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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #140 on: December 26, 2018, 11:09:09 AM »
Quote from: ELA on December 24, 2018, 09:12:16 PM
No.  I'd have preferred winning to losing.  But I felt nothing after the loss because the result had no impact on anything.  We weren't going to Indy, or to the NY6, and whatever bowl we wound up in at that point had nothing to do with how we did in those games.
Wow... That's more jaded than I expected of you, ELA... 
Maybe it's just that I'm happy to be in any bowl at this point, but I was never really that worried about bowl selection. In some ways I actually like the idea that the bowls try to rotate teams non-sensically in order to ensure that the same fan base doesn't end up at the same location multiple years in a row. 
I realize some of the "prestige" of the bowl pecking order is gone. And IMHO the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit still sucks. But outside of that, the bowls were just hopefully a reason for a vacation warmer than the Midwest, or in NYC's case, at least interesting enough to be a destination even if cold. 
But not caring about a loss? If Purdue is 7-4 and loses to Indiana to close out the year 7-5, I'll still be pissed off about the loss. It has nothing to do with bowl order. It's that watching my team lose a football game harms my Saturday fall experience. 
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #141 on: December 26, 2018, 11:10:40 AM »
We have an artificial tree, so thankfully there's no huge rush to get it down. I generally like to do it sooner rather than later, but it looks like this year it might not be until next week sometime. Between work for the next few days and preparing to go to Paso Robles for New Years, we won't have much time for this. Heck, it might not even be until the weekend of Jan 5...
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #142 on: December 26, 2018, 11:37:01 AM »
I didn't put up a tree.  the interior decorations will come down when the daughter that put them up decides it's time - hard telling, she's not much into hard scheduling

the exterior lights will come down and into the dumpster when the weather and time permits

the next few days look crappy for weather, rain, snow, wind
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #143 on: December 26, 2018, 11:45:59 AM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 26, 2018, 11:09:09 AM
In some ways I actually like the idea that the bowls try to rotate teams non-sensically in order to ensure that the same fan base doesn't end up at the same location multiple years in a row. 
I kinda like it too, for three reasons:
First, for fans who live outside of the conference area and particularly for fans like you who live reasonably close to some of the Bowls that our conference partners with it is nice because it increases the chances of Purdue playing in your area.  Without the rotation your team might make bowl eligibility years and years in a row without ever getting to Santa Clara or San Diego.  With the rotation that is relatively unlikely.  
Second, for local fans who like to travel that variety is nice.  I think that most of us would rather go to San Diego one New Years and Tampa/Orlando the next rather than going to the same place every year.  
Third, at least in theory, it should create variety of opponents.  
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #144 on: December 26, 2018, 01:14:00 PM »
UW had an excellent reputation for bowl travel until Florida happened 7 years in a row. So yes, rotation is good. They had a really nice turnout in San Diego and Dallas. Not bad in Miami either, last year. The next Orlando or Tampa trip is too soon, even if it's in 10 years.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #145 on: December 26, 2018, 01:42:35 PM »
Is there an area more apathetic about college football than the Bay Area?  Why does Santa Clara even bother?  Might as well have the NCG in Time Square.....
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #146 on: December 26, 2018, 03:55:01 PM »
Finally get to watch a bowl game since I'm working from home this week, and it's canceled due to lightning.

Granted, the fans who traveled for the game and got to see about 1 quarter of football have a lot more to gripe about than I, but still... 
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #147 on: December 26, 2018, 04:00:48 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on December 26, 2018, 03:55:01 PM
Finally get to watch a bowl game since I'm working from home this week, and it's canceled due to lightning.

Granted, the fans who traveled for the game and got to see about 1 quarter of football have a lot more to gripe about than I, but still...
No kidding.  Glad they played that game in the south.  Would have sucked to be indoors in Minneapolis
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #148 on: December 26, 2018, 04:04:52 PM »
Pretty weak sauce....
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #149 on: December 26, 2018, 04:08:08 PM »
can't believe there weren't higher powers who said you absolutely can't cancel a bowl game like this. All that money in travel and missed Christmas. To know this is a possibility, has to hurt future bowl travel in general, not to mention the headaches the schools are going to face in people demanding money back. The fans who travelled to this one probably weren't a bunch of joe schmoes who have no leverage to demand such things

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #150 on: December 26, 2018, 04:16:53 PM »
couldn't they stay overnight in some run down closed up dorms and played the remainder of the game tomorrow?
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #151 on: December 26, 2018, 04:29:40 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 26, 2018, 04:16:53 PM
couldn't they stay overnight in some run down closed up dorms and played the remainder of the game tomorrow?
Panzies. 
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #152 on: December 26, 2018, 04:59:56 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 26, 2018, 04:16:53 PM
couldn't they stay overnight in some run down closed up dorms and played the remainder of the game tomorrow?
I have to imagine Dallas has plenty of openings on December 26
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #153 on: December 26, 2018, 05:04:03 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 26, 2018, 01:42:35 PM
Is there an area more apathetic about college football than the Bay Area?  Why does Santa Clara even bother?  Might as well have the NCG in Time Square.....
I dunno, I don't think it's that bad.
I realize that for someone used to the Southeast, pretty much anywhere else is apathetic by comparison. But the Bay Area does have some good things going for it...
  • They have two homegrown teams in Stanford and Cal. If you look at the map, they have decent support naturally in the Bay Area. 
  • Silicon Valley is a magnet for the highly educated. And hell, nobody without a college education can afford to live there any more. The Bay Area was my first job out of Purdue, because it's like mecca to electrical engineers. As an area, they're going to have a lot of pockets of support for other teams. Yeah, they're mostly engineering nerds, but some of us engineering nerds like football too ;-)
  • It's a great location. Want to go to San Francisco for a long weekend? Wrap it around the bowl game. Wine tasting your thing? Wrap it around the bowl game? Want to just escape the Midwest winter for a few days? Santa Clara may not be Pasadena, but it's also not Detroit. The bowl is PAC/B1G aligned, and within about at hour flight from anywhere in PAC territory and the weather is better than anywhere in B1G territory. 

I get your complaint, as the western US in general isn't as CFB-aligned as a lot of the rest of the country. But I wouldn't say that the Bay Area is terrible... And I think it's better than NYC.
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