Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Game definitely shouldn't have been played with an 11pm start Lubbock time.
I think I've been pretty clear my rant wasn't just at Big10. It's aimed at Presidents and Athletic Directors who emphasize whats best for athlete physical/mental wellbeing. But it's just lip service because the solution from a scheduling standpoint is relatively easy to implement. Just have a general rule:
- Kickoff/Tip can't be before 10am local time for each team.
- Kickoff/Tip can't be after 9pm local time for each team.
I agree with everything you are saying but I think we all know the athletes well being flew the coop when west coast and east coast teams started sharing conferences.
Nice try, B10 Symp/Simp (take your pick).
Big difference flying in to Cincy the day before the game, playing the game and getting home in reasonable early evening hours. As compared to Rutgers playing their game tonight at 11 PM ET and getting back to NJ in the 7AM ET Saturday morning timeframe. Hell, they may be staying in LA tonight after the game as well and fly back to NJ at a reasonable time tomorrow morning.
Agree having coast-to-coast conferences was a step back. Not so much from a Big10 standpoint, because they could have made it work better with 4 PT teams. The ACC not so much with just 2 PT teams.
But with all major conferences now between 16-18 teams, there should be the flexibility that the TV folks get the time slots they want and kickoff/tip start times don't need to be extreme for athletes or fans.
So earlier your complaint was centered around body clock issues but now it’s NOT body clock it’s when they get home from traveling?
Rutgers also has a bye week the following week so the get back time is no big deal. Maybe they even stay an extra day for the NJ kids to explore LA. They also left on Wednesday so have some extra time to get acclimated. But I know that won’t stop the pearl clutching.
It would be a shame if Ohio State players were upset.
All 4 power conferences are named together in most of this. It has nothing to do with Texas or commissioners sadly
No, made it clear earlier that the 11 PM ET kickoff time was absurd in optimizing ET viewing with an East Coast team and that travel issues back to NJ were bigger deal but the body clock issues are intertwined with that. As suggested earler, schedule another West Coast opponent for this game. A CT team would have been better than effing over a ET team and viewing audience. Even a B10 simp/symp can understand that.
First, you have no idea what their travel plans are. Second, they'll get back on Saturday. What does it matter? It's Saturday.
Man I don't know how the NFL has survived with all these ridiculous cross-country East Coast/West Coast trips teams have to make to play conference games. NFL should be ashamed for making Seattle travel to Atlanta for an in-conference game last week.
You might have a legit point to make here if the NFL ever has a kickoff with one of its ET teams at 11 PM ET.
Iowa State played at BYU at like 9:30p at night. I had to watch in my winnie the poo pjs.
It started back in the late 1970s with the CFA lawsuit against the NCAA.
But it's not only the TV money. There are some big-money donors who live vicariously through how well a college football team does pulling strings with ADs, basically bribing them into escalating the arms race (and to be fair, there are also generous big-money donors who don't act that way at all). If those big donors to which the ADs are beholden were out of the picture, I think the college presidents and athletic directors could come to a more sane arrangement of conferences and revenue distribution than what we have now.
Ah so staying up late to play on a Friday night and then traveling back on a Saturday is the real killer here. Got it. Lol.
