hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Dec 15, 2008 15:04:10 GMT -5
I'm putting this question here, because it really deals indirectly with any potential movement towards playoffs.
What do you all think of bowls in general? As I was growing up, I really looked forward to bowls. I don't know whether it was the excitement of going somewhere different, the opportunity to play a team that you normally don't ore merely the hope of the 9 months of satisfaction of winning your last game. Maybe it's a combination. But in any case, I used to be very excited in general about bowl season, as well as our bowl in particular. The older I get, the less excited I get about the whole Bowl system. Obviously, this year that wouldn't apply to our game, but even with us in the title game, I am just not as interested in the start of bowl season.
A friend of mine says that unless you are in the BCS title game, then the bowl game is your least important game of the year, except for the spring Orange and Blue game. I think that is an interesting take and as I get older, I find my sellf thinkin more and more like he does.
Spefically, to those fans of other teams -- RDF, Austin, Tiger -- how excited are you about the upcoming bowl season in general? Secondly, how important is the outcome of your game in particular?
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Post by RDF on Dec 15, 2008 16:13:10 GMT -5
I'm glad Miami made a bowl game for the practice time--but I think Cal is going to run them off the field and embarrass them. So it's a double edge sword. You get the extra practices and for Canes who are young--that is valuable but if you get your butt handed to you--is that a good thing? Jahvid Best will probably have over 200 yards on the Canes the way they defended the run as year progressed.
Thing is-why can't these bowl games stay intact as is, and top BCS Bowls be the "Playoff"--only start them earlier then they are now--and you have nothing changing but 8-12 teams playing it off while others finish season in bowl games that only their fans and CFB fans in general will pay attention to? Kind of like the NIT is to CBB.
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Post by hifigator on Dec 16, 2008 12:42:26 GMT -5
I am with you on the playoff/Bowl integration. That sure seems to make a lot of sense.
Getting back to my question, I remember the '79 season when the Gators went 0-10-1. I made $94 selling cokes at the Alabama game. They beat us something like 44-0, but as a 13 year old with a crappy football team, $94 is a LOT of money! But the next year we went 7-4 during the regular season and then went to the Tangerine Bowl -- which evolved into the Citrus and now Capital One Bowl. The point is that I remember being excited about that road trip. The same was true of the Peach Bowl the following year, then the Astro-BlueBonnet Bowl, and finally the Gator Bowl the year after that.
Nowadays, I just don't get very interested in bowls in general. Sure, it's nice to have a football game every single day, but I just feel that something is missing.
Curious if I have just gotten a bit complacent by almost "expecting" an appearance at no worse than the Citrus Bowl.
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