This. At least 1 home SEC game in Death Valley at night is NOT too much to ask for. Is the LSU vs AU game really that important this year? No, that weekend is an opportunity for another SEC team to take the 230 slot. Clown Broadcast Station (just to clarify that is a direct insult to the 2 clowns verne and gary who cbs for some unkown reason, probably blackmail, keeps around) needs to nix the sitcom cr@p on Sat, and dedicate the entire day to college football. Stop half @ssing it!
When I say it's 'do-able', I mean its not unreasonable. And no, they shouldn't make an exception for LSU. Every member school should get at least one conference night game.
I understand the contract but I don't believe I'm asking for too much to request at least one meaningful night game each season. If it's all about money then my only option is to let my money talk and I'm prepared to do so. I hope it doesn't come down to that but if so I'll stay home.
All the young people from Alabama to Vanderbilt want night games and the older crowd likes day games for traveling reasons. They would all prefer night games through the first half due to the heat. The websites' times dont mean anything other than some OCD employee put a time up there to fill the n/a option. I would like for every game to be at night but 2:30 is not a big deal to me. Ill be pretty upset when we're on jefferson Pilot, because then we will still be old, but also hungover and watching a poor football team. :milesmic:
If you think it sucks where you are I live in North Carolina. Not only do I hate the CBS 3:30 EST games, but the local CBS affiliates carry a 12:30 EST ACC game each week. They always run long and cut into the CBS broadcast. Last week, the dipstick Wake Forest-Fla. St. game ran a full hour over its scheduled time. When the CBS broadcast started, the LSU-Florida game was starting the second quarter and the score was 17-0. Basically the game was already decided. The broadcast team was discussing the Brad Wing penalty. So if you're not in SEC country, not only do you get hosed by the early kickoff, you know that each week you're going to miss at least the first 30 minutes of the CBS telecast if not more. I've always felt that the 7:00PM kickoff was worth at least seven points more than an afternoon kickoff in terms of the extra mojo in the stadium from the crowd. Money is nice, but LSU football tradition is night games in Tiger Stadium. That's when it's truly Death Valley .:LSU231:
I do not not want to be picky but in Greensboro, NC I watched the whole game. I do not think your experience Saturday was a nationwide thing.
It's about the TV money. That means that if you choose to stay at home and watch the game on the tube, CBS wins. If going to the game is an option for you, then go. It is the only way someone who wants to see the game live can send out a message. If you want to let money talk unplug your TV, Tivo and DVR. Let the advertiser"s money do the talking. There's always radio, which is how I'll be following the game.
i have a hard time believing that a good sec matchup is not going to have better ratings than a "murder she wrote" or whatever lame rerun they choose to show. i am also willing to bet that the abc game or espn game shown at night is beating whatever cbs rerun in the ratings. when cbs showed the lsu vs florida game in 07, it was a night game. and it blew their ratings off the chart if i remember correctly. looks to me like they didnt learn from their own ratings on that one.
It's hard to understand why CBS wouldn't want more primetime games. It has to be about money. I was just reading that this year's Alabama-Florida game in primetime, easily won it's timeslot, but it's ratings fell from the same matchup in primetime last year. Primetime on a Saturday night doesn't drive the numbers as the same timeslot from Sunday-Thursday. CBS has built it's SEC coverage around it's marquee 3:30pm ET matchup. No matter where you are in the country, you are conditioned to know that there will be a great SEC game at that time. That being said, if LSU and Bama stay unbeaten, I can see CBS promoting the heck out of the LSU-Bama game and making it a primetime extravaganza.
I'm no bean counter and I'm not a television executive, but I would think that if the CBS executives and accountants thought they could generate more revenue by broadcasting SEC football in prime time on Saturday nights that they would have retained those rights instead of allowing the SEC to give them to ESPN.
