I expect some great answers here. For myself I don't have the understanding of it all to say that I would have done anything different. I would have been holding out for a bigger bowl too and would have gotten shafted the same way.
Honestly I think we and by we I mean the TECH family only have ourselves to blame. I totally include myself in the blame as well. We can't fill our own stadium when we are ranked in the top 25. That's why a 6-6 ISU team gets picked to play in Memphis instead of us. The I-Bowl is what it is. They saw a chance to screw us and took it. They knew we had to wait to see if we were going to get a bigger bowl and should have allowed us the opportunity. They have denied their own community the opportunity for a match up of two local teams.
That being said I only feel bad for the players. They deserved another game and the system that is currently in place denied them that opportunity.
As far as the Admins being to blame it's not over this decission but in everything they have not done prior to this to promote TECH. Had they taken care of business for the last 20 years they way they should have this would never happen.