Was I mistaken in thinking that the networks mostly dictate the game times?

I’ve gotta think for the big in-state rivalry that it will still be a good gameday atmosphere. Granted, not AS GOOD as a 3:30 or evening kickoff, but folks will get up for the rivalry. Won’t they? I’m not an expert on Clemson-SC, but I would just figure.

WE, the fans, must adjust…no one is to drink beer starting Friday morning until after the game. Doctors orders, only coffee shall be consumed and a three gallon minimum starting Saturday morning before the game. That’ll get us cranked up. Besides…I heard Jaun Valdez a Clemson fan.

While on things that suck, this is what Peter King, Monday Morning QB on SI.com has to say about the SC-Florida game on Saturday. By that logic, what should happen to Bowden?

“Watching a good chunk of the 17-16 Florida win over Steve Spurrier’s South Carolina team was so reminiscent of how unprepared Spurrier’s Redskins teams were. Here the Gamecocks were, playing a competitive game against a good team, AND THEY HAD THREE KICKS BLOCKED. One is too many. Two is absurd. Three is fireable. I don’t have a horse in this race, but this game is a perfect example why Spurrier’s coaching star has fallen so precipitously. How do you field a team so ill-prepared that it has three kicks blocked, including the potential game-winning field goal as time expired?”

this is all a conspiracy- ESPN loves Spurrier so much, that they are trying to set us up for a loss by making this a NOON kick.

All I have heard about for the past two years is “how great spurrier is”… if I didn’t know any better, i’d say that ESPN has their head placed firmly in Spurriers backside - errrrrr lap.

I hate you ESPN…

Guys, this game scares the bejeesus out of me.

I agree, if USC comes in playing like they have over the past few weeks and Gaines continues to “not get held”, the shamecocks will run roughshod over the secondary. QB pressure is KEY to this game.

The 12:00 kickoff has NOTHING to do with the Clemson Athletic Administration. The ACC requires all ACC teams to play a game Thanksgiving weekend (Thursday to Saturday), to ensure that the teams in the ACC Championship game will have equal time to prepare.

So we had to play a game then, and the 12:00 noon kickoff is out of our hands. The networks dictate the game times. So unless we told ESPN that we did not want to be televised at all (which would be idiotic), we’re stuck with noon.

Oh, and as far as the crowd goes, maybe you missed the last rivalry game in Death Valley that kicked off at noon. We crushed USC in 2004 with a noon kickoff, and the crowd was rocking.

Smack a Shamecock and tell them to win a game worth a crap earlier in the year. This happens and we all get a more appetizing 3:30 or 7 TV start and all is well. This isn’t 2004 in the stands if you can’t tell (I’ve adopted the kickoff music but what happened to last years Hells Bells?). We get loud later in the day, most of us know why. We can still get regional air play even if the ESPN networks don’t pick it up because of the rivalry. If this ACC rule is the case, it much be new as we haven’t played Thanksgiving weekend for the past 9 years that I have been paying special attention, including last year when they were playing an ACC championship game. It was my understanding that the two schools agreed to move the game as it was played years ago on this weekend, not because of conference rules and affiliation issues.