Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:I just don't regard the bowls as anything special or great anymore like I used to. I used to think Jan. 1st was one of the best days of the year and have parties and shit but I just don't have the "give a fuck" any longer. I'm a minority though when it comes to that.
I agree. When all the big bowls were played on 1/1, it was like a national holiday. Now they're all spread out like a mad woman's shit and it's hard to watch bowl games on weeknights when you work all day.
It definitely had a holiday feel but it was a holiday atmosphere with your friends. We used to rotate it around between several houses and have about 10 friends per gathering and all pitch in $50 and had all the food and drink we could handle.
Now I just say "fuck em'" and don't care about watching and adding to the horseshit.
If you read Death to the BCS, which was mentioned earlier, we could have a 16 team playoff, with the championship game played as the Rose Bowl and still keep a lot of the bowl games. The bowl games would be like the NIT, which is meaningless, but so are 99% of bowls now anyway.
griz37 wrote:If you read Death to the BCS, which was mentioned earlier, we could have a 16 team playoff, with the championship game played as the Rose Bowl and still keep a lot of the bowl games. The bowl games would be like the NIT, which is meaningless, but so are 99% of bowls now anyway.
That would be a great idea, but the problem with that is that the Fiesta/Cotton/Sugar/Orange would scream bloody murder. I know nobody cares about the Bluebonnet Bowl, but those still carry some clout.
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Let them scream all they want, once the first of the eight 1st round games started the average fan would not even remember that the Cotton Bowl existed. The bowls make money only for the executives that run them & I could personally care less about those douchebags.
Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:
I just don't regard the bowls as anything special or great anymore like I used to. I used to think Jan. 1st was one of the best days of the year and have parties and **** but I just don't have the "give a ****" any longer. I'm a minority though when it comes to that.
I think the idea of incorporating a playoff with the bowls is a strange animal because it's tough to tell if the bowls would lose their identity even further. In 10 yrs. people may not give a **** at all that it's the Rose Bowl because it is a playoff game that is a step in the NC direction and therefore the games will probably become more known for being that rounds site location and the name and pageantry of each bowl will just be the side show and basically become fairly useless over a period of time.
I could be wrong though.
the "playoffs within the bowls" is doomed to fail - you can't get fans to travel to neutral sites for 4-5 weeks in a row... I like the plan that calls for each conference winner to get in and 5 at-large teams. and like the fcs playoffs with the high seeds (by bcs ranking) host each week... the ratings would be HUGE. then the teams that don't make it can go to bowl games - venerable ones like the rose, orange, cotton and fiesta will stay... the turkeysausage.com bowl will probably die - but that's a mercy killing.
You're right about neutral sites 4-5 weeks in a row not being viable. But you could have on campus play until the semifinals and then designate three of the most prestigious bowls for the last three games. The schools who would generally reach that level have a large and dedicated enough fan base to make two neutral site games IMO. You would also generate more local interest by hosting a more significant game.
The rest of the bowls, or some scaled down version of them, could still be used to reward the players and fans of other schools.
Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:I just don't regard the bowls as anything special or great anymore like I used to. I used to think Jan. 1st was one of the best days of the year and have parties and shit but I just don't have the "give a fuck" any longer. I'm a minority though when it comes to that.
I agree. When all the big bowls were played on 1/1, it was like a national holiday. Now they're all spread out like a mad woman's shit and it's hard to watch bowl games on weeknights when you work all day.
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AZGrizFan wrote:
I agree. When all the big bowls were played on 1/1, it was like a national holiday. Now they're all spread out like a mad woman's shit and it's hard to watch bowl games on weeknights when you work all day.
It definitely had a holiday feel but it was a holiday atmosphere with your friends. We used to rotate it around between several houses and have about 10 friends per gathering and all pitch in $50 and had all the food and drink we could handle.
Now I just say "fuck em'" and don't care about watching and adding to the horseshit.
“It’s like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show.” - The Buffalo Beast commenting on Glenn Beck
griz37 wrote:If you read Death to the BCS, which was mentioned earlier, we could have a 16 team playoff, with the championship game played as the Rose Bowl and still keep a lot of the bowl games. The bowl games would be like the NIT, which is meaningless, but so are 99% of bowls now anyway.
That would be a great idea, but the problem with that is that the Fiesta/Cotton/Sugar/Orange would scream bloody murder. I know nobody cares about the Bluebonnet Bowl, but those still carry some clout.
that bowl's been dead for 23 years who would care about that?
