Miami bows out of Sun Bowl
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bc puckett
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Maybe they can get SMU as Washington State is already in town
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
I know a team that was a late addition for the Sun Bowl and won a program-changing game.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
Were we a late addition? I recall something about it being middle finger from UTEP and the WAC for BYU and Utah moving to the MWC, but were we actually invited abnormally late?
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
Ehh. Not really late but we weren’t the initial choice. Hyman lobbied to get us the invite. I thought it was Wyoming that was snubbed but could be misremembering that.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
PurpleBlood87
Active Member
Just saw a Tweet that TCU, Texas and Illinois are among the possible replacements for Miami.
Moose Stuff
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TCU playing in that game seems like a truly awful idea.
FrogUltimate
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I love bowl games but they’ve lost 100% of significance last few years. I’d like them to get reinvented…. Now that we are paying players it seems like the bowl sponsors could offer $10k per player to the winning team or something
McFroggin
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Seems like a terrible idea for a new coach to evaluate what he has in a game experience. 2021 season was already a bust. What do we have to lose?
They’ll have to offer participation cash to really get players to want to play, and I don’t think that will improve the product.
I too think there needs to be some reinvention but I’m not sure there’s much that can be done tbh. The sport is almost ruined (and almost might be generous). Being taken over by street agents, lawyer agents, and just straight up lawyers.
BrewingFrog
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The simple Logistics would be awful: Players have all either gone home or are elsewhere. Ditto Coaches. Ditto equipment managers. Everyone would have to get themselves together, get their jobs done with no lead time, see that tons of gear are moved and hundreds of people arrive in a timely manner. In short, all of the things which take two weeks to get together have to be done in six hours or so.
ShadowFrog
Moderators
Good link & good writing.
froginmn
Full Member
And of course we'll bring the wrong cleats.
Froginbedford
Full Member
And telephones on the sidelines....
ftwfrog
Active Member
It’s be like Best of Times where they have to get all the old out of shape players to come back to town. Not really, just wanted to reference a great 80’s flick.
Hoosierfrog
Tier 1
Muckleroy was a talented DB on some pretty bad teams when I was there. Good guy too.
Moose Stuff
Active Member
Players to injury because they haven’t really practiced in a month?
tyler durden
Tyler Durden
Could be interesting. The winning team gets a bigger payout, right? What if each player gets a specific cut. High performing players get a bonus. You could even have position bonuses, like if the QB gets sacked less than twice the O-line splits some cash.
