Orange Blooded [2351]
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8 Bowl games have been canceled thus far BUT
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 2:03 PM
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There are still THIRTY-FOUR more on schedule not even counting the playoffs! If nothing else, this should be a year used to trim some of these trash bowls off the schedule permanently. Used to be a bowl was a reward for a special season. Now just about every team that plays the sport gets to go. I guess those of you who say "more college football is better" and enjoy watching UL Monroe play Toledo on a random December Tuesday, I got nothing for ya.
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I don’t have a problem with it. Here’s why
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 2:24 PM
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If you make it to a bowl, you get more practice time to develop your backups than other teams that don’t make it to a bowl don’t get. Recall Kyle Parker to Tajh Boyd progression in the Belk Bowl or whatever it was called.
Hopefully we don’t stoop to that level again though
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110%er [7658]
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Was it still the Continental Tire Bowl in 2010?
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:28 PM
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Re: 8 Bowl games have been canceled thus far BUT
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 2:28 PM
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Ive yet to find a down side to having So.Miss vs Fresno State ss opposed to Milwaukee Bucks vs L.A. Clippers on ESPN
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Orange Blooded [2351]
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Wow. Salient point sir. TU.***
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 2:30 PM
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Ring of Honor [26924]
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This comes up every year
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:01 PM
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And for the life of me I can't understand folks clamoring for less football to watch.
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Orange Blooded [2351]
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Well, no one is watching those games anyway.
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:15 PM
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If you can honestly tell me youre planning to watch the, and this is the honest to God name: Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl between Houston and UTSA on December 19, then more power to ya sir. Youll be one of the few non-alums watching it.
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Ring of Honor [26924]
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It will likely be on my TV
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:33 PM
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Chances are it won't be a good game, but it is infinitely more likely to be a good game if it's played then if it's not. And I'll take ANY college football on my TV over most else thats on TV in those time slots.
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Re: It will likely be on my TV
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:55 PM
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Agreed!
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Re: It will likely be on my TV
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 4:58 PM
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I couldn’t have said it better. Well done sir.
If I can I’ll watch the two worst division 3 teams play. College football is by far the best sport and there needs to be more of it, not less.
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All-In [30471]
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I've watched way less games than normal this year
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:37 PM
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Clemson, a few NC State games, a few other ACC games and that's about it
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I AM NOW!
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:42 PM
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First I’ve heard of it
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Head Coach [762]
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Re: Well, no one is watching those games anyway.
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:52 PM
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If you can honestly tell me youre planning to watch the, and this is the honest to God name: Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl between Houston and UTSA on December 19, then more power to ya sir. Youll be one of the few non-alums watching it.
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Orange Blooded [4113]
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Re: 8 Bowl games have been canceled thus far BUT
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:36 PM
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Give ALL teams more practice time. Cut the bowls down to about 12+playoffs.
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Ring of Honor [26924]
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Why?
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 3:38 PM
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What harm is there in football on TV?
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Re: Why?
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Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:14 PM
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For me, a bowl game should be a reward for a superior regular season.
When there are so many bowls that every team with a .500 record goes, they aren’t worth playing.
It is analogous to the “participation trophy” argument we have in kids sports these days. If everyone gets to play in a bowl, then playing in a bowl becomes meaningless.
I’d much rather see some sort of real scheduled pre-season games in August as a tune up for the season, than an anticlimactic snooze fest in Shrieveport In December.
This is Johnso st my personal perspective.
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Orange Blooded [3808]
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Has anyone ever confused a participation...
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:19 PM
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....trophy with the national championship trophy?
Has anyone confused a midweek/mid December bowl for a NY6 or playoff game?
Give me more football, not less.
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Re: Why?
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:29 PM
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"For me, a bowl game should be a reward for a superior regular season."
A bowl team doesn't even need to have a "superior" season...but how about requiring they have at least a "winning" season?
Watching some of these 50-50 teams play in a bowl is like watching people with a 150 average bowl.
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Orange Blooded [2351]
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See, thats exactly it. Bowls are no longer a reward at all.
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:47 PM
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They are just a +1 to your season schedule. You guys can say give me more college football but I bet a benjamin yall are not watching these garbage games.
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CU Guru [1145]
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Re: 8 Bowl games have been canceled thus far BUT
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 5:41 PM
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I personally love bowl season! In my opinion, more football is always a positive!
Go Tigers!!!
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Orange Blooded [2973]
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Re: 8 Bowl games have been canceled thus far BUT
Posted: Nov 29, 2020, 7:15 PM
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Maybe it's just me but the two semifinal games are still bowls but they kind of lose their identity as a bowl when they host a CFP game. For example seems like no one calls it the Orange,Cotton,Sugar, Fiesta but the "semifinal" or the "playoff" game.
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