Boycott

[Dawgmatic]

I don't give and go to support the Administration. I give and go to support the Boys. And so should you all.

[Dubya261]

This thread is completely misguided and completely wrong. I'm telling you, given the same circumstances, every one of you would have made exactly the same decisions. Everyone needs to cool off and start asking why we didn't win the WAC Championship, or even second place, which would have avoided all of this.

Well people make decisions with the best interests at heart, the decisions shit in their faces, and lose their jobs all the time. He took a gamble and it was not a smart one. I'm not cooling off. I'm just getting fired up.

[Brian96]

This thread is completely misguided and completely wrong. I'm telling you, given the same circumstances, every one of you would have made exactly the same decisions. Everyone needs to cool off and start asking why we didn't win the WAC Championship, or even second place, which would have avoided all of this.

This.

Please, folks, pull your heads out of your butts before you post. Spreading the kind of misguide tripe that was in the first few posts in this thread does nothing to help our university.

[FishingBack]

If the shoe were on the other foot and jumped at ULM in the ibowl early.....and missed the Liberty when we coukd have had it...

The outcry here would be far greater.

[DONW]

Dykes is the one that screwed this up. We win the last 2 games and we're in the Orange Bowl. He had his mind on getting another job and didn't have our team prepred for the last 2 games. Even winning one of the last 2 would have put Tech in a good bowl. Dykes blew it. He should be fired. It will be a long time before we get another opportunity like this. Going to Shreveport to a bowl game has no effect on our football program at all.

[PawDawg]

I'm feelin' disenfranchised...

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[bluegrass dawg]

Looks as though I've watched my last college football game of the year. I'm boycotting the bowl games for allowing this debacle to occur!!! Did it in 97 with the LSU/Notre Dame debacle and will do it again!!

[Dawgmatic]

This thread is completely misguided and completely wrong. I'm telling you, given the same circumstances, every one of you would have made exactly the same decisions. Everyone needs to cool off and start asking why we didn't win the WAC Championship, or even second place, which would have avoided all of this.

There is plenty of recriminations to go around. That's for sure. Coulda Woulda Shoulda. I was pretty damned hot when I first heard, but I'm better now. It hurts me for our team and for our seniors.

[Dawgmatic]

And you know...I blame effing ESPN for this as well. When a 6-6 Iowa State team gets in over a 9-3 team then there is a serious issue afoot.
More serious than who did what to whom at the I-Bowl.

[Dawgs241]

If the shoe were on the other foot and jumped at ULM in the ibowl early.....and missed the Liberty when we coukd have had it...

The outcry here would be far greater.

I disagree. People would of been upset, but not like this. This is the worse thing that could happen being 9-3 and sitting at home. I would rather play ULM and beat the crap out of them then sit at home and watch them play.

[bulldawg1192]

This thread is completely misguided and completely wrong. I'm telling you, given the same circumstances, every one of you would have made exactly the same decisions. Everyone needs to cool off and start asking why we didn't win the WAC Championship, or even second place, which would have avoided all of this.

BVDV, is that you??

[greggrambling]

so you boycotters want to go to a third rate bowl in a third rate town in a fifth rate stadium and play the warthogs? we don't owe anything to anyone involved...you want to blame someone/something, try the bcs bs and the idiotic bowl/conference tie ins that guarantees lousy teams in formerly respectable bowl games. I'd rather stay home than meet nlsc in state fair stadium in a game sponsored by a pyramid scheme.

[Cal&Ken]

This thread is completely misguided and completely wrong. I'm telling you, given the same circumstances, every one of you would have made exactly the same decisions. Everyone needs to cool off and start asking why we didn't win the WAC Championship, or even second place, which would have avoided all of this.

I agree 100%! If we were already in CUSA, this would have been avoided as well. I hope each of you will ask yourself the question of when the lower tier bowls started getting to have early commitments rather than wait until the higher tiers had made their selections? And the I-bowl is a lower tier. Anyone would have been tempted to take the gamble.

[tigtoo30]

F you.

Is being a fair weather fan demanding that we get the best out of our university?

Really? Wow. How classy of you. Take a step back from the ledge. Starving the athletic department only helps all of those who want to see us fail.

[tydawgs]

Rather have the money, the extra practice, tv audience, oh and did I mention our in state schools will be recruiting the same talent.