"Mini" GameDay

[MarkOU]

 

[tshirt]

Presumably the away team, Oregon, won't travel as well due to it being on a Thursday night. I remember all the excuses when there were empty seats in the PAC CG last year ... all the "the traffic was terrible" posts here.

Uh, this isn't high school and sign making club ... as important as college football is, the idea that any university, especially one the caliber of Stanford would cancel classes for a football game is idiotic. You do realize that a majority of Stanford students will never go to a game, and probably don't have the desire to do so?

U Texas has 38,463 undergrads, U Oregon 20,829. West Point has 4,624 cadets, the Naval Academy 4,576 midshipmen, the Air Force has 4,413 cadets

Stanford only has 6,999 undergrad students. it is the size of a high school. how do you think they get such traditions as:

Stanford’s strange kissing tradition – and 5 other unusual college customs
Stanford?s strange kissing tradition ? and 5 other unusual college customs

Stanford University is known for many
things: its interdisciplinary curriculum,
a heavenly campus, super-smart students
– and the annual kissing event. Yes,
Stanford is famous for its annual ”Full
Moon on the Quad,” which – as the
Stanford Web site explains – is an event
in which “freshmen are kissed at
midnight by seniors under the first full
moon of Fall Quarter.” Almost as famous
is the traditional aftermath: a lot of kids
getting sick from the same virus.
...

 

[LawDawg]

U Texas has 38,463 undergrads, U Oregon 20,829. West Point has 4,624 cadets, the Naval Academy 4,576 midshipmen, the Air Force has 4,413 cadets

Stanford only has 6,999 undergrad students. it is the size of a high school. how do you think they get such traditions as:

Stanford’s strange kissing tradition – and 5 other unusual college customs
Stanford?s strange kissing tradition ? and 5 other unusual college customs

Stanford University is known for many
things: its interdisciplinary curriculum,
a heavenly campus, super-smart students
– and the annual kissing event. Yes,
Stanford is famous for its annual ”Full
Moon on the Quad,” which – as the
Stanford Web site explains – is an event
in which “freshmen are kissed at
midnight by seniors under the first full
moon of Fall Quarter.” Almost as famous
is the traditional aftermath: a lot of kids
getting sick from the same virus.
...

What in the world does this have to do with anything?

Do you really think one of the top 5 universities in the US will cancel classes for a football game? Did you go to college? I went to Vandy, similar in many ways to Stanford. My guess is that about 20% of the Vandy student body ever went to a football game. The other 80% couldn't have cared less, and would have said, WTF ... I am paying for my education and you cancel classes for a stupid game?

 

[RegentDenali]

For why?

Because Nike purchases a lot of ESPNs commercial time.

 

[tshirt]

What in the world does this have to do with anything?

Do you really think one of the top 5 universities in the US will cancel classes for a football game? Did you go to college? I went to Vandy, similar in many ways to Stanford. My guess is that about 20% of the Vandy student body ever went to a football game. The other 80% couldn't have cared less, and would have said, WTF ... I am paying for my education and you cancel classes for a stupid game?

That is because Vandy's football team has been horrible forever. My dad went to a brilliant brainaic university with a crappy football program and he still doesn't care about football. Stanford, on the other hand, is currently a perennial Top 10 (and BCS Bowl) powerhouse

 

[RegentDenali]

ESPN controls the day the games are played?

Yes. Those billion dollar broadcast deals with conferences means that once they exercise their right to broadcast the game, they pick the day and start time. I believe for the PAC, ESPN gets first choice, then Fox, and then PAC12net. The days are then generally set in stone once the PAC announces the season schedule, but times are left open to be decided by whoever broadcasts the game to avoid any over lap.

 

[LawDawg]

That is because Vandy's football team has been horrible forever. My dad went to a brilliant brainaic university with a crappy football program and he still doesn't care about football. Stanford, on the other hand, is currently a perennial Top 10 (and BCS Bowl) powerhouse

You continue to make no sense, and go off on all sorts of tangents. You obviously didn't follow your dad to a brainiac university. I am going to slow it down for you so you can understand.

- I commented on the oddity of a Thursday night football game for the PACs premiere game of the year. You would never see that in any other conference - think OU v. UT, UM v. OSU, or Bama v. LSU as examples. I was truly serious as to why the PAC would do that.

- I said that a 6:00 Thursday game will not be well attended, based on the fact that it is a work day, class day, and the fact that the PAC CG was sparsely attended. You said it would be a sell out because ... well, I am not sure why you said it would be a sell out.

- You mumbled something about what you did in high school and how in high school you made posters or something, and then commented on them canceling classes for the game.

- I responded that is ridiculous, no university especially one of Stanford's class would cancel classes for a stupid football game. Your response seems to be that Vandy sucks, and that Stanford has a good football team ... not really sure what that means, but assume you mean that they are more likely to cancel classes because they are a good football team.

My final conclusion ... you are crazy.

 

[LawDawg]

Yes. Those billion dollar broadcast deals with conferences means that once they exercise their right to broadcast the game, they pick the day and start time. I believe for the PAC, ESPN gets first choice, then Fox, and then PAC12net. The days are then generally set in stone once the PAC announces the season schedule, but times are left open to be decided by whoever broadcasts the game to avoid any over lap.

