[NU Sports] New ESPN bowl pojections

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

Or sell tickets.  I can't blame bowls (or bowl forecasters) for having  
doubts about a team that usually sells 20,000 tickets at home.  Yes, we  know they 
tend to travel better, and yes, we know they have different spending  habits 
than rural Iowans, but bowl committees are not filled with Nobel  Laureates, 
they're filled with local business types who see empty seats and  think empty 
hotel rooms and empty restaurants.
 
If we are truly angry about lesser bowl bids, we should be complaining  about 
pathetic marketing, and an athletic department that seems perfectly happy  to 
accept empty seats (unless they can be sold, easily and without effort, to  
visiting fans).
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
In a message dated 11/30/2008 4:10:50 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
christopher_bailey at yahoo.com writes:

I hate  this crap, I really do.

OUTBACK: Iowa v. South Carolina or  LSU
ALAMO: NU v. Oklahoma  State

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowlprojection?season=2008&week=14

NU  beats Iowa, has one more victory than Iowa, and as a reward, they get to 
play  a tougher team (this is a year I wouldn't be afraid to see NU play LSU 
... or  South Carolina, or Georgia) in a less prestigious bowl and not on New 
Year's  Day.

GRRR.

It's time to face reality: NU will continue to get  the shaft on bowl day 
UNLESS it has a two game advantage on someone.

Or  unless they do as suggested by Jake Taylor (played by Tom Berenger) in 
MAJOR  LEAGUE, one of my all-time favorite movies: 

Win the whole ... fu(k!ng  ... thing. 

(Sorry for the profanity folks, but not only was it the  line in the movie, 
but it accurately represents how I feel ... and how a lot  of folks here feel 
too, I imagine.)

Go 'CATS!

Christopher  Bailey
christopher_bailey at yahoo.com




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