11-10-2020, 11:08 AM
One benefit of the 9 am kickoff on Fox is that USC-ASU highlights were splashed on TV screens throughout the day. It helped, of course, that the game had a big name with an improbable, disastrous, car-wreck ending.
Pac-12 After Dark is fun for those of us on the West coast, but few East of the Rockies are paying attention because they are asleep when the games are played. Plus, they don't even pay attention to the highlights when they wake up Sunday morning, because they've turned their focus to the NFL.
I think it's worth trying more 9 am/10 am games this year with teams that have a (remote) chance at making the playoff, i.e. USC and Oregon. It's not that hard of an adjustment for the players, many who are up by 6 am to workout/practice anyway.
Pac-12 After Dark is fun for those of us on the West coast, but few East of the Rockies are paying attention because they are asleep when the games are played. Plus, they don't even pay attention to the highlights when they wake up Sunday morning, because they've turned their focus to the NFL.
I think it's worth trying more 9 am/10 am games this year with teams that have a (remote) chance at making the playoff, i.e. USC and Oregon. It's not that hard of an adjustment for the players, many who are up by 6 am to workout/practice anyway.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)