I hate kitsch. I normally try to avoid places where the tattooed, mullet-ed, spandex-clad congregate. However, I love turning that off for one weekend every other year and going to Vegas.
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Pac-12 Media Day 7/24
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I hate kitsch. I normally try to avoid places where the tattooed, mullet-ed, spandex-clad congregate. However, I love turning that off for one weekend every other year and going to Vegas.
Big Jim
WTF?
So you have no interest in ever attending an SEC home game then.
I might be talked into doing the Grove.
But seriously, I'd like to catch a home game at every SEC stadium at some point.
Deleted member 807
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I wonder if we could do something like this in Boulder.
Yeah it's called Longmont.
Deleted member 807
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I mean, that is primetime east coast which helps exposure, but damn would that suck for tailgating...
-BMP-
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It sucks for tailgating. Student sections would be really weak too. Is the average college student going to wake up at 7:30am or 8am to get to the game on time? I doubt it.
They don't need to attract the average college student. Need to find a few thousand.
I actually think the early start time will work fine for attendance. Great start time for families.
That would be awful. I don't miss Buff games but I probably would for that.
I don't know, if you make it early enough, it can just be a rollover from the previous night for students and also serve families. Just give out Gatorade and Pedialyte in troughs for the student section
-BMP-
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What? It would be terrible for attendance. I guarantee if games start that early they will have terrible attendance across the board overall.
It's a joke of a proposal. It effectively eliminates tailgating and student sections, two of the things that make college football great.
Article says that morning start times have been done in the Central and Mountain time zones with mixed results. That strongly suggests that there's a blueprint for doing it right and getting a good result. https://247sports.com/college/colorado/Article/Pac-12-Larry-Scott-kickoff-times-133894847/
I can’t possibly imagine they would have a PT program playing at 9am local time. I think 10am is a possibility, but it would have to be a non-marquee matchup
If you want to go watch a game with a bunch of old people (35 year olds I guess) then go too an NFL game. College students and student sections are what make college football so great and the main reason I like going to those game a hell of a lot more than NFL games.
Big Jim
WTF?
Students don’t show up to CU games so therefore the Buffs must be an NFL team.
**** Larry Scott. This idea sucks and you’re pushing the boundaries of 35 if you are in support of this at all.
Yeah, let’s relegate the PAC to freshman or JV level status before the SEC main attraction starts up.
Yeah, let’s relegate the PAC to freshman or JV level status before the SEC main attraction starts up.
The earliest a home game would start at CU would be 10am, games don't start before that in MDT. I don't like the idea and not sure I understand having 1-2 games a year in an early slot. Is that all of a sudden going to make people realize how amazing football is in the pac 12? If you are going to do that, then you would need to make a showcase of 1-2 games a week in that time slot. 1-2 games a year is just stupid
Wilner floated this in June. Hopefully it will be his plan.
4 game weeks a year with one early start game from the Pac-12 (including 1 home non-conference game) -- that takes care of the tv volume increase.
Then, to protect the fans & teams -- No one hosts one of these early ones more than once every 3 years. No one is forced to play more than one of these as a road conference game in a season.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podca...his-idea-to-play/id1245866571?i=1000441210668
h/t to rward on 247 for posting about this last month.
4 game weeks a year with one early start game from the Pac-12 (including 1 home non-conference game) -- that takes care of the tv volume increase.
Then, to protect the fans & teams -- No one hosts one of these early ones more than once every 3 years. No one is forced to play more than one of these as a road conference game in a season.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podca...his-idea-to-play/id1245866571?i=1000441210668
h/t to rward on 247 for posting about this last month.
5:23 am. Yep. College students won't show up in the morning.
Deleted member 807
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PAC 12 after dark
PAC 12 before noon
PAC 12 on Sling
I’m having flashbacks from the 1AM Hawaii cluster.
No one said being a fan of a Pac12 outpost program would be easy.
PAC 12 before noon
PAC 12 on Sling
I’m having flashbacks from the 1AM Hawaii cluster.
No one said being a fan of a Pac12 outpost program would be easy.
BerkeleyBuff
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It would suck for the two teams involved, but honestly I wouldn't mind waking up and just getting the football I'm interested in going right away.
BerkeleyBuff
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Slightly different scenario between a normal, week to week game and a national event the city of Pullman had been waiting on for 25 years, don't you think?
