The history of New Orleans bowl games

[CajunEXPRESS]

You and I should mind our own business. If a city wants a bowl and a team meets minimum requirements let them have it. If you do not want to watch it on television don't, if you choose to not go to it, don't, but to suggest you or I know what and who deserves to go to a bowl is an absurd insult to these young men.

[ulXrunner]

I disagree with the idea if more bowl games. What you need is to cut the double tie-ins. 1 - Conference Tie-in; 1 - At-large.....for the BCS games, top 10 in the Rankings. If more than 2 AQ teams get in and none from another AQ, tough $**t.....I'm fed up with 8-4 teams getting left at home in favor of 6-6. Or sending TX/FL schools to NY for a bowl game. The committees need more regional selection at be satisfied with what they get....increased ticket sales.

I have to agree with this. Every year NCAA gives us a great regular season, possibly the best in sports. Then they top it off with the worst postseason year in and year out.
Almost all these bowls are unbearable to watch and I absolutely love college football. Saturday is my day for sports during the fall. So the kids go to a bowl game. And that proves what? I pretty sure these kids have a great time, as I did in NO. But there is no kid on any roster in D1 football that wouldn't like a chance to win a championship in a playoff format over a bowl game in Shreveport or Mobile or Detroit.

I ran track at UL. I qualified for regionals twice in the 3000m steeplechase and once in the 5k. I couldn't imagine having no postseason track meets and instead running a invitation in Moscow, Idaho.

I get it, its fun for the kids and fanbases. I don't discredit our experiences as a program over these three years, but that doesn't make the bowl experience the correct way to end a great football season.

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[CoolCajun123]

Sounds like the author of this article is a tulane loving cu..nt!!!

[CoolCajun123]

He is prob butt buddies with that lsu loving cu..nt, Glenn Guilbeau

[CajunEXPRESS]

I have to agree with this. Every year NCAA gives us a great regular season, possibly the best in sports. Then they top it off with the worst postseason year in and year out.
Almost all these bowls are unbearable to watch and I absolutely love college football. Saturday is my day for sports during the fall. So the kids go to a bowl game. And that proves what? I pretty sure these kids have a great time, as I did in NO. But there is no kid on any roster in D1 football that wouldn't like a chance to win a championship in a playoff format over a bowl game in Shreveport or Mobile or Detroit.

I ran track at UL. I qualified for regionals twice in the 3000m steeplechase and once in the 5k. I couldn't imagine having no postseason track meets and instead running a invitation in Moscow, Idaho.

I get it, its fun for the kids and fanbases. I don't discredit our experiences as a program over these three years, but that doesn't make the bowl experience the correct way to end a great football season.

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Agreed to a point about bowls. Now the point is what is a real alternative? I would be fine with a sixteen team playoff, the champs of each conference and six of the best of the rest, along with the rest to the bowls. That is a four game playoff. You then suggesting all the other guys go home, nothing more? I am not too keen on that.

Are you suggesting some smaller playoff leaving out all the G5, because that would be the net result.

I think the bowls are great period. It means the world to the players, especially offered nothing instead. Coaches love them, half go home with a victory and a promising future. Fans get to go somewhere and party. For those like you find something else to do.

[ULalum06]

less is more, simple supply and demand. do i think it's amazing that we are able to go to a bowl every year? sheit yes! but lesbehonest more bowls are diluting the brand that is college football.

would i like for ferraris to only cost $45k? hell yea, but it kills the image of having a ferrari!

bowls use to be something that a team dreampt of getting invited to, now it's a consolation prize for ending at .500

so now we have a 4 team playoff system that will be ONLY 4 teams for the next 12 years or however long the contract is. Ideally, we'd have a 16 team playoff with winner's of the conferences getting a bid and so on...you know the drill

[Hammer58]

On the one hand I do think way may be at or gave crossed the tipping point in having too many Bowls. On the other hand as long as we have teams with records over .500 sitting at home while .500 teams go bowling.