Impact of Scheduling on Caitlin Clark's Rookie Season

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00:02 - I didn't realize, now I knew they played a lot of games

00:08 and they've played, I guess it's 11 over the first few.

00:11 I didn't realize that like Vegas had played like seven,

00:14 other teams have played like eight.

00:16 Like I didn't realize that the gap was that wide.

00:19 And it's specifically for what you said.

00:20 They tried to right out of the gate,

00:23 hammer home as many Caitlin Clark games

00:26 as they possibly could to catch the wave.

00:28 And boy, Mike, if they caught it.

00:31 - Well, they allowed the wave to subsume her.

00:35 She fell off the board

00:36 and went head over heels into the surf.

00:40 And it shouldn't have been that way.

00:42 She should have been allowed to move into her rookie year

00:46 with the same pace as every other rookie in the league.

00:49 75% of the league has played eight or fewer games.

00:53 They've already played 11.

00:56 This is as of Sunday.

00:57 They had already 11 games in the first 20 days of the season

01:01 and that included a road trip that went to Seattle

01:05 from Indianapolis, then to LA and then to Vegas,

01:08 a 4,500 mile road trip that was three games in four days.

01:13 How do you like that?

01:14 That's great stuff.

01:15 That's really treating your prize rookie

01:19 of the player who electrified college basketball

01:22 over the last two years,

01:23 that completely changed the dynamics

01:26 of the viewing patterns for women's college basketball

01:29 and promised to do the same for you based on television,

01:33 excuse me, on ticket sales

01:34 for the first several weeks of the season,

01:37 promised to do the same for you.

01:38 And all you could do was grab everything you could.

01:42 Not let's do this strategically,

01:44 but let's grab as much as we can early

01:47 and who the heck cares if it wrecks her rookie season.

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