Three more bowls added

[vkj91]

I'm not debating dollar figures; I'm debating whether the average resident really gives a sh#t. Not sure what SanFran does, but unless he runs a business that caters to the stadium crowd, I don't know that the "bowl tourism dollar" argument is very compelling.

Visitors love to use such arguments for matters of self-importance or to otherwise support their points (not accusing you of the former, clearly you're in the latter here), but they don't always resonate with people that actually live there.

Well if the average resident doesn't like people visiting than maybe they shouldn't live in a popular tourist city. if they don't care then the argument is stupid anyway.

 

[RU4Real]

Don't understand what people don't get about bowl SEASON. It's not about adding another week to a teams schedule. It's about college football fans having the chance to watch at least one game a day for a month. For me, it's the best month in sports and for others, it's another reason to complain about everything.

Agree.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

I am ambivalent about attending bowl games. The way the games screw over schools and their loyal fans.. forcing them to sell the worst tickets.. terrible.

 

[Blitz8RU]

Toilet bowl, Garbage bowl and Slop bowl.

 

[jerzey devil]

College coaches are loving this. Hey, you can't fire a guy that goes to bowl games right? lol

Ask Bo Pellini!!

 

[FanuSanu52]

Well if the average resident doesn't like people visiting than maybe they shouldn't live in a popular tourist city. if they don't care then the argument is stupid anyway.

Not sure that the point is worth belaboring, but it's not that they don't like people visiting. It's that they don't care one way or the other. More money in someone else's pockets and tax revenue for the government to waste vs more traffic/crowds and out-of-town drunks = take it or leave it. Not sure what argument is stupid?

But basically I think we agree: Bowls have become about TV, anyway, and the more the merrier. IF ESPN, advertisers, players, coaches and football fans all benefit, what's the problem? If a particular bowl fails at benefiting those folks, it goes away.

 

[bac2therac]

yippee more watered down nonsense sending 5-7 schools to a bowl to play garbage football, soon there will be bowls for all schools..pussification of sports. I see in NJ high schools all schools make the playoffs (not including football)

 

[bac2therac]

I would LOVE, i mean LOVE the meltdown on this board if we went to a bowl at 5-7

Id rather see the meltdown on the board when the making a bowl argument at 5-7 being an acheivement for a coach is destroyed

 

[RU76]

You'd think that most of the critics are afraid their wives won't let them watch the bowl games and they don't want anyone else to either.

 

[brgossRU90]

I just don't want to hear from those people excited at the prospect of more bad bowl games that a coach getting to lousy bowls, and only lousy bowls, is any kind of sign of coaching greatness.