ncaa late night games

[coolirish9]

coach McGraw basically bashed the ncaa for the 9pm game they played last night saying it made a lot of fans basically stay home because of work and school the next day for people and everybody's also bashing the ncaa and cbs on sports talk radio for the really late 10pm game against butler. what do you people out there think of the late games and plus do you think the ncaa will listen to the complaints and do anything

 

[BGI User 348]

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[silver52]

I very seldom watch a game that starts after 8:00 pm est. With all the games held in the NCAA tournaments, I guess it can't be helped to have late time games. With the various time zones it's tough to keep everyone happy.

 

[IrishHerb]

Originally posted by silver52:
I very seldom watch a game that starts after 8:00 pm est. With all the games held in the NCAA tournaments, I guess it can't be helped to have late time games. With the various time zones it's tough to keep everyone happy.

A 7 pm game in Seattle would be 10 pm in NYC … can't be helped. BUT … having ND-Butler at 10 pm in Pittsburgh, come on.

The NCAA apparently has forgotten or doesn't care that the athletes also are supposed to go to class.

 

[coolirish9]

well coach McGraw said in her presser after last night's game that what her mad was the fact that there was afternoon time open but the ncaa instead decided to put there game at the 9pm time slot

 

[SALittleGiant513]

Originally posted by IrishHerb:

Originally posted by silver52:
I very seldom watch a game that starts after 8:00 pm est. With all the games held in the NCAA tournaments, I guess it can't be helped to have late time games. With the various time zones it's tough to keep everyone happy.

A 7 pm game in Seattle would be 10 pm in NYC … can't be helped. BUT … having ND-Butler at 10 pm in Pittsburgh, come on.

The NCAA apparently has forgotten or doesn't care that the athletes also are supposed to go to class.



The game was on a Saturday night. If they had classes Sunday they weren't going to make them anyways seeing how they would be traveling back to campus.

 

[IrishHerb]

Originally posted by SALittleGiant513:

Originally posted by IrishHerb:

Originally posted by silver52:
I very seldom watch a game that starts after 8:00 pm est. With all the games held in the NCAA tournaments, I guess it can't be helped to have late time games. With the various time zones it's tough to keep everyone happy.

A 7 pm game in Seattle would be 10 pm in NYC … can't be helped. BUT … having ND-Butler at 10 pm in Pittsburgh, come on.

The NCAA apparently has forgotten or doesn't care that the athletes also are supposed to go to class.


The game was on a Saturday night. If they had classes Sunday they weren't going to make them anyways seeing how they would be traveling back to campus.

SAL,

I think the original post referred to the girls' game that was played on Sunday.

Whatever … seems like the NCAA put both ND teams in the 9 pm slot. That coming after the men played their first game at noon on Thursday. And the ladies playing at home where much of the crowd is ND students and local working class people and their children.

Just seems that the NCAA doesn't take into consideration the fact that people may have to go to work the next day or go to school. Its all about TV money.

 

[Izo]

The NCAA women's basketball committee also should consider playing the early rounds on Monday ,Tuesday ,Wednesday instead of competing with the men's games if they want to increase viewership .

 

[coolirish9]

hey IrishHerb the wbb game against Stanford Friday doesn't come on until 10pm so I guess I better get a nap in before the game. I know the next day is Saturday but 10pm is still way too late for some of the older audience since the game won't be over until after midnight

 

[Izo]

As far as UConn ,they played an east coast 9 o'clock game against Rutgers .That is late for fans and people who have to get up early to work .

Speaking of UConn ,their recruiting is getting ridiculous . They have already signed the. #1 player (Samuelson ,6'3" forward from California .her sister played for Stanford) in the 2015 class .In the 2016 class they already have the # 3 player and top point guard committed in Crystal Dangerfield ( from Tennessee surprised Vols couldn't land her ?) and are intensely recruiting the # 1 player ,Lauren Cox (6'4" forward ,excellent ball handler for a tall forward ) ,the # 2 ranked player in Joyner Holmes (6 '3" forward) .plus the # 13 ranked player in Natalie Chou ( 6' 0" guard) .all 3 are from Texas . if UConn signs the #1, # 2, # 3, # 13 players in the 2016 class ,look out .

C Dailey, Auriemma's top recruiter was in Texas watching Lauren Cox (Flower Mound H.S.) play against Natalie Chou (Plano West H.S.) in a state championship contest .Flower Mound lost to Plano West by over 20 points


Auriemma has got a dynasty going, rivaling John Wooden's UCLA's dominance in the seventies .If this continues it will be UConn alone at the top and everybody else fighting to get in the Final Four .

ND will have to recruit top talented tall forwards to have any chance .


As far as Lauren Cox's recruitment ,she has listed 10 schools on her list .One school is SMU where her mother played .Another is Baylor which is only about an hour and a half from her home. I think ND is on her list of 10 .

 

[SALittleGiant513]

I mean its Women's Basketball though

 

[Izo]

Love ND girls' basketball and I do like to watch some high profile teams .

As far as the men's program ,always seem to disappoint me at tournament time. The men's team rarely makes it into the sweet 16 Maybe this time they will get past Wichita St.into elite 8

 

[SALittleGiant513]

My point, while flippant, was that its way easier to have dynasty like run in the women's game because there are only a handful of programs that have the cache to recruit the top tier girls. Further, impacting this situation is that women's basketball at a lot of schools don't have the facilities or budgets to compete with the type of funding that goes on at UCONN where Geno coughs and I imagine donors are getting him Swiss Doctors to check the color of this throat in a hyper-baric chamber.

 

[Izo]

Auriemma is some salesman,hyping the UConn facilities.
The AAC girls basketball conference is very very very weak .40- 50 point blowouts by UConn .The main reason ,the top high school girls commit to UConn ,they 're are practically assured of getting at least one National Championship ring before graduating ,

 

[coolirish9]

well Izo if McGraw and staff can pull in cox who they have a good shot with then they'll be able to match UConn player for player the next few years and be in good shape to beat them in what would be close games. between the 2015.2016 classes our irish are bringing in a group of guards that may be better than any group being brought in from any other school. we have two top 15 players coming in this fall in patiburg from state champs Columbus north and mabrey's sister from jersey. then were bringing a top 15 and now soon to be top ten player in the 2016 class named Jackie young who is absolutely a scoring freak. young averaged over 32 pts this year and became only the fifth player ever in Indiana to score a 1,000 pts in one season and the last player to do it was ucla coach steve alford in the early eighties