We still have a shot at a bowl game

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by Htown77, Nov 29, 2015.

  1. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    Apparently there are now so many bowl games, some 5-7 teams will get to go. So if we beat Baylor, we get a bowl game.

    A bowl game is good because it means extra practice. If we somehow won the bowl game, that's always a good thing. It also means the seniors get to put on their team's jerseys one more time (including the walk-ons).

    On the other hand, it seems wrong for any 5-7 team to be in a bowl game. It seems like most are ready for our season to end. If we get a bad matchup, I do not think its really fair to the coaches or players that they have to be saddled with an extra loss when their season should be over. Again, this sort of falls under in general 5-7 teams should not be in bowl games.

    What is everyone's thoughts on this?
     
  2. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I think fewer bowl games are in order.
     
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  3. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    This season has died a natural death. Let it rest in peace.
     
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  4. NBHorn7

    NBHorn7 Pimp Daddy

    If you beat Baylor, why not. Texas needs those extra practice days and it helps recruiting.

    You shouldn't get that bad a matchup, it's going to be a lesser bowl. They can heal up and have most players back and work on some things, like Foreman and Warren in the same backfield.

    Why not give the players some incentive for beating Baylor, if they do, then they earned a bowl game. Lots of things are diffent these days.

    This will be up to the team anyway, I don't think they will give us a vote on the matter. If they beat Baylor and vote to go to whatever bowl game, there going.
     
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  5. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    My thoughts....mmmmmm..NOOO!
     
  6. LAGA4

    LAGA4 500+ Posts

    Probably a better payoff spending the time recruiting
     
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  7. moondog_LFZ

    moondog_LFZ 5,000+ Posts

    If they beat Baylor let em go.
    The extra practice will be good for heading into spring.
     
  8. easy

    easy 2,500+ Posts

    I wonder how many tickets we would sell lol
     
  9. Desperado

    Desperado 1,000+ Posts

    5-7 doesn't warrant a bowl. Waaaayyyy too many bowl games if 5-7 teams are needed to fill slots.
     
  10. LonghornCatholic

    LonghornCatholic Deo Gratias

    Pretty sure a 4 win team won't be in demand for a bowl.
     
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  11. ShAArk92

    ShAArk92 1,000+ Posts

    so many bowl games ... conf champs/runners-up could prolly be racked/stacked into a



    PLAYOFF bracket!!!!



    oh .... no ... run away!
     
  12. woowoo worster

    woowoo worster 25+ Posts

    Sorry, but those of you thinking more practices for this Texas team are a good thing, are just wrong in my book. What would they be "practicing" exactly? Plays and schemes that won't be run next year, by coaches that won't be coaching next year? Coach Strong can only save his job with a major coordinator overhaul. The quicker they can distance themselves from the old, the better. Could he be 7-5 next year with the same-old, same-old? Sure. But 7-5 next year gets him a new job elsewhere I think.
     
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  13. NBHorn7

    NBHorn7 Pimp Daddy

    There isn't any OC in the country that wouldn't want to get both Forman and Warren, in the backfield at the same time.

    Young players getting any more practice time is valuable, it's not all about plays and schemes. It's also about young players getting as much experience in game situations, as possible.

    How about fundamentals like taking good angles on defense? O-Linemen and backs being able to pick up blitzes. Also getting some players healthy, so they can learn more about playing together as a team.

    It's about a young quarterback, in Heard maybe learning more about reading a defense and audibling into a better play.

    I could could go on, but I think I have given a general idea of what I am talking about.

     
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  14. car54

    car54 1,000+ Posts

    There are a bunch of HC jobs out there and they will be grabbing up the best OCs and DCs they can. Texas better get on the ball and get theirs before contracts are offered and signed.
     
  15. -Texas-

    -Texas- 250+ Posts

    Going to a bowl with a 5-7 record would be the equivalent of a 'participation award' so, no.
     
  16. Longbomb

    Longbomb 500+ Posts

    Beating Baylor is a pretty big if to begin with.

    But if we manage it...
    Nah. We should decline if offered one.
    It won't make any money for the program. Expenses would be greater than the payout for that level of bowl. And we don't need the exposure. It would only be exposure of our embarrassment.
     
  17. LtSwtCrude

    LtSwtCrude Guest

    To be considered. I had been thinking same thing. Best of both worlds is beat Baylor, then bowl or no bowl keep recruiting, while working behind the scenes for any have-to staff changes.
     
