Op/Ed: The Independence Bowl is in trouble

Around 2007-08, Conference USA actively approached the Independence Bowl about getting its #2 team, starting in 2010. The Independence Bowl really wanted two BCS conferences, and so declined pretty definitively. Things didn't work out as the I-Bowl had hoped, and they somehow ended up with the MWC instead.

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Originally Posted by parialex

Around 2007-08, Conference USA actively approached the Independence Bowl about getting its #2 team, starting in 2010. The Independence Bowl really wanted two BCS conferences, and so declined pretty definitively. Things didn't work out as the I-Bowl had hoped, and they somehow ended up with the MWC instead.

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....That kind of stuff happens when a business has no leadership with vision.

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Originally Posted by parialex

Around 2007-08, Conference USA actively approached the Independence Bowl about getting its #2 team, starting in 2010. The Independence Bowl really wanted two BCS conferences, and so declined pretty definitively. Things didn't work out as the I-Bowl had hoped, and they somehow ended up with the MWC instead.

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That decision could have been the turning point for the bowl but I guess that stubborn heads prevailed that day.

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Originally Posted by HogDawg

....That kind of stuff happens when a business has no leadership with vision.

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That goes to the saying...you can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh-t!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by HogDawg

....That kind of stuff happens when a business has no leadership with vision.

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That's what happens when you have a figure head ostensibly "in charge", but with no real authority, and powerful people behind the scenes actually run the show....and they don't really have the specific professional prowess to pull it off.

There's one less SEC team in the Indy Bowl pool for 2017 and maybe longer.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Ole Miss has been charged with Lack of Institutional Control. The university will contest that charge.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Ole Miss is self-inflicting a one-year postseason bowl ban for the 2017 season.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Our sources told us in January NCAA investigators want a two-year bowl ban and multiple show-causes on Ole Miss coaches.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

There's one less SEC team in the Indy Bowl pool for 2017 and maybe longer.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Ole Miss has been charged with Lack of Institutional Control. The university will contest that charge.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Ole Miss is self-inflicting a one-year postseason bowl ban for the 2017 season.

Neal McCready‏@NealMcCready
Our sources told us in January NCAA investigators want a two-year bowl ban and multiple show-causes on Ole Miss coaches.

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They done been baddddd boys!!:o

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• HanginWithHester @HangWithHester
  Breaking News... The @IndyBowl title sponsor is Walk-On’s!!!
  
  
  
  
• Tim Fletcher‏ @FletcherShow 2m2 minutes agoMore
  
  
  Tim Fletcher Retweeted HanginWithHester
  
  Huge get for Independence Bowl!! Great company with locations here and surrounding area
  
  
  
  

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Originally Posted by sportdawg

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Payouts to teams will be in $ 100 bar tab for Winner - 2 for 1 deals for Loser.

that may make it a pretty cool bowl game.......

The big question now is: How does the Walk-On's deal compare to Camping World's $550,000 offer the Indy Bowl turned down?

The Indy Bowl should seek a sponsorship from Rayfield Wright's PetroSun company...:icon_roll:

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Originally Posted by dawg80

The Indy Bowl should seek a sponsorship from Rayfield Wright's PetroSun company...:icon_roll:

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Been tgere, done that

Makes sense. Louisiana company working on a nationwide expansion. And if you get Walk-Ons...You get Drew Brees.

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

The big question now is: How does the Walk-On's deal compare to Camping World's $550,000 offer the Indy Bowl turned down?

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The short term deal with the Duck Dynasty crew, who was a hot commodity at the time, didn't seem to work out well. Drew Brees is not the hot commodity he was two years ago either.