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Cincydawg

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #336 on: December 29, 2018, 08:44:07 AM »
I think it does matter to some if you win your bowl game and finish 12th instead of 19th.

How much does it really matter if your team wins every game and is 15-0 anyway?  It doesn't change my world at all, beyond posting here perhaps.  I try and enjoy the game for what it is and admire great plays and great effort made by others.

I like the bowls, all of them pretty much, unless they are not played on green turf.
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« Reply #337 on: December 29, 2018, 09:13:49 AM »
I like all the bowls too, on green turf, but I'm fearful that eventually attendance and viewership is going to fall so badly, they will start to go away to the point that all we have is the playoff. The wonks went to an NFL model. The NFL doesn't have bowl games.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #338 on: December 29, 2018, 09:42:29 AM »
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #339 on: December 29, 2018, 09:44:17 AM »
Just having Busch Light would keep me out, all by itself.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #340 on: December 29, 2018, 09:55:46 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on December 29, 2018, 09:13:49 AM
I like all the bowls too, on green turf, but I'm fearful that eventually attendance and viewership is going to fall so badly, they will start to go away to the point that all we have is the playoff. The wonks went to an NFL model. The NFL doesn't have bowl games.
Maybe.  But recently bowl games have been a cheap cash grab.  It isn't like the Cheeze It Bowl is some historical college tradition.  It's just in the last ten years that .500 teams and below were allowed to play.  Since the bowl games don't pay the actual people playing in the game, their costs are mostly minimal, and they just need a sponsor and a television contract to finance the operation.  
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #341 on: December 29, 2018, 10:03:37 AM »
our love of cooking and food and drink will keep us together here.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #342 on: December 29, 2018, 10:04:27 AM »
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #343 on: December 29, 2018, 10:10:47 AM »
Lesser bowl games have had poor attendance for decades and persist.  I think the only minor bowl that sold out routinely was the Peach Bowl.

Even the Cap One Bowl always has 2/3rds attendance, if that.

I think it was the Alamo Bowl that had a nice crowd?  Maybe.

Not many do.  They apparently make their nut on TV and attendance is irrelevant.
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« Reply #344 on: December 29, 2018, 10:23:25 AM »
Alamo had a nice crowd because they invited a fan base that travels well to a warm destination with plenty of Busch Lite

San Antonio can be driven from Ames and Des Moines

attendance is important - for the gate and especially for the local businesses

successful well run bowls do a better job than others
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #345 on: December 29, 2018, 10:37:10 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 29, 2018, 10:03:37 AM
our love of cooking and food and drink will keep us together here.
When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions wont grow
And were changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then playoffs,  playoffs will tear us apart again.

I heard this all-time great song this morning, and immediately thought of it when reading this thread.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #346 on: December 29, 2018, 10:47:36 AM »
That Camping World Bowl in Orlando yesterday was pretty crowded. Lots of orange in particular.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #347 on: December 29, 2018, 10:54:22 AM »
Some bowls have some attendance, yes, but they are rarely full.

The gate is a something unless they give away a lot of those tickets to whoevers, but the naming rights and TV rights is probably the main deal. 
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #348 on: December 29, 2018, 10:56:02 AM »
About ready for the one time a year I root for Michigan only to be let down
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #349 on: December 29, 2018, 11:08:57 AM »
Still some time for my annual rant on how the national championship game should be on Saturday
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