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Post by longsuffering on Dec 28, 2022 22:54:47 GMT -5
41 Bowl games. 82 teams. Making the FCS Playoffs is more of an accomplishment.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 28, 2022 23:47:04 GMT -5
41 Bowl games. 82 teams. Making the FCS Playoffs is more of an accomplishment. There are probably teams that didn't make the FCS playoffs that could win some of these bowl games.
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Post by timholycross on Dec 29, 2022 0:16:11 GMT -5
Bottom line is these games, or at least most of them, meaningless as they are; still get good ratings. Don't expect changes to be significant. No one will notice the difference if the standard goes back to 7-5 and 6-6 versus 6-6 and 5-7.
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 29, 2022 1:06:19 GMT -5
How about a bowl that pits the last team left out of the FCS 24 team field vs the best FBS team not invited to a bowl. Winner plays the D-2 national champion.🤣
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necfbfan
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Post by necfbfan on Dec 29, 2022 9:17:17 GMT -5
41 Bowl games. 82 teams. Making the FCS Playoffs is more of an accomplishment. Good. Bowl games have gotten silly. The worst part is every time you turn on ESPN to watch a few minutes of a game, you're constantly peppered with announcers acting aghast at the notion that there could ever be "too many bowl games." Sorry, but I could do without the grandstanding about how wonderful 5-7 Rice getting invited to a bowl is. I don't want to come off as a curmudgeon, and bowl games are fine for the players, as it gives them (Especially back end of the roster guys) a chance to play. But let's also be honest, in the age of opt-outs, NIL, transfer portal, and a 12 team playoff, bowl games being important are a thing of the past. Some of them will still be decent, but does anyone really need the Fenway Bowl? How many kids from East Carolina or Virginia Tech are dying to play a 6-6 team in a baseball field in 35 degree weather? I'll also say this: The standard for reaching bowl games (If they are to be continued) needs to be raised. While prestigious programs will never settle for 6-6, I don't want athletic departments to become complicit in mediocrity (cough cough,Steve Addazio at BC for 7 years, cough cough...). Let's put it this way: Come next September, how many of these bowl game results are you going to remember? Teams like Oregon State and South Carolina - who put themselves on the map this year - could be fun watches. But the Iowas and Louisvilles of the world? Bowl season could do without them.
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Post by thecrossisback on Dec 29, 2022 9:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on Dec 29, 2022 9:36:32 GMT -5
Hope Cooz feels nearly as well as he looks in that photo!
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 29, 2022 10:19:17 GMT -5
Coach Chesney will do that for you! And thanks to "our cameraman @kithugheshc for setting" up my avatar.
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Post by HC92 on Dec 29, 2022 20:08:23 GMT -5
FBS football is such a wasteland for so many schools. UConn had a big year by their standards. The reward? A trip to the Myrtle Beach Bowl to play Marshall on a random weekday afternoon before Christmas. That’s it. That’s what “success” looks like for way too many of these schools. Just can’t get excited about it.
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Post by efg72 on Dec 29, 2022 20:10:40 GMT -5
They do get a decent check and players get a great gift bag🏈😇
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Post by hchoops on Dec 29, 2022 20:14:21 GMT -5
Thought that the Cooz spent most winters in Florida ? Maybe home for Christmas ? Terrific that he gives of his valuable time to HC.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 29, 2022 20:48:52 GMT -5
How about a bowl that pits the last team left out of the FCS 24 team field vs the best FBS team not invited to a bowl. Winner plays the D-2 national champion.🤣 Not a bad idea. In the years that the bowls have had to go dumpster diving for 5-7 teams to fill slots, I've always thought they should instead start inviting the best FCS teams with 6+ DI wins that didn't make the playoffs.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 29, 2022 20:54:30 GMT -5
FBS football is such a wasteland for so many schools. UConn had a big year by their standards. The reward? A trip to the Myrtle Beach Bowl to play Marshall on a random weekday afternoon before Christmas. That’s it. That’s what “success” looks like for way too many of these schools. Just can’t get excited about it. I know the conference tie-ins are pretty binding but I thought that ESPN should've pushed for UConn to be in the bowl game at Fenway. Cincy and Louisville were solid teams but nobody around New England cares about those two programs. 6-6 season for the Huskies is nothing too impressive but coming off their 2021 season, they truly had a very successful year. Same thing with New Mexico State. They got to a bowl game for the first time in like forty years this season, squeaking in with a 6-6 record due to a last-minute home game scheduled against Valparaiso (replacing a cancelled game against San Jose St). Despite the fact that there is a bowl game in Albuquerque, NM, they got sent to....Detroit, to play Bowling Green in a completely empty Ford Field.
