Sports Illustrated Blurb

[LookingForResults]

What would I prefer? I'd prefer our athletes be preparing for a bowl game. I wouldn't care if Conroy Hines and JBIII and Billy Brewer were called in to help get 'em ready. At least they would be playing. Failure of the highest order and our athletes and fans are absorbing it.

JBIII and Brewer? You're so in the weeds you're disqualified.

[techman05]

I may not agree with his method of expressing his discontent. I do agree that our mindset as a university has been in need of change for a long time. At some point we have to start hiring people who are forward thinking and proactive. We have had an administration full of reactionary personalities for way too long. We can be big thinkers without being arrogant. We have to know when to press harder and when to take what we are given, i.e. our bowl situation.

[collardgreens]

32 seniors, many of whom are genuine stars are sitting at home for the holidays. A big pile of underclassmen who could be working on skill development are sitting at home. This is NOTHING but an error. Not a mistake. Not a misunderstanding. An error, inflicted on a big group of people.

[JAB]

There is no error! Just because you don't go to freakin' Shreveport to play a game so few would care about it might not even GET a TV rating, does not mean it was an error. What would have been an error would have been not to pursue every other possibility even it meant losing the very dubious "privilege" of playing at Indy.

So what bowls games rate high enough for Tech to play in?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

His impulsive twitter rant is not worthy of national attention.

No it wasn't. He went off before knowing 1/3 of the story. So did a lot of us but most of us did it here and kept it in the family. Karl did it and it goes coast to coast.

Ditto. That said, he is a great ambassador for us. I very much appreciate what he has done for TECH and hopefully continue to do but that was silly per his stature. I posted some terrible things as well but who gives a rats what I say. Heck I don't even care at times when I get that stupid.

[Snapdawg]

There is no error! Just because you don't go to freakin' Shreveport to play a game so few would care about it might not even GET a TV rating, does not mean it was an error. What would have been an error would have been not to pursue every other possibility even it meant losing the very dubious "privilege" of playing at Indy.

Here, here! A toast with single malt.

[B.Y.O.C.B.]

Just curious and I will admit I have no clue how this works but, is it possible to accept a bowl invite and possibly turn it down later if a better bowl comes calling? Is there a contract that is faxed/signed immediately? Basically, if the bowls can pull the plug on you, can you pull the plug on the bowls?

If this is possible, I wonder if it starts happening more in the future with non-AQ teams to avoid situations like this.

[markay714]

32 seniors, many of whom are genuine stars are sitting at home for the holidays. A big pile of underclassmen who could be working on skill development are sitting at home. This is NOTHING but an error. Not a mistake. Not a misunderstanding. An error, inflicted on a big group of people.

32 guys that were enjoying a little San Diego fun this time last year. This is a problem that corrects itself after this year. We have many more bowl tie ins with CUSA. Disappointing, but most of us have moved forward!

[DQDawg]

There is no error! Just because you don't go to freakin' Shreveport to play a game so few would care about it might not even GET a TV rating, does not mean it was an error. What would have been an error would have been not to pursue every other possibility even it meant losing the very dubious "privilege" of playing at Indy.

Here, here! A toast with single malt.

And here also, and it's only 7:45AM. I'm getting the jug and a glass. All this DID cost the athletic department about $600K, $300K from the bowl, and $300K from SD's payout.