ESPN has playoff baseball today and tonight so that crammed some of their games to the morning slot.
Now I see why there were so many 11 am games.
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I'm just not feeling a marquee game at 11 AM. I wish they would stop doing that. Needs to be at night.
Yeah big noon Saturday became a thing to try to compete with the sec. Then they are making a big deal out of " taking" the cbs slot but cbs didn't want to pay up for sec.
ESPN does this every year on the day CBS has their doubleheader with a prime time game. They cram the 11 am slot.
I bet under the new deal we see the 3 best games at 2:30, 7, and 11 with the others scattered throughout.
As long as we are winning them, I say we take all the 11:00 slots.
I keep hearing the argument that the networks say the 11AM game is their biggest time slot (most profitable/viewers) just have after the prime time slot. I have no idea if this true or not, but for the fans who attend the games it will always be the worst. Anyway, having said that, I thought the crowd was very good Saturday. Also, I really like the 4th quarter start music….the cowbells were loud this past weekend during that segment.
All games will be on ESPN with the new deal correct? I don’t see why they wouldn’t move the afternoon game to 3 now. Gameday always goes over so the 11 o’clock kick is really 11:15, and games all last 3 and a half hours now.
More games on ESPN had to be at 11am last week because CBS has the exclusive 2:30 and prime time windows when they have a prime time game except for games that air on the SEC Network. So the prime time game that would normally air on ESPN (which surely would’ve been the Tenn-LSU game) had to air at 11am to not conflict with the CBS games.