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 29, 2022 21:26:20 GMT -5
FBS football is such a wasteland for so many schools. UConn had a big year by their standards. The reward? A trip to the Myrtle Beach Bowl to play Marshall on a random weekday afternoon before Christmas. That’s it. That’s what “success” looks like for way too many of these schools. Just can’t get excited about it. I know the conference tie-ins are pretty binding but I thought that ESPN should've pushed for UConn to be in the bowl game at Fenway. Cincy and Louisville were solid teams but nobody around New England cares about those two programs. 6-6 season for the Huskies is nothing too impressive but coming off their 2021 season, they truly had a very successful year. Same thing with New Mexico State. They got to a bowl game for the first time in like forty years this season, squeaking in with a 6-6 record due to a last-minute home game scheduled against Valparaiso (replacing a cancelled game against San Jose St). Despite the fact that there is a bowl game in Albuquerque, NM, they got sent to....Detroit, to play Bowling Green in a completely empty Ford Field. If Jim Mora could coach that broken down jalopy of a program to 6-6 in his first season, we caught the Huskies at the right time.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 29, 2022 21:36:02 GMT -5
I know the conference tie-ins are pretty binding but I thought that ESPN should've pushed for UConn to be in the bowl game at Fenway. Cincy and Louisville were solid teams but nobody around New England cares about those two programs. 6-6 season for the Huskies is nothing too impressive but coming off their 2021 season, they truly had a very successful year. Same thing with New Mexico State. They got to a bowl game for the first time in like forty years this season, squeaking in with a 6-6 record due to a last-minute home game scheduled against Valparaiso (replacing a cancelled game against San Jose St). Despite the fact that there is a bowl game in Albuquerque, NM, they got sent to....Detroit, to play Bowling Green in a completely empty Ford Field. If Jim Mora could coach that broken down jalopy of a program to 6-6 in his first season, we caught the Huskies at the right time. I still am pretty confident we'd have beaten them again this year had another game taken place.
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 30, 2022 0:54:41 GMT -5
Catching them early in September would have worked out well.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Dec 30, 2022 10:41:42 GMT -5
FBS football is such a wasteland for so many schools. UConn had a big year by their standards. The reward? A trip to the Myrtle Beach Bowl to play Marshall on a random weekday afternoon before Christmas. That’s it. That’s what “success” looks like for way too many of these schools. Just can’t get excited about it. Here's what they get: 1. A payout (ranging from $225K in Boca Raton to as much as $8 million for a Cotton or Citrus-level bowl). 2. An extra game for coaches and players, no small item when planning next year. 3. A chance to improve recruiting (and future recruiting posture) by selling post-season performance. An aside--don't think a FCS playoff game, win or lose, isn't heavily promoted by Holy Cross coaches to recruits that can (apparently) never be done at Bucknell or Georgetown. 4. A expenses-paid trip, usually to places the kids haven't been before and one which they're treated well by the host cities. 5. Fan interaction and university promotion. Ask the Tulane people what it means to play in the Cotton Bowl--this is magical compared to where they once were, flooded out by hurricanes amid calls to drop athletics.
