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GameAbove vs MAC - Detroit
RateBowl, vs XII, Phoenix
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I think all we need to address Fry's "Stay Off My Lawn" attitude about Bowls is to have tiers:

The CFB should not play in any bowls. Those teams are in the playoffs and they each round already has a name. Should not be bowl related at all.

Then, you take the big traditional bowls like Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton and Peach and call them Championship Bowls. These are for the next 12 best teams as determined by the CFPB.

Give those teams that don't make the CFP a secondary goal to be in a Championship Bowl game. Keep that limited to 6 bowls played on or around New Years. That would make 24 teams that either make the CFP or a Championship Bowl. The winning team splits a million bucks, but that only goes to guys who play in the game. Opt outs get nothing.

Every other bowl is just a bowl and a funsy deal for the fans and team and band, but no prestige.
 


NorthKCHawk said:
God it must suck being this unhappy all the time. What would you rather being doing on December 29th than watching the Hawks play football?????

Seriously, the first part was hilarious. You forgot to add that it is being broadcast on ESPN8 The Ocho.

Seriously, seriously, I know you hate bowl games, but why? Isn't every game where Iowa has been eliminated from the conference title and CFPB pretty much an exhibition game? What meaning does the MSU game really have? Not much. I am still going to be locked in and watching the game. I love Iowa football. I would watch practice if they livestreamed it. It doesn't have to mean something for me to care about it. That is what makes college football so cool.
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Would never happen, but with all the players opting out, it would be interesting to have teams showcase and play the younger players coming thru the program, like the redshirts, & sophs. That would be interesting to watch and the players would want to play. Also, they would have a benefit for all the work they have put in through the year. I could get into watching a Hawk game with who may be the future starters or stars. A chance to get a look at them prior to the next season.
 
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NorthKCHawk said:
I think all we need to address Fry's "Stay Off My Lawn" attitude about Bowls is to have tiers:

The CFB should not play in any bowls. Those teams are in the playoffs and they each round already has a name. Should not be bowl related at all.

Then, you take the big traditional bowls like Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton and Peach and call them Championship Bowls. These are for the next 12 best teams as determined by the CFPB.

Give those teams that don't make the CFP a secondary goal to be in a Championship Bowl game. Keep that limited to 6 bowls played on or around New Years. That would make 24 teams that either make the CFP or a Championship Bowl. The winning team splits a million bucks, but that only goes to guys who play in the game. Opt outs get nothing.

Every other bowl is just a bowl and a funsy deal for the fans and team and band, but no prestige.
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You need to be the Czar of college football, my friend! This is spectacular.
 


NorthKCHawk said:
I think all we need to address Fry's "Stay Off My Lawn" attitude about Bowls is to have tiers:

The CFB should not play in any bowls. Those teams are in the playoffs and they each round already has a name. Should not be bowl related at all.

Then, you take the big traditional bowls like Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton and Peach and call them Championship Bowls. These are for the next 12 best teams as determined by the CFPB.

Give those teams that don't make the CFP a secondary goal to be in a Championship Bowl game. Keep that limited to 6 bowls played on or around New Years. That would make 24 teams that either make the CFP or a Championship Bowl. The winning team splits a million bucks, but that only goes to guys who play in the game. Opt outs get nothing.

Every other bowl is just a bowl and a funsy deal for the fans and team and band, but no prestige.
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This is what I've wanted all along. That covers the best 24 teams in college football and gives teams like Iowa who aren't ever going to make the playoffs something to shoot for when you just lost 2 in a row and have nebraska and MSU left on the schedule.

Can still let the 6-6 and 5-7 teams play exhibition games if they want, but we're not calling them bowls. We're calling them scrimmages. Which is precisely what they are. Let those also-rans make their own matchups/locations/schedule/etc.
 


NorthKCHawk said:
I think all we need to address Fry's "Stay Off My Lawn" attitude about Bowls is to have tiers:

The CFB should not play in any bowls. Those teams are in the playoffs and they each round already has a name. Should not be bowl related at all.

Then, you take the big traditional bowls like Rose, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton and Peach and call them Championship Bowls. These are for the next 12 best teams as determined by the CFPB.

