I know some people were wondering about the Liberty Bowl situation.
CUSA signed a new deal with the SEC, increased it's payout to 1.5 million, and signed extentions with all 5 bowls.
And NCAA Bylaw 30.9.2 still requires a Division I-A team to have a winning record to be eligible to play in a bowl game.
Good luck with that.
Even though UCF is unlikely to be bowling anytime soon, this is still a great "save" for C-USA, as the SEC did not want to face a non-BCS league in the Liberty Bowl. The only unknown is how low on the pecking order the Liberty will have to go in terms of nabbing an SEC opponent. Still, it's a great day for their league to retain this bowl slot.
I'm confused. Part of the Houston bowl deal was to have C-USA's #1 team. Now it looks like the Liberty bowl is going to have C-USA's #1 team. Will the Big 12 (the other conference in the Houston Bowl) go along with this?
Uh, he still hasn't provided a link to support either of his claims, eCK...
<a href='http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=3904091' target='_blank'>http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=3904091</a>
But, in case you missed my point before, who ******in' cares? We're talking about a league with two academic institutions I respect, a bunch of others I know nothing about, and two that are dead to me.
Miami plays UC tomorrow night.
DG: I have seen the article on the LB announcement, so I'm pretty sure it's legit. I was teasing the C-USA'ers about possibly losing this bowl slot, so it seems pretty fair to note that it's a good deal for them to keep it. (although they'll be playing a second division (#6 or #7 pick) SEC team, which is what the Herdlers teased us about in terms of the MAC vs. the B10 in the MCB).
Also, I guess the Houston Bowl (which tried to lure the C-USA #1 pick) will presumably go a different direction??
DevilGrad Wrote:<a href='http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=3904091' target='_blank'>http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=3904091</a>
But, in case you missed my point before, who ******in' cares?
I care, and I'm sure many MAC fans care, because of the trickle-down (or lack thereof) ramifications.
As for NCAA Bylaw 30.9.2 .... five of the teams currently in C-DOA had winning records last year (UTEP, Marshall, Memphis, UAB & SoMiss); five of the teams currently in the MAC had winning records last year (Toledo, BG, NIU, Miami, Akron). I'd guess that the mathematical probability of five of the 13 C-DOA members going 6-5 or better is relatively high. It's early but only Rice is 0-fer, while we still have two schools looking for that elusive first win.
My systemic and probabalistic analysis of the University of Central Fredo's chances of reaching six wins yields -- coincidentally -- the same probability that it assigns to six monkeys flying out of my ******.
Again, who cares about these dopes?
DevilGrad Wrote:My systemic and probabalistic analysis of the University of Central Fredo's chances of reaching six wins yields -- coincidentally -- the same probability that it assigns to six monkeys flying out of my ******.
Again, who cares about these dopes?
Waht the **** is your problem.
It was discussed on this board, so I gave an update.
Not only that, but I thought perhaps you'd be interested, maybe even happy that a so called "BCS" league accepted to play a non BCS conference in a bowl game, and a well paying one at that.
Get over yourself.
Disclaimer by RF - going around the word filter will not be tolerated.
DevilGrad:
I'm not one to defend Mr. Knight Light, but his post was not UCF-centric, rather news on a subject that has been discussed many times here, something that has, at least, indirect impact on the MAC.
I understand not caring about UCF & the Blundering Turd, but C-DOA inking bowl deals is something of interest to most MAC followers.
BTW, who urinated in your breakfast bowl today? :eek:
IRVING, Texas - Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky announced today that the conference has future commitments with all five of its current bowl partners, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, GMAC Bowl, Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl, Wyndham New Orleans Bowl and the Fort Worth Bowl, beginning in 2006.
“The Conference feels that our winning teams deserve an opportunity to participate in the postseason and these agreements will afford us those opportunities, particularly given the more favorable BCS policies,
What did he have to say about the UCF/Marshall game being pre-empted for the National Debate Championships?
