Stanford Game Time Discussion *Not Announced*

[Gennaker Cane]

I would guess 5 or 5:30 local time, 8 or 8:30 Eastern like a lot of others did. Fox could move any of their games to Friday but they don't have anything that is nearly as appealing as this game, and ESPN is going to want to make sure nothing competes with us, so I'm not worried about a 7 or 7:30 Pacific Time kickoff. Traffic in the Bay Area flat out sucks anywhere near rush hour, but the saving grace here might be that a lot of people will be heading to Tahoe for Labor Day weekend and maybe it makes Palo Alto and the peninsula traffic better.
This game will sell out- it's more exotic than their rivalry games with ND and Cal, they have a new coach, and this is the game that they're using to sell other games. I haven't seen a Canes opening game since 1995 vs. UCLA in the Rose Bowl so I'm looking forward to righting that history. Only 4 more months to go. . .

 

[cookies]

The situation here is unique IMO with such a weak slate on Friday. Also there haven’t really been any marquee or worthwhile games from an ESPN perspective to even air in a prime slot on a Friday. Any decent match up they have had was paired with another Game for the 7pm slot. All the marquee west coast teams have been on Fox/FS. Both Washington and Oregon played at 9pm in 2024. Boise did have an 8pm but they are MT. All these games beyond week 1 as well.

student attendance won’t matter. First day of Stanford quarter is 9/22.

MNF/TNF starts at 815 in all the west coast locales. MLB play offs will be 8pm start also, even in LA.

Goddammit…… i got beat at my own game (using research to aid myself). Great point about students and you are right about the weak slate. The only complication to that would be how the US Open schedule factors into all of this.

 

[Calinative]

So, 5 pm PST?

I’d guess 6 pst

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

The situation here is unique IMO with such a weak slate on Friday. Also there haven’t really been any marquee or worthwhile games from an ESPN perspective to even air in a prime slot on a Friday. Any decent match up they have had was paired with another Game for the 7pm slot. All the marquee west coast teams have been on Fox/FS. Both Washington and Oregon played at 9pm in 2024. Boise did have an 8pm but they are MT. All these games beyond week 1 as well.

student attendance won’t matter. First day of Stanford quarter is 9/22.

MNF/TNF starts at 815 in all the west coast locales. MLB play offs will be 8pm start also, even in LA.

This is pretty much my whole point. There's zero competition that day. It's kind of crazy, actually. I know this is all still relatively new, we haven't been playing on Friday nights for 30 years but I can't remember a Week 1 Friday night where NOBODY besides one marquee team is playing. The other 3 games are ESPN3 or that lower tier CBS station type games. We already know our game is on the main ESPN. Would they really wait until 9:00 eastern to start the only game they're broadcasting that night? That doesn't make any sense. Tennis is the one wrench though....

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Not that long ago, actually. A lot of schools setup their classes by having a course that meets M/W/F and ones that meet Te/Th with the former being shorter in time than the latter. It also isn’t unusual for Friday only classes to be held 1:30 to 4:30.

It’s really not about whether or not tens of thousands of Stanford fans can readjust their schedules around this game; it’s about historically what has happened and why it has happened. Much easier to not readjust so many people’s routines.

Re Cal, that game was on a Saturday. Couldn’t find and don’t remember a west coast team starting at 4:30 to 530 pacific time when they are the home team.

I knew you were going to do this. Just make up some nonsense to defend your overreach.

Miami and Stanford are PRIVATE schools. They can do whatever the **** they want to do.

I know full well what MWF classes are, compared to TuTh classes. I went to UM for my undergrad, MBA, and law degrees. Miami didn't schedule any classes past 1 pm on Friday. Now, having said that, I'm friends with a poster on this board who is a faculty member at UM, who teaches a SATURDAY class in the fall semester. So I do know that there are exceptions, which predominantly only impact a small number of students, and mostly GRADUATE students, not the undergrads who make up the lion's share of students who attend football games. At ANY university.

