[NU Sports] B-C-MESS!!! B-C-MESS!!!

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

The so-called minor bowls are likely to die off as corporations cut back on their  spending.  Look at the heat that CitiCorp and GM are taking for their sports sponsorship.  Companies don't like unfavorable publicity so others will drop their sponsorships of sporting events rather than be criticized for spending on sports events..

John DeGroat  


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From: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> > This is a NU sports list.  The better question is how does a
> > playoff system affect NU?
> 
> Fair point - and don't worry because with school back in session tomorrow I 
> won't have nearly as much time to rant against the B(C)S.:)
> 
> I don't think it makes much of a difference for NU either way. We're in a power 
> conference. If we do our job in league play, we get a shot. In 1995, we got a 
> shot at a major bowl and we would have been in a playoff as well.
> 
> As for the 7-5 ot 6-6 years with minor bowls, like I said, a playoff doesn't 
> have to mean the end of bowls. The non B(C)S bowls are meaningless now and still 
> go on, so why wouldn't they in a playoff?
> 
> Another option might be what the Peach Bowl seems to be doing now in Atlanta - 
> sponsoring a showdown ("bowl") at the start of the year instead of the end. Last 
> year it was Clemson-Bama. This year it's VaTech and Bama, I believe. But some 
> sites might opt to do that and get more publicity, while others wait until 
> December to hold their holiday bowls. It'd be the same basic premise where the 
> playoff committee releases teams for bowls to select and keeps 8 or 4 in a 
> playoff.
> 
> > The bowl system in its current screwed up incarnation is
> > unfortunately the best for NU.  For us ANY bowl game is a
> 
> Is it? Say we have another magical "Purple to Pasadena" year and go 11-1, 
> rolling through the Big Ten at 8-0. But because the Big Ten is considered a 
> weaker league than the SEC or Big XII, their two teams get into the so-called 
> title game and we get frozen out.
> 
> > With a playoff I see the minor bowls dying and given the
> > fact that we are not often in the top 16(largest playoff
> 
> So are we Wildcat fans against the NCAA Tournament then since NU never has made 
> it?
> 
> > No scenario besides the current one benefits NU!
> > 
> I don't see how this one benefits us much either. And it certainly doesn't 
> benefit football fans.
> 
> > Please argue against that statement from a NU fan, team, or
> > student-athlete perspective!
> 
> NU fan: I want my team to have a shot at the championship when we win our next 
> league title at 11-1 or 12-0, not get frozen out because some  intern who filled 
> out the coach's ballot has never heard of NU, doesn't like the Big Ten or is 
> more wowed by a 61-41 win than a hard-fought 13-6 defensive struggle because it 
> has more cool highlights on Sports Center.
> 
> Team: We play for competition and to be the best - we want a chance to prove 
> that on the field, not by having our coach whine in the press conference or 
> having to score meaningless fourth-quarter touchdowns to run it up on an 
> inferior foe we've already put away, this exposing our stars to more risk of 
> injury.
> 
> Student-athlete: They already make me play Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night 
> games. They already extend my season well beyond the first semester finals into 
> January to make money with games after New Year's Day. They already have made 
> this sport a year-round one with spring drills, summer camps and an 
> ever-lengthened season. Shouldn't those last games at least mean something?
> 
> OK, OK - I'll drop it for now.:) Just remember that the bowl system isn't linked 
> to the B(C)S - so NU really has been affected as much by the B(C)S as we have 
> from March Madness at this point. But the day WILL come when we'll be in both:), 
> and I think that having the chance to prove it on the court in hoops will be far 
> more satisfying and meaningful to our fans and athletes than having to navigate 
> the B-C-MESS.
> 
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
> 
> 
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