Fiesta junket hosted 9 of 11 on NCAA panel

[skyscraper]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6425741

WASHINGTON -- Nine of the 11 members of an NCAA panel that will help decide the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl's fate attended a bowl-sponsored retreat that included free meals, resort rooms and golf outings.
The nine names all showed up on a 2008 "Fiesta Frolic" attendee list obtained by Playoff PAC in a public records request. The group provided the list to The Associated Press.
The NCAA Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee is scheduled to meet with Fiesta Bowl officials this week in New Orleans, but won't make a decision on whether to revoke the bowl's license until later this spring.
The Fiesta Bowl, played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., is one of four bowls that rotate hosting the Tostitos Bowl Championship Series national title game.

[stc9]

This is nice. They have preemptively bought off the NCAA and the BCS Task Force. This is some fantastic planning.

[RednBlue11]

if they don't drop the hammer on the Fiesta Bowl they will have even less credibility than I could have previously imagined, and I gave them no benefit of the doubt before.

[GiddyUp]

If all these members went, imagine what the others bowls are doing also. What a joke.

[ponyte]

The NCAA will NOT drop the hammer on the Fiesta Bowl. However, the meals, resort rooms and golf courses provided by the Fiesta Bowl to NCAA officials just took a leap into the stratosphere.

And probably the president of OSU will be part of the hosting committee this year as well.

[leopold]

Whoever is Mayor, Congressman, and Senator for Dallas (I don't know, I'm in NC now) and possibly Perry himself need to GET OFF THEIR A$$E$ and make SOME sort of play to get the Cotton Bowl up to BCS status, AND DO IT NOW.

These people dropped the ball horribly when they let the Fiesta, which NOBODY cares about, jump the Cotton Bowl in status and now become a destination for the NC game. DFW and Texas are losing hundreds of millinos of dollars in tourism revenue because of this negligence. Even 'Whoa Nelly' himself, Keith Jackson, is asking 'What ever happened to the Cotton Bowl?"

[Alaric]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6425741

WASHINGTON -- Nine of the 11 members of an NCAA panel that will help decide the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl's fate attended a bowl-sponsored retreat that included free meals, resort rooms, HOOKERS and golf outings.
The nine names all showed up on a 2008 "Fiesta Frolic" attendee list obtained by Playoff PAC in a public records request. The group provided the list to The Associated Press.
The NCAA Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee is scheduled to meet with Fiesta Bowl officials this week in New Orleans, but won't make a decision on whether to revoke the bowl's license until later this spring.
The Fiesta Bowl, played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., is one of four bowls that rotate hosting the Tostitos Bowl Championship Series national title game.

[Mexmustang]

The state of Texas is losing hundreds of millions of dollars by excluding U of H, TCU and SMU from the Big Twelve...so don't bet on it.

[Bergermeister]

These people dropped the ball horribly when they let the Fiesta, which NOBODY cares about, jump the Cotton Bowl in status and now become a destination for the NC game. DFW and Texas are losing hundreds of millinos of dollars in tourism revenue because of this negligence.

You can thank the "CAN'T DO" attitude of the City of Dallas, Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, Fair Park and civic leaders for the failure to step up to the plate. Otherwise, this would have never happened. Dallas cannot come together on anything. HOWEVER, we will have a very nice fake suspension bridge at which to marvel.