Until you start getting Power 5 teams playing each other with 9 or more wins, don't watch. That will narrow it to about 5-6 games.
Yes, but how would all these bowl committees grift money off the players, fans, and schools? 86 schools with seemingly unlimited amounts of money to give out. Almost as good as the endless pockets of government cash.
The interesting thing about Wisconsin is that Luke Fickell is coaching them. Officially, Jim Leanard will be the HC but Fickell will be on the sideline with a headset on.Wisky is only 6-6, but I don't understand why the only bowl game today with somewhat legit teams starts at 10:15???
Maybe they didn't want to try and pull viewers from the 7:30 Pens/Islanders game........
Why complain about something that:
To each their own. I’ll be attending three bowl games this week. I enjoy seeing the traditions of different teams and the non-traditional matchups.
1. So you agree with me. Got it
As a few other posters commented, I am curious about the revenue models. Bowls used to be about economic development. Fans would attend, stay for a few days and spend big bucks locally. Not anymore. Hardly anyone attends so what about tv money? Another puzzle since nobody watches.
Wondering the same. Two questions: Where does the money come from. And who benefits?
from looking at fans in seats, not many people actually attend these games
What the hell is so funny about a players family traveling and making plans to watch their child in a bowl game?
True. The networks only care about viewers and advertising. However, it’s a 2 sided coin. There’s also a flip side from the town’s perspective. What makes it profitable for Boca Raton, El Paso, (or wherever else’s), operating costs if people don’t show or spend money in restaurants and hotels?
For the cities a huge thing is publicity and status. During the bowl game the highlights of the area are featured in the broadcasts along with aerial shots. Plus hundreds of sports articles across the country all headlined from their city. Has to be the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars of paid national advertising.
Who said TV cares? I didn't. They only care about the advertisers. Ideally the viewing stops so these meaningless game end.
Coaches like the extra practice, developmental and evaluation time. You can easily pick and chose which games you want to watch. The only one that interested me so far was last nights Wisconsin game, but it started way too late.
It started way too late - and I’m in the same time zone as the game! It’s a shame a P5 matchup gets relegated to that time slot.
why would you be upset that someone wants to watch the Cheeze-It bowl? (BTW, I am told the plural of cheez-it is chees-it, not chees-its).
The winner gets a green card and a refrigerator box under the overpass in either El Paso or LA! And we thought the Land Grant Trophy was lame!
If they let all the illegals into the stadium, it will be the biggest crowd that Pitt has seen all year! Maybe since we played them!
I was thinking along those lines: Pittsburgh has declared that it is a sanctuary city. Narduzzi ought to round up about 10,000 migrants and bus them to Pittsburgh with the condition that they attend all pitt home games. This would about double attendance. Also, the Dems in Pittsburgh could feel good about themselves by giving the migrants free housing, free food, free health care, free transportation, free sex change operations if desired, etc. etc. Sounds like a win-win to me except for the punishment that the migrants would have to watch 7 pitt home games. That might be enough to drive them back to where they came from.
You gotta post that on the Panther Liar board. I would but got banned years ago!