Give those teams that don't make the CFP a secondary goal to be in a Championship Bowl game. Keep that limited to 6 bowls played on or around New Years. That would make 24 teams that either make the CFP or a Championship Bowl. The winning team splits a million bucks, but that only goes to guys who play in the game. Opt outs get nothing.

Every other bowl is just a bowl and a funsy deal for the fans and team and band, but no prestige.
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I don’t have a problem with any of that except the Championship Bowl designation. Change it to Participation Ribbon Bowl and I’m onboard.
 


Fryowa said:
This is what I've wanted all along. That covers the best 24 teams in college football and gives teams like Iowa who aren't ever going to make the playoffs something to shoot for when you just lost 2 in a row and have nebraska and MSU left on the schedule.

Can still let the 6-6 and 5-7 teams play exhibition games if they want, but we're not calling them bowls. We're calling them scrimmages. Which is precisely what they are. Let those also-rans make their own matchups/locations/schedule/etc.
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No. They are bowls. They are just not Championship Bowls.

As the newly appointed CFB Czar, I can't take 35 other bowls and call them a scrimmage and then turn around and ask ESPN for 15 million per in broadcasting rights. They are bowls, their fans care about them, some get 40,000 fans to show up in person. We are not calling them a scrimmage.

Stop pretending that the term bowl is somehow sacrosanct. Did you watch the last Pro Bowl, Fry?!? :)

Or this:

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thedukeofearl said:
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If it were ReliaQuis....I would assume it was a medication. Except it would be an OTC. Because "relia" obviously carries connotations. But "Quis" is made up enough for a pharmaceutical.

If I were a bowl game, I would be 100% be going after Cologuard.
Think about the success PopTarts have had with bowl games.
Cologuard already has a mascot. At halftime you could have a bunch of middle aged men at midfield dropping a deuce into a box. Extra bonus tie-in, you could cut a deal with USPS. They chip in a couple million to have a letter carrier drive in one of their new electric trucks and pick up the now-full Cologuard boxes.

Bonus, you could setup a lab on site. Test the poop and then post game you could announce in front of 40,000 fans and on live national television which of the men tested positive for colorectal cancer. I mean, what could be more dramatic?

What sucks, is that bowls have come to the point where I spent enough time to think that out and type it out. Instead of actually considering what remaining value there is to bowls. There is some. Extra practices. Extra showcasing. Even now, you can say that people lower on the current depth chart who might be higher next season get some actual game-like experience. But still, overall, the value of them is mitigated. And that's not good for college football.
 




dagdaj said:
If I were a bowl game, I would be 100% be going after Cologuard.
Think about the success PopTarts have had with bowl games.
Cologuard already has a mascot. At halftime you could have a bunch of middle aged men at midfield dropping a deuce into a box. Extra bonus tie-in, you could cut a deal with USPS. They chip in a couple million to have a letter carrier drive in one of their new electric trucks and pick up the now-full Cologuard boxes.

Bonus, you could setup a lab on site. Test the poop and then post game you could announce in front of 40,000 fans and on live national television which of the men tested positive for colorectal cancer. I mean, what could be more dramatic?
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Put nebraska and Iowa State in it and there will be a giant sample on the actual field before the 1st quarter is over.
 


If you think about it, all you have to do to "qualify" for a scrimmage is win 3 conference games. Every team has at LEAST 3 garbage teams on their schedule, most of the time more than that.

You win three non-cons against Upper Mid Central Poughkeepsie State Welding School (Gerald Street Campus) and beat three terrible teams in your conference and you get to play in a scrimmage at the end of the year. And people still call them bowl games like it's 1986.

Whatta buncha rubes...
 




dagdaj said:
If it were ReliaQuis....I would assume it was a medication. Except it would be an OTC. Because "relia" obviously carries connotations. But "Quis" is made up enough for a pharmaceutical.

If I were a bowl game, I would be 100% be going after Cologuard.
Think about the success PopTarts have had with bowl games.
Cologuard already has a mascot. At halftime you could have a bunch of middle aged men at midfield dropping a deuce into a box. Extra bonus tie-in, you could cut a deal with USPS. They chip in a couple million to have a letter carrier drive in one of their new electric trucks and pick up the now-full Cologuard boxes.

