Gonzaga vs. Baylor: Bulldogs Smash Bears on Opening Night

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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.