I get that on a Saturday, but I can't imagine the PAC negotiated a deal that let's ESPN decide if a particular game is on a Thursday night. CBS and ESPN has those same type of options for SEC games, but you won't see Bama v. LSU, or other top games on a Thursday night. My guess is that it is the PAC's decision in an attempt to get some East Coast prime time coverage. The problem is that this game would be more prime time on a Saturday, in my opinion.

 

[ericd7633]

Actually yes the PAC 12 did but this game on THursday. Due to their contract they have with ESPN just like the other conferences you have to have a few games a year on Thursday. THe teams rotate those Thursday night games.

Found out this useful info from Rick Neuheisel today on Sirius Radio. An Oregon fan asked why this game was on Thursday night.

No ESPN scheduled this for Thursday. Stanford was due a Thursday or Friday night home game for this season. ESPN chose Oregon as the opponent. This game was scheduled all the way back in December of last year. ESPN could of had this game on a Saturday if they wanted too.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Presumably the away team, Oregon, won't travel as well due to it being on a Thursday night. I remember all the excuses when there were empty seats in the PAC CG last year ... all the "the traffic was terrible" posts here.

Uh, this isn't high school and sign making club ... as important as college football is, the idea that any university, especially one the caliber of Stanford would cancel classes for a football game is idiotic. You do realize that a majority of Stanford students will never go to a game, and probably don't have the desire to do so?

To those that say ESPN did this, nonsense. Can you see ESPN making Alabama v. LSU play on Thursday? No way the SEC (or the B1G and BigXII ) would have a premiere game on a Thursday night. Not sure why the PAC thinks they need to do this, but it is a terrible idea even though I will be watching.

I remember to. It was embarrassing. Stanford fan just doesnt represent. You never see an empty seat at Autzen no matter the team or game or night of the week. The Ducks sell 5,000 standing room tix every game.

 

[ericd7633]

Presumably the away team, Oregon, won't travel as well due to it being on a Thursday night. I remember all the excuses when there were empty seats in the PAC CG last year ... all the "the traffic was terrible" posts here.

Uh, this isn't high school and sign making club ... as important as college football is, the idea that any university, especially one the caliber of Stanford would cancel classes for a football game is idiotic. You do realize that a majority of Stanford students will never go to a game, and probably don't have the desire to do so?

To those that say ESPN did this, nonsense. Can you see ESPN making Alabama v. LSU play on Thursday? No way the SEC (or the B1G and BigXII ) would have a premiere game on a Thursday night. Not sure why the PAC thinks they need to do this, but it is a terrible idea even though I will be watching.

Read about halfway down the article:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/2...llege-footballs-most-dominant-player-its-espn.

 

[LawDawg]

Read about halfway down the article:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/2...llege-footballs-most-dominant-player-its-espn.

Your URL was a little off, but I found the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sports/ncaafootball/college-footballs-most-dominant-player-its-espn.html

In December, he went looking for a game to showcase nationally in prime time on Nov. 7, 2013, a Thursday nearly a year in the future. He trained his sights on the Pacific-12, one of the nation’s major conferences, and saw that conference rules required one of the hot teams of the moment, Stanford, to host a Thursday or Friday night game in 2013. From a list of Stanford’s potential conference opponents, Mr. Ben-Hanan chose Oregon, which was headed to its fourth consecutive appearance in a Bowl Championship Series game.

The result is what Mr. Ben-Hanan, with only a slightly proprietary claim to prognostication, calls the “Pac-12 game of the year.” The game will also come two days before L.S.U. plays Alabama, turning the weekend into a prospective hot zone on the football calendar. “It will be an opportunity for a game like that to shine,” he said.

We can conclude then that it is the PAC's stupid rules that caused this to happen, right?

 

[LawDawg]

I remember to. It was embarrassing. Stanford fan just doesnt represent. You never see an empty seat at Autzen no matter the team or game or night of the week. The Ducks sell 5,000 standing room tix every game.

How well are you going to travel on a Thursday night? I don't even know how far a drive that would be. I am not busting your chops ... expecting people to travel on a Thursday night is not a smart move by the PAC, even rabid Ducks.

 

[yeodonie]

Game for tomorrow is sold out. Now less than 800 even listed on Stub Hub and most of those are standing room tickets

 

[yeodonie]

Standing room tickets starting at $85

 

[LawDawg]

Game for tomorrow is sold out. Now less than 800 even listed on Stub Hub and most of those are standing room tickets

That's good to hear, but a sellout doesn't equal no empty seats. I am guessing the PAC CG was sold out.

FWIW, I am looking forward to the game and hope it is a wild time.

 

[LawDawg]

That's good to hear, but a sellout doesn't equal no empty seats. I am guessing the PAC CG was sold out.

FWIW, I am looking forward to the game and hope it is a wild time.

Mea culpa:

I guess it makes sense in that this game will likely be better than the CG game?

 

[yeodonie]

That's good to hear, but a sellout doesn't equal no empty seats. I am guessing the PAC CG was sold out.

FWIW, I am looking forward to the game and hope it is a wild time.

Even this close actual seats are still pretty spendy. I used to get Stanford tickets for any game other than Oregon and Notre Dame for under $20

 

[yeodonie]

If the CCG is at Autzen it will be more expensive. Any other locale not so much.

 

[LawDawg]

If the CCG is at Autzen it will be more expensive. Any other locale not so much.

How do they determine the location? I think having it at a neutral site every year is a good thing.