Quote Originally Posted by TXDAWG81 View Post
Guys. I sat right here in my living room and laid this exact scenario out to my wife about how we had a decent chance of staying home this year if NIU won their game. If I could see it as a possibility surely BVDV could too. My question is didn't BVDV have some idea about the snakes on the I-Bowl committee? Saying no to them was the kiss of death. No way to come back later! There will come a year when we are 6-6 or 7-5 and look to them for a bid and it will never come. We've burned that bridge.
EXACTLY!! A bowl game against UC-Santa Cruz 'Fighting Banana Slugs' is still a bowl game.