PAC-12 considering 9 AM kickoffs

[hawkeyebob62]

I still like the idea of later games for PAC-12. There’s something I like hangin onto from when I was a kid staying up late on Saturday nights to watch those games with my old man who’s sadly dead now.

I get the warm fuzzies when I think about a Stanford/Cal or USC/UCLA game on the couch with my pops, watching on a 700lb console tube TV back in like 1985 with no internet, iPhone, or pause button.

Have to take a leak? By god your gonna wait for Brent Musberger to tell you they’d be back after these words from our sponsors and now you can sprint to the bathroom.

Wanna know the score? You better pay some goddamn attention because it’s gonna get flashed on the screen once every six minutes.

Where’s the line to gain? Learn to listen and when Keith Jackson says it’s 2nd and 7 add that shit up in your head, Nancy.

Five years old and not a clue what all the rules or strategy were but I felt like a big important dude. Completely stupid and pointless, I know, but it’s my stupid.

Oh, I absolutely loved late Pac-8/10 games growing up and in college. And it totally sucked going to a game watch in Seattle for a 9a game. The damn bar was still being cleaned from the night before and didn't even get us in until kickoff. I like to order my damn food before kickoff. Definitely cramped MY style.

Then again, when I was in college, games started at 1:05pm, the way God intended.

 

[BigD]

Brings new meaning to the term “morning brew”.

 

[Seth53]

Huskies have to figure out ways to raise revenue enough to pay every one of those concession/parking/security/etc workers $15/hr.

 

[Ian Pike Hammer]

Iowa does have 9 AM kickoffs, for those of us living out west. I kind of like them. You get out of bed, have some breakfast, maybe have a quick workout or bike ride, and wa la, it's game time. And, when it's over it's just 12:30 PM or so and you still have the rest of your day for whatever. And, the wife (and kids) likes your availability!

My days of watching 15 hours of college football every single Saturday are long over. I watch the Iowa game and sometimes nothing else.

Actually it makes a certain amount of sense for the Pac 12 to have the early start. It would give them more national exposure but maybe, more importantly, in the Pac 12 footprint. Lets's say you are a Washington fan and your game is later in the day and there's an interesting morning match up are you going to watch that or the B1G or SEC game on then?

Plus in Arizona it's a lot cooler in September/October at 9 AM than it is at 1 PM or 4 PM or in the evening for that matter.

The PAC 12 seems to have more challenges than the other Power 5 conferences. We all know how the B1G feels when it's left out of the college football playoffs, think how the Pac 12 must feel? The Pac 12, just in the last few weeks, announced that starting next year, not this, they are moving their championship football game to Las Vegas into the new Raiders Stadium being built, that feels like a step in the right direction. Spreading kickoff times around each Saturday seems like it might be a good idea. Pac 12 basketball has the same issues. I still don't understand why DirecTV doesn't have the Pac 12 Network? I also can't believe the Pac 12 commissioner has survived all these years? The Pac 12 schools can't be happy with the status quo. I'd be making some changes.

Wasn't there just an article on one of the Iowa websites talking about the general decline in college football attendance? What would you do?

I've long been an advocate of eliminating the Mountain Time Zone. Everbody west of say, Colorado draws an hour closer to real-time, 2 hours on the coast, problem solved.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Friend of mine who’s been there a couple times says the bleachers are puke-inducing and not good for anyone with height/vertigo problems.

If I remember right I read somewhere not long ago that they have the steepest seating in the country.

That looks worse than Arrowhead.

 

[Northside Hawk]

I've long been an advocate of eliminating the Mountain Time Zone. Everbody west of say, Colorado draws an hour closer to real-time, 2 hours on the coast, problem solved.

Holy wowsers! The sun in Montana and Wyoming wouldn't set until 10:30 in the summer, or rise until 9:00 in the winter. You go to Bismarck or Grand Forks now in June and the sun is still out when you're trying to go to bed on a worknight. Having states west of them still in the central time zone would exacerbate the situation.

I have no problem with the idea of states like Arizona and Nevada being only one hour behind us instead of two but from a physical standpoint I don't think it's possible. Arizona, for one stays on standard time

 

[Grady]

Okay, who photo-shopped all that blue sky above that Washington stadium?? I loved watching Iowa games when I lived on SF: eat lunch/brunch at halftime, and when the game was over would have all afternoon to hike, meet a date, etc. Now, I love watching PAC 12 football late Saturday night wiped out after a big day. I agree: if they move their games to 9am, they'll lose a lot of casual Midwest viewers like me.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Okay, who photo-shopped all that blue sky above that Washington stadium?? I loved watching Iowa games when I lived on SF: eat lunch/brunch at halftime, and when the game was over would have all afternoon to hike, meet a date, etc. Now, I love watching PAC 12 football late Saturday night wiped out after a big day. I agree: if they move their games to 9am, they'll lose a lot of casual Midwest viewers like me.

That would have been Perry Como. He once sang that the bluest skies you'll ever see are in Seattle.

He was obviously never there from November to May. But I remember that song being on my aunt's ball and chain AM radio while going to the beach in about 1971.

Anyone else remember those ball and chain AM radios? They were a little bigger than a softball, maybe about the size of the kitty balls we used at recess, and are still used in Chicago 16" softball leagues.