Tech=no bowl

man this really sucks for the players, especially seniors who put the time and hard work into that program

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Originally Posted by BlueDawg

It's not about me, it's the players, especially seniors. Feel bad for them. I still think branding an entire fan base as "arrogant" is a tad out of line..... So is the LSU fan base arrogant too or are they just "passionate?"

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i don't remember them turning down an invite to an east texas bowl game. just saying.

I haven't read through all the Latex bashing threads, but I just wanted to put something out there.

Why would a 3rd place team from a weaker conference be more deserving of a bowl bid than the runner-up team from a stronger conference?

Please slow down on the bashing. I haven't been able to catch up on my Ragin' Pagin reading. Damn work gets in the way.

Middle is looking at two schools they beat head to head going to bowl games while they sit at home. At least Tech doesn't have to deal with that problem.

At least they didn't win their last two games and get left out of the BCS game. That woulda sucked.

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Originally Posted by BlueDawg

It's not about me, it's the players, especially seniors. Feel bad for them. I still think branding an entire fan base as "arrogant" is a tad out of line..... So is the LSU fan base arrogant too or are they just "passionate?"

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The bulk of them are sheep. I don't know if sheep are arrogant or passionate.

MONEY ... help me help you. GREEN means you get to GO.

We are in the New Orleans Bowl because we make money for the New Orleans Bowl ... they don't care if we are 12-0 or 6-6 as long as we buy the tickets and go.

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Originally Posted by BlueDawg

It's not about me, it's the players, especially seniors. Feel bad for them. I still think branding an entire fan base as "arrogant" is a tad out of line..... So is the LSU fan base arrogant too or are they just "passionate?"

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I don't label all Tech supporters as arrogant, but a good number have been. As for LSU, they have national championships in a number of sports, Tech on the other hand has played in 6 bowl games in the last 30 years. Hardly the tradition of a southern power.

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Originally Posted by naF nujaC

I found this statement interesting on the ESPN website:

"Offering free tickets is nothing to new to Northern Illinois. Turner said the university has provided free tickets to bowl games and MAC championship games since at least its berth into the 2008 Independence Bowl.

"It's fairly standard for us to offer free tickets to students," Turner said. "This is something that is extremely important to us. When the (bowl) came about, it didn't take us long to make tickets free as well."

http://espn.go.com/chicago/college-f...e-bowl-tickets

NIU had to give tickets away for the 2008 Indpendence Bowl and the Cajuns would have been there in mass will bells on. Go figure.

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Yes, but the university is giving tickets they pay for. There is no free lunch brother, you know that. The Indy bowl got the revenue regardless of who does the paying. Anyway how much can fifty tickets cost?

So there is a poster who takes umbrage at Tech and their fan base being referred to as "arrogant"?? Well..........I'm listening to Monn Graffon, who has the Chairman of Independence Bowl on. He just CONFIRMED that the FIRST emial from Tech's AD said they were open to Indy Bowl on condition they would NOT play a SunBelt school! Moon asked him if it was "normal" that a school dictate to a bowl who they would play. He was told an emphatic NO! Moon was then told that when the bids went out to Both ULM and Tech, that Tech's AD said he would have to "get back to him".....He NEVER did, which the Indy Bowl chairman said is a NO! The chairman was then asked if it was true they could've gotten Ohio on Sunday, as Tech claimed. Once again, NO--they had to book them on SATURDAY to ensure they would get a "QUALITY" team.
Soooooooooo...........was this 'arrogance" on Tech's part????.....

BTW, thke Indy Bowl chairman just said that he called back before they signed contracts with Ohio and gave Tech ONE MORE CHANCE....he was told they'd wait it out for another bowl!! CASE CLOSED!!!!!!