Again, you are ignoring the fact that the UM-Stanford game is on a holiday weekend. And the fact that Stanford has an on-campus stadium. Just like MANY schools that have cancelled some of all of their Friday classes when they have a big Friday game scheduled, this isn't nearly as complicated or challenging as you are making it out to be.

As for what you can "find" and "remember" about west coast teams, don't bother. I have a close friend (former boss) who is a USC alum who lives in LA. I definitely know of a few times he's done the "breakfast tailgate" (more of a Saturday thing). But, hey, if you also need to "remember" a west coast team starting early on a Friday, how about LAST YEAR with USC.

OH MY GOD! Think of all the rescheduled classes! Think of all the boosters trying to commute to a Friday game at 6 pm! Think of all the refs trying to get to the kickoff on time!

Why can't you just admit that you turned a molehill into a mountain? Nope, you are going to keep giving us vague qualifying terms like "historically what has happened and why it has happened", when you can't even "find" or "remember" a game from LAST YEAR that was hosted by one of the best universities on the west coast.

Stop guessing. Do the research. Don't generalize. Be accurate before you post.

And stop digging your heels.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

I’d guess 6 pst

Yeah, I'm not splitting hairs over 5 pm PST vs. 6 pm PST. I was simply building off the normal "prime time" start of 8 pm east coast.

I also just posted that LAST YEAR's game of NW at USC began at 6 pm PST. This cookies guy didn't make much of an effort to find examples, he just gave a bunch of baseless generalizations.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

This is pretty much my whole point. There's zero competition that day. It's kind of crazy, actually. I know this is all still relatively new, we haven't been playing on Friday nights for 30 years but I can't remember a Week 1 Friday night where NOBODY besides one marquee team is playing. The other 3 games are ESPN3 or that lower tier CBS station type games. We already know our game is on the main ESPN. Would they really wait until 9:00 eastern to start the only game they're broadcasting that night? That doesn't make any sense. Tennis is the one wrench though....

I'd also point out that with nearly every big conference going to 9 conference games...it has cut down on a lot of these big Week 1 opportunities. Most schools want to schedule a cannon-fodder opponent over the Labor Day weekend rather than a quality opponent.

 

[cookies]

I knew you were going to do this. Just make up some nonsense to defend your overreach.

Miami and Stanford are PRIVATE schools. They can do whatever the **** they want to do.

I know full well what MWF classes are, compared to TuTh classes. I went to UM for my undergrad, MBA, and law degrees. Miami didn't schedule any classes past 1 pm on Friday. Now, having said that, I'm friends with a poster on this board who is a faculty member at UM, who teaches a SATURDAY class in the fall semester. So I do know that there are exceptions, which predominantly only impact a small number of students, and mostly GRADUATE students, not the undergrads who make up the lion's share of students who attend football games. At ANY university.

Again, you are ignoring the fact that the UM-Stanford game is on a holiday weekend. And the fact that Stanford has an on-campus stadium. Just like MANY schools that have cancelled some of all of their Friday classes when they have a big Friday game scheduled, this isn't nearly as complicated or challenging as you are making it out to be.

As for what you can "find" and "remember" about west coast teams, don't bother. I have a close friend (former boss) who is a USC alum who lives in LA. I definitely know of a few times he's done the "breakfast tailgate" (more of a Saturday thing). But, hey, if you also need to "remember" a west coast team starting early on a Friday, how about LAST YEAR with USC.

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OH MY GOD! Think of all the rescheduled classes! Think of all the boosters trying to commute to a Friday game at 6 pm! Think of all the refs trying to get to the kickoff on time!

Why can't you just admit that you turned a molehill into a mountain? Nope, you are going to keep giving us vague qualifying terms like "historically what has happened and why it has happened", when you can't even "find" or "remember" a game from LAST YEAR that was hosted by one of the best universities on the west coast.

Stop guessing. Do the research. Don't generalize. Be accurate before you post.

And stop digging your heels.

Just like i made up Jai Lucas being a good hire and you guaranteed to me a dozen times it was the worst hire ever? Tell me how your boy Richard Pitino is doing at Xavier again? Thats right u tucked your tail in ever since.

