RichRod rips Pac 12 late games schedule

[ahoelsken]

I assume we get the crap, night slots because we suck and no one wants to watch us. If we ever get better, I assume we will start getting the good, day slots again.

Jim Mora has a beef for complaining about playing on back to back Thursdays. I get why the league does that, but having a bigger game like Cal/UCLA on a Thursday doesn't outdraw the NFL game of the week (unless its an awful game like Titans/Jags) from a ratings standpoint, and probably doesn't do much better on a Friday. Spread that around.....we have enough of Thu/Fri games as a conference for everybody to have to play at least once in conference on a weeknight. Those games are a blast, but they're rugged on everybody involved.

Rich Rod, on the other hand, is off-base here......This is about as silly as some Big 10 coach saying they start too early. Come back the following day after a late night game.....its not that hard. Whats the longest plane ride in the league? Two or three hours? Your kids don't have to sleep on planes....and will always have enough time on the ground at home to get whatever treatment needed and some studying done the following day. If UA doesn't budget for that, I don't have sympathy for them.

Whats my preference as a fan? Night games, and it isn't even close. The breakfast in boulder that almost every home game was wasn't fun last year....

 

[Sykobuff]

Rather have the 1:30 or 3:30 start times.

 

[TDbuff]

Rather have the 1:30 or 3:30 start times.

That's what the ACC, Big Ten, and some of the Big 12 is for. The SEC can do what it wants.

 

[dply]

It's been nice. I go to bed angry instead of spending the whole day angry.

 

[SuperiorBuff]

It's been nice. I go to bed angry instead of spending the whole day angry.

I kind of like the option of going to bed at halftime if they are sucking too bad.

 

[Burrito]

It's been nice. I go to bed angry instead of spending the whole day angry.

You're never supposed to go to bed angry!

 

[dply]

You're never supposed to go to bed angry!

Every single person on this site is a battered wife of an abusive football program. One day he will treat us right.

 

[FrankRizzo]

I just feel bad for the college football fans who have to watch us because it is the only game on. Yes, the Pac-12 hates the eastern time zone.

 

[skibum]

Come back the following day after a late night game.....its not that hard.... If UA doesn't budget for that, I don't have sympathy for them.

Don't know for sure, but it's been implied by several that "coming back the following day" is actually against the rules (conference or NCAA isn't clear). If true, this would indicate a need for a rules change, rather than just "better planning."

 

[ahoelsken]

Don't know for sure, but it's been implied by several that "coming back the following day" is actually against the rules (conference or NCAA isn't clear). If true, this would indicate a need for a rules change, rather than just "better planning."

Its either a Pac 12 rule or something specific to football-I played basketball at a smaller D1 school for a year (much tighter budget), and we never came back the day of the game when we played at night.

 

[Dark Bohner]

The problem with scheduling earlier is that Fox and ESPN didn't pay the Pac-12 for early games with poor tv ratings. They wanted something to fill the late night slot.

Do the networks have that in writing? If not, the conference should dictate their start time requirements.