More bowl games
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Completely Appropriate
and in keeping with our new, enlightened attitude that "everyone is a winner, and everyone gets a prize". I'd actually support this if we could just institute the corollary policy that every coach and AD whose team DOESN'T make a bowl game is instantly terminated.
Cruzer
and in keeping with our new, enlightened attitude that "everyone is a winner, and everyone gets a prize". I'd actually support this if we could just institute the corollary policy that every coach and AD whose team DOESN'T make a bowl game is instantly terminated.
Cruzer
So where is a bowl for Pittsburgh?
Might as well jump on the band wagon.
Got a great entertainment venue with the Stadium, Casino, North Shore, South side.
Revitalize the "Steel City " Basket ball Tourney.
Pitt, Duquesne, Bobby Mo, WVU and the bowl teams.
This idea is just dripping with success
Might as well jump on the band wagon.
Got a great entertainment venue with the Stadium, Casino, North Shore, South side.
Revitalize the "Steel City " Basket ball Tourney.
Pitt, Duquesne, Bobby Mo, WVU and the bowl teams.
This idea is just dripping with success
Caveat.....
...unless the Nits need a spot, then it's "well deserved, considering all that they've been through...."
...unless the Nits need a spot, then it's "well deserved, considering all that they've been through...."
Proposed new bowls: Austin (AAC vs. C-USA), Tucson (MWC vs. C-USA), Orlando (AAC vs. SB), Little Rock (AAC vs. SB)
Austin, Tucson, Orlando, Little Rock applied for new bowls; could be 43 bowls this year
no more Duck Commander Independence or Bitcoin St. Pete bowls. Both bowls seek new title sponsor
@McMurphyESPN
Austin, Tucson, Orlando, Little Rock applied for new bowls; could be 43 bowls this year
no more Duck Commander Independence or Bitcoin St. Pete bowls. Both bowls seek new title sponsor
@McMurphyESPN
Bowl games are so stupid. They should only have the NY6 bowls. Beyond that, the schools and conferences should just work together to set the matchups that viewers want to see. Attendance at bowl games is atrocious (except for the biggest ones), so just get together and set some on-campus matchups.
Perhaps. But fact is, the conferences DON'T work together on interesting OOC games (or the networks don't let them, maybe). Instead we just get a diet of the same old. Akron , Navy, YSU multiple times? They know nobody wants that, but we get it anyway. So the bowls are really the only hope of seeing many out-of-the- ordinary games.
As far as the locales, that's another matter. The great majority aren't places I'd go, for sure. And the attendances do typically stink. But the cities must feel it's worth to host them for the TV PR and at least a little bump in hotel and restaurant traffic. Else, why go to the trouble?
And never forget, that's what the great majority of the bowls are: holiday tv programming.
Bowl games make a ton of money, no doubt, mostly due to their ESPN contracts. They get good TV ratings because people love college football and there's nothing else on.
But, what I'm saying is instead of outsourcing the post-season to privately-run "non-profits," why not just get rid of most of the bowls and run the post-season yourself with the P5 conferences working together to create the best matchups. Would people really not watch Illinois @ North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Dec 28 on ESPN just because its not called a bowl game? Nothing else is on TV. There's no reason that game needs to be in El Paso or San Francisco or whatever.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be fun to see the comments on this board if it was Illinois (6-6) @ Pitt (6-6) in Heinz Field on Dec 28 on ESPN, and it was windy, icy and 15 degrees and there where 10,000 fans and 55,000 empty yellow seats there! Lol. Part of it actually is going on a trip for the people that go to these games.
What difference does it make if there are 10,000 people at Heinz Field or 10,000 people in Dallas watching the game. If people want to go on a trip, they have thousands of other vacation choices. Nobody goes to bowl games. Save the money and stay home. Maybe a few thousand Illinois fans would make the not-so difficult drive rather than flying to San Francisco for a meaningless game.
It has nothing to do with that! It has nothing to do with the teams, the players, the coaches, the schools or the fans, it is ONLY about MONEY, the TV Networks and the People that stage the games, they are entreprenuers out to make a buck, there would be zero games if it was just about the sport. the only reason there are games is somebody can make a buck from it.
