(10-29-2015 07:45 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-27-2015 06:56 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  I know that I'm stating the obvious, but there are too many bowls, but too few high quality ones available to us.

I'm disappointed in 2 areas:
1) For all of the accolades that our commissioner has received for our conference's exposure on TV, and the resulting positive publicity; the bowl associations appear weak if/when multiple members have very, very good years. Not sure what could be done to accommodate a year like this one, but if it's fair to give the commissioner credit for things that go well (TV access), it's fair to charge the commissioner with a reasonable solution to this issue.

2) Until recent years, the Liberty Bowl has provided a great home for the Tigers' conference champions. That association ended recently and that has resulted in a relatively large gap in bowl access. That's personally disappointing.

I almost never disagree with you, but I don't know what Aresco could have done about our bowl situation. It's not like he was turning down offers from better bowls.

And he did take the initiative to do two good things:

1) Supposedly was the driving force behind the G5 Access slot (tried to get it for the AAC originally)

2) Had the conference start its own bowl in Miami.

As for the Liberty Bowl, they doubled their payout to step up in class and snag a P5 matchup between the B12 and the SEC. Can't exactly blame Aresco or Memphis for that one.

I believe that if we keep conference together, we have an excellent chance at getting the Liberty Bowl next bowl cycle. The AAC was more of an unknown quantity last time bowls were being made.

Every other year our bowls aren't bad. It's just that every odd year, they are bad, and that just happens to be the year we have a lot of good teams.

Best case for this year is

Memphis/Houston/Temple to Playoffs or Peach
Memphis/Houston to B'ham vs. SEC
Temple to Hawaii vs. BYU or
Temple to Miami Beach vs. an extra "P5" team

Navy has the Military tied up this year, but next year it reverts back to an all AAC bowl.

ECU, Cincinnati, USF, Tulsa and whoever else might get bowl eligible are just going to have bad bowls this year.

(10-29-2015 06:49 PM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:39 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:27 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Crazy that we have no bowl game in Texas. Cincy/Memphis best fit for Birmingham so I am rooting for Memphis
to Peach Bowl or the playoff, although I think Houston has the best remaining schedule. I think ECU would travel well to Florida.

The match ups in Florida would be putrid, so we would not.

I know most ECU fans would be disgusted by the idea, but I'd be kinda entertained to see an ECU-App State bowl game.

Oh helllll no.

The G5 need to get together for a G5 #2 vs G5 #3 bowl game for the next cycle, not sure what bowl that would be considering the G5 doesn't consist of a lot of big time programs, but I feel like the Liberty, Independence, or Las Vegas Bowl (with BYU able to qualify for the G5 bowl) would be good options for the next round of negotiations.

(10-30-2015 09:14 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(10-29-2015 06:49 PM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:39 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:27 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Crazy that we have no bowl game in Texas. Cincy/Memphis best fit for Birmingham so I am rooting for Memphis
to Peach Bowl or the playoff, although I think Houston has the best remaining schedule. I think ECU would travel well to Florida.

The match ups in Florida would be putrid, so we would not.

I know most ECU fans would be disgusted by the idea, but I'd be kinda entertained to see an ECU-App State bowl game.

Oh helllll no.

Well realistically there's not going to probably be an attractive bowl match up in terms of a "name" team for ECU to play. Military Bowl is locked up for Navy, we went to Birmingham last year so I wouldn't expect to go back, and baring an extra P5 being available for Miami that's it for name opponents. So if we are picking among playing Sun Belt/C-USA/MAC teams in a bowl game App would be right up near the top of teams I'd be entertained watching us play. At least it would make for some extremely entertaining smack talk leading up to the game. The top choice for me would be to play Southern Miss just for old time sake, but past that I'd much rather play App pretty much any other school from those leagues.

(10-30-2015 10:22 AM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-30-2015 09:14 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(10-29-2015 06:49 PM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:39 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:27 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Crazy that we have no bowl game in Texas. Cincy/Memphis best fit for Birmingham so I am rooting for Memphis
to Peach Bowl or the playoff, although I think Houston has the best remaining schedule. I think ECU would travel well to Florida.

The match ups in Florida would be putrid, so we would not.

I know most ECU fans would be disgusted by the idea, but I'd be kinda entertained to see an ECU-App State bowl game.

Oh helllll no.

Well realistically there's not going to probably be an attractive bowl match up in terms of a "name" team for ECU to play. Military Bowl is locked up for Navy, we went to Birmingham last year so I wouldn't expect to go back, and baring an extra P5 being available for Miami that's it for name opponents. So if we are picking among playing Sun Belt/C-USA/MAC teams in a bowl game App would be right up near the top of teams I'd be entertained watching us play. At least it would make for some extremely entertaining smack talk leading up to the game. The top choice for me would be to play Southern Miss just for old time sake, but past that I'd much rather play App pretty much any other school from those leagues.

Sounds like you are holding onto the App state and USM of old. Rather pass on that bowl then sit through that. No ECU fan is going to want to travel to watch us play App State or USM.

Any conferences projected to not fill bowl slots?

(10-30-2015 11:06 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(10-30-2015 10:22 AM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-30-2015 09:14 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(10-29-2015 06:49 PM)pirates4lyfe Wrote:  

(10-26-2015 04:39 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  The match ups in Florida would be putrid, so we would not.

I know most ECU fans would be disgusted by the idea, but I'd be kinda entertained to see an ECU-App State bowl game.

Oh helllll no.

Well realistically there's not going to probably be an attractive bowl match up in terms of a "name" team for ECU to play. Military Bowl is locked up for Navy, we went to Birmingham last year so I wouldn't expect to go back, and baring an extra P5 being available for Miami that's it for name opponents. So if we are picking among playing Sun Belt/C-USA/MAC teams in a bowl game App would be right up near the top of teams I'd be entertained watching us play. At least it would make for some extremely entertaining smack talk leading up to the game. The top choice for me would be to play Southern Miss just for old time sake, but past that I'd much rather play App pretty much any other school from those leagues.

Sounds like you are holding onto the App state and USM of old. Rather pass on that bowl then sit through that. No ECU fan is going to want to travel to watch us play App State or USM.

So you'd rather see ECU play an F_U, Ohio, Arkansas State, etc? At least USM and App would draw some sort of feelings and response, whether good or bad from people. And no chance in hell we'd pass on a bowl game, the extra practices alone are worth it.