Sun Belt gets new bowl game in Orlando vs. AAC

[zephyr]

I would go as well. The kids can careless about Cajun Football but Disney and Universal are another story. It think we would take at least 30,000.

I would be as optimistic if we averaged that or more for home attendance but we can't get 30,000 people consistently into Cajun Field in their own backyard, I don't think we are going to get that many going to Disney. Yes, I know we have brought more than that to NOLA but that is NOLA. A 2 hour ride down the interstate with a manageable weekend. Disney is much more expensive

[ManAboutTown]

Completely different situations.. We'd be lucky and I'd be shocked to get 8-10k. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

[cajunhawk]

What we need is a bowl game in Destin/Ft Walton...most of Lafayette goes there anyway.

[jllanclos]

Completely different situations.. We'd be lucky and I'd be shocked to get 8-10k. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

I think eight to ten thousand people would be a pretty good showing. Some BCS Bowl teams can't get 10,000 to a BCS bowl game.

[zephyr]

What we need is a bowl game in Destin/Ft Walton...most of Lafayette goes there anyway.

Exactly. I'll be there next week

[Sir Cajun]

I'd love it. Orlando is only 2 hrs from my front door.

[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!