Quote Originally Posted by Dogsince65 View Post
Be careful what you wish for. Now that Memphis/Tulane/ Rice etc are bailing from Con USA and Old dominion coming-- the bowl tie ins will probably disapear. Liberty Bowl has conference champion BUT under no obligation to take. With memphis gone that bowl could dissappear. next up is Hawaii bowl. What if I-bowl got involved with conference USA? I would prefer not but calling it a toilet bowls belittles our wins in the toilet bowl-- truth is, San Diego feels same way you do about Poinsetta bowl. I was out there and there committee was awesome but folks living there had no idea Tech and TCU were playing. Get rid of all the "toilet " bowls and leave only the 12-14 "good bowls" and I'll probably never see another Tech bowl game in my life. Its about -Fans, money , conference tie ins-- I hate being a realist but we are a long way from the type of bowl games we want to be invited too -- no sense belittling the one we have been in the most. Just ties us to "toilet bowl". ULL has been in new orleans bowl 2 yrs in row--pay out is half of what i_bowl pays .
Apparently you have missed all of the last tie-in selection with the SEC and the fasination. The I-bowl doesn't choose to do better and that is the reason they will fold. They make themselves the loser/toilet bowl. None of the teams they want EVER want to play there! WE don't have a bowl. I would never give them 10 cents of my money and would not even pay to go if TECH played there again. You are mistaken too about the payout. If you are not part of the original tie-in, teams do not get the stated payout. You can try to convince anyone how awesome it would be, but you are just singing in the wind for me. The are a bad bowl that needs to fold- and can't be far from that after this past year.