[Husker] bowl game

[Mike Jaixen]

The practices make the bowl game essential for
Nebraska.  I wonder how much better we might have been
this year if we had found a way to win one more game
last year...

--- Kaufsss at aol.com wrote:

> I'm not sure why everyone is so negative.  Of course
> this team should  go to 
> a bowl game if invited!!!  
> 1. The seniors deserve it.  They have put in the
> work  especially.

Definitely.

> 2. The Huskers are better than at least 50 teams(
> don't know the exact  
> number of non-eligible teams) and with a few breaks
> and bounces could be even  
> better.

Let's not go there.  A few breaks and bounces the
other way, and we would have been singing "I'll be
home for Christmas" in mid-October.

> 3. Practices Practices Practices

This is the #1 reason by far.  For a young team, this
is critical.  It's like a second spring practice.


> 4. Recruiting - Exposure

Perhaps.

> 5. Money - (people on the list say we will soon need
> it)

Nope.  Unless we get a surprise invitation, the bowl
game will barely pay our expenses.  Many of these bowl
games pay less than $1 million, and Nebraska's
expenses for the 2002 Rose Bowl were over $1 million. 
(Band, players, administrators, etc.)  They'll
downsize this for a lower-tier bowl, but it will be
break-even.  And any money they do make will be split
12 ways.

> 6. Most FANS want it - the nay-sayers of course
> don't. 

Probably irrelevant at this point.

Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


	
		
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