CUSA-LIBERTY BOWL IN DANGER?

[PoconoPony]

All I can remember watching the Liberty Bowl was that the stands were empty and the temperature was 8 degrees and very windy. The previous year was much the same. I have little interest in spending good money to watch a game in freezing conditions. Let C-USA keep seeking better bowls and better bowl match ups.

[Wilshire Heights Pony]

It seems that the SMU program doesn't care about the Liberty Bowl. JJ said that even if SMU was Conference USA Champion, he was still taking his team to Hawaii.

[shadowman]

The Liberty Bowl did have a few things going for it. A bowl game with some history, its not one of these "come and go" bowls, and it pitted the C-USA champ against a SEC team and the time slot and dates were usually pretty prime, plus it was a pretty high paying bowl, even though the conference splits out the money.

Now it seems with a crappier SEC team and them balking at C-USA, its a good time to find a new bowl. We need a big donor and sponsor to Pony UP and lock the Dallas Classic into a game between the C-USA champ and the big 10 every year. Possibly could happen in a couple of years.