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RossHallHero

RossHallHero

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Other than the National Championship game and the BCS Bowls, I don't understand them and they make no sense to me.

What's the point?

I also don't understand why those who aren't bowl eligible don't get the extra practices. Isn't that completely backwards from the way it should be? These are the teams that apparently need the extra practices the most.
 
Seriously? What's the point of bowl games? Have you ever heard of a little thing called "money?"
 
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Yes, because it'd be so much more fun for us fans if the team stayed home and the season was already over.

What's the point? More football! (and money of course) I assume your not a football fan, otherwise I don't understand how you would need to ask that question.
 
RossHallHero said:
Other than the National Championship game and the BCS Bowls, I don't understand them and they make no sense to me.

What's the point?

I also don't understand why those who aren't bowl eligible don't get the extra practices. Isn't that completely backwards from the way it should be? These are the teams that apparently need the extra practices the most.
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I must say that this is probably one of, if not the, worst threads I have ever seen on here.
 
I understand the $$ part, but why not just add an extra game to the regular season. I'd rather spend my $$ in Ames than Phoenix.
 
BTW, I love the cold and live for hunting season, so that may explain it part of it.

Bring on Boise.
 
RossHallHero said:
Other than the National Championship game and the BCS Bowls, I don't understand them and they make no sense to me.

What's the point?

I also don't understand why those who aren't bowl eligible don't get the extra practices. Isn't that completely backwards from the way it should be? These are the teams that apparently need the extra practices the most.
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Ro$$HallHero - I would $ugge$t to you that it i$ the chance to play more football after the $ea$on i$ over. I can't think of anything el$e it could be. :jimlad:
 
Playoffs, that's what I want.
Yes the bowls are stupid and the only ones I'll watch for sure will be Iowa, ISU and the NC game.
The rest of them will only interest me for gambling and boredom
 
I understand the $$ aspect and it makes perfect sense, except that we're not the ones getting the $$, we're the ones PAYING it.

We need a playoff.
 
RossHallHero said:
I understand the $$ aspect and it makes perfect sense, except that we're not the ones getting the $$, we're the ones PAYING it.

We need a playoff.
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Define "we"?

Because I'm pretty sure ISU gets cut a pretty decent check for going to a bowl game....

And I'd rather spend some time in Phoenix, Orlando, San Diego, San Antonio.... than Ames in Dec/Jan. Not that either is likely to happen.
 
I'm not sure why there is so much winking and nudging with regard to money and bowls.

Bowls started as a essentially exibition games used to showcase cities, industries and yes to make money and guess what, there is nothing wrong with that.

Why hate on bowls or the bowl system? You would rather the Cyclones and Jesse Smith didn't get a chance to play one more time and have the fun of traveling to a bowl and being on TV?
 
RossHallHero said:
Other than the National Championship game and the BCS Bowls, I don't understand them and they make no sense to me.

What's the point?

I also don't understand why those who aren't bowl eligible don't get the extra practices. Isn't that completely backwards from the way it should be? These are the teams that apparently need the extra practices the most.
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I agree and what is up with football anyways? I don't get it- A bunch of guys with helmets and pads running into each other, fighting over a ball. Why don't they just have enough footballs for everyone to play with and there wouldn't be so much fighting. :wink:
 
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RossHallHero said:
Other than the National Championship game and the BCS Bowls, I don't understand them and they make no sense to me.

What's the point?

I also don't understand why those who aren't bowl eligible don't get the extra practices. Isn't that completely backwards from the way it should be? These are the teams that apparently need the extra practices the most.
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So why aren't the BCS bowls stupid as well? The NC game gets us a national champion but what does the BCS bowls get us that the Texas Bowl or Alamo Bowl don't?
 
hawkeyescott said:
what does the BCS bowls get us that the Texas Bowl or Alamo Bowl don't?
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Good teams that may have a legitimate shot to argue that they should be national champs.

1. There are way too many bowls---case and point us. We should not be going to a bowl at 6-6 and the fact that we are makes a bowl a meaningless accomplishment.

2. What bowl you go to has little to do with how good you are.

3. A playoff system could easily generate as much, if not more $ than the current system and would actually settle the national title on the field. I know it's a weird concept, but it seems to work for every other sport.
 
If college football started out having a playoff 100 years ago, and then switched to bowl games, say a few years ago, the bowl game system would seem incredibly stupid. But since this is the way it has been from the beginning, it seems rational.

If I were to describe the bowl system to someone from another country that utilized a playoff in all of their sports, they would probably laugh at such a stupid idea...
 
this isn't basketball. if we had a playoff system there would be no way that 64 teams would make it to the postseason. that would take an additional 6 weeks to get through it. the only way it could happen would be if only 16 teams made it to a playoff, but then what's the point of the top 25?
another point, bowl games are a way to show appreciation for the fan bases of the teams that make it. you get to go to a 'foreign' destination and support your team. if only 16 teams could make the postseason, then probably only 20 teams in the country would get good recruits and the rest of the teams would be a bunch of bottom-dwellers. the day the bowl games are ended is the day that college football as we know it will die as well.
 
dualthreat said:
If college football started out having a playoff 100 years ago, and then switched to bowl games, say a few years ago, the bowl game system would seem incredibly stupid. But since this is the way it has been from the beginning, it seems rational.

If I were to describe the bowl system to someone from another country that utilized a playoff in all of their sports, they would probably laugh at such a stupid idea...[/QUOTE]

Yeah, except that they wouldn't know what you were talking about anyway since we are the only nation on earth with major college athletics.
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