(12-08-2019 10:51 AM)Feral Eagle Wrote:  

(12-08-2019 08:53 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  I hear they’re declining and going to Hawaii as a real reward for the players. Their short list consists of Tommy West.

I liked the energy Fedora brought to the football program, but that decision to go to the Hawaii Bowl really pissed me off. We could have played a 9-3 Penn State team in Dallas and really put an exclamation mark on the season with a win. Instead Houston enthusiastically took on the challenge and defeated Penn State convincingly. I have wondered if part of Fedora's real reasoning for picking Hawaii was because he quietly had doubts the team would be capable of winning against Penn State- and he wanted to be sure the team finished the year with a win.

The simpler explanation is the game in Hawaii was something like 8 days earlier, allowing Fedora to coach the bowl game and still get settled in Chapel Hill by New Year’s.

Fedora already had a contract worth roughly $14 million dollars in his pocket. What would it matter to him if we’d lost to Penn State?