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hawkinn3 said:
A traveling fanbase can be a good very minor economic bump for some cities. NYC has 9 million people, we could bring 100k and it wouldn’t be felt and nobody there gives a rip about college football.
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Correct, the only reason for this bowl is the owners of Yankee stadium make money, TV might make a little money, some hotels will get a little money but compared to all the other people in NYC around xmas and the new years to see broadway plays, the lights, and the parties, this game does little.
 
BGOLD said:
In the last 5 bowls we're 0-5 and have an average margin of defeat of around 24 points. Until Iowa starts showing up for these games I can think of a lot better trips, and ways to spend a couple grand than going to a bowl game.
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Like most of you I am a huge hawk fan but have only gone to one bowl game that being 2013. had to finally go.

One main reason is being a purist who likes to see the other big games on tv. Just like watching the Jan 1st lineup and some of the new years eve games. Now if the hawks play early enough in Dec like this year a person can still get back home to watch games from the sofa.
 
HomerChampless said:
Iowa has this reputation of traveling well for a bowl game which only enhances the bowl Iowa goes to. Traveling well means sitting in the stands and spending money with local bowl vendors. Well, if you don't want Iowa to leapfrog over that team with a better record than Iowa's, stay home. Iowa will definitely see a lot of Pinstripe Bowls in the future, I'm guessing, if they cease to travel well and if the expectations of the fan base stay at what they are now.
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No, it doesn't work like that anymore. First of all there are limitations on how many times a team can go to the same bowl in a short amount of time now and it's been on record that Delaney would like to see 5 or 6 different B1G teams in NYC in 7 years. Second, with Delaney having a say in bowl selections now, we don't get to leapfrog other teams like we used to all the time. Otherwise we would probably be in the Holiday bowl this year.

It's going to be low attendance this year and I don't fault the fan base at all. Just be happy we won't have to play there again for a long time and hopefully we should have a better record next year.
 
My wife and I were going to do San Diego for the Holiday Bowl, although it was a longshot. We really wanted to go to Nashville but shes preggers and "doesn't want to go to Nashville when I can't drink". We considered NYC but probably wont end up going.
 
thefizz said:
... were legitimately going to go to the bowl game if it were in Nashville or somewhere with better December weather? I'm just wondering because there are a ton of people that are disappointed with the Pinstripe Bowl. Considering the weather in NYC, I understand. But lets say this was a more prestigious bowl and Iowa finished something like 9-3 instead of 7-5, would there be more interest in going to NYC? I've never been to NYC so it does hold a certain level of attraction to me as a destination. I'd consider going if I didn't have other things going on. Are more people disappointed about the destination or are they just disappointed in the season.
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Wife and I were going to go if they were chosen to go to Nashville. Never been and have heard great things about that city. Been to NYC a couple of times and everyone should go to visit sometime but I would do it during nice weather. It will be a more expensive trip than Nashville would have been so we am no longer planning to go to the bowl.

I already had reservations made and I know about 10 other people that aren't going now either since it's in NYC vs Nashville.
 
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I'll say this. There was a 60-70% chance i was going to nashville. There is a zero % chance i will go to new york. Has everything to do with the destination.
 
I had rooms that I could cancel already reserved in Nashville. I get down there regularly for my side gig and I have a lot of friends down there. I've literally hope they go to the Music City Bowl every 8-4/7-5 type of season.... so most.
 
pythagoras said:
The Pinstripe Bowl deal looks for seven teams over an eight-year period. Multiple trips just are not in the cards. At most it could be 1 other time.
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Are you agreeable with 'Pinstripe bowl type' of low level bowls Iowa will be involved with if Iowa's team quality stays the same, Iowa's fan base doesn't travel well to bowls and the Iowa fan base accepts mediocrity in its football teams?
 
I was thinking of going if Nashville was the destination since I’ll be in Pensacola, Florida during the holidays.

Pensacola to Nashville would’ve been six to seven hour drive.
 
HomerChampless said:
Are you agreeable with 'Pinstripe bowl type' of low level bowls Iowa will be involved with if Iowa's team quality stays the same, Iowa's fan base doesn't travel well to bowls and the Iowa fan base accepts mediocrity in its football teams?
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No one is happy with 7-5, we're not Iowa State. The way they pick bowls now has less to do with how many fans you can bring and more to do with when was the last time you were there. Unless we are in the CFP or a NY6 every year, we will have to take our turn playing in these crappy bowls.
 
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