Bonus, you could setup a lab on site. Test the poop and then post game you could announce in front of 40,000 fans and on live national television which of the men tested positive for colorectal cancer. I mean, what could be more dramatic?

What sucks, is that bowls have come to the point where I spent enough time to think that out and type it out. Instead of actually considering what remaining value there is to bowls. There is some. Extra practices. Extra showcasing. Even now, you can say that people lower on the current depth chart who might be higher next season get some actual game-like experience. But still, overall, the value of them is mitigated. And that's not good for college football.
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WOW...


:cool:
 


Fryowa said:
If you think about it, all you have to do to "qualify" for a scrimmage is win 3 conference games. Every team has at LEAST 3 garbage teams on their schedule, most of the time more than that.

You win three non-cons againstand
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Upper Mid Central Poughkeepsie State Welding School (Gerald Street Campus)

Hot Damn...

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Fryowa said:
Oh, you mean the NFL bouncy house carnival?
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Exactly my point. The term "bowl" has been downgraded to such an extent it will never regain your childhood nostalgic version of what a "bowl" means. The Pro Bowl, before it was cancelled, was a slap fight. The Pinstripe Bowl is played in a baseball stadium in the winter. The Hula Bowl requires coaches to wear hula shirts. The Flint Michigan Megabowl was to determine who was in 4th place in a now defunct professional basketball league. The Clegane Bowl involved two giant brothers engaged in a sword fight as the Red Keep crumbled around them. Its over, Fry. Bowl is never going to be cool again.
 


I love love love bowl games. They are more college football, how can you bitch about more college football?

They've always been exhibitions. Maybe you thought they were super important in 1988 or 2007, but they were exhibitions then, too. That doesn't mean they don't matter.

The games have changed a bit. Nowadays, they are the "preview for next year" games. I love seeing young guys play.

Crabby old men can bitch about the bowl games, because that is what crabby bitches do. They bitch.
 


early on when they were discussing playoffs, someone asked Kirk Ferentz about it... he asked, if you lose in the first round does that mean you can't go to a bowl?. The person said, right your'e done, KF replied "well that sucks"
 


Hawke said:
I don’t have a problem with any of that except the Championship Bowl designation. Change it to Participation Ribbon Bowl and I’m onboard.
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I'm fine with those being bowls. You have 12 CFP participants, and 6 Bowl Games which are the next 12 best teams.

That basically means if you make the playoff or a bowl game you're a top 25 team which is a pretty good achievement.

It also preserves the concept of exclusivity somewhat because you don't get into a Bowl Game by being 6-6 from beating 3 FCS or lower schools in your non-cons plus 3 shitty conference teams.

The rest of the games we call scrimmages and can ignore.
 


ICHawk24 said:
I love love love bowl games. They are more college football, how can you bitch about more college football?

They've always been exhibitions. Maybe you thought they were super important in 1988 or 2007, but they were exhibitions then, too. That doesn't mean they don't matter.

The games have changed a bit. Nowadays, they are the "preview for next year" games. I love seeing young guys play.

Crabby old men can bitch about the bowl games, because that is what crabby bitches do. They bitch.
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Terrible argument.

They were important because your team had to be really good to make one. Back then they played 11 games and you didn't get to play one with a 6-5 record a lot of times pr even 7-4. You had 12 bowls until 1986 so only the top 24 teams made one. Playing in a bowl meant you were a legit team.

Now there are 41 of them and last year 7 participants had losing records. That's lame. It's dumber than the NIT. The 82nd best team in the country with a 5-7 record gets to print up shirts saying they made a bowl game. Real dumb.

Like the scrimmages if you want and watch 'em till you drop, but they aren't bowl games in any relevant sense of the word. I can shit in my hand and call it a cheeseburger, and if enough people go along with it maybe I'd be technically correct.

But it ain't a cheeseburger.
 


You're the one who constantly makes terrible arguments and bitches about literally everything, other than bragging about your mediocre son and your middle aged girlfriend.

Hayden Fry made bowls with teams that were 6-3-3 and 6-5. Were those "really good" teams?
 


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