if, as some say, we are invited to a non-descript, less than minor bowl game. Will it be Barker or Towles?
So, Who Will Be Our Starting QB In The Pampers Diaper Bowl
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We better not play in a bowl at 5-7, we would never hear the end of it with rival fans.
If Mitch does this then we will be looking for a new AD. Mark my words.
If Mitch does this then we will be looking for a new AD. Mark my words.
I know your being facetious but they just said on the radio if we guarantee the bowl we will buy 30k tickets were going bowling. They called it buying a bowl. Im good with it as the expense is worth the extra month of practice time and extra tv time.
Oh yay, an opportunity to go 5-8, let's just continue wallowing in this pathetic season. Can we just put it to bed already.
Thats why they call it "buying a bowl". Unless you land a local or regional team no one is going to sell anything close to 30k to go watch a 5-7 team. So the school buys the tickets. They then sell what they can and give the rest away. If given the chance you take it and eat the cost. Its an investment in the program. Its rarely popular with the fan base but its not for them, its for the team. You then milk every hour out of every practice the bowl season makes available.
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you absolutely go to a bowl at 5-7 if you can if you are serious about turning around our football program. eat the ticket cost or not. Not going is cutting off your nose to spite you face.
With a bowl you get the extra practices to get guys like Barker better, which is imperative for the future. But more importantly, you get a chance to change the current dialogue and horrible perception of this lose. It is absolutely critical for future success to hold the vast majority of the current class together and add a few pieces. A ****** bowl, even at 5-7, helps keep current recruits on board and perhaps add a couple that are needed. So much easier to get someone to commit who can come in and see the team practice during the break. And watching us beat up on someone in a bowl changes the conversation from what it will be from now until signing day with this lose as the last impression....JMO
He has no choice. If he doesn't the fans are gone. If they pay the $1.5 million(30,000 X $50) and by some miracle the other team plays worse they can rally behind the bowl win. Mark it down, that fool will do it.
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After today, they couldn't sell 30,000 tickets if we had a game @CWS next week. Someone thinks that we will sell that many for a bowl game that 95% of the fanbase will be embarrassed by?
It was said on 84 WHAS post game. They didnt say 30k tickets just that the team had to "buy a certain amount". I googled some articles and came up with the 30k from that. It may be less tickets than that but there will be a cost. The cost doesnt matter. You are buying practice/recruiting time and you take that deal. If you win the bowl game its just a bonus. The ridicule is just part of paying our dues. Dont like the negativity win 6 in the regular season next year boys, you were just a few plays away but you followed what seems to be the permanent narrative of our program and did not make the plays. Get it done.
I have said all along you cant judge this staff until the end of year 4. Thats the only way to be fair. Next year the lights are on and the expectations bump up a notch. 6 games is a must. Doesnt matter who, how or where six has to happen. There was a lot riding on this game today and i wanted it badly so Im a little more critical than normal. We missed a bowl, set a record, let UL set a record and lost the over all series lead all in one game. Just a shot to the gut. I think we have the right staff in place but I must admit they are down to zero hour. Another year like this may be their last, two more and its over for sure. The sad part is we just gotta hang on and hope we made the right hires. If we didnt the penalty is stiff and the rivals we want to compete with (UT,UL,UF) will be a lot further down the road. Ive been here a lot with this program in my lifetime, were due to make the right moves and keep up. Were way over due to be honest.
Well hopefully that won't be an option. It would truly be an embarrassment at this point.
I don't see how extra practices that a bowl affords a team would help us. We've been practicing all season long and haven't improved a bit.
It won't but Mitch buried us in the contract sooooooo he takes the bowl. He prays we win it. If we lose it he can spin it next year. He can point to a "bowl" game from this year as a reason to give him the 5th year.
Mitch will pay for the Bowl if someone is dumb enough to invite us.
Mitch will pay for the Bowl if someone is dumb enough to invite us.
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Not sure I'd want any remaining recruits watch us possibly lose to Topeka Bible College in the Who Gives a S#$@ Bowl.
During the season you are limited on what you can do both physically and mentally. You can't put the pads on and hit every single day. Also most of the in season practicing is done preparing to win on Saturday.
Bowl practice the seniors usually do the first couple drills and then kinda watch from the sideline. These practices are nothing more than an extra spring. Allows you to do a lot more player developement drills, more full pads stuff type of things. Here is where developing depth truly comes from.
The only week during the season you have this option is a bye week. Coming out of our bye week we seen the emergence of west and Beaty. They got a more extended look with good on good. The game unless in the final four is the least important part of the process. Rewards your seniors one more time, get a nice trip, and allows you to try different players in real game action.
Take the cost of tickets out of Barney's salary. He gets a bonus for going to a bowl anyway, let him pay for the embarrassment.
While I agree the extra practice time would be nice, would we benefit from it with this staff, they've had practice all year, not sure its helped though. Love Kentucky sports, but after 45 years not sure how much more shi**y football I can take.
That's point I made in another thread last night. I agree 100%. If the UK AD and HC had any self respect they would quietly ask the bowl committees not to extend an invitation.
I have a hard enough time with a 6-6 team being allowed to go bowling, let alone a 5-7 team. If UK is selected and accepts a bowl bid as a 5-7 team, I would frankly encourage our fans to boycott the game, as much as it pains me to say it. Why drive and/or fly hundreds or thousands of miles and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to see what we've seeing the last 7-8 weeks?
LMMFAO! I COULDNT OF SAID IT BETTER BOUT SPIT MY PEPSI EVERYWHERE WHEN I SEEN THIS! I AM WITH YOU!! WHO GIVES A RATS ***!!