Your whole act is tired and not even going to bother to reply to this long-winded nonsense. You ignored everything about the US Open and you ignored the previous reply in this thread where i tell a poster he made a good catch because Stanford wouldn’t have even classes started by then.

Nothing about Stanford and Miami being private schools has any relevance to the scheduling process nor did i say anything about public/private differences mattering. I went to UM (for a year) and elsewhere….UM isn’t unique in that scheduling process.

You should STFU you dumb mf acting like you know everything and anything …..this is a ****** message board weirdo. I wrote the words COULDN’T FIND and DON’T REMEMBER. We’re ****** talking **** about a potential kickoff start and you are about to have an aneurysm because of it.

 

[cookies]

I knew you were going to do this. Just make up some nonsense to defend your overreach.

Miami and Stanford are PRIVATE schools. They can do whatever the **** they want to do.

I know full well what MWF classes are, compared to TuTh classes. I went to UM for my undergrad, MBA, and law degrees. Miami didn't schedule any classes past 1 pm on Friday. Now, having said that, I'm friends with a poster on this board who is a faculty member at UM, who teaches a SATURDAY class in the fall semester. So I do know that there are exceptions, which predominantly only impact a small number of students, and mostly GRADUATE students, not the undergrads who make up the lion's share of students who attend football games. At ANY university.

Again, you are ignoring the fact that the UM-Stanford game is on a holiday weekend. And the fact that Stanford has an on-campus stadium. Just like MANY schools that have cancelled some of all of their Friday classes when they have a big Friday game scheduled, this isn't nearly as complicated or challenging as you are making it out to be.

As for what you can "find" and "remember" about west coast teams, don't bother. I have a close friend (former boss) who is a USC alum who lives in LA. I definitely know of a few times he's done the "breakfast tailgate" (more of a Saturday thing). But, hey, if you also need to "remember" a west coast team starting early on a Friday, how about LAST YEAR with USC.

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OH MY GOD! Think of all the rescheduled classes! Think of all the boosters trying to commute to a Friday game at 6 pm! Think of all the refs trying to get to the kickoff on time!

Why can't you just admit that you turned a molehill into a mountain? Nope, you are going to keep giving us vague qualifying terms like "historically what has happened and why it has happened", when you can't even "find" or "remember" a game from LAST YEAR that was hosted by one of the best universities on the west coast.

Stop guessing. Do the research. Don't generalize. Be accurate before you post.

And stop digging your heels.

The funniest thing about this post is you are so pressed to rush and tell me I’m wrong YOUR DUMBASS DIDN’T CHECK THE FINE PRINT…..ALL GAMETIMES ARE IN PACIFIC TIME LMFAOOOOO

Bozo waited a year and some change to score some internet points…..hundreds of words later he still missed lmfao. Get some glasses. Your vision gets worse as you age

 

[MiamisMoperiestMopes]

This is pretty much my whole point. There's zero competition that day. It's kind of crazy, actually. I know this is all still relatively new, we haven't been playing on Friday nights for 30 years but I can't remember a Week 1 Friday night where NOBODY besides one marquee team is playing. The other 3 games are ESPN3 or that lower tier CBS station type games. We already know our game is on the main ESPN. Would they really wait until 9:00 eastern to start the only game they're broadcasting that night? That doesn't make any sense. Tennis is the one wrench though....

If it follows by day like last year, it will be third round. I’ll wager it’s a non issue.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Goddammit…… i got beat at my own game (using research to aid myself). Great point about students and you are right about the weak slate. The only complication to that would be how the US Open schedule factors into all of this.

You just keep digging yourself deeper, trying to rehabilitate your original ****post.

You're talking about Friday night on the first week of the tennis tournament.

There is, literally, a snowball's chance in **** of ESPN showing some third-round tennis highlights show...over a live Stanford-Miami football game.

I know, let's just move the college football season 2 weeks later so we don't all suffer the heartbreak of choosing between watching tennis or football...

 

[cookies]

Yeah, I'm not splitting hairs over 5 pm PST vs. 6 pm PST. I was simply building off the normal "prime time" start of 8 pm east coast.

