Tim Brando: Answers to your I-Bowl questions

[snote]

No, I'm not missing the point, We might as well make a claim that we can bring the New Orleans and Houston Market then, that will give us one of the biggest markets in the history of man. The "potential" might be there, but it doesn't mean that it will be able to produce. No storyline, no viewership, and no ticket sales will equal one dead bowl game.

okay.. might not be a bad thing to try to sell..

maybe those that represent the school, in these type things, should alert
espn / bowl officials / and whomever, else involved in making these decisions

[Just1More]

_ Yeah. 20 plus years working for ESPN and CBS-what would Tim know about the influence of the Networks and TV contracts on Bowl selections? _

Did you not find a little journalistic hometown liberty in his explanation. May I first say that the volunteers and the wonderment of the Indy in all of its spendor and gradeur are not the least lost on this little boy reared in the back alleys of Shreveport... now, on to the mighty ESPN and their deciding who goes to what bowl. Has every other "committee" yielded to this argument? Do they all now simply ask ESPN who to pick? Is that how it works?

BRING ON A PLAYOFF SYSTEM... THE CESSPOOL IS OVERFLOWING!!!

[Turbine]

In this instance close regional would draw more national interest.

Nationwide any bowl game that is billed as an old rivalry will draw 10 to 1 interest over a cross country who's in it game.

jmo

[DestinCajun]

" With apologies to south Louisiana legislators, this was a television decision. Had UL been 7-5 and not 6-6, the Ragin Cajuns may have had a legitimate argument. They didn't and they don't. "

9.5 million in the chicago metro area .. 4.5 million in the state of louisiana

This is the biggest part of this whole farce - that a large number of people in Chicago will spend Sunday evening watching NIU in the I Bowl. I hope someone can come back after the game and cite TV ratings in Chicago.

[Turbine]

NIU is 67 miles from the heart of Chicago.

[Hammer58]

_ " With apologies to south Louisiana legislators, this was a television decision. Had UL been 7-5 and not 6-6, the Ragin Cajuns may have had a legitimate argument. They didn't and they don't. "

9.5 million in the chicago metro area .. 4.5 million in the state of louisiana

ps. anyone else hear the rumor that howard told the motor city they didn't have to give FAU the payout monies? _

Brando must be dizzy from all that spinning. He's touting NIU being a draw because they turned it around from 2 wins to 6? Hell, Bustle did just about the same from last year to this and at least all of UL's wins were over D1A teams; NIU can't even make that claim.

I don't discount that ESPN, among other things, had some influence in the pick. But all this north Louisiana spin to discredit the notion that there was no attempt at all on the part of Tech and the Indy Bowl committee to keep UL out is laughable. And their attempt to justify the appeal of NIU is akin to putting lipstick on a pig.

[Turbine]

I think it was all TV but I dont' agree with ESPN on how a school that draws interest from .002 percent of its market can suddenly pull in TV viewers.

Old rivals LA vs LA would have had a much higher national interest.

[Just1More]

_ This is the biggest part of this whole farce - that a large number of people in Chicago will spend Sunday evening watching NIU in the I Bowl. I hope someone can come back after the game and cite TV ratings in Chicago. _

A myth of Brando-size proportions. Just in... VP of ESPN ("World-wide" leader in sports)... "we picked NIU in the Indy Bowl... says who... we told the Indy that we didn't care who else was in it... send John, one microphone, one camera and that old ESPN sign Fred's daughter made... oh, and bring some tarps... oh, and make up some TV ratings... oh, and call Don... Dan... Dooley back and tell him... yes, we know you are Vince's son."

[rcarte3]

_ Did you not find a little journalistic hometown liberty in his explanation. May I first say that the volunteers and the wonderment of the Indy in all of its spendor and gradeur are not the least lost on this little boy reared in the back alleys of Shreveport... now, on to the mighty ESPN and their deciding who goes to what bowl. Has every other "committee" yielded to this argument? Do they all now simply ask ESPN who to pick? Is that how it works?

BRING ON A PLAYOFF SYSTEM... THE CESSPOOL IS OVERFLOWING!!! _

Why do you want a playoff system you still wouldn't get in. Any playoff system is probably not going to include the SBC. The WAC and C-USA might even be left out of a playoff system. UL-Laf wouldn't have even qualified for the I-AA playoffs with a 6-6 record.

[rcarte3]

_ A myth of Brando-size proportions. Just in... VP of ESPN ("World-wide" leader in sports)... "we picked NIU in the Indy Bowl... says who... we told the Indy that we didn't care who else was in it... send John, one microphone, one camera and that old ESPN sign Fred's daughter made... oh, and bring some tarps... oh, and make up some TV ratings... oh, and call Don... Dan... Dooley back and tell him... yes, we know you are Vince's son." _

Brando knows more about how the college football/bowl situations work than any of us on Ragin Pagin. Do you really think ESPN is going to say we told the I-Bowl who to pick? Get real they aren't going to say that. If that's the case then you must believe every promise a politican promises.