panite Wrote:

cuseroc Wrote:

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:This brings this bowl equal to the Gator, Capital One, Outback and Cotton. CUSA #1 gets this bowl and that just sweetened the stakes of the CUSA title game.

Does that mean that the International Bowl is also equal to these bowls since it is also played in early January?

It will be when the International Bowl gets its payment up to $2.25 million dollars or HIGHER. And I am sure they can do that with a MAC team involved.

Ouch!

The Motor City Bowl has done very well and gets the MAC #1 team. The problem is that most MAC fans don't want a New Years day games because they would miss the Michigan or Ohio State game that is on TV that day. MAC/Big Ten/NotreDame fans are one in the same in most households. Would MAC fans want to miss watching the other games on TV to drive to Ford Field. One the gas prices, Two the cold weather, and three Michigan is on at 1pm and Ohio State in Rose Bowl at 4:30pm, Notre Dame is on at 8pm in the Sugar Bowl. MAC/Big Ten/Notre Dame fans spend all day drinking beer and watching football. Driving anywhere on New Year Day is a big problem. Plus the hangover from the nite before.

panite Wrote:

cuseroc Wrote:

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:This brings this bowl equal to the Gator, Capital One, Outback and Cotton. CUSA #1 gets this bowl and that just sweetened the stakes of the CUSA title game.

Does that mean that the International Bowl is also equal to these bowls since it is also played in early January?

It will be when the International Bowl gets its payment up to $2.25 million dollars or HIGHER. And I am sure they can do that with a MAC team involved.

Touche, but why dont we wait until the Liberty bowl actually increases its payout to $2.25 miliion.

The point I was making is that I dont think the Liberty is any more or less prestgious than if it played on December 29, or 30 or January 2. It would still be the most prestigious of the non bcs bowls outside of the Gator and Cotton and Capital One. But it is not the equal to those bowls at this point. Even if the International Bowl increased its payout to $2.25 million, would that put it on the same level as these other bowls?

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:The Motor City Bowl has done very well and gets the MAC #1 team. The problem is that most MAC fans don't want a New Years day games because they would miss the Michigan or Ohio State game that is on TV that day. MAC/Big Ten/NotreDame fans are one in the same in most households. Would MAC fans want to miss watching the other games on TV to drive to Ford Field. One the gas prices, Two the cold weather, and three Michigan is on at 1pm and Ohio State in Rose Bowl at 4:30pm, Notre Dame is on at 8pm in the Sugar Bowl. MAC/Big Ten/Notre Dame fans spend all day drinking beer and watching football. Driving anywhere on New Year Day is a big problem. Plus the hangover from the nite before.

In a weird sort of way, you kind of showed why the MAC should switch their games to New Years day. I am from Big 10 Country as well, so during our lifetimes how many times have we watched the B10 teams and Notre Dame get their A$$E$ kicked on New Years day. As I seem to recall, it is their annual humilating losses that made most of us drink beer all day anyway. Please move your games, so that we can at least see one team from the region get a win to bring in the new year.

cuseroc Wrote:

panite Wrote:

cuseroc Wrote:

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:This brings this bowl equal to the Gator, Capital One, Outback and Cotton. CUSA #1 gets this bowl and that just sweetened the stakes of the CUSA title game.

Does that mean that the International Bowl is also equal to these bowls since it is also played in early January?

It will be when the International Bowl gets its payment up to $2.25 million dollars or HIGHER. And I am sure they can do that with a MAC team involved.

Touche, but why dont we wait until the Liberty bowl actually increases its payout to $2.25 miliion.

The point I was making is that I dont think the Liberty is any more or less prestgious than if it played on December 29, or 30 or January 2. It would still be the most prestigious of the non bcs bowls outside of the Gator and Cotton and Capital One. But it is not the equal to those bowls at this point. Even if the International Bowl increased its payout to $2.25 million, would that put it on the same level as these other bowls?

No - because the other bowls would increase their payouts to keep those ACC, SEC, B10 and B12 teams. I know where you are coming from and I think the Liberty Bowl is a great bowl. As far as the International bowl - $2.25 million in Toronto in the winter would not bring it up to the long history of some of these other glamour bowls in the warmth of Florida in mid winter, but it would certainly make the Gator Bowl think twice about insulting the BE again if they are going to loose the BE number 2 team. L'Ville and WV attendance has made them shut up a few times in the past couple of years and they found out what they get, when they get, B12 Texas Tech with 5,000 fans instead of Texas, Oklahoma, and and Texas AM . The latter three which the Gator Bowl administrators want will always go to BCS bowls or better bowls closer to home over the Gator Bowl.