How have we only won 10 bowl games?
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Hey, I'm 3-0 in bowl games, including the first one we won. I've done my part.
And to lose them.
I'm trying to look at the positives - at least this won't be the second year in a row where they lose one they shouldn't.
Iām 3-1 and also experienced the car quest bowl. Met my first and only trans on the beach one night. He/she tried to get me to go to a party. I said no. Then that joker said āWhat you afraid imma stab you or something.ā Never been back to Miami.
Well, if we're being honest with ourselves, we're right in there with Rutgers, Iowa State, etc. when it comes to some of the all time worst P4 programs.
And Duke and Virginia, the bottom of the A She She.
Question: How have we only won 10 bowl games?
Answer: late start, we did not start until winning bowl game until 1995.
When I was younger, I was a good luck charm. As an adult, my attendance has been the kiss of death.
My bowl attendance record:
3-1 in Outback Bowl (W 2001, 2002, 2013. L 2009)
1-0 Liberty Bowl (2006)
0-1 Papa Johns Bowl (2009)
0-1 SEC Championship (2010)
0-1 Peach Bowl (2010)
0-1 Belk Bowl (2018)
0-1 Gator Bowl (2022)
Unless the Gamecocks go to the playoffs Im probably not going to any more of their bowl games. I think its lousy that players opt out and the bowls charge such high prices for tickets just for us to watch back ups play.
My bowl attendance record:
3-1 in Outback Bowl (W 2001, 2002, 2013. L 2009)
1-0 Liberty Bowl (2006)
0-1 Papa Johns Bowl (2009)
0-1 SEC Championship (2010)
0-1 Peach Bowl (2010)
0-1 Belk Bowl (2018)
0-1 Gator Bowl (2022)
Unless the Gamecocks go to the playoffs Im probably not going to any more of their bowl games. I think its lousy that players opt out and the bowls charge such high prices for tickets just for us to watch back ups play.
While we were down there for the Carquest Bowl, a story ran on local news about a teenage kid who had gotten a job delivering pizzas to pay for an old car he was driving, but of which he was very proud. In one of the neighborhoods into which in ventured on a delivery, a group of thugs killed him just to take his car for a ride.
The interview with the boy's father would tear anyone's heart out. That was my first and last trip to Miami. It was also my first time seeing convenience store clerks behind cages. So long, Miami. It ain't all South Beach by any means.
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I remember a two-week span during the Giese era where we ended the long losing streaks of other conference teams on successive weeks. Maryland was one of them. Either Virginia or Wake Forest was the other one. One replaced the other as having the longest losing streak of some kind and we broke them both! You TALK about embarrassing.
I was in a pizza place in Miami and a thug was talking to the worker and acted like he was going to put a tip in the tip jar but I saw him, he took.money out. The worker said thank you to him and my jaw hit the floor. I was stareing at him like WTF! He pulled up his t-shirt to expose his gun so I picked my jaw up of the floor and minded my own business.While we were down there for the Carquest Bowl, a story ran on local news about a teenage kid who had gotten a job delivering pizzas to pay for an old car he was driving, but of which he was very proud. In one of the neighborhoods into which in ventured on a delivery, a group of thugs killed him just to take his car for a ride.
I was maybe a Jr in HS and I can't believe my dad let me wander the beach at Miami at night. I was looking for something to do, but never thought it would be presented to me that way. In a sense I went back to the future.While we were down there for the Carquest Bowl, a story ran on local news about a teenage kid who had gotten a job delivering pizzas to pay for an old car he was driving, but of which he was very proud. In one of the neighborhoods into which in ventured on a delivery, a group of thugs killed him just to take his car for a ride.
That same weekend my friend and I were in his new convertible Mercedes and the hotel had valet parking. He was getting things out of it on the street and I saw him from the window in my room. My 6th sence kicked in and I yelled down for him to write down the mileage. Sure enough the next day when we got in it there was 210 miles more on it. The parking garage was around the block
Maybe if a knife was all you had to worry about being stabbed by you could have gone.
