Mean Purple
Active Member
Don’t tell me what lower level were. Again, I didn’t buy the tickets and don’t want to have to buy that gal an expansive gift out of guilt.
FWST: TCU football will play Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl. Fans aren’t happy.
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Mean Purple
Active Member
A buddy was at the UGA game and said they had big chunks of sections in the lower seats open. Good thing the seats are red there.
Dutch
T C U Froooogs
The only thing to make it worseMy take from this?
- We're not as big on the Big 12 stage as some of us think we are.
- Other bowls picked teams that they believed would travel better.
- It came down to us choosing between the Servpro Bowl as a Big 12 tie in and the NM Bowl as an ESPN at large bowl (last option).
- The bowls can choose anyone they want out of the eligible pool. They apparently thought TTU, KSU and Baylor would travel better and maybe they promised selling larger ticket allotments.
- If we had gone to the Liberty Bowl they would still be people bitching about something.
would be to get beat in ABQ.
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me to start seeing big attendance dropoffs at the conference championship games across the board because of the new playoff format. Now you have to plan for at least 1 extra game (2 if you dont get a bye) than you would have in years past. It gets expensive real quick.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
That is the biggest risk of this game. Losing.
FrogBall09
Active Member
1. Didn’t earn it
2. Didn’t want us
3. Didn’t want us
4. Didn’t want us
5. Didn’t want us
6. Didn’t want us
7. We didn’t want it - wanted to travel
8. We didn’t want it - wanted to travel
Get it now?
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
These games are a "Made for TV Extravaganza!" People in the stands are nice and all, but unnecessary. For We The Fans, it is a gargantuan expanse that cannot be easily repeated, so even if one chooses to attend a game there's little chance to attend a second because few people have that kind of money laying around.
Mrs. Brewingfrog and I were watching one of the "Playoff" games a few years ago, and the ESPN commentators were complaining about the Alabama fans "not filling the stadium" like they were expected to. Mrs. Brewingfrog snarled at the TV, "Well, they've been to the Playoff like three times now, and played in five games, and each of those games cost a ton to go to! Alabama fans are tapped out! They've spent what they can! Do these idiots think that we're just saps who will empty our wallets when they tell us to?"
Why spend the money when you can watch it on TV?
gohornedfrogs
Tier 1
Sorry, but Baylor does not travel as well as TCU, so I have doubts about the criteria you chose.My take from this?
- We're not as big on the Big 12 stage as some of us think we are.
- Other bowls picked teams that they believed would travel better.
- It came down to us choosing between the Servpro Bowl as a Big 12 tie in and the NM Bowl as an ESPN at large bowl (last option).
- The bowls can choose anyone they want out of the eligible pool. They apparently thought TTU, KSU and Baylor would travel better and maybe they promised selling larger ticket allotments.
- If we had gone to the Liberty Bowl they would still be people bitching about something.
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
I know. I couldn't afford to make both games in 2022 so I had to make a choice. Unfortunately I made the wrong choice lol.
AroundWorldFrog
Full Member
Well a better bowl choose Baylor over us for some reason. Why do you think?
TxFrog1999
The Man Behind The Curtain
I don't get the anonymous reporting that is trying to walk back the blame our former AD is receiving for this bowl selection. He's on the record several times—including public comments a few weeks ago—about how much he despises the Liberty Bowl, there was only one group of bowl representatives that attended our home games this season—typically there are several—and the AD didn't appear to campaign hard for TCU's post season selection. No one is willing to go on record explaining how this process played out. The failure is on the Athletic Department.
Mean Purple
Active Member
look, nobody knows what went down and nobody from the school or the bowls/conference are gonna tell the truth about something if it went off anyways.
we are all speculating on a sports message board. which is what sports message boards for for.
so for everybody telling everybody to get over themselves ...
who cried when Bram made the corner and then our db knocked the ball down in San Antonio? Nobody cried when Bram made the corner? ...
Mean Purple
Active Member
It is indeed his job to try and swoon the bowl guys. And nobody should have been on the record about the Liberty Bowl.
froginmn
Full Member
And the only thing worse than that would be to lose twice and go 0-2 ABQ.
FroggleRock
Active Member
Yeah having public beef with bowl officials is idiotic. Part of the job is putting aside ego and kissing asses, and I think that’s a big part where Donati fell short. He seemed to pick a lot of fights with people he should have been swooning (I.e. bowl officials, boosters/donors, alumni, letterman, etc). And that comment definitely applies to the department as a whole too.
Spike
Full Member
A couple of years ago I looked up tix for Bama Georgia in the SEC championship. Over $1,000 per seat plus all the BS fees. I decided to watch on tv.
I think it has something to do with "lingering Ann Richard's effect"
FroggleRock
Active Member
Because Baylor finished 5th and we finished 6th. Simple as that.
SoonerFrogs
Active Member
Maybe this bowl opens some eyes. Maybe losing to UH and UCF at home doesn't happen again. I wont count on it, though.
FroggleRock
Active Member
I never ever want to hear “I don’t know why that happened” ever again out of our coaches. I wanted them fired after that.
