Mayo Bowl
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Yes. It was the Tire Bowl when Pitt played UVA, and Wlat chose not to put Larry on the field for what would have been the winning touchdown drive.
It could be the weed eater or gasparilla bowl. Call it what you want as long as the $$$$$$$ keep coming.
Duke’s mayo is the perfect condiment for your Bojangles chicken sandwich.
I lost track, but I thought it was the Continental Tire Bowl when Wannstedt was there with Shady.
oh no i had repressed that memory. Walt was a great play caller & somehow left the best player in college football off the field @ the end of the game?
He should have thrown him the ball, but he didn't even have him on the field as a diversion to keep UVA's D honest.
He allowed them to stuff the box and tried to run for it. Three times? That part I repressed.
It was the Meinecke Car Care Bowl then, and that was the Dion Lewis season in 2009. Shady's last season was the 2008 Brut Sun Bowl.
I think it was the Winston Cigarettes Are Good For You Bowl when they snubbed Pitt in 1963.
Good call, I totally did not remember it being called Meineke.
Plus I suggested the name Queen City bowl, not realizing that it was the original name of that bowl.
Another reason the NCAA should prohibit private bowl games. Get rid of them all (except maybe 6-7 like the Rose, Sugar, Orange, etc) and make your own bowl games. Instead of outsourcing a bowl game in Charlotte, own it yourself and call it the Carolinas Bowl or whatever. Also, you get to keep all the money. How cool is that?
If you think that the NCAA (of all organizations!) would take over the bowl games and then NOT sell naming rights to the games then you really haven't paid much attention to the NCAA, have you?
The Athletic says that companies spend a total of around $100 million every year for the naming rights to bowl games. Do you really thing that the NCAA turns down $100 million so they can name the game the Carolina Bowl? Seriously?
Joe, have you ever seen anything in his posts to lead you to believe he pays attention?
And yet, its still called the NCAA Tournament instead of the AT&T Tournament or the AT&T NCAA Tournament. Imagine the amount of money they are leaving on the table by not granting naming rights to their marquee event?
By disallowing private bowl games, they can keep ALL the money. So instead of keeping a small portion of the proceeds from the Mayonnaise Bowl, they can keep 100% of the proceeds from the Mayonnaise Carolinas Bowl.
Actually the NCAA basketball tournament has what the NCAA calls "presenting sponsors". Coke, Capital One and yes, AT&T. They obviously think that that can make more money splitting the sponsorship among three companies rather than taking a larger number from only one.
And in any event, the NCAA can't take over the bowl games unless the schools allow it to. And why would the schools give up ANY control over college athletics most lucrative property? The P5 conferences all understand that the way the system is now they get ALL the football postseason money. The day they would allow (and they most certainly would have to allow it) the NCAA to take that over is the day that the conferences and the schools start making less money.
It's as if you don't understand that the NCAA is merely an association of the schools, not some entity that sprung up naturally to run college athletics.
I know what the NCAA is and do you really think its more profitable for the NCAA to have 10 presenting sponsors of the NCAA Tournament than calling it the AT&T NCAA Tournament and still having those 10 companies as "corporate champions" or whatever? Obviously, the NCAA (yea, I know, the schools, duh) are leaving money on the table. The same goes for bowl games. The NCAA allows third party profiteers to make money off of them instead of running the games themselves. The NCAA can flip a switch and run all the bowl games themselves and keep all the money. The reason they don't do this is because of the lobbying group (College Bowl Association or something to that effect) efforts of wining, dining, and bribing. Bowl games are as dirty a business as there is.
They absolutely, positively can NOT do anything of the sort. You clearly do not understand what the NCAA is and what the NCAA's role is. The NCAA answers to the schools, the schools don't answer to the NCAA. The only way that the NCAA could take over the college football postseason would be if the schools allowed the NCAA to do it, and the schools have absolutely no interest in anything like that.
Football:
"Conferences earned a total profit of $448 million from bowl games during the 2017-18 college football postseason, according to NCAA documents obtained by USA Today, with most revenue stemming from the College Football Playoff and major bowl games such as the Cotton Bowl."
Basketball:
"The NCAA paid conferences $216 million in 2018 — $273,500 per unit for tournament results from 2012-2017."
Which do you think that the P5 schools more want to protect, the $448 million NET, most of which goes to the P5 schools, or the $216 million GROSS, much more of which goes to non-P5 schools?
The P5 schools will never allow the NCAA to take over the football postseason. NEVER. The fact that you don't understand that and think that it's the NCAA that would make that decision is just another example of something that you know that is so far divorced from reality that it's funny.
Do you not understand by saying "NCAA," I mean the schools? Do I have to be super specific for you? Yes, of course, I know the member schools (ie the NCAA) would have to vote to do this. Why would they? Well, they'd make more money because they would own the bowl games instead of letting someone else reap the profits. Why don't they? Lobbying and bribes.
I think they should call it the Viagra Bowl. Now that's a game I could get up for.
The problem with that is that today's games could easily go longer than 4 hours, and then everybody in attendance would have to see a doctor.
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