[NU Sports] bowl choices

[John Labbe]

For me at least, it's precisely because we're headed to a "minor" bowl 
that I'm hoping we're headed to Nashville.  If we were headed to the 
Rose Bowl, for instance, I'd be willing to shell out the bucks to make 
the trip.

But I'm much less likely to spend the money to travel to some far-flung 
destination (like Hawaii) to see us play in a minor bowl.  Nashville is 
a fairly short and inexpensive trip from Chicago, either by car or by 
air, and I think we'd have a better showing there than somewhere out 
west.

Not that I wouldn't mind a December trip to Hawaii, but it's not in 
everyone's football budget.

John


On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Abrahamson, Alan wrote:

>  What are the objectives of the bowl game the Wildcats are going to be 
> in?
>  1. Winning the game? Of course.
>  2. Practice time for the team, especially next year's starters? Right.
>  3. Bowl experience for the alumni and fan base? Indeed.
>  Since 1 and 2 are the same no matter what game we're in, let's focus 
> on 3.
>  Let's face it, Wildcat faithful. We are headed for a so-called 
> "minor" bowl.
>  That being the case, I hope the bowl reps in places like San Antonio, 
> El Paso, Nashville and Detroit are looking to the likes of the 
> Gophers, Spartans, Badgers or Hawkeyes. Or anybody but Northwestern.
>  To me, the quality of the city, its attractions and weather in item 3 
> is a key.
>  Which is why I hope like hell we are not in Detroit. Good God. Also, 
> since the Wildcats were just there a couple years ago, the Motor City 
> Bowl would invite that "deja vu all over again" feeling.
>  Same for San Antonio. Been there, done that. Plus, who can forget 
> that horrid 66-17 butt-whipping we endured at the hands of Nebraska? 
> Ugh. Bad vibe. Who wants to go back there?
>  The only upside to El Paso I can see is that I have never been to New 
> Mexico, and I would naturally be keen to knock New Mexico off my list 
> of states visited while in nearby El Paso, Texas.
>  As for Nashville: apologies in advance to those of you who live there 
> or near there (including my fraternity brother and fellow lister Chris 
> Thompson) but where would you rather be in December, Nashville or San 
> Diego?
>  Or, for that matter, how about at the insight.com bowl in Phoenix?
>  Or the Aloha Bowl (if we're eligible -- I'm too lazy to find out)?
>  I hope we wallop the bejeezus out of Illinois this week and then fall 
> right out of the Big Ten matched bowls scene and are free to go where 
> some loving bowl in warm weather wants us. If we finish 7-4, 5-3 Big 
> Ten, our explosive offense (well, on the days it's not playing 
> Michigan or Ohio State and feeling explosive) ought to look inviting 
> to some bowl rep in his or her weird-colored jacket somewhere.
>  Bring on San Diego or Phoenix or Honolulu, as far as I'm concerned.
>  Yours in Los Angeles, where it's always warm, which is why the Rose 
> Bowl is the granddaddy of them all -- Alan
>
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