PSCA wrote:Whether you like the results of the season thus far or not, who are we to say they don’t deserve to go bowling … I know it was just a question. These guys bust there [deleted] all year long. They play through and with pain/injury, and during the season probably work the equivalent of an 80hr work week with school, travel pract. Etc. If they become eligible and get invited, they deserve it. We should be proud of them for that accomplishment, and not embarrassed because we are 6-6 (might be 7-5 or 8-5); plenty of schools will be watching the TV bowl season. Nor should we hang our heads in shame because it’s a mid-tier bowl as some have suggested. Bowls only help a program, they don’t hurt it.
Lots of teams go bowling now … yep, so what. Many deserving teams would be left out if the bowls did not expand. All we would get is the same teams year after year playing in and getting invited to the few bowls.
Between the NCAA Tournament and NIT, a lot more schools in B-Ball get to do the equivalent of bowling … yes I understand more schools play D1 basketball then football. . W/O the expansion, we would not get to see the likes of a Butler make it to back-to-back finals and score one for the little guys. When LB and staff get the B-ball program to the NIT in year 2 and then in year 4 only get a 1-2-3 seed in the NIT or a 15th seed in the NCAA with a 18-20 win season, will we be embarrassed … I hope not.
Now lets go out and win 3 .. get to a bowl and avenge the lost to UCF in the Conference Championship
Remember there are rougly 350 Div. I basketball teams who get 66 NCAA chances and 32 NIT shots. Less than 28 % of the total teams. There are roughly 120 Div. 1 football teams and roughly 50% go to bowls.