Husker Fans in No Holiday Mood

What say Better Off Red?

As a Husky fan, I was very excited to see them get bowl eligible for the first time since aught-two, but pretty disappointed with the match-up. UW and Nebraska will play three times withing 365 days. That isn’t any fun.

I would bet that some of the short fall in ticket sales around the bowl circuit is due to lingering effects of the Great Recession.

the problem here is the bcs arrangement.

in the old days, nobody expected the ‘top two teams’ to be paired in a winner take all. back then, the eventual ‘national champion’ might be the winner of any of several bowls if the number one team got knocked off by a slightly lower-ranked team. bowl games back then were a little like the state lottery. you may not have much hope, but you have a little. at least there was some interest in the game. these days have truly made all but one bowl game into window dressing.

a good, tough playoff would fix that.

yep:

I have yet to hear one convincing argument for why a playoff wouldn’t be awesome. I have heard several more convincing arguments for why it hasn’t happened and may not, but this bowl season seems to be chipping away at those arguments pretty effectively.

Can we finally bury “Nebraska has the greatest college football fans” right next to “2005 USC as the greatest college team ever”?

I’ve yet to watch one second of a bowl game this year. I’m sure the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl was succulent, but I somehow found something else to do.

Way too many bowls, way too many who-the fokker-cares matchups. Who in their right mind would pay good money to travel halfway across the country to watch 6-6 teams play 7-5 teams in crappy cities? Who in their right mind would even watch it on TV? There’s about 5 maybe 6 bowl games I give even a fraction of a shit about watching.

I didn’t even realize four bowls had been played until I checked the sched today.

srr50, those numbers are sobering, if not shocking.

Never understood how any fan of college football could want less bowl games. Two crappy teams in a crappy bowl made for a pretty good game last night. Didn’t cost me a cent to turn it on or flip the channels around.

bingo, remond.

in an unrelated matter, did you see the philly inquirer this morning is saying addazio is no longer in contention for the temple job?

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Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio, who interviewed for the head coaching position at Temple this week, is apparently headed to Texas to coach the Longhorns’ offensive line.

A source said it was unclear whether Addazio withdrew from consideration to replace Al Golden or was told that the university was looking in another direction.

as you were. another philly paper is saying addazio has been tabbed as temple’s coach.

wow.

People saying they won’t watch bowl games because the match-ups stink make no sense to me. It is college football. It is going to be over for the next nine months in about two and a half weeks. Of course I am going to watch games if they are on TV. I watched Eastern Washington vs. Villanova in the Div-1AA (screw this FCS bullshit) semi-final. The game was entertaining, but, more importantly, it was college football.

How many sellouts will we have this postseason?

BCS, Sugar, Rose, Cotton, Sun, Chick-Fil-A.

I’m guessing the Capital One, maybe the Outback.

8 or 9 sellouts!?!?

The interest in bowls has been waning as the number of games has increased, they are all shown on television, and most recently the creation of the separate championship aside from the four major bowl games. You can see on the BCS website the drop in viewer rates since the creation of that fourth game with the Orange Bowl suffering the biggest drops. Can’t wait to see if the Orange and Fiesta Bowl games garner a share less than 7 this year.

One other pointh that hasn’t been mentioned is the impact of the economy. Not trying to make this a political thread, but I do know that over the past two years my family has seen roughly a 30-40% drop in income. We didn’t go to any Texas games this year because we didn’t want to pay the cost of the tickets and travel expenses for games we really weren’t all the excited to attend and I would have to believe we are not the only family that don’t want to spend the amount of money it costs for tickets, travel, and accomodations to attend a bowl game when we can spend those dollars elsewhere.

“One reason for the lack of sales is that the team’s selection of tickets is usually lousy, as the bowl organizations save the better seat selections for themselves. Fans are finding better seats at cheaper prices on the secondary market.”

I’ve been bitching about this for years. Perhaps if the schools don’t want to eat the seats they could negotiate better seating opportunities for their fans. Gotta love those TV shots of fans sequestered in opposing end zone corners while midfield is pocked with empty seatbacks allocated to people with no emotional interest in the outcome.

Can’t wait to see if the Orange and Fiesta Bowl games garner a share less than 7 this year

The BCS ratings will be down across the board — for the reason that they are all on cable for the first time.

I am amazed that the media reports the Bowl season as a financial bonanza with vivid descriptions of the huge bowl payouts, with no mention of the concomitant ticket purchase requirements. Not to mention the hotel room purchase requirements.

The profit to all the bowl teams is MUCH smaller than the gross payout (of course) and many times is a net negative (UConn says hi).

The book “Death to the BCS” has a vivid description of the actual bowl economic situation, and is a fantastic read.

Any bowl involving Connecticut was bound to have a hard time selling tickets let alone a BCS bowl against a team they know is going to kick the ever livin’ shit out of them. Add to that the fact that Connecticut is more excited about their womens b-ball team than football. The coup de grace is that you can’t even get someone from Connecticut to go 3 hours to NYC, there’s no way those basketball fans would travel all the way to Arizona.

As for the Nebraska v Washington game, that was just an out and out stupid bowl pairing. You can’t blame Conrhusker fans for skipping that. Save your money see the same game in 6 months (the same game you saw 4 months ago).

Ask and you shall receive, a good article from Bloomberg on the economics of crappy bowls:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-23/college-football-winners-still-lose-as-bowl-game-expenses-exceed-payout.html

Tom Osborne is such a whiner. Good riddance, don’t let the door hit you in the @$$ as you leave for the Big Ten.

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