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 30, 2022 11:18:06 GMT -5
FBS football is such a wasteland for so many schools. UConn had a big year by their standards. The reward? A trip to the Myrtle Beach Bowl to play Marshall on a random weekday afternoon before Christmas. That’s it. That’s what “success” looks like for way too many of these schools. Just can’t get excited about it. I know the conference tie-ins are pretty binding but I thought that ESPN should've pushed for UConn to be in the bowl game at Fenway. Cincy and Louisville were solid teams but nobody around New England cares about those two programs. 6-6 season for the Huskies is nothing too impressive but coming off their 2021 season, they truly had a very successful year. Same thing with New Mexico State. They got to a bowl game for the first time in like forty years this season, squeaking in with a 6-6 record due to a last-minute home game scheduled against Valparaiso (replacing a cancelled game against San Jose St). Despite the fact that there is a bowl game in Albuquerque, NM, they got sent to....Detroit, to play Bowling Green in a completely empty Ford Field. ABQ is 3 plus hours from Las Cruces though.
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 30, 2022 17:19:45 GMT -5
I know the conference tie-ins are pretty binding but I thought that ESPN should've pushed for UConn to be in the bowl game at Fenway. Cincy and Louisville were solid teams but nobody around New England cares about those two programs. 6-6 season for the Huskies is nothing too impressive but coming off their 2021 season, they truly had a very successful year. Same thing with New Mexico State. They got to a bowl game for the first time in like forty years this season, squeaking in with a 6-6 record due to a last-minute home game scheduled against Valparaiso (replacing a cancelled game against San Jose St). Despite the fact that there is a bowl game in Albuquerque, NM, they got sent to....Detroit, to play Bowling Green in a completely empty Ford Field. ABQ is 3 plus hours from Las Cruces though. But ABQ is a big metro area (for New Mexico) and New Mexico State is a statewide University. ESPN should understand they ARE in the entertainment business and give the people what they want in as frivolous a category as minor bowls.
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 31, 2022 0:58:56 GMT -5
ABQ is 3 plus hours from Las Cruces though. But ABQ is a big metro area (for New Mexico) and New Mexico State is a statewide University. ESPN should understand they ARE in the entertainment business and give the people what they want in as frivolous a category as minor bowls. There was a literal shooting between the NMSU basketball team and a student from UNM when they visited ABQ. www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/video-shows-what-happened-during-shooting-at-unm-involving-nmsu-player/Might want to lay off those two schools getting anywhere near each other.
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 8, 2023 10:26:44 GMT -5
Holy Cross Athletics
Date Time At Opponent Location TV Radio Result
September 2, 2023 (Saturday) Home Merrimack Worcester, Mass.
September 9, 2023 (Saturday) Away Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass.
September 16, 2023 (Saturday) Away Yale New Haven, Conn.
September 23, 2023 (Saturday) Home Colgate Worcester, Mass.
September 30, 2023 (Saturday) Home Harvard Worcester, Mass.
October 7, 2023 (Saturday) Away Bucknell Lewisburg, Pa.
October 21, 2023 (Saturday) Home Lafayette Worcester, Mass.
October 28, 2023 (Saturday) Away Fordham Bronx, N.Y.
November 4, 2023 (Saturday) Away Lehigh Bethlehem, Pa.
November 11, 2023 (Saturday) Away Army West Point, N.Y.
November 18, 2023 (Saturday) Home Georgetown Worcester, Ma
So which "home game" is the EBW Polar Park annual game? Anyone know?
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 8, 2023 11:12:13 GMT -5
Just got the answer to my own question from a extremely reliable source: Harvard game will be at Polar Park.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 8, 2023 11:21:20 GMT -5
Just got the answer to my own question from a extremely reliable source: Harvard game will be at Polar Park. Last WooSox regular season home game is Sept 17th. That's a short turnaround. --------------- Triple AAA championship playoffs are set for Las Vegas at the end of September
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Post by purplehaze on Jan 8, 2023 19:23:06 GMT -5
Have to disagree with this decision- you’d be looking at 15k at Fitton for this game and Polar is about 9500 capacity - we need the home field advantage in what should be a close game
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Post by breezy on Jan 8, 2023 19:29:21 GMT -5
For those who may be interested, the 2024 schedule is also posted on the HC Athletics web site.
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