GT is ACC's Biggest Disappointment

beej67 said:
CRAFTMATIC ADJUSTABLE BED BOWL
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GTKyle said:
ESPN's argument is that we don't have enough top 10 teams.
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SEC - 2
Pac-10 - 3 (disputable)
Big Ten - 1
ACC - 1
Big 12 - 1
Big East - 2

Looks to me like we are pretty average as far as top ten teams. Were it not for the Pac-10, no one would have more than 2. They shouldn't have all 3 either. USC has no business in the top 10 after losing to an unranked Stanford.


refrigeratormover said:
Does she come with it?
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Only if you drive the 2k+ miles to get to the game to pick her up :P
 
Calvin forever said:
Lonestar did actually say that he would "almost" rather us go to no bowl than to the "Whatever Corporation Bought the Naming Rights to our Crappy Bowl" Bowl. He even capitalized the word almost.
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clapper is bigger on moral indignation than he is on reading comprehension.

But I am pretty sure the "astute" comment was directed at my statement that we shouldn't count UNC as an automatic win and that Davis was turning the program around. I have watched a couple of their games and they seem to be moving in the right direction (or wrong direction for us.)
 
The Vegas Bowl is tied to the PAC-10 and Mountain West. UNC got to go in 1998 when the PAC-10 didn't have enough bowl teams to fill their slots and the ACC had too many.
 
I'm not going west for anything unless its the Rose Bowl. Say no to Chan bowls.
 
Yeah, ok, I'd go to the Fiesta. But I'm still pissed that the "Fiesta" bowl got an invite as a BCS bowl. It should have been the Cotton Bowl.
 
GTKyle said:
Chan bowls?
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Yes, Chan Bowls.
Definition: Noun, Plural: Football Post Season Bowls played in temperatures of less than 60 degrees, on baseball fields, blue fields, or real football fields with stadiums of less than 40 thousand seats often resembling a Texas High School football stadium; which every 4 years the name of the bowl either changes or ceases to exist anymore; may have multi hyphened name or may represent a little known organization like a sports store, a little known non-profit organization, or a nut manufacturer; typically played west of the Mississippi against teams in the Mountain West Conference, Conference USA, or MAC, but may occassionally get a Big East opponent; often played on days that other bowls will not play in order to draw a television audience; bowls that get little exposure when you win them, but if you lose you are considered the absolute laughing stock; bowls that occassionally get mentioned with 2nd tier bowls but only by those who have a vested monetary interest in the bowl game itself; bowls that offer tryouts for sports announcers by ESPN; bowls that fall on or before Dec 23rd not yet good enough for a Christmas Eve apearance, may occassionally include a post Jan 1st bowl, but typically at least 4 days after the National Championship game, bowl games whose trophy looks strangely like MTV's golden popcorn movie awards; bowl games that match powerhouse teams barely above .500; bowl games that extend the contract one more year for a team's coach that managed to barely win more than he lost but it was still good enough to give him another chance at a better bowl the following year that he never seems to be able to get to.

That is a Chan Bowl.
 
Yukonwreck said:
Why on God's green earth would we even want to go to any bowl after going 6-6 with three of our wins being Duke, Samford, and Army?
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Maimi went to Boise last year after going 6-6 with 5 of those wins against these five powerhouses.

Florida A&M
Houston
UNC
FIU
Duke

I'm not defending the situation, but there's a lot of reasons for teams to go to even crappy bowls. Extra practice time, extra revenue (however small), gifts for players.

No, I won't be happy about GT ending up out west. But Georgia Tech also shouldn't turn down an offer of a bowl just to say we don't deserve a bowl. Really, that just doesn't make much sense.
 
BarrelORum said:
Yeah, ok, I'd go to the Fiesta. But I'm still pissed that the "Fiesta" bowl got an invite as a BCS bowl. It should have been the Cotton Bowl.
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I've lived in Dallas and I can pretty much say the cotton bowl sucks. It plays before noon in pretty cold weather for a higher class bowl game and the stadium is basically a less-ghetto Orange Bowl.

It will become the fifth BCS game, though, after it moves into the new Jerry Jones shrine.
 
floridajacket said:
I've lived in Dallas and I can pretty much say the cotton bowl sucks. It plays before noon in pretty cold weather for a higher class bowl game and the stadium is basically a less-ghetto Orange Bowl.

It will become the fifth BCS game, though, after it moves into the new Jerry Jones shrine.
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6th you mean?
 
BarrelORum said:
Yeah, and how do the bowls we play in compare?
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I went to the Emerald bowl in 2005. It was pretty pathetic. There were about 300 tech fans and about 10,000 Utah fans. It was muddy and we looked like **** against a mid-major. UGH!!
 
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