And here I was thinking "WOW, we've won 10 bowl games!" I remember being 0 and 13 or whatever it was for decades before the Car quest BOWL and how Scott was gonna take us to the next level...which he did, just not the direction I was expecting
To win, you have to go. We have only played in 26 bowls in our entire history, we are 10-16. Clemson has played in 50 and are 27-23. UGA has been to 63 and are 38-22-3. Even UNC has been to 39 and are 15-24. Unsurprisingly, Alabama has the most bowl appearances at 77 with a 45-29-3 record.
The bowl appearances should go up pretty quickly now that winning 6 games is all it takes to get you in a bowl.
That latter one certainly due to sit-outs.
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Man, the future looked great that afternoon. Same as when Muschamp won his. This place.
But bowls are going to be reduced. LA Bowl announced discontinuation today. They won't be the last unless player and team participation are somehow cemented. There are too many, though. Break-even records shouldn't get it. That's absurd. Always has been.
There are 47 bowls this year, 36 non CFP bowls. That means 84 teams will play in a post season game (72 in non CFP, 12 in CFP). This means that 59 teams that are not ranked, some with losing records, will play in a bowl. That is the definition of absurd.
An argument is that the bowls exist to provide an infusion of cash to local economies. Maybe that proves true for some of the bigger bowls, but most of these lower bowls have terrible attendance. I can't see them making any seriously impactful difference to the local economies.
I'm 2-0, with both games attended in 2014: 1/1 vs Wisconsin and 12/27 vs Miami.
One would think there would be a reduction. With the SEC and Big 10 moving to 9-game conference schedules plus one quality P4 OOC opponent, that takes a win away. Previously you could schedule 3 creampuffs, accounting for half of the necessary 6 wins.
Per Sparky Woods in 1989 and 1990 the team passed on the Independence Bowl, but 1989 was the year Ellis got hurt and we were getting clobbered each week with DeMasi at QB. Im not so sure we beat Baylor, LOL The 1990 team finished with that last game win over West Virginia after the Clemson game, so the 1990 team had some momentum but no one was graduating.
. After a promising start, Carolina ended 6-4-1. Good enough for a bowl bid, though the university declined the opportunity, deciding to stress academics over postseason play in an effort to clean up the programās outlaw image.
Woods remembers the bowl decision as an unfortunate one.
āThe Independence Bowl called and offered us a chance to come there. Grant Taft was at Baylor and Grant called me and tried to get me to come. He said, ātheyāre gonna take you and us,ā and we probably could have beat Baylor at the time. South Carolina had only been to eight bowl games in the history of the school and never won one. So I should have pushed for that. It fell during exams, and [President] Holderman felt like, first of all, weād probably lose money going to the Independence Bowl. I thought I was being a team guy, and I really wasnāt. It was really not fair to the players ā the seniors especially.ā
Despite the good feelings following a nationally televised victory and another six-win season, administrators once again declined an invitation to the Independence Bowl.
Reflecting on the reasoning behind USCās decision, Woods says, āSame thing. Independence Bowl, and [we were] gonna get Baylor again,ā Woods recalls. āI think it was the money (a reference to the cost of travel to the low-paying bowl). We also got a lot of negative publicity about a 19% graduation rate; we were on indefinite [NCAA] probation,ā Woods reflects. āI wish I had fought for the opportunity to go to one of those bowl games. It would have been the right thing to do for those kids, and who knows, I think we might have won one of those. That was a huge mistake, maybe one of the biggest that we made while we were there.ā
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King Dixon screwed us both times. Carolina should have NEVER turned down a bowl invite.
Sparky's tenure might have looked a bit different with a couple bowl games in there. Maybe a bowl win.
The '90 team was better than its record. That team could have won 8. Should have.
0-1 1975 Tangerine
0-2 1980 & 1984 Gator
1-0 2014 Capitol One
3-0 2001/2002/2018 Outback
4-3, I'm not the Chicken Curse
0-2 1980 & 1984 Gator
1-0 2014 Capitol One
3-0 2001/2002/2018 Outback
4-3, I'm not the Chicken Curse