The only way to "save" Bowl season and make it more exciting again is to go back to a smaller pool of games. When they expanded and decided to start letting .500 teams play and made up all these lame *** bowls, it started going down hill.
Oh yeah and its not the Gator Bowl. Its the Taxplayerslayer Gator Bowl. Please get it right. No reason to make believe its something that its not. Its not for the fans, or the players or the schools. Its for the sponsors, the networks and the NCAA.
In the late 80s there were 18 or 19 bowl games compared to 40 or so now. Not too mention when they decided to put the sponsors name first, which is a huge turn off to any fan, it took some of the intrinsic value from the games. Are the commercials not enough so now we have to put their names before the actual bowl game? Yeah thats lame, and always will be lame.
I would love to see a real fan revolt and people just turn it off. Thats just me tho.
The sponsor creep is interesting, as well as annoying, to watch. More and more stuff is sponsored. It won't be long until it's "Johnson is tackled at the Home Deport 35 yards line for a Hot Pockets first down." It doesn't feel as creepy as it is because it happens incrementally but if you watch a game from 30 years ago then watch a game from now, it's creepy.
Ever see the movie "Office Space?" Remember when Jennifer Anison worked in the restaurant and they gave her grief because she didn't wear enough pieces of flair? That's what uniforms are becoming like now. Look at the jersey near the top front. There is the school logo. And the conference logo. And this year their is the "150th college football season" logo. And there is the Nike logo. And in bowl games there is the bowl logo. And on and on. It won't be long until Coke is paying schools to wear the Coke logo, or whatever. The uniforms will become like what they wear in NASCAR.
Mountaineer Field is no longer Mountaineer Field. They ought to at least put a limit on how long it gets renamed after a rich guy that gives a lot of money. Is it going to be Milan Puskar Stadium forever and ever? If so, that's a pretty good deal. $20 million, or whatever he gave, sounds like a lot of money but if it gets the stadium named after him forever then it's not really much per year. The money is long since spent. And we no longer can say WVU plays at Mountaineer Field.
I don't think it's worth it but OTOH, if we're competing with other schools that will do it then we'll bring in less money and be at a disadvantage. Is there no overarching authority that can forbid everyone from doing it and thus making it a moot point? I don't know.