I also just posted that LAST YEAR's game of NW at USC began at 6 pm PST. This cookies guy didn't make much of an effort to find examples, he just gave a bunch of baseless generalizations.

YOU ARE ****** DUMBER THAN DIRT. LMFAO

Gotta figure 8:30 EST at the earliest

So i need to revise my estimation from 830 to 9 PM at the earliest. I don’t think they’ll start later than 9:30 tho.

I’ve been saying they will start at 530 Pacific to 6:30 pacific before you made a single comment

 

[JHallCanes]

This is pretty much my whole point. There's zero competition that day. It's kind of crazy, actually. I know this is all still relatively new, we haven't been playing on Friday nights for 30 years but I can't remember a Week 1 Friday night where NOBODY besides one marquee team is playing. The other 3 games are ESPN3 or that lower tier CBS station type games. We already know our game is on the main ESPN. Would they really wait until 9:00 eastern to start the only game they're broadcasting that night? That doesn't make any sense. Tennis is the one wrench though....

Yeah I think the “prime time” is a bit of semantics since I’ve seen ESPN do big games as late as 9. I mean they start the coverage like two hours before it so it’s still considered “prime” they just don’t care people fall asleep half way through because it still counts as a click

(Being half serious)

 

[TheOriginalCane]

The funniest thing about this post is you are so pressed to rush and tell me I’m wrong YOUR DUMBASS DIDN’T CHECK THE FINE PRINT…..ALL GAMES ARE IN THE PACIFIC TIMEZONE LMFAOOOOO

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Bozo waited a year and some change to score some internet points…..hundreds of words later he still missed lmfao. Get some glasses. Your vision gets worse as you age

Which part of that did you not understand? I typed PST every time.

Yes, the 6 pm PST game on a Friday night would be a 9 pm EST on the east coast.

Or are you honestly too stupid to realize that NOBODY claimed that the game would start at 3 pm PST?

Please, for the love of god, tell me that you are NOT this stupid.

Yes, an east coast PRIME TIME game (8 pm and 9 pm would be prime time slots on the east coast) would involve a 5 pm or 6 pm start time on the west coast.

You can't be this stupid...or are you just that stupid?

 

[cookies]

Which part of that did you not understand? I typed PST every time.

Yes, the 6 pm PST game on a Friday night would be a 9 pm EST on the east coast.

Or are you honestly too stupid to realize that NOBODY claimed that the game would start at 3 pm PST?

Please, for the love of god, tell me that you are NOT this stupid.

Yes, an east coast PRIME TIME game (8 pm and 9 pm would be prime time slots on the east coast) would involve a 5 pm or 6 pm start time on the west coast.

You can't be this stupid...or are you just that stupid?

You’re a moron fighting ghosts. Leave me alone lmfao

 

[NCCanefan]

If I have to wait exactly 4 months and 6 hours from now to watch the game or4 months and 9 hours I really don't care. The 4 months is the tough part. The hours is rounding error.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

YOU ARE ****** DUMBER THAN DIRT. LMFAO

Says the moron who can't read "PST" and "EST" when I ******* type it in the post.

You might be the dumbest poster that has ever posted on this board, which is saying quite a bit, because TouchMoney posts here too.

And for the record, please take note of which ONE of your ****posts I responded to. It was the really dumb one that said nothing of what you just posted.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

You’re a moron fighting ghosts. Leave me alone lmfao

Stop trying to gaslight people, you liar. Here is the full post that YOU WROTE and I responded to.

All of your little clip-art where you said something different is meaningless. Sure, you finally started to listen to people who were mocking your "but the classes, but the boosters, but the referrees" nonsense.

Stop lying, and just admit you were wrong. It's not hard. Stop bull****ting everyone.

 

[JHallCanes]

I like to see everyone hitting the sleds and working after practice is over by the way

We can’t just dive in to hating on Dawsons playcalling on the first series. Gotta warm up with a hypothetical game time first

 

[Felonious Monk]

Not to be that guy, but we'll still be on Daylight Saving Time on Sep 4, so it will be EDT/PDT, not EST/PST.

But other than that, thank you all for making my Monday meeting more tolerable.