Bowls that I'll Like

[Swamp Daddy]

The Belk Bowl had some interesting stats crop up already. On paper I'd judge UL and NC State about equal. But look at this the ACC Belk Bowl team beat the ACC champs who will go to the Orange Bowl . The Big East Belk Bowl team beat the Big East Champs who will go to the Orange Bowl .

I find this funny and interesting at the same time. This is one losers bowl I'll look forward to. Go Cards.

And, as they always say, wait til next year. LOL.

[billybud]

Bucks vs Lizards.

Misery loves company. There is another losers bowl that I'll be watching where two 6-6 teams play. The two teams that I always cheer against play. It is almost too bad that one has to win

[donovan]

At the risk of continuing my "whining," ...what bowl this year is not a loser's bowl. You put two teams together for a specific purpose, the national championship, and all the rest are just a card shuffle. I think there will be some good games. Not sure you can predict what ones they will be. I think Stanford and Oklahoma St may have some potential, Florida State and Notre Dame, both better teams than anyone gives then credit, Air Force v Toledo may be good...but in general, Mediocrity is the philosophy of the country.

[donovan]

It just occurred to me, I think this Penn State travesty and the Syracuse situation has put a real pale on college football this year. Just hard to get excited when premier programs, individuals, long held in esteem have being so compromised and exposed.

[Spence]

It just occurred to me, I think this Penn State travesty and the Syracuse situation has put a real pale on college football this year. Just hard to get excited when premier programs, individuals, long held in esteem have being so compromised and exposed.

Not just those, but they are the worst - and I agree. You have that and you have that general bad feeling about the economy. I don't remember a fall season with as much gloom ever. Jobs being lost or have been lost. It is hard to focus on things like football when the general outlook is so bad and it doesn't appear that anyone has what is takes to fix it.

[Brian Roastbeef]

The Syracuse situation doesn't really affect our football team. It is entirely in our basketball program and thank God that it was dealt with soon after it broke open despite Boeheim unnecessarily shooting off his big stupid mouth. I haven't really gotten into much but that is all a multi-layered mess of crap that has manifested itself locally in a media contest between the mayor, former and current chiefs of police on one side and our DA Bill Fitzpatrick on the other. Essentially Fitzpatrick is wondering why information apparently was collected from an investigation in 2002, and news was leaked to ESPN and the Post-Standard, but nobody could have been bothered to tell him - quite a good question really. And yeah, on top of it the whole thing is political. The city government has been Democrat controlled since 2001; Fitzpatrick is a popular Republican.

Oh and did I include that the aforementioned former chief of police that may or may not have done a whole lot in the original investigation happens to be former SU hoops star Dennis DuVal? Yeah. I support SU basketball very loyally. I'm glad to see them as a strong #3 in the rankings. I'm glad that despite this they were focused enough to defeat #9 Florida last week. I hope they win the tourney next spring. That said, clean this crap up.


As to the original point, even though this is the basketball team and not the football I agree that it all did cast a shadow on the football season (and probably will the basketball season as well.) It's all just another facet of the general malaise in this country today. Along with the concerns we already have about continued economic weakness and the continued overreach of both big government and big business, is added this layer of depravity and collusion from what was to be part of the wholesome antithesis of all that. Meanwhile those overseeing college football continue to get farther from us, giving us a rematch of a 9-6 game (Lupica: Game of the century? Yeah, the nineteenth century.) when a majority of the populace made clear that wasn't the match we wanted to see.

The whole thing put together it's hard for morale not to be down. No wonder half of our discussions lately seem to have turned toward food and liquor.

[billybud]

The Champs Bowl has announced that they sold out fpor the first time in their history...in three days.

A lot of those tickets are now on subhub, Ebay, etc being scalped. FSU and Notre Dame immediately sold out of their allotments and have been trying to get another allotment...no go for FSU.