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Might not be much different than what some of you fucks do right now...
https://247sports.com/college/washington/Article/Pac-12-start-times-Oregon-USC-Washington-132654695/I’ve heard it mentioned several times how some of our older alum said fuck season tickets when all the late starts and scheduling became the norm.
Does any body here think this could be an actual solution for getting more butts in seats? (I get the goal is national perception and exposure)
3 straight 10+ win seasons and I haven’t seen the annual times fluff piece on how off season ticket sales are booming. I feel like the opportunity to take over for sales exists here. I mean HH is already doing all of the branding and marketing.
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The older crowd that stopped attending games because they don’t want to get home at 1am? They’d be back. The bandwagon ‘football-is-a-social-event’ younger crowd that wants to be elsewhere Saturday night? They’d attend in much greater numbers. Hardcore fans? Home by early afternoon and can watch the all of the other CFB games the rest of the day. Casual fans? Can still have most of their Saturday to do dumb non CFB things.
That said, it fucking baffles me that guys like Wilner are trying to come up with these creative ways to give the Pac12 more exposure in ridiculous ways instead of just stating the obvious - fire Larry Scott and re-set that entire fucking Pac12 Networks shit show. That is the sole problem with the exposure issue.
Switch out beer/hotdogs for Bloody Marys/pancakes at the tailgates (hi @Swaye). Boom! Done!
edit: I am of course down with pancakes, and all that implies, but I am warming to this idea of early kick offs and the thought of breakfast sausages, egg sandwiches and Mimosas!
The Dawg Pack would be 80% empty for a 9am kickoff. Students, especially those who only go to games for the social aspect, aren’t going to wake their asses up that early on a Saturday. Same goes for most early 20s fans.
Which returns us to @Meek’s earlier point about how our conference should’ve shit canned Champagne Larry a long time ago and gotten a better TV deal.
Believe you me, I sure as shit didn’t want to get up that early in my twenties. I don’t know what the sweet spot for kickoff times either to keep all segments of the fan base happy, but keeping things as they are isn’t a solution.
Might have a better chance getting to E1 buying an 8 ball at 3am after the bars let out and going on a hallucinatory vision quest than setting an alarm for 7.