thinking about Sanders' comments on the late night games, "Who makes these 8 o'clock games? Dumbest thing ever. Stupidest thing ever invented in life. Who wants to stay up until 8 o'clock for a darn game?". This led me to question how many he played in at FSU. FSU was a good team back then and I figured they probably got a lot of prime time (pun intended) TV slots.
over his four years as a college player, he played 49% of his games at night. Out of 45 total games:
- 15 had 7PM local time kick off (one of those was a 7:30)
- 6 had 8PM local time kick off (one was a 7:45)
- 1 had with a 9PM local kick off
I looked up JSU and he did not coach a game with a kickoff later than 6PM while there. I guess he's gotten used to noon kickoffs
I don't recall him complaining publicly about the kickoff times as a player, but also, I'm not surprised one bit that he has different priorities now that he's a coach.