[NU Sports] Scary article in the Sun-Times

[Jonathan Hodges]

San Juan, Puerto Rico would be a nice destination - I've traveled down there
on business and in terms of price it's about equal to the Florida
destinations, and, depending on when you go, the airfare isn't too much
different.

There has been a bowl game in the Caribbean before, though, the Bacardi Bowl
held in Havana, Cuba during pre-Castro times.  There were 7 games between
1907 and 1946 - 6 of those matchups featured an American school versus a
Cuban school; the final matchup was between Auburn and Villanova.

The biggest issue nowadays is, of course, getting a bowl location that will
attract enough fans to fill up the stadium, and once you get outside the
continental US, that becomes more difficult (look at the bowl game(s) in
Hawaii when U. of Hawaii is not playing), and, again, since it's all about
money it is difficult to justify such a game when the stadium is empty and
there aren't tourists boosting the local economy.

Jonathan

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:07 AM, <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

> This is great - I love the idea of San Juan - Detroit has a bowl, Canada
> has a bowl, but Mexico and the Caribbean are not represented.? I'm sure
> there are plenty of soccer stadiums in San Juan, or Monterrey...maybe even
> Cabo San Lucas (also plenty of Coronas and Pacificos in the pre- and
> post-game tailgates...)
>
> THIS is what Jim Delaney needs to be working on...<g>
>
> Chuck Herron?? Tech '85
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhcclark at aol.com
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 5:46 am
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Scary article in the Sun-Times
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> I agree, I'd MUCH rather go to Toronto than Detroit.? Get them to put a
> small
> bowl in Sarasota or Naples or Fort Myers or San Juan or even Rockford, but
> Detroit ??? :)
>
> I was "half" kidding about these cities, because I know you have to have a
> stadium present, but get the Big Ten to switch out Detroit for Toronto.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CHerron604 at aol.com
> To: Martinitis at aol.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 9:51 pm
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Scary article in the Sun-Times
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> This will sound cold, but...
>
> If NU somehow gets screwed and ends up in Detroit, it will be the fans duty
> to ignore the game totally...they can watch it, but don't buy a ticket, and
> don't contribute a dime to Detroit's economy.
>
> Only in this way can it be impressed upon the conference powers-that-be
> (i.e. Jim Delaney)
>
> a) no one considers Detroit a pleasant bowl destination, and
>
> b) conference rules that allow massive bowl-game screwings can have
> consequences
>
> A conference should not maintain a bowl tie-in that practically every
> conference team loathes (and considers an invitation to it to be a
>  screwing).
> 8
> wins should get you to some place you want to go.  Jim  Delaney makes a
> boatload
>
>
> of money - let him start earning it.
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
>
> ps - any rumors on how many tickets remain for Saturday ?  Are  Illinois
> sales lukewarm ?
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> In a message dated 11/17/2008 5:20:58 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> Martinitis at aol.com writes:
>
> If I  read it right, an article today in the Sun-Times seems to say that if
> we
> lose to Illinois, the Insight Bowl would have the right to select Illinois
> over NU even if we're 8-4 and the Illini are 6-6.....Translation; we could
> still
> end up in  Detroit.
>
>
> _http://www.suntimes.com/sports/colleges/1282839,CST-SPT-nufb17.article_
> (http://www.suntimes.com/sports/colleges/1282839,CST-SPT-nufb17.article)
>
> GO CATS!  TROUNCE THE ILLINI!  GO TO FLORIDA!
>
>
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