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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #350 on: December 29, 2018, 11:09:48 AM »
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« Reply #351 on: December 29, 2018, 11:12:23 AM »
Quote from: MaximumSam 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
don't do it!
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #352 on: December 29, 2018, 11:12:48 AM »
So, minor bowl games, I'm for'em.  I see some good out of them and nothing particularly bad.

Some team that is 8-4 can finish 9-4 and be ranked 15th or so.  Or 8-5 and unranked (ORVs).

A top ten finish is a thing for many programs.  Syracuse can label this a nice season at 10-3 and a ranking above 15.

Baylor can label this a winning season after being 1-11.

Vandy can claim they went bowling.
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« Reply #353 on: December 29, 2018, 11:13:27 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg 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.
TV is the deal, but since these small bowls are usually close to breaking even an extra 10,000 in the seats can make the difference
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« Reply #354 on: December 29, 2018, 11:18:11 AM »
Yeah, I don't think the bowls get any of the TV coin. I think that all goes to the conference (Big Ten splits it all) or the individual schools. Am I correct on this, or mixing things up?
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« Reply #355 on: December 29, 2018, 11:22:14 AM »
Quote from: MaximumSam on December 29, 2018, 09:55:46 AM
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.  
The Chees It Bowl has been around in some form or another since 1989. 
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« Reply #356 on: December 29, 2018, 11:34:48 AM »
Quote from: MaximumSam 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
Hell yes. Who in their right mind schedules that for a Monday night? 
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« Reply #357 on: December 29, 2018, 11:39:29 AM »
My wife brought up last night that she wished all the bowls kept their original names. She asked about the Copper Bowl (we went in 1996) and I told her it's still around. I don't know the name of it, but I know it's no longer played in Tuscon, where we saw it. It's in PHX, in a baseball field??


That's just one example. I'm glad the Citrus name is back. 


Outback used to be Hall of Fame Bowl. That one started in Birmingham, I believe, and moved to Tampa in the 1980's. I wish it still started at 10 AM (CST). It was nice to get up and dive right into football for 12 hours, with 3 TV's set up in the LR.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #358 on: December 29, 2018, 11:42:45 AM »
The naming of things is Big Money obviously.  I know the stadium here is always called "MB Stadium", even though that has not prompted me to purchase one of their autos (yet).  I was watching the "Walk on Bowl" with daughter with no idea what Walk On meant.

I thought it was apparel.

I don't eat more Chick-Fil-A because a bowl is so named.

Of course, I worked for a large advertising company and learned that the MAIN THING is simply to get your name OUT THERE as often as possible.
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« Reply #359 on: December 29, 2018, 11:49:09 AM »
Oh, I get it. I just wish it weren't the case. I like my M-B. Thinking of getting an "S" now that I have enough garage space for one.
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« Reply #360 on: December 29, 2018, 11:50:18 AM »
Most Bowl Games have a history that dates back to no earlier than the invention of Cable Television in the 80s. The few that were around before that had only had their "historical tie ins" for a few decades or less by that point (Rose Bowl since the late 40s). The Bowl games have always been just as pointless as they are now; playing a bonus game of football, just for the Hell of it.

The Rose Bowl should be the NC. Some of the other big Bowl games can rotate the semifinals. The rest of the bowl games can carry on in their steep tradition of being completely pointless games to anyone outside of the participating fan bases.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #361 on: December 29, 2018, 11:53:09 AM »
The bowl games survive on revenue.  I presume they get ticket revenue, naming revenue, and some portion of TV revenue.

There would be some ad revenue associated with signs in the stadium as well.

They have to break even, at least or they go under.  Perhaps cities may chip in at times.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #362 on: December 29, 2018, 12:11:12 PM »
Out of bounds.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #363 on: December 29, 2018, 12:18:15 PM »
UM d line seems to have awoken from their slumber
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