Sun Belt gets new bowl game in Orlando vs. AAC

[Turbine]

The Sun Belt Conference may have its fourth bowl tie-in set with a new bowl game in Orlando, Fla., according to a report on Monday.

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Going from 2 to 4 in a single season is a huge for current Sun Belt members.

[cajunhawk]

Going from 2 to 4 in a single season is a huge for current Sun Belt members.

But bad for an already bloated bowl system...

[CajunEXPRESS]

The system is not bloated. Some would have only the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and maybe the Cotton. Some say none but the national championship and playoffs. What is the difference between Chick Filet and NOLA bowl other than money and names in the game? None. So almost all bowls are useless and bloated.

Don't like um don't watch um. Don't like um don't go. Seems someone is watching and going.

[Boomer]

The system is not bloated. Some would have only the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and maybe the Cotton. Some say none but the national championship and playoffs. What is the difference between Chick Filet and NOLA bowl other than money and names in the game? None. So almost all bowls are useless and bloated.

Don't like um don't watch um. Don't like um don't go. Seems someone is watching and going.

---yes like 45K Cajuns going to the N O BOWL last year!!! having more places for the I hope our short stay in the Belt can't hurt in recruiting!!!

[cajunhawk]

The system is not bloated. Some would have only the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and maybe the Cotton. Some say none but the national championship and playoffs. What is the difference between Chick Filet and NOLA bowl other than money and names in the game? None. So almost all bowls are useless and bloated.

Don't like um don't watch um. Don't like um don't go. Seems someone is watching and going.

Don't put words in my mouth. It's a well known fact that the bowl system is a bloated mess. We are about to embark on a college football landscape that has 40 bowl games...meaning 80 teams will gain entrance to a postseason. There are 128 members in FBS. That is 62.5% of teams who will get a chance to play in meaningless and unprofitable (unprofitable for most who participate, but highly profitable for those who stage such games) games under the guise that we must protect the student athlete from a playoff system that would surely ruin the game of football, despite FCS doing it year in year out.

62.5%...let that sink in. That's even more than the NBA lets into the postseason!! The system is morbidly obese...trust me...I'm an expert at being morbidly obese (I beat anorexia). I know it hurts to swallow the truth, and that understanding how much of a gigantic mess the college bowl system is invalidates everything our football team has accomplished over the past three years, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Every bowl game that does not end in at least a small chance of winning a championship is a useless game. When you look at how much money the schools who play in them lose each and every year, you have to question why they are being put on in the first place.

We are going to watch...it's football during a time of the year when most of us have nothing better to do. Not everyone goes...as bowl attendance continues to decline year in and year out. Need proof...see link below:

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2...3-14_bowl.html

So why add new bowls when attendance is in decline and at it's lowest point since 1978-1979? And those numbers are not butts in the seats either...or else it would be a major decline. Even worse...the TV ratings are in decline also:

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2..._tv_viewe.html

You can play blind man all you want because it suits your interests...I don't see any use to being that way. I enjoy going to bowl games just like each and everyone of you...that doesn't mean I can't look at a broken system and fail to see a broken system.

[CajunRebel]

Aren't you a free market kind of guy? The system isn't perfect by any means, but as long as cities keep hosting them, sponsors keep sponsoring them, teams keep playing in them, and ESPN keeps buying them there's absolutely no good reason to stop them. This is just the free market at work and everyone's getting richer and happier because of it, including us!

[CajunEXPRESS]

Don't put words in my mouth. It's a well known fact that the bowl system is a bloated mess. We are about to embark on a college football landscape that has 40 bowl games...meaning 80 teams will gain entrance to a postseason. There are 128 members in FBS. That is 62.5% of teams who will get a chance to play in meaningless and unprofitable (unprofitable for most who participate, but highly profitable for those who stage such games) games under the guise that we must protect the student athlete from a playoff system that would surely ruin the game of football, despite FCS doing it year in year out.

62.5%...let that sink in. That's even more than the NBA lets into the postseason!! The system is morbidly obese...trust me...I'm an expert at being morbidly obese (I beat anorexia). I know it hurts to swallow the truth, and that understanding how much of a gigantic mess the college bowl system is invalidates everything our football team has accomplished over the past three years, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Every bowl game that does not end in at least a small chance of winning a championship is a useless game. When you look at how much money the schools who play in them lose each and every year, you have to question why they are being put on in the first place.

We are going to watch...it's football during a time of the year when most of us have nothing better to do. Not everyone goes...as bowl attendance continues to decline year in and year out. Need proof...see link below:

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2...3-14_bowl.html

So why add new bowls when attendance is in decline and at it's lowest point since 1978-1979? And those numbers are not butts in the seats either...or else it would be a major decline. Even worse...the TV ratings are in decline also:

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2..._tv_viewe.html

You can play blind man all you want because it suits your interests...I don't see any use to being that way. I enjoy going to bowl games just like each and everyone of you...that doesn't mean I can't look at a broken system and fail to see a broken system.

Show me where I put words in your mouth, or post?

System is not bloated.

By definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloating no bloating here. Still even as an metaphor it is not bloated, the body, NCAA football, is handling it just fine. The only ones not handling it are elitist. The system will self regulate.

[ulXrunner]

Great another crappy bowl. College football postseason is the worst of any major sport.

[cajunhawk]

Aren't you a free market kind of guy? The system isn't perfect by any means, but as long as cities keep hosting them, sponsors keep sponsoring them, teams keep playing in them, and ESPN keeps buying them there's absolutely no good reason to stop them. This is just the free market at work and everyone's getting richer and happier because of it, including us!

Sure the bowls are making money...but it's proven that paid attendance and tv ratings are in decline. Also, the majority of bowl teams LOSE money due to guaranteed ticket arrangements that only benefit the bowls...not the bowl participants. That's not free market...it's a fixed system. Free market without ticket guarantees would have shuttered bowls years ago.

[cajunhawk]

Show me where I put words in your mouth, or post?

System is not bloated.

By definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloating no bloating here. Still even as an metaphor it is not bloated, the body, NCAA football, is handling it just fine. The only ones not handling it are elitist. The system will self regulate.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bloating

TO EXPAND OR DISTEND!!! TO BECOME SWOLLEN!!! Christ...I don't know if you and the bowls are in a relationship and you just don't want to accept the truth because the bowls might leave you...but...this is pretty self explanatory. How are people elitist when they are alarmed that losing teams will be getting into bowls soon because there are so many? Try again. The system will never self regulate...because there is no ____ing regulation. If there was regulation the Independence Bowl would have shuttered years ago...as would the Idaho Potato Bowl. They are only surviving off of ESPN contracts and ticket guarantees that Universities have to pay to play.