So instead of getting the Houston Bowl and playing the Big 12's #6 or 7 there, they keep the Liberty Bowl and play the SEC's #6 or 7. Not really much of a difference. I guess the payout is a little better though.
rocketfootball Wrote:So instead of getting the Houston Bowl and playing the Big 12's #6 or 7 there, they keep the Liberty Bowl and play the SEC's #6 or 7. Not really much of a difference. I guess the payout is a little better though.
The question is, what do the Houston Bowl folks and the Big 12 folks think about it? Guess they're OK with it, since the announcement was made.
Conference USA vs. East or West team
By Ron Higgins
September 27, 2005
In a move guaranteed to make many Mid-South football fans happy, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl will announce today a Southeastern Conference vs. Conference USA matchup starting with the 2006 game.
Sources close to the negotiations say both conferences have signed a four-year deal with a per team payout expected to exceed the $1.5 million the bowl paid last year. The bowl will have first selection in Conference USA, and will work with the SEC, which has eight bowl tie-ins, to get a team that's a geographical fit for the bowl.
Steve Ehrhart, the bowl's executive director, declined comment on whether a deal has been struck, saying only that the bowl has called a press conference at noon at the Downtown Marriott. Just last week, SEC commissioner Mike Slive told The Commercial Appeal that they were waiting on Ehrhart to close the deal.
Ehrhart talked with Slive, former commissioner of Conference USA, for several months, about re-establishing ties with the SEC. But as those reports became public, Ehrhart received many calls and e-mails from University of Memphis fans asking him not to abandon the current Conference USA tie-in.
This year's game on Dec. 31 at noon on ESPN marks the final year of the current contract with Conference USA. The bowl's contract with the Mountain West Conference expired last season, so this year's game will feature C-USA vs. an open selection.
"This has been a very emotional issue," Ehrhart said recently. "There's a great passion for both the SEC and Conference USA. Our title sponsor AutoZone and key presenting sponsor FedEx have worked very hard with us to hopefully create something everyone will like. Everybody in our Liberty Bowl community has worked feverishly."
The SEC has had nine of its current 12 teams -- missing only Florida, Kentucky and Vanderbilt -- play in the Liberty Bowl a combined 23 times. Arkansas and South Carolina played in the game before 1992, when both schools joined the SEC.
Among the Mid-South SEC schools, Ole Miss is 4-0 in the bowl, last appearing in 1992, the last time the SEC had a school that played in the Liberty Bowl; Tennessee is 3-0, last playing in 1986; Mississippi State is 1-1, last playing in 1991; and Arkansas is 0-3, last appearing in 1987.
The SEC and seven of the 12 current Conference USA members (when they were in other conferences) have met in bowls 13 times, with the SEC holding a 9-4 edge. The last postseason meeting was in the 1997 Motor City Bowl when Ole Miss beat Marshall, then in the Mid-American Conference, 37-31.
Though the SEC and Conference USA have several regular-season matchups annually -- this season there are six such games with two each for Tennessee (UAB, Memphis) and Mississippi State (Tulane, Houston) -- it was believed that the SEC might shy from any tie-in with Conference USA.
The reason was that several SEC schools won't schedule in-state C-USA schools, such as Southern Miss (vs. Ole Miss or Mississippi State), or Alabama-Birmingham (vs. Alabama or Auburn).
But with the way the SEC office works with its bowl partners to place teams in the various bowls, such matchups would probably be avoided.
The SEC traditionally has tried to place Western Division and Eastern Division teams in bowls with locations close to the fan bases of each school. For instance, most Eastern teams have been in the Peach, Capital One and Outback Bowls, and most Western teams in the Cotton and Independence Bowls.
What made the AutoZone Liberty Bowl and Memphis attractive to the SEC is its geographical crossover appeal. SEC executive associate commissioner Mark Womack said several weeks ago that the league would be comfortable placing teams from either division in the Liberty Bowl.
Go Tigers!!!
Drew
rocketfootball Wrote:So instead of getting the Houston Bowl and playing the Big 12's #6 or 7 there, they keep the Liberty Bowl and play the SEC's #6 or 7. Not really much of a difference. I guess the payout is a little better though.
There is still a good chance we'll land the Houston Bowl.
Is this a C-USA board? How many threads are we going to have on here today about this?
