Posted on 12/19/2008 1:58:31 PM PST by MeanGreen2008
It was like watching pigeons fight over breadcrumbs.
Sixty-eight teams will play in 34 bowl games that start Saturday, and San Jose State and Florida Atlantic were desperate to be in the mix. How desperate? The Motor City Bowl needed a team, and the two schools swooned as if courting the The Granddaddy of Them All.
San Jose State, in a proposal certain to lose money, offered to take $250,000 and game tickets as payment to play in a contest that ranks right up there with its automotive cousin, the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
No dice.
Florida Atlantic agreed to forego cash and accept as compensation some 16,000 tickets, the majority of which will go unsold – for the right to spend the holidays in Detroit. Merry Christmas, Owl fans! Your team will be playing Central Michigan on Dec. 26 at Ford Field and your school will be scrambling to stay out of debt.
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Heck, as a Michigan alum, I’d pay to have them sit at home also.
As a Buckeye, I would too.
LOL!
As a Blue Hen, I feel your pain.
Both of us became first time 8 game loosers. YUCK!
The media exposure aid to recruiting and the additional practice time make it worthwhile to participate in any bowl game which will have you.
Which is why FAMU is willing to lose a little money up front.
Oops.
Florida Atlantic, not FAMU.
Gee, you would think that you would relish the chance of watching the Wolverines in action this year.
If it were not profitable they would not do it. If you doubt this check the list of bowls that have closed.
The fact is if someone is willing to sponsor a bowl game and teams want to play the game, a tv network wants to broadcast it and people want to watch it, why does it bother the sportswriters, the Senate, or the President-elect.
Please do not tell me about football purity or any other abstract absurdity.
Some sports do it by playoff, others do not.
How pure is the playoff when teams are eliminated by their conference finish anyway? Does anybody really believe that the third best b-ball team in the ACC is worse than the #1 in the Metro Atlantic Conference which gets an automatice bid?
The only good thing about the tournament is that it gives a chance to an outsider. However, how often has that happened if at all.
Some sports do it by playoff, others do not.
Name one college sport (or for that manner, any type of professional sport) that does not have a playoff tournament to determine its champion.
Michigan should have offered to play Florida Atlantic. FAU would have been favored but Michigan may have pulled it out with home field advantage.
I only watch Mich play once a year - and that’s when OSU plays them. I would never make a habit of watching them!
Football
We relished that opportunity November 22nd. We’re hoping Rich Rodriguez stays their coach for a long time.
Not all of us are football nuts.
I am....a college football nut....a buckeye nut!
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