Sun Belt gets new bowl game in Orlando vs. AAC

[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.

[cajunhawk]

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

It's the truth...regardless of how much fun we have all had in New Orleans the past 3 years...it's a meaningless game that is an archaic remnant of college football that the ones making the money don't want to give up...because they know in a playoff they get...NOTHING.

[scotto_25]

It's not meaningless. I DO understand that it's a game created for the "money-gobblers" but you can't name one college player that thinks a BOWL game is meaningless and unnecessary... No way are these games not important to the student athlete, much less the coaching staffs and fans!

[Bandwagon King]

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

I agree. having said that. It's a hell of a lot nicer to think of going to Orlando in December than it would be Detroit, Boise Idaho, or even Memphis Tennessee. If you have to drive eight hours, why not suck it up & drive another five to have SeaWorld, DisneyWorld, & Universal all at your fingertips. Not to mention gorgeous weather for that time of year.

Having said that. What in the hell is the Sunbelt rewarding a state who just had two schools snub their noses at the conference? Oh that's right. Beggars can't be choosers. So, having stated all the obvious. Why can't Lafayette have their own bowl game with one of the teams from whatever conference Louisiana happens to be in as one of the guest teams? Think about it people. Think about the economic impact of a bowl game right here in Lafayette. I can see it now. The Gumbo Bowl, The Louisiana Hot Sauce Bowl, Or the Tobasco Bowl. I feel another thread rising up. Think about a Cajun Heritage museum dedicated to Cajun traditions which if anybody watches television is the absolute hottest ticket item on television these days. Why not take advantage of it & have a bowl with fun, festivities, super great music, and the best food in the whole damn world right here in our own back yard. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to have our very own team in it every other year or so. It would be easy to get commitments from multiple sponsors and make this one of the best bowls of all the stinking bowls in the country.

But alas. It takes more than one loud mouth poster to make things like this happen. It takes vision, leadership, courage, and commitment by those who can. I don't guess Tony Chacherie's group, the Mcilhenys, or any of our world wide food speciaty groups would want a part of a four hour long television commercial which does nothing but make millions of people's mouths water in lust for their products.

[cajunhawk]

It's not meaningless. I DO understand that it's a game created for the "money-gobblers" but you can't name one college player that thinks a BOWL game is meaningless and unnecessary... No way are these games not important to the student athlete, much less the coaching staffs and fans!

It's the only thing around...they know nothing else. If there was a 16 team playoff similar to FCS...bowl games would mean ti ti...very little. Until they know an alternative...how could we know if it was meaningless them?

[cajunhawk]

I agree. having said that. It's a hell of a lot nicer to think of going to Orlando in December than it would be Detroit, Boise Idaho, or even Memphis Tennessee. If you have to drive eight hours, why not suck it up & drive another five to have SeaWorld, DisneyWorld, & Universal all at your fingertips. Not to mention gorgeous weather for that time of year.

Having said that. What in the hell is the Sunbelt rewarding a state who just had two schools snub their noses at the conference? Oh that's right. Beggars can't be choosers. So, having stated all the obvious. Why can't Lafayette have their own bowl game with one of the teams from whatever conference Louisiana happens to be in as one of the guest teams? Think about it people. Think about the economic impact of a bowl game right here in Lafayette. I can see it now. The Gumbo Bowl, The Louisiana Hot Sauce Bowl, Or the Tobasco Bowl. I feel another thread rising up. Think about a Cajun Heritage museum dedicated to Cajun traditions which if anybody watches television is the absolute hottest ticket item on television these days. Why not take advantage of it & have a bowl with fun, festivities, super great music, and the best food in the whole damn world right here in our own back yard. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to have our very own team in it every other year or so. It would be easy to get commitments from multiple sponsors and make this one of the best bowls of all the stinking bowls in the country.

But alas. It takes more than one loud mouth poster to make things like this happen. It takes vision, leadership, courage, and commitment by those who can. I don't guess Tony Chacherie's group, the Mcilhenys, or any of our world wide food speciaty groups would want a part of a four hour long television commercial which does nothing but make millions of people's mouths water in lust for their products.

After we finish the renovation of Cajun Field...it should be something we push for. It could be a big boon to the local businesses...why not get in on the cash grab ourselves.

[CajunNation]

......yes....yes.......once the Bowl Game is in place, then my plan will be ready for implementation.........then, it will be my time........ to rule........