UK vs UL will be a Nooner

[Joneslab]

I chuckle over fans (not just UK fans - fans in general) who complain about noon to 1:00 starts.

I complain about them because they sit there right in the middle of the day. If you set up things with the family, it's a much better atmosphere when it's an evening start time. You can sort of plan your entire afternoon/night around it.

When Kentucky plays early afternoon games I have to watch by myself 100% of the time. Everybody I know is at work. They've got other things going on. Kid stuff. During the evenings you can almost always clear out that time for the game.

Feel the same way about other sports. If I were just sitting in a chair and catching the game with just me I wouldn't care, but that's not how my posse rolls. We'll have 15 to 20 strong sometimes. Noon games? Me and my son eating stale chips.

And football--and baseball--under lights is just more majestic. They play big-time playoff games at night for this reason. A noon start is the time they start bottom-feeder bowls and JV games and opening acts.

[Joneslab]

Like this game, for instance: I won't be able to watch it. Maybe not a single second of it. Kids' birthday party.

I'm usually able to clear out my schedule when the Cats are on. Almost always I just give people a cold, dead stare when they ask me to do something during a gameday. But this is something I can't miss, nor can I DVR because we'll have dads there intent on checking their phones.

Just a complete disaster.

Not that I think it's going to necessarily matter much as we're going to lose, but I'd like to be able to at least watch it. Nope.

[JFCats22]

12:00 games are awful. Awful for ratings, awful for tailgating, awful for student attendance, awful for big/rowdy crowds...there is nothing good about them. Except (in this instance) you have the rest of the weekend to forget about the beating they are going to take.

[surveyor]

And football--and baseball--under lights is just more majestic. They play big-time playoff games at night for this reason. A noon start is the time they start bottom-feeder bowls and JV games and opening acts.

The point I was making is that it wasn't always like that. Hell, Ohio State for the longest time didn't install lights because prime time was a noon start on a Saturday.

I agree with the earlier post that tailgating has the most to do with disliking the noon starts and is the primary driver. That's the same reason many don't like a Thursday night or Friday night game. Recently, thursday night games have become one of the sought after nights with Oregon, Florida State, Clemson and a host of other top 25 teams playing Thursday and drawing big ratings. However, those nights aren't as favored by fans attending the games because tailgating can't be done by many unless they leave work early - and many can't do that.

As for the hyperbolic "JV games and opening acts" four of the games at noon this week feature 3 top 15 teams and 2 top 25 teams. Week after Thanksgiving will feature bottom feeding scum Ohio State and Michigan in a noon matchup.

[Joneslab]

The point I was making is that it wasn't always like that.

It also wasn't a cultural juggernaut until recently.

Does UK have any kind of history as far as national television goes? I legitimately don't know. I can't remember watching UK games on TV until the Curry era. I'm not even sure in the '90s you could find all but the most high-profile games on television.

[KevinHall]

It also wasn't a cultural juggernaut until recently.

Does UK have any kind of history as far as national television goes? I legitimately don't know. I can't remember watching UK games on TV until the Curry era. I'm not even sure in the '90s you could find all but the most high-profile games on television.

College football on TV mainly consisted of ABC carrying regional games in the early afternoon for a long time. Sometimes a national game like USC/ND or Oklahoma/Nebraska.Games were only afternoon affairs. LSU is the only team back then that had night games. They were very unique for doing that. First time I remember watching UK on Tv was during Curci's first year or two. They were on regional broadcast like I mentioned. They were actually on back to back weeks against Florida and Vanderbilt. They won both too.I had to go to my Grandma's house to watch because we didn't get an ABC channel at the time. I'm sure UK has very little history of being on national or regional TV before the cable explosion of the 80's.

[Wonderstruck]

I complain about them because they sit there right in the middle of the day. If you set up things with the family, it's a much better atmosphere when it's an evening start time. You can sort of plan your entire afternoon/night around it.

When Kentucky plays early afternoon games I have to watch by myself 100% of the time. Everybody I know is at work. They've got other things going on. Kid stuff. During the evenings you can almost always clear out that time for the game.

Feel the same way about other sports. If I were just sitting in a chair and catching the game with just me I wouldn't care, but that's not how my posse rolls. We'll have 15 to 20 strong sometimes. Noon games? Me and my son eating stale chips.

And football--and baseball--under lights is just more majestic. They play big-time playoff games at night for this reason. A noon start is the time they start bottom-feeder bowls and JV games and opening acts.

Go to the store and buy fresh chips.

[Joneslab]

Go to the store and buy fresh chips.

I like Mike Sells cheese puffs.

[VirginiaBlue]

Well, for all you folks that have washed your hands of this team, look at it this way: we'll be getting the season over that much quicker if we start at noon.

I, however, am a "glass still has something in it" kinda guy. I think if the Cats show up for the game with the same attitude they had last year, and the coaching staff doesn't get in the way, we will finish up 6-6, get us a bowl game against somebody like East Carolina, and close out the season on a (small) uptick. Hope springs eternal, and next August we will buy in again.

[bigblue4life]

12:00 games are awful. Awful for ratings, awful for tailgating, awful for student attendance, awful for big/rowdy crowds...there is nothing good about them. Except (in this instance) you have the rest of the weekend to forget about the beating they are going to take.

I'm actually OK with an occasional 12N game. UK and UL (especially UK) earned this time slot with their poor play. The one other good thing about the early start is that we'll know that much quicker whether or not we'll go bowling.

[fastkat]

College football on TV mainly consisted of ABC carrying regional games in the early afternoon for a long time. Sometimes a national game like USC/ND or Oklahoma/Nebraska.Games were only afternoon affairs. LSU is the only team back then that had night games. They were very unique for doing that. First time I remember watching UK on Tv was during Curci's first year or two. They were on regional broadcast like I mentioned. They were actually on back to back weeks against Florida and Vanderbilt. They won both too.I had to go to my Grandma's house to watch because we didn't get an ABC channel at the time. I'm sure UK has very little history of being on national or regional TV before the cable explosion of the 80's.

On Sunday at Noon ABC had a highlight show of all the regional games. The show open had the line "The color and pageantry that is college football".

UK played IU on one of the regional games around 1968-69. IU hung 50+ on us that day. I think Bernie Scruggs was the QB for us.

[KevinHall]

On Sunday at Noon ABC had a highlight show of all the regional games. The show open had the line "The color and pageantry that is college football".

UK played IU on one of the regional games around 1968-69. IU hung 50+ on us that day. I think Bernie Scruggs was the QB for us.

Before my dad got cable we could only receive stations from Tennessee. One from Bristol and the other in Johnson City. On Sundays I would watch the Bill Battle show which basically showed the entire Tennessee game from the day before. I knew more about Tennessee football than I did Kentucky because of the TV stations we could only receive.

[Joneslab]

I knew more about Tennessee football than I did Kentucky because of the TV stations we could only receive.

Same here.

Tennessee football is immensely huge in that part of the state. Our local channels were always out of Knoxville. Seemed like they devoted entire days to these roundtables where they'd break down gametape. It used to make me sick.