Catch-All Thread for all the other bowl announcements

ALA2262

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Ehh... the BCS was never designed to be the top 10 teams in the 5 bowls. It's 1 and 2... after that, it's pretty irrelevant outside of the money the conferences get.
The BCS should never have been about anything but #1 and #2. In their BCSNCG. Leaving #3 down to be chosen by whatever method the Bowls wished.
 

TexasTideFan

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The Heart of Dallas Bowl was apparently on the table for La Tech until Oklahoma got bumped to the Cotton. The Independence Bowl basically told them take us or leave it on Saturday. When the BCS fell the way it did, Tech was out in the cold.
From what I heard, LA Tech was thinking they were in the running for the Liberty Bowl. They got their offer on Saturday like ULM did but they asked for more time to make their decision hoping that there was a better deal out there. However, they knew who their opponent was going to be and could have taken it but took the risk of throwing away a good season and screwing a bunch of Seniors out of their reward of playing post season by basically being gutless and selfish.
 

Rolltide_PA

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From what I heard, LA Tech was thinking they were in the running for the Liberty Bowl. They got their offer on Saturday like ULM did but they asked for more time to make their decision hoping that there was a better deal out there. However, they knew who their opponent was going to be and could have taken it but took the risk of throwing away a good season and screwing a bunch of Seniors out of their reward of playing post season by basically being gutless and selfish.
yep, Inde Bowl told them (probably pleaded with them) that if they didn't take the offer by Saturday evening they had to invite Ohio. Their idiot AD held out for a better offer and now has no date to the prom.

too bad...highest scoring team in nation could have played a Louisiana rival (ULM/LT) and instead stay home with 9 wins because of a stupid and greedy AD that still didn't take responsibility for the decision using "we" and blaming the conference...

"What hurt us is that we're in a conference that's disintegrating," Van De Velde said. "It only has one bowl tie-in. We weren't the champions, Utah State was, and they got that tie-in. Next year, we won't have that issue, because we're going into Conference USA and they have five bowl tie-ins. It's just an unfortunate situation that in this particular year, we got caught," Van De Velde said.
 

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