Running bowl thread

Well, Georgia '09 sucks. So it probably would be more competitive. But Georgia does have as many wins against BCS-conference champions as Boise State does.

But that's exactly what I'm saying. It's not enough for these teams to be able to say they won once or twice against mid-level -- or even top-level -- BCS-conference opposition. In big-boy world, that gets you a 7-5 season, three fired assistant coaches and a trip to Shreveport. In Boise's world, it gets you a trip to the Fiesta Bowl. But the system's rigged against Boise?

 

Jesus Christ you're a fucking idiot.

That's not what I fucking said. What I fucking said was that under SOMEONE ELSE'S idiotic logic one team's outcome against Team A determines its likely outcome against Team B.

Under that logic, which was put forth by SOMEONE WHO ISN'T ME Nebraska shouldn't be able to stay on the field with Texas because the Huskers lost to Iowa State.

Clearly that is not true and never has been.

Again, pay attention or get the fuck out.

 

Scheduling a home game isn't as easy as you think. Teams don't want to give TCU a return trip, so how do you suggest TCU fill its home games? TCU had to fill a road game this year and Clemson actually stepped up to fill the game.

The problem is teams like Texas Tech dropping TCU next season under the guise of moving the Texas game for TV. Right. Like someone wouldn't show Texas-Tech on whatever day it is on.

 

Just wondering have you even seen TCU play more than once this season? Or do you just sit at your desk and talk about college football.

 

Actually, you got involved in something that had nothing to do with you. I was scoffing at someone else's idiotic suggestion that Iowa would blow out TCU. I offered empirical evidence, based on one-fourth of their sked, that would tend to make such a pronostication silly.

 

Rick!

 

what i think will be interesting is the media coverage.
I suspect that a mid-level bowl involving an SEC school will have more media on hand than the Fiesta Bowl.
You'll get AP, Boise, Fort Worth and Phoenix for print. Plus local TVs and radios. Maybe Dallas Morning News, and USA Today, but that isn't a given in these cash-strapped times since they could get local/shared copy. Maybe SI and or the Sporting News. And, I'd think, someone from espn.com.
That would be about it.
But, then you pick the Cotton Bowl.
And just in print, it will about double in terms of bodies in the press box. TV and radio will be at least double as well. National media will be higher or about the same.
That's the real downfall. Outside of local and or shared coverage, not many papers will have anything other than AP to run.
So how could a fan reasonable ascertain the strengths of either team by a writer who is watching both teams play for the first time?

 

Who's Jones?

 

Chris Jones, Esquire writer and (formerly) frequent SportsJournalists.com poster ...

http://www.esquire.com/features/contributors/chris-jones-1008

 

uh-huh, sure, abq. whatever you say.

 

The Gator Bowl is sold out. Was sold out yesterday.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college_fsu/2009/12/gator-bowl-sold-out-already.html

 

The last graph nails it. Slight correction to Division I-A football - the other college levels utilize a (*GASP!*) playoff to determine a national champion.

But it's nothing more than the big bullies lining themselves up for the title and to squirrel away as much of the pie as they can possibly keep to themselves. As much as they want us to think that putting the BCS Busters in Tempe will make everything right, it will only continue to illustrate that the Fiesta Bowl is isolating the kids at their own table while the supposed grown-ups feed at the big-boy table.

C'mon, big boys. Scared of little David and that slingshot?