is Patrick or Pam Ward.
 
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Thursday night games. Who are we USCe? If that's what we have to do in order to get a primetime game on TV, then maybe our program is in worse shape than I realized.
 
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IPorange said:
A couple of years ago, Mike Hamilton made a comment about not wanting to have a Thursday night home game because of concerns of disrupting the academic side of the university (or something like that.) So I am not sure we will see a Thursday night game at Neyland, unless something has changed.
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yeah I bet that's the reason he doesn't want a Thursday night game, or maybe it's because their might not be as big of a crowd due to the work week
 
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