Another bowl game for college football fans?
I may be in the minority on this one but I'm not totally opposed to it. I do enjoy a number of these games. In fact, a case could be made that some of the lower-tier bowl games were more exciting the mid-sized and large bowl games.
The marketplace will decide whether these lower-tier bowl games can succeed economically. In the case of the Pinstripe Bowl, one of the conferences will be the Big East. Most of those schools are geoghraphically close enough to NY so they can travel easily.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
1 posted on
03/10/2010 12:59:57 PM PST by
MplsSteve
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2 posted on
03/10/2010 1:01:11 PM PST by
MplsSteve
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3 posted on
03/10/2010 1:02:33 PM PST by
Rummyfan
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Gonna look very weird from the air. That stadium is NOT shaped well for football.
5 posted on
03/10/2010 1:07:00 PM PST by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: MplsSteve
To illustrate my point:
6 posted on
03/10/2010 1:08:41 PM PST by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: MplsSteve
This is a joke. Yankee Stadium was constructed so that football cannot be played there. Even the '76 renovations made football nearly impossible and only one game was ever played there so far as I recall. George just didn't want "his" field messed up, so the only way to get a field in there was to have the corner of the end zone five feet from the dugout steps.
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7 posted on
03/10/2010 1:08:50 PM PST by
ml/nj
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03/10/2010 1:38:50 PM PST by
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To: MplsSteve
While by and large I agree with you Steve, I’ve never felt too comfortable with having a rash of 6-6 teams going to bowl games. The thinking here is that it perhaps is a reward for mediocrity and average play. As you said though, the market will ultimately decide if bowl games like these will pan out in the long term.
In my neck of the woods, the Humanitarian Bowl might not survive beyond this season as none of the conferences in this half of the country want to send their schools here outside of the WAC, so you’re going to have a team from the other side of the country come here and they won’t bring any fans out here.
10 posted on
03/10/2010 1:44:15 PM PST by
GOP_Raider
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To: MplsSteve
The first biography I ever read was on Lou Gehrig. They should sell pickled eels at the game.
11 posted on
03/10/2010 1:44:29 PM PST by
eyedigress
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To: MplsSteve
Well I think there is a real chance the International bowl wont survive. Unless Buffalo starts making bowls every year they just can’t get the draw.
Thats on reason the MAC jumped all over the humanitarian bowl even though its a pretty expensive proposition for MAC fans to travel to Boise..
15 posted on
03/12/2010 11:58:55 AM PST by
N3WBI3
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To: MplsSteve
These lower-tier bowls will be great for the first round of playoffs when the NCAA finally adopts a playoff system.
18 posted on
03/12/2010 12:22:09 PM PST by
Brett66
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