[NU Sports] FW: NU alum says PSU deserves Bowl, but not Pitt (& NU)

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

>I'm with you though, I like having the option of watching the various bowls. This is one case where I say the free market should be free to act. If the bowls can't pay for themselves they will disappear and if they can pay
>for themselves they are not hurting anyone.


I'm curious as to how many are making money, exactly. Most of them are now played in front of half-empty stadiums and garner so-so ratings. They seem more like "Welfare Bowls" propped up by the excess that is the B(C)S (which itself is propped up by a house of cards covering their dwindling gate and low ratings for bowls on a Tuesday night featuring Stanford vs. VaTech or some 7-5 Big Least "champ"). So I'm not sure the free market is in effect here ... it's a pyramid scheme propped up by the Cartel that is on life support largely based on the greatness of the regular season for college football.

I do know that I, as a great fan of college football, used to watch just about every bowl out there -- or at least some small part of it. Now I barely catch snippets of the Big Ten games. I couldn't tell you anything about the Cotton or Peach bowl games last year, yet alone the Fight Weedwackers Pizza Bowl. It seems there's a new one every year and it seems like the quality of teams in the games (including the B(C)S games) gets worse each year.

As for whether they're hurting anyone, I guess that depends on your view of the B(C)S. :) But for now, they get NU more practice time for next year, and the Big Ten at least has good bowl ties and plays top-tier conferences to make the matchups have a shot at being worth watching.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT
 
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 From: Jim Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com>
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Cc: "'nwu-sports at tssi.com'" <nwu-sports at tssi.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] FW: NU alum says PSU deserves Bowl, but not Pitt (& NU)
 
That's an interesting idea, Mike. What if non-bowl teams could start fall camp a week earlier and have 10 extra sessions in pads? I wonder how many coaches would pass on a minor bowl game. 
 
I'm with you though, I like having the option of watching the various bowls. This is one case where I say the free market should be free to act. If the bowls can't pay for themselves they will disappear and if they can pay for themselves they are not hurting anyone.
 
Jim
 
 


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From: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>
To: "Weinbaum, Willie" <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com> 
Cc: "'nwu-sports at tssi.com'" <nwu-sports at tssi.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] FW: NU alum says PSU deserves Bowl, but not Pitt (& NU)

> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11333/1193289-87.stm  

Well, if you start with the premise that there are
'a ridiculous number of bowls', as he does,
then concluding that 6-6 teams shouldn't be in bowl
games is probably not unreasonable.

As long as ESPN and others are willing to shell out
for TV rights for bowl games, I don't see any meaningful
shrinkage in the number of games.

With 120 FBS teams, 35 bowl games is probably about as
many as the current rules can handle without running
into the risk that there aren't enough bowl-eligible
teams to fill all the bowls.  

Personally, I like bowl games, because each bowl
has its own story, even the mismatches.  And if
college football has proven anything, it is that
you cannot assume the favored team will win.

I do, however, have concerns about the fact that 70
out of 120 teams get extra practices.  This creates
'haves' and 'have nots'.  

Perhaps the NCAA should allow ALL 120 FBS teams to 
practice in December, not just the bowl-eligible ones.
--
Mike Nolan




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