Big Game Tragedy

So, the Cal-Stanford Big Game is this Saturday. Some might miss it because it shouldn't be this Saturday. It's not supposed to be this early. Whichever Pac-12 slappy decided to schedule the Big Game in the middle of October should be assigned to some post where they will cause less harm. All of the other Pac-12 rivalry games are scheduled for the end of the season. Where they should be. There must be a reason for this wrong but it can't be a good one. There is no good reason for the Big Game to be this early in the season. It's bad enough that Cal has had a few recent seasons in which the regular season has closed with a team other than Stanford. Even in those messed up seasons Cal and Stanford have at least met in November. This season is a tragedy.

Much of the greatness of rivalry games is the tradition. I don't see why anyone would mess with tradition but they do so repeatedly. Tradition is part of the beauty of college football. Now it's just tossed aside without a thought. Many of the traditional conferences have been blown up or scattered. That's all been about money. Sadly, money has become more important than tradition. Now they are messing with one of the greatest rivalries in all of college football. That has more to do with stupidity than money. It ain't right.

This entire college football season has been something of a disaster. Directv has seen fit to yank Cal games from me because of their idiotic refusal to come to an agreement with the Pac-12 Networks. The supreme sports provider is a supreme moron. It doesn't take a genius to see that the Pac-12 is a major conference. Nearly half of the twelve teams have spent time in the top-10. 3/4 of the teams have been part of the top-25. The conference's presence in college football is significant. Directv is making a real mistake in thinking otherwise. It shows their real lack of sports chops. It's been over thirty years since I last saw so few Cal games. All thanks to the stupidity of Directv. Luckily, one of the few games that I can see is the upcoming Big Game. It just isn't when it should be.