College football Week 5 thread: Shout at the Blue Devil

[micropolitan guy]

If you live in the Central Time Zone, 11 a.m. games are a fact of life and have been for decades.

Yeah, I guess there are a lot of Big Ten games that start at 9 a.m. out here. That's a crappy starting time too.

 

[MileHigh]

Dictated by FOX. CU should tell them to GFY. A 10 a.m. kickoff is ridiculous.

Friday night game in Microville. I hate Friday night games.

This is Colorado's third Big Noon (thus 10 a.m. body clock) start in five games. Arizona State game on Oct. 7 is at 4:30 p.m. MDT. The next week is Stanford at 8 p.m. on a Friday ahead of a bye, then at UCLA on Oct. 28 which I'm sure won't have a 9 a.m. local kick.

 

[jr/shotglass]

As a Pac 12 guy, I don't like the stupid kickoff times either.

But these schools are chasing TV dollars and blowing up conferences to get a bigger check. If I'm FOX and I want the game at 3am, with what I'm paying, Colorado better set their alarms and show up with a smile.

But again, as Bubbler said, think of the options here. You're the only game in town that will produce this kind of revenue. Do you think the networks would be OK with eventually losing this cash cow?

If I'm the Power Five, I think I'd be doing more dictating and accepting fewer edicts like stupid-ass game times.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

But again, as Bubbler said, think of the options here. You're the only game in town that will produce this kind of revenue. Do you think the networks would be OK with eventually losing this cash cow?

If I'm the Power Five, I think I'd be doing more dictating and accepting fewer edicts like stupid-ass game times.

The big money only makes sense for the networks if they can maximize the airtime and plug holes in their schedule. That's why they'll stagger the games all through the day.

I'm sure the ADs would love every kickoff to be at 1pm. They can have that if they're willing to cut the TV money to a quarter of what it is now.

The Power 5 can't dictate shirt. It's a contract negotiation.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The NFL has always tried to expand the number of its broadcast partners. College football does the opposite to its own detriment. Not just in terms of keeping control, but long-term financial interest, too.

 

[dixiehack]

Compared to a Western Kentucky or Northern Illinois that winds up tanking its gate for half the season in the name of Tuesday Night Lights, this is a mighty tame sacrifice.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Sam Pittman was fat shamed off Twitter.

"Everybody knows I'm fat. Everybody knows I've got a big chest," Pittman said. "To do that, who does that make feel better? It's not right. And people say well, you make a lot of money. That doesn't have anything to do with people bashing me personally. You can talk about my coaching all you want and this, that and another. But going and attacking me, and guys on the team, it's not right. I'll never feel like it's right."

https://www.swtimes.com/story/sport...n-deleted-a-social-media-account/70931264007/

 

[Hermes]

Pittman eventually said he would be 'X' account will eventually come back at the encouragement of an Arkansas communications staff member back because of the positive impact on recruiting.


Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Pittman eventually said he would be 'X' account will eventually come back at the encouragement of an Arkansas communications staff member back because of the positive impact on recruiting.


Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I won't be fat-shaming him. But I will criticize his coaching. His insistence on trying to stop LSU rather than allowing a TD with 2 minutes left killed his team's chances of a nice win.
A couple of years ago, he was the rage. But he eventually learned what everybody else does in that job: You take it for the money, not for any reasonable hope of competing in the SEC West.

 

[Batman]

Yeah, I guess there are a lot of Big Ten games that start at 9 a.m. out here. That's a crappy starting time too.

Yeah, 9 a.m. is ridiculous. But remember that it's usually 11 or 12 at the stadium where it's being played.
There's an entire generation of Southerners who grew up with the 11 a.m. Jefferson Pilot/Raycom game of the week. Getting terribly sunburned during a September or early October one of those, or listening to the Daves, was a rite of passage.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

So Massachusetts has like eight different classes of schools for high school football, and it plays most of the state championship games at Gillette Stadium on one Saturday in December. One of the smaller classifications gets the ball rolling at 9 a.m. That's kind of a problem for Western Mass. schools that might be 100 miles from the joint. I talked to one of the coaches who drew the 9 a.m. game one time and he said, "you ever try to get one teenager out of bed at 6 a.m.? Try doing 30 of 'em."

 

[Hermes]

So Massachusetts has like eight different classes of schools for high school football, and it plays most of the state championship games at Gillette Stadium on one Saturday in December. One of the smaller classifications gets the ball rolling at 9 a.m. That's kind of a problem for Western Mass. schools that might be 100 miles from the joint. I talked to one of the coaches who drew the 9 a.m. game one time and he said, "you ever try to get one teenager out of bed at 6 a.m.? Try doing 30 of 'em."

I never thought about living in a state so small you travel to the state championship game day of.

Around here the HSAA flips the bill for hotels.