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Whoooooop!!!!!
Official.WHOOP! Either LSU or Alabama.... bring it son.
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Whoooooop!!!!!
Neat.
Er...I mean...Whoop.
Arkansas might slide in there
Capital 1 bowl has first choice so they will more than likely choose Alabama and Cotton won't pass up on LSU.
thats right! and a big off to oklahoma state and whomever loses in the big 12 le game. (music)....thats the sound of justice.
cool
Let's just hope the pig ing aggies can actually put it to an SEC team. If memory serves both them and Texas Tech have a history of ting the bed when they go to a STADIUM IN TEXAS to play an SEC team.
big deal.
If you aren't in the le game then you are in a meaningless bowl game to anyone outside of your team.
if memory serves, UT has a history of ting the bed against ucla IN TEXAS.
......just thought I'd throw that out there.
i'm afraid you just don't get it. 5-7 t.u. was desperately trying to qualify for a bowl, for a good reason.
...pure ignorance on your part.
pure I don't know what the your point is on my part.
one thing of note...according to the NCAA, A&M had the toughest schedule of anyone in Division 1 football this year. wow.
You're proving his point. Bowl games mean a lot to a specific school and their fanbase but outside of that, nobody really cares. Does the casual fan care whether UT goes to the california almond bowl or the gogreenpleaserecycle.com bowl? No. It's ultimately meaningless after the next week. Does anybody remember when Texas Tech outgunned this year's #8 Mich St in the Alamo Bowl last season?
Problem is some teams just don't care while others treat it like the superbowl.
incorrect.
1) national perception (especially in the current ranking system)
2) exposure
3) recruiting
then of course, there is the team aspect you mention,
1) springboard into next year/momentum
2) more practices/time with the players
3) higher confidence
...fans that protest bowls outside the le game are meaningless, typically don't have a team in a bowl. Or, at the most, a disappointing one.
how do you think that's gone for Tech, being in a bowl game every year for the last 10+ years?
yes, UT carried that le game momentum right on into 2010.then of course, there is the team aspect you mention,
1) springboard into next year/momentum
naw, aside from the financial aspect of it, even BCS bowl games are meaningless unless you are in the le game....fans that protest bowls outside the le game are meaningless, typically don't have a team in a bowl. Or, at the most, a disappointing one.
Hardly ever the case, especially when you lose so many players to the draft/graduate. If Stanford were to win a BCS bowl, I'm sure that momentum will only carry so far until they lose Andrew Luck to the draft.
I'm not trying to hate on A&M, since they had a terrific year (I'll be rooting for them in the Cotton Bowl), but in the grand scheme of things there's not gonna be any advantage of them playing in the Cotton Bowl over Oklahoma State, who will likely play in the Holiday Bowl.
for any team 13 additional practices and an extra game is a good thing especially if you have a young team that is returning many starters. that can be a springboard to the next season (such as the longhorns win against michigan in the rose bowl). for a team that is losing key players such as last years longhorns then the effect is not all that significant.
a bowl can also be used for recruiting as well. kids like to be on teams that get national exposure.
i'm sure mack brown would love to have the additional 13 practices and one additional game right about now.
Of course going to a bowl game is better than not going to one, that's pretty obvious.
Ultimately though, if you have two similar programs (such as A&M and Oklahoma State), it doesn't really matter which one each respective school goes to in the long run. History backs that up
It matters financially in the short run: bigger payouts, builds excitement amongst donors, helps sell tickets; but yes, in the long run, nobody really cares. I barely remember that ass kicking we got in 2005 at the cotton bowl.
I'm excited but I would've been equally happy with an alamo bowl bid, cheaper tickets, closer to home, better opportunity for a win.
I don't want to have the argument of whether or not lower bowls mean anything we have it every ing bowl season. All i am saying is that i hope those country fed aggies can beat their sec compe ion in this bowl. My major worry is that they and tech have a history of playing sec schools in our own backyard and making the sec look like the greatest show on turf. Its sad and an embarrassment. I hope they reverse this trend.
Like UT doesn't the bed against SEC compe ion?
lol Alabama
Geaux Tigers!
Ummm... going to a better bowl reflects on the type of season you had so of course it matters. Also the certain exposure of these bowls definitely helps recruiting.
Going to the Cotton bowl is definitely better than going to the Independence bowl and I hope you aren't disagreeing with that. On another note, the Cotton bowl is the last game before the BCS bowls and the only game on Friday January 7th which means everyone will be watching. A strong showing is needed.
I would prefer Alamo Bowl over any other non-BCS bowl so I could just drive down the road to see them play.
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