LA Gametimes, TV Listings Announced For Georgia, Arkansas State Games

[J-Town Cajun]

This might be the most ____ed off I have ever been as a football season ticket/tailgate holder. I have had tickets and a tailgate spot for over 15 consecutive years. I pay good money every year and do my best to get others to come out.
I had a nice tailgate planned for the Ark St game with some friends and their families coming in from out of town , but with the time change, no chance they are coming now!

I also feel like I was ripped off for the amount of money I spent to own a camper tailgate spot, and now I only get 3 games to tailgate.

[RedCajun]

This might be the most ____ed off I have ever been as a football season ticket/tailgate holder. I have had tickets and a tailgate spot for over 15 consecutive years. I pay good money every year and do my best to get others to come out.
I had a nice tailgate planned for the Ark St game with some friends and their families coming in from out of town , but with the time change, no chance they are coming now!

I also feel like I was ripped off for the amount of money I spent to own a camper tailgate spot, and now I only get 3 games to tailgate.

This was my groups first year with a tailgating spot and we had the last game cirlcled to "do it big". This sucks plain and simple.

____ Scott Farmer
____ John Moon
____ asn
____ suck belt
____ everybody

[CajunDreDog]

I hate Farmer as much as anyone, but I REALLY bet he has LITTLE to NOTHING to do with this. ASN has the TV rights and chooses the kickoff times. They selected another SBC game for the 2:30 slot, leaving us with the 11AM slot.

I'm willing to bet Farmer hates it just as much as we do.

Try and do your tailgate after the game. That's what we did for Boise. We had a light/small breakfast at the tailgate with eggs, pancakes, bacon, etc. And cooked our main meal after the game.


But I agree overall, attendance will suck REALLY BAD! Blame ASN, and ASN ONLY!

[chiefsfan]

You guys had no choice on kickoff time. USA at Idaho is the other game ASN picked up, and I'm fairly confident no one is starting a game in Idaho at 9am PT

That being said, I am curious if teams could have opted out of the ASN telecast, or if this was forced by the TV contract with ESPN and their right to sell games to ASN.

[CajunDreDog]

You guys had no choice on kickoff time. USA at Idaho is the other game ASN picked up, and I'm fairly confident no one is starting a game in Idaho at 9am PT

That being said, I am curious if teams could have opted out of the ASN telecast, or if this was forced by the TV contract with ESPN and their right to sell games to ASN.

I believe, we already opted out of the ASN broadcast of the USA game, so this was the game they chose instead.

ASN wanted to air the LA vs USA game in middle of Sept in south Louisiana at 2:30 PM, and we politely said "____ YOU!" So they said, fine we will air your game against stAte. And told us at that time it would be an 11 AM or 2:30PM kickoff.

[Hark Mudspeth]

I believe, we already opted out of the ASN broadcast of the USA game, so this was the game they chose instead.

ASN wanted to air the LA vs USA game in middle of Sept in south Louisiana at 2:30 PM, and we politely said "____ YOU!" So they said, fine we will air your game against stAte. And told us at that time it would be an 11 AM or 2:30PM kickoff.

Don't think that's quite how it went, if they pick up the game a certain number of days before we don't have a say so in the time...they didn't pick up the south al game soon enough so we did have a say so. If anyone in the department gave them the impression of a polite"____ You!" They just told us "_____you!" Right back.

[CajunDreDog]

This game looks to be on CST also.
http://coxsportstv.com/program-schedule/2016/11/26

[Bankruptcyman]

What would ASN do if we declined to move the game? Someone needs to take a stand. Few people watch our games on TV and those that do will watch it anytime. What moving these games do is kill your live crowd. We don't want to be like the MAC and totally screw our live fans. Will the SBC sue us if we tell ASN we are not moving our game? So what. Dont think the SBC or ASN wants the reputation of sueing schools. Really. What are they going to do? Let them put schools with no fans anyway on daytime TV.

[Hark Mudspeth]

What would ASN do if we declined to move the game? Someone needs to take a stand. Few people watch our games on TV and those that do will watch it anytime. What moving these games do is kill your live crowd. We don't want to be like the MAC and totally screw our live fans. Will the SBC sue us if we tell ASN we are not moving our game? So what. Dont think the SBC or ASN wants the reputation of sueing schools. Really. What are they going to do? Let them put schools with no fans anyway on daytime TV.

I doubt they would have to sue us, I would think the penalty is in the contract we signed when we signed away our rights.

[31Ragin97]

What would ASN do if we declined to move the game? Someone needs to take a stand. Few people watch our games on TV and those that do will watch it anytime. What moving these games do is kill your live crowd. We don't want to be like the MAC and totally screw our live fans. Will the SBC sue us if we tell ASN we are not moving our game? So what. Dont think the SBC or ASN wants the reputation of sueing schools. Really. What are they going to do? Let them put schools with no fans anyway on daytime TV.

They would start filming at game time.... And either show a blank field with empty seats (people may not notice difgerence than normal) or they will show the refs flip the coin with the other team and we forfeit