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Hawaii bowl has already been confirmed to be Memphis v MWC school
I wish WV would move that from Wheeling and alternate the state title games at Marshall/WVU, or even possibly WV State as they recently put in a nice field and lights to do a light show.
Every projection I have seen in the last three days has Marshall in one of three bowls...
2 said the Quick Lane Bowl against Northern Illinois (one said Memphis but they are going to Hawaii)
3 said New Orleans Bowl against either Louisiana or Georgia State
2 said Boca Raton against either Western Michigan or Liberty
2 said the Quick Lane Bowl against Northern Illinois (one said Memphis but they are going to Hawaii)
3 said New Orleans Bowl against either Louisiana or Georgia State
2 said Boca Raton against either Western Michigan or Liberty
I wish they would as well, but I doubt it ever happens. It's as much of a getaway for the wvssac and I doubt they would give up the cabins at Olgebay.
Bowls - Does it really matter at this point? 99.9% chance it is an also ran from either the AAC, SBC or MAC, probably with a similar record. It would be nice if it were in a nice place to visit for the players and in a part of the country within our alumni footprint, but we will do as we are told. We didn’t earn better.
All of these bowl prediction sites, just like the NCAA bracket predictor sites, are just for fun. Nobody knows and it seems that ESPN doesn’t even try to assign teams in a geographically logical manner.
WVSSAC, stadiums, etc. - The SSAC is a corrupt organization and its “board of appeals” (bunch of teachers) that runs the thing is treated to a comp time at the casino and a shopping spree. It is stupid that the state championship be held in a dying town on the edge of the state in a dump stadium. Especially considering most of the hotels and restaurants, and the mall, are in Ohio.
Charleston’s powers that be have said they are not going to get in a bidding war over the thing. Laidley Field is there, take it or leave it. Not going to give the board anything. Normally not a fan of the rich white landlords of Charleston, but good for them in this case.
Big Jim offered to put up temporary seats around Greenbrier East’s field and host the whole thing at the Greenbrier, but politics got in the way and nothing came of it.
Our stadium is unavailable. It has to be open in case we would ever host the CUSA (SBC) championship. WVU has really shown no interest in the matter. Back a long time ago, when the basketball tournament was held in the hole for a few years, the town was over-whelmed with kids and teachers and didn’t have the hospitality industry to handle it, but that was a long time ago and the hole has grown and the basketball event is a bigger deal.
I was told that MU and WVU jointly offered to host the girls basketball tournament in alternate years. Currently its in Charleston and other than kids from the schools involved who get bussed in, no one, and I mean no one, attends. The two schools thought that maybe at least some college students might drop by to see the games.
All of these bowl prediction sites, just like the NCAA bracket predictor sites, are just for fun. Nobody knows and it seems that ESPN doesn’t even try to assign teams in a geographically logical manner.
WVSSAC, stadiums, etc. - The SSAC is a corrupt organization and its “board of appeals” (bunch of teachers) that runs the thing is treated to a comp time at the casino and a shopping spree. It is stupid that the state championship be held in a dying town on the edge of the state in a dump stadium. Especially considering most of the hotels and restaurants, and the mall, are in Ohio.
Charleston’s powers that be have said they are not going to get in a bidding war over the thing. Laidley Field is there, take it or leave it. Not going to give the board anything. Normally not a fan of the rich white landlords of Charleston, but good for them in this case.
Big Jim offered to put up temporary seats around Greenbrier East’s field and host the whole thing at the Greenbrier, but politics got in the way and nothing came of it.
Our stadium is unavailable. It has to be open in case we would ever host the CUSA (SBC) championship. WVU has really shown no interest in the matter. Back a long time ago, when the basketball tournament was held in the hole for a few years, the town was over-whelmed with kids and teachers and didn’t have the hospitality industry to handle it, but that was a long time ago and the hole has grown and the basketball event is a bigger deal.
I was told that MU and WVU jointly offered to host the girls basketball tournament in alternate years. Currently its in Charleston and other than kids from the schools involved who get bussed in, no one, and I mean no one, attends. The two schools thought that maybe at least some college students might drop by to see the games.
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I'm not sure I would like that matchup, not with all of Martinsburg's speed.
If the field doesn’t flood and get covered with mud.
Why the hell they have it in Wheeling I’ll never know. Lol!
Of the aforementioned possibilities, I would opine either Boca or NMexico. From what I recall the folks out west really rolled out the red carpet our 1st visit. Great scenery; a lot of our current roster won’t have been to that part of the USofA. Boca, because we apparently just love FL and the recruiting exposure. For some reason, NOLA doesn’t fancy da Herd…..
MU should host its own bowl.
Tudor's Biscuit Bowl.
It would also serve as a recruiting tool since Tudor's Biscuits are just addicting af.
Tudor's Biscuit Bowl.
It would also serve as a recruiting tool since Tudor's Biscuits are just addicting af.
Why do people get pissy about what bowl we play in? It's glorified exhibition game and aside from 3 times out of 16 trips we have faced G5 opponents. Almost every G5 bowl is some random bowl that is completely meaningless. Half the P5 bowls are meaningless.
Yet year after year multiple threads and posts complaining about having to play a G5 team. Unless we make the Access Bowl or teams have to be moved around to fill bowls we're almost always going to play a peer G5 program. Maybe the SBC has better matchups for us down the road.
Yet year after year multiple threads and posts complaining about having to play a G5 team. Unless we make the Access Bowl or teams have to be moved around to fill bowls we're almost always going to play a peer G5 program. Maybe the SBC has better matchups for us down the road.
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I agree with every word you said. Been saying that for years.
Except the last sentence. SBC, and every other G5, bowl matrixes are exactly the same. As long as the system is as it is now, anything short of the access bowl, IN ANY G5 league, equals either a game versus another G5 or a 6-6 P5 also ran. It is what it is.
Hey, if they handed out free Potato Melts - I'd be there in a heartbeat!
Problem is that concessions and beer sales would be destroyed because after just one Tudor's Buiscuit, you're good for the rest of the day. The good news is that the shitters in the Joan won't be occupied because those things are also ass-caulk.
Bowls are fun because we play a team we obviously didn’t schedule so occasionally get some cool matchups. But if you look down on 90% of G5 programs, it sort of takes the fun out it.
That pretty much sums up a lot of the problems here. Every bowl season its the same. Make fun of the team we are playing, because we are somehow above them. Make fun of the bowl, its location, and the sponsor. Make some pointless statement about there being "too many" bowls.
Hint. G5 football, outside of the "access bowl" is a race for goofy named goofy sponsored bowl played in non Rose Bowl like circumstances, either against another G5 or a 6-6 bad P5 team. If you cannot be happy in that, then you never going to be happy. If you think MU is somehow "above" playing other G5 programs because, well, you can't say, it just is, then you need some reality therapy. If think there are "too many" bowls, then change the channel.
BTW, the NCAA just added one, so no 6-6 team gets left out.
MSN
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I like bowl season no matter how bad the teams are. You get to watch matchups that normally wouldn’t happen in the regular season.
I actually feel lost about the middle of January because there is no more college football to watch.
I actually feel lost about the middle of January because there is no more college football to watch.
Speaking of making fun of the other team, what ever happened to the "Look-a-like" threads? They were fkn hilarious.
