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00:00I want to talk about this Gonzaga-Baylor game, which I would love to have more of in seasons
00:08moving forward.
00:10A lot of those 30-point, 35-point blowouts, but that was the one game that I thought kudos
00:18to Gonzaga and the Baylor, a couple of top 25 teams that opened up the season that way.
00:23I wish college basketball would give us more of that to kick off the season as opposed
00:29to some of the cupcakes that we saw with teams like Kansas and Alabama and so on.
00:33Yeah, I think that some of it involves moving back the season to the start of November.
00:40And I think that, I'm not sure of this, but it may have been that started on a Monday
00:45to get away from election day.
00:47That's a possibility.
00:49But if you're going to start the season, you don't start it on a Monday.
00:53It's not a great night for sports generally.
00:57And then you're up against Monday Night Football.
00:59So you look at ESPN's programming Monday Night Football on two to three to four networks
01:04at a time, or channels, I guess I should say.
01:08And so there's a limited opportunity to get your game aired.
01:12In the case of the Baylor game that you mentioned, the Baylor-at-Gonzaga game, they waited that
01:18start until basically the Monday Night Football game between the Chiefs and Bucs was over.
01:24And so you were able to have that.
01:26There was also a game between Ohio State and Texas that was on Turner Sports.
01:31And so those are really your only marquee matchups on opening night, and everybody else
01:35was playing what we call in the business, buy games, where you just buy the opponent.
01:40You don't have to go visit their gym.
01:42And it's good.
01:43Teams need those to develop.
01:46To have a full, steady slate of those games on opening night was certainly not good for the sport.