Many in the high school ranks are adamant that high school football is played on Fridays nights and ONLY on Friday nights.
Yes, they are going up against the Herd on Friday night. From their prospective, however, think about what they are up against if the high school game is shifted to Saturday afternoon. Not only are the high schools competing for fans against about a ZILLION college games being shown on cable and satellite TV, the internet, Facebook, etc., etc., including local teams like OSU, UK, WVU, etc., but as we all know from MU's attempts to play early afternoon games on Saturday: that time slot is for YOUTH sports, youth football, youth soccer, youth blah, blah, blah!!!