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How so? for one, the absolutely pointless 6 week or whatever gap between a team's last game and its bowl means the bowls are played in january, meaning a team that has fired its coach cannot wait until after bowl season to hire its coach, meaning teams playing in bowl games are likely to have their coach poached. secondly, it just goes to show how meaningless every bowl outside the championship is if a guy is willing to walk away from a chance at an undefeated season at the sugar bowl to take another job. he wouldn't walk away from cincy if his team was involved in a playoff with a shot to win a nat'l title. Yes, being able to get milllions of dollars somewhere else equates to meaningless. There's a handful of coaching changes where this becomes a factor every year, it's really not a big deal, and how would this change at all if there was a playoff? The last games of the year are going to be played in January regardless, and regular seasons are going to end in the beginning of December, regardless. if there was a playoff, kelly wouldn't have left.

How so? for one, the absolutely pointless 6 week or whatever gap between a team's last game and its bowl means the bowls are played in january, meaning a team that has fired its coach cannot wait until after bowl season to hire its coach, meaning teams playing in bowl games are likely to have their coach poached. secondly, it just goes to show how meaningless every bowl outside the championship is if a guy is willing to walk away from a chance at an undefeated season at the sugar bowl to take another job. he wouldn't walk away from cincy if his team was involved in a playoff with a shot to win a nat'l title.

another reason the bowl system/bcs sucks.

and as it stands now, all but one of the postseason games have little or no importance. the big 12 title game would lose some significance but the orange bowl (or whatever they would call the playoff-system semifinal game or whatever) would gain a TON of significance.

who cares if you're going to the independence or the insight or the texas or whatever? yeah, isu has no business getting picked over mizzou for the insight, but what difference does it make? neither of them are good bowls. i can see being upset about getting screwed out of a BCS bowl, but who cares otherwise.

i love the clips of the usc players pointing, wagging their tongues, laughing, etc across the field. have fun at the holiday bowl, douchebags.

well, that was disheartening...lost to a bunch of dorks that look like before models in proactive ads. glad gilstrap sat for the last five minutes in favor of christopherson who was absolutely worthless the whole game. brackins sucked tonight too. my enthusiasm for this season dropped 80% after that game.

why not? because notre dame is like 15-20 over the past three seasons. they suck just as much as the papa john's bowl.

i don't know if ND is any position to be calling any bowl a "crap bowl."

It has nothing whatsoever to do with a sense of entitlement and more to do with the fact that ND would likely lose money going to that bowl game and has very little to gain from it. Yes, practice time, but if the new coach isn't ready/able to coach the bowl game, what good does practice time under a lame-duck coaching staff do? Not to mention the predictable media laugh-fest if ND lost to Central Michigan - which I'm certain they would do. yeah, notre dame's strapped for cash. probably can't afford a charter to detroit or wherever the hell that bowl is.

obviously the cubs are more likely to give him a six year deal once he becomes a FA at age 33.

i love ND fans and their sense of entitlement. talking about turning down bowls when they're what, 15-20 over the past three seasons?

have ANY of hendry's multi-year, big money deals for middle relievers panned out??? you think he'd learn.

~$3.75 mil/year seems about right for a guy that will give you 70 innings of 1.40 whip pitching. holy crap, if hendry had to gm a small market team they would win 26 games a year.

did iowa lose? oh boy.

yeah, i had some sweet $28 bleacher seats three rows from the top. ridiculous.

holy [expletive] that would be terrible.

damn, iowa state is kinda good.

they had momentum, I don't deny that. But I'm not sure how much of it was based on the ability of their QB to move the ball effectively down the field. I guess I don't trust him b/c it's pretty easy for a long pass to turn into a sack/fumble or a pick. An INT at that point doesn't have to be a pick-6. Any INT other than on a bomb is going to give OSU the ability to gain just 0-25 yards and kick the winning FG. And I have more trust with my QB in OT b/c I'm at the 25, have a solid kicker from inside 40 yards and I have a good defense. You can run the ball effectively in OT. With 50 seconds to go, OSU can come after the QB pretty hard. I just don't trust him to make good decisions/throws in that situation. Obviously, one of the things you can't have in OT is a 10-yard sack to take you out of FG range. Eh, I don't trust a freshman QB in that situation that much either, but I don't think the chances of OSU getting a turnover + getting in FG range are greater than the chances of Iowa getting in FG range. It's not a terrible decision to run out the clock, but I probably would have gone for it. With an inexperienced QB, I like the chances of getting a TD or FG from the 25 much more than I like the chances of trying to get 40+ yards in 50 seconds when the other side knows you're going to be throwing it on every down. except in the first scenario, the other team also gets a chance to score a td from the 25. in the second scenario they probably don't get the ball.

i just realized one of the reasons i like college football so much is because of how much i hate certain teams. is that sad?

yeah, at that point iowa had about as much momentum as you could have in a football game, 59 seconds, a confident qb and an osu defense that was probably reeling. i'm not saying you throw five yard outs that can turn into pick 6's, but you can, at the very least, take a deep shot with djk or mcnutt. if you don't trusty vandenburg in that spot i don't know why you'd trust him in OT. they were ~40 yards away from winning in columbus and playing in the rose bowl and they just let that opportunity tick away.

i think missouri handles isu fairly easily. hope 6-6 is good enough for a bowl.

lsu losing to la tech. the sec blows.

isu is going to blow it.

vs. notre dame in the little caeser's bowl?