12-20-2002, 01:10 PM
Many of the minor bowls are struggling to find enough folks willing to travel large distances and spend a lot of $$ to see their 7-6 and 7-5 type teams play one more game......there just aren't many "takers".
Latest example is the only bowl probably less coveted than the MCB, that being the H-Bowl in chilly Boise (outdoors, no less). Well, they got their BCS team (a 7-6 ISU), and ISU already returned 5K of the their 10K ticket allotment......out of that 5K they expect to only sell 1K. Boise State (home team in essence) fans are now buying tickets from the Iowa State allotment as the Boise tix are sold out.
Texas Tech has sold very few tickets to the Tangerine Bowl, and now there is some speculation that based on the terrible attendance (800 UC fans tops) at the New Orleans Bowl (again), especially by C-USA the Big 12 may try to get out of the T-Bowl and the H-Bowl commitments in favor of a tie-in to New Orleans (so their fans can drive to it).
Leaves possibilities perhaps for the MAC in either Boise or even back in our beloved Tangerine Bowl, site of many a great MAC victory 25 years ago!
Latest example is the only bowl probably less coveted than the MCB, that being the H-Bowl in chilly Boise (outdoors, no less). Well, they got their BCS team (a 7-6 ISU), and ISU already returned 5K of the their 10K ticket allotment......out of that 5K they expect to only sell 1K. Boise State (home team in essence) fans are now buying tickets from the Iowa State allotment as the Boise tix are sold out.
Texas Tech has sold very few tickets to the Tangerine Bowl, and now there is some speculation that based on the terrible attendance (800 UC fans tops) at the New Orleans Bowl (again), especially by C-USA the Big 12 may try to get out of the T-Bowl and the H-Bowl commitments in favor of a tie-in to New Orleans (so their fans can drive to it).
Leaves possibilities perhaps for the MAC in either Boise or even back in our beloved Tangerine Bowl, site of many a great MAC victory 25 years ago!