So I see you never been to a Nov /December Chicago Bears game ??
No, but I do remember watching the 49ers beat the Bears 28-3 in the snow on TV in the 1989 NFC Championship game and it was -26 degrees or something like that. ?
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198901080chi.htm says that the weather that day was 20 degrees, 72% relative humidity, 29mph wind, 2 wind chill. But the asterisk says that the weather listed was game day weather, not game time weather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_NFL_playoffs#NFC_Championship:_San_Francisco_49ers_28,_Chicago_Bears_3 says that game time temperature was 17 degrees, with -26 wind chill and gusts up to 30mph.
My father went to the Ice Bowl and it was COLD. My mother swears he didn’t thaw for 3 days. There is a reason Packer fans wear snowmobile suits or hunting jackets to games or own those big Packer stadium coats. I just don’t see college kids sitting in 0 degree weather in late Dec when they have a final the next day.
College football isn’t going into Jan. I think they’ll play a shortened season, maybe conference only. If there are bowl games, they’ll be at the regular times in late Dec and Jan.
^ Nah, just continue the season in the spring.
That would be almost as cold as going to a San Francisco Giants game at Candlestick Park in July.
Another problem with the Pac-12 Network is that Bill Walton works as a color man on the basketball broadcasts. I love watching sports on TV, but if there’s any one announcer that can drive me away from watching an event, it’s Bill Walton. It’s like listening to a guy with dementia on an acid trip.
How many people do you think would have watched a game between Indiana and Minnesota? USC-UCLA was a game between two bad teams, and people weren’t interested because of that, not because they were Pac-12 teams. People don’t watch games because of the particular conference they’re in. They watch or don’t watch because of the teams that are playing, and if there’s anything on the line.
I will say that people on the West Coast aren’t nearly as rabid about college football as those in the Midwest and Southeast. But that’s been the case for years, and it didn’t stop the Pac-12 from producing dominant teams like USC that were followed just as much as teams anywhere else in the country.
OUCH!
Well, then, I guess my memory hasn’t failed yet. ?
^^^I second this. Walton often will fight with his partner on the broadcast. I love watching the early season Maui b-ball tourney, with some of the best teams in the country, but I had to avoid Walton’s games.
I earned a “Croix De Candlestick.”
I don’t know about moving FB further into winter. Toughing it out in the snow for four hours on game day is one thing, but practicing in the cold where there’s less adrenaline and more standing around listening is not going to work everywhere. Professional teams in cold climates have indoor practice facilities, but many colleges do not, and that’s doubly so at non-D1 programs. You might work out in the fieldhouse, but you can’t tackle at all without some sort of surface to work on.
I expect that if they pushed the season back it would still likely end before Christmas. They could eliminate a bye week or two, maybe cut out one non-conference game and have a season that starts in mid-October and still finishes before Christmas.
Then they could still run the bowl games during Christmas break but with just one week of practice instead of the usual month and push the playoffs off until later in January, maybe the week before the Super Bowl or something.
I mean we don’t really NEED to see Alabama play Western Carolina or New Mexico State. And we don’t really NEED to see Clemson play Charlotte and Wofford (their 2019 non-conference opponents).
“3) Michigan $122.3m / $74.9m”
I had to look this up because I didn’t believe it at first, but supposedly the Michigan healthcare system totally dwarfs anything else on campus. According to their annual report, UM’s healthcare system bring in $4.4 billion. That’s a staggering difference in scale, I don’t think UM is going to worry about any sport being cancelled.
“This explains why the head football coach gets a reserved parking space:”
You know who gets reserved spots at Berkeley? their Nobel laureates on staff. Here’s a blurb from wsj:
“UC Berkeley’s eight current Nobel laureates, the winner of the Fields Medal in mathematics and the chancellor hold the only reserved parking spots, out of about 5,500 on campus,”
I didn’t graduate from a pac-12 school, so no skin in the game, if insiders want him gone, that’s fine. But don’t expect a place like Stanford to sell out its academic program when a new commish steps in.
Interesting comparison that I have not seen made elsewhere. Out of curiosity I looked up my alma matter, UW in Seattle.
Total annual revenues from the UW Medical Center? $3.2 billion. https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/500008/University_of_Washington_Medical_Center-Montlake/Seattle/Washington/
Football revenues and amount going to the university?
- Univ. of Washington $84m / $43.5m
The SEC presidents will vote soon on whether to bring the football players back to campus June 1st or 15th.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_80c84ad4-95fc-11ea-8123-1bcb30b80a97.html
I guess it “Just Means More” in the SEC.
Interesting. That seems like an atrocious idea to me, but I guess we’ll see. Are they going to test all players and staff before the first case, or after? Will players from hard-hit areas be quarantined at first?
At a lot of these schools the players were already taking online classes, so it’s easier to quarantine them in the football complex.
The players may have the campus to themselves. Most schools are only having summer school online and have cancelled all the summer camps and conferences.
LOL… indeedy
A sports-obsessed friend told me that ESPN changed its logo… it now says “we miss it too.”