LSU Complaining About 11:00 Start Time

[BrunswickDawg]

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?

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.

[ShotgunDawg]

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.

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.

[BrunswickDawg]

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.

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

[ShotgunDawg]

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

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.