Are You At All Excited About This?
by ccmachine on Dec 6, 2009 8:27 PM CST
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2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
I might be the only one excited...
because I live in the Stanford area. But I want to see if we can stop Toby Gerhart.
I'm super excited!
I live near Palo Alto, too. And I’ve seen some of the Stanford home games this season. They’re good! These are my two favorite teams in CFB.
um its ok. a game we can win. would rather play & win then get an excellent defenive performance & have 5 picks against an athletic defense, which isnt what I would call Stanford. BTW I was accepted at Stanford & went to OU. Not that it matters. Interesting that Chase Beeler performing well for the Cardinal after leaving OU. Could ve used him on the O Line.
It's an interesting matchup
…but I’m more embarrassed that the Sun Bowl is sponsored by Brut. Was English Leather not available?
No
I might have been excited for USC, or even Arizona. I’ll try to fake that I’m excited. I want OU to win, and I love watching OU Football, but that’s really the only reason I’m excited.
I used to LOVE the bowl season. Now there are what 31, 32 bowl games? The Bowl Season doesn’t seem as important as it once did for me in general.
+1 on the last statement
but I like the matchup. Stanford is a great school with a good football team. I will enjoy that game.
Yep
Way too many bowl games now. That use to be a selling point for good teams back in the day. Now it is like a participation trophy everyone gets one. There are 34 Bowl games so that makes 68 teams going to a bowl out of 117 D1 schools. So only 49 teams got left out.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
too much Harvard PC crap (that is where the crap came from)
everyone plays, everyone wins, everyone gets a tacky trophy. It’s ruined most of America, let ruin CFB. Nothing you nor I can do about it.
I'd argue it's just the opposite
It has nothing to do with “political correctness” – it has to do with money. The sponsors and host committees are not putting these on out of the goodness of their heart. In the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, have you heard of a single bowl game canceled or even scaling back its payout? Why do you think the Gator Bowl is inviting Bowden? His last game will be a media hit and will draw big – it is certainly not about making him feel better or protecting the feelings of his players after their 6-6 season. It is TV ratings and butts in the seats. Coinky-dinky that the explosion of bowls has coincided with the rise of multiple national cable sports channels?
The same reason that the BCS is still living and breathing is the same reason that the bowl system is still living and breathing – the people making money off of both systems are afraid that they would get left out of a new system. I would argue they are thinking too small (see Dan Wetzel’s column for the playoff scenario he proposes that would create GREATER revenue) – once they figure out how to make more money off of a playoff system, everyone will be doing it. You just have to find a big enough group of power players who stand to make money AND are powerful enough to overthrow the existing system or at least cause it to topple. The university presidents are a good group – the prez at Ohio State would jump all over this if he saw that he could take in an extra $10-15 million a year in revenue in a playoff system – you get a couple of the really big universities behind this and it will start to roll.
And you can do something about it – tell David Boren that you think we should have a playoff and make an economic argument. Get an economics prof at OU to study the arguments. My guess is that a credible model could be created easily – selling it is another matter.
My Sun Bowl / Sooner Christmas wish list
I want a win – I don’t really care who our opponent is – I’m hoping the extra month of practice helps them out for next year – I’d like to see a generally mistake-free game, improvement from the o-line – actually, maybe not so much improvement per se as a hunger to put some people on their butts and open some holes for Chris Brown to go out with a big game. I would like Landry to make reads and hit a couple big plays and zip some balls around like he really, really wants the job next year.
I’d like to see some swagger and the defense running around and I would like to extract a little bit of revenge for Stanford’s upset of us back in 1980 – I think it just makes it under the wire of the 31- year statute of limitations on pointless sports grudges (hating John Elway? No limitation).
And while I would have preferred that they play in the Alamo Bowl as it would have meant a 90-minute drive down I-35 for me, I still might be able to make it out to El Paso and mostly I just want this season to end with a glimmer of hope, not a whimper of false start penalties and injuries and so many oh so close soul-sucking moments crammed into one season. Topping this season off with a crappy bowl game will really sour me – I don’t want to spend the new year seeing all the other teams with their shiny bowl trophies and reliving Colt McCoy’s true Heisman moment – making that damn tackle on Brian Jackson.
So, yeah, I am a little bit excited. I guess I want to see us back – maybe get the ghost of Mike Stoops on the sidelines and Bob Stoops running around and going all out to win and firing up the players and getting a Gatorade bath. It is one more game to put this damn season to bed for once and for all and I hope on a good note. BOOMER!
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