LSU Complaining About 11:00 Start Time

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Originally Posted by Lumpy Chucklelips

I just looked at this years schedule. I gave each team one 11:00 start. Of the 13 week schedule, I had to match two SEC teams against each other only twice. With a little planning ahead I'm sure they could schedule where out of conference made up the 11:00 kicks. I'm sure every school would rather play say a UMass at 11 instead of an Alabama in our case.

9/2 Ga/App St.
9/9 OM/U.T. Martin
9/16 Aub/Mercer
9/23 Tn/UMass
9/30 LSU/Troy (Sorry LSU; you lost)
10/7 Ky/Mo.
10/14 MSU/BYU
10/21 Mo/Idaho
10/28 Vy/So. Carolina
11/4 Ark/Co. Carolina
11/11 A&M/New Mexico
11/18 Ala/Mercer
11/25 Fla/Fla. St.

This covers all 13 weekends and gives each school one 11:00 start. Why would this be so hard?

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One flaw in this plan (besides FSU/UF) - UGA, TN, SC, KY and UF are all Eastern Time Zone. So any game you have assigned to those sites as an 11:00 is actually a 12:00. It's kicking at 11:00 that is the problem, and the Central schools are the ones who have had to deal with it.

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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg

One flaw in this plan (besides FSU/UF) - UGA, TN, SC, KY and UF are all Eastern Time Zone. So any game you have assigned to those sites as an 11:00 is actually a 12:00. It's kicking at 11:00 that is the problem, and the Central schools are the ones who have had to deal with it.

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Agree. That extra hour is huge.

Most NFL games kick at noon so that's not an unprecedented issue. It's the 11:00 AM games for CST teams.

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg

Agree. That extra hour is huge.

Most NFL games kick at noon so that's not an unprecedented issue. It's the 11:00 AM games for CST teams.

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Maybe I am remembering wrong - but, I seem to remember going to many 12:00 or 1:00 kickoffs in the 90s.

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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg

Maybe I am remembering wrong - but, I seem to remember going to many 12:00 or 1:00 kickoffs in the 90s.

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Hell, even the difference between an 11:30 Jefferson Pilot game vs the 11:00 game was a huge difference.

There is a reason the NFL only plays morning games in London.