  18. NBHorn7

    NBHorn7 Pimp Daddy

    Yes, Texas would really have to worry about whether the bowl game made the program money or not.

    It would probably bankrupt the whole athletic department.

    It's about the practice time and game experience for young players.
     
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  19. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Someone please explain to me how an extra two weeks of practice is going to improve the play of this team. Perhaps if the team had known before the trip to Iowa, that this incentive was out there, they may have at least scored.

    Yeah! A few fans will get a great three day trip to Yukon, Oklahoma for the Express Ranches Semen Certificate Bowl at the luxurious Yukon High School Stadium with a seating capacity of 6,500. Teams will be put up at the newly redecorated El Reno Best Western and the Mustang, Oklahoma Comfort Inn. Both of these are operated by the Patel family, former owners of the Ramada Inn in College Station. (Old timers will remember that dump and the way the team was treated there.)
     
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  20. VulcanHorn

    VulcanHorn 100+ Posts

    I put this with celebrating an Alamo Bowl victory during halftime of a UT basketball game. Uh, no. Iowa State recently honored a squad that was one of two teams to finish the season ranked in the top 25 in their history. I don't want to see UT become one of those programs that honors something that should be expected most seasons.

    The University of Texas shouldn't celebrate an Alamo Bowl victory during the half of a basketball game and shouldn't feel deserving of a bowl game because they won 5 games in a season.

    As Dio said, please let this season rest in peace.
     
  21. marley

    marley 500+ Posts

    Screw this pathetically undeserving and unbelievably unqualified coach and his pathetically-chosen staff.

    Let's just suffer through the off-season let him have a third year for all the wrong politically-correct reasons and then can his pathetic *** . . . and hire a coach who actually deserves per his actual merit to be at this level.

    And then forever tag Bill Powers as the ultimate total loser for his horrible late reign hiring legacy of Patterson/Strong.
     
  22. VYFan

    VYFan 2,500+ Posts

    Not sure why the vitriol for the coach; either keep him or not, but no reason to hate him. Whatever happens in the future, I would hope it obvious to anyone that a bowl game would benefit the players, the ones we are all hoping are going to be here and be better next year, whoever their head coach or position coaches may be.
     
  23. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

    If the players get a chance to play in a bowl game and want to, why not encourage it? It's not my time to go to college and experience new and fun things. I've been there and done that and had a lot of fun doing it. This should be about the players and what they can do if they want to, as long as it's legal, of course.

    As casual football fans, I think our egos may get too wrapped up in the activities of these college kids.
     
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  24. old65horn

    old65horn 1,000+ Posts

    Right, since last spring and preaseaon was so useful inn getting us ready for 2015.
     
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  25. Crockett

    Crockett 5,000+ Posts

    A team that beat OU and Baylor (the big "if" in this scenario) but lost to Tech and Iowa State would be an interesting team. No matter who Texas is lined up against they have a chance to kick butt or get beaten. To me that spells a bowl matchup worth watching on TV or driving 60 miles to see. Besides practice and preparation for a new opponent, the whole bowl game experience is interesting, even if (as I expect) player will do it on a grander scale after upcoming seasons.
     
  26. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    As was mentioned earlier, all the spring practices, the fall practices and thirteen weeks of season should have this team practiced out. If they ain't got it by now, not likely they are going to get it in two more weeks of practice, which about all they'll get with finals and a trip to Saginaw for the bowl game.

    Have The University of Texas Longhorns been reduced to "participation rewards"? Does anyone remember the rift created when Akers accepted the "California ******** Bowl", and the athletic department was so mad that they refused to sell tickets? Maybe 100 of us made that trip and got killed by Chuck Long 55-17. That team was 7-3-1 after being ranked #1 and suffering through the Tony Edwards fiasco, which ripped the team apart and produced the ugliest display from our fans that I have witnessed in my 50 years of attending games.

    Does anyone know where that midget Mexican APD cop is now? I know he confessed to beating Edwards because he didn't like black football players and was fired. Hope he's digging beans in San Luis Potosi.
     
  27. majorwhiteapples

    majorwhiteapples 5,000+ Posts

    First off Texas still has great TV Ratings, ESPN owns most of the bowls, hell yes they want Texas in bowl game, it is about ratings and nothing else. ESPN has figured putting a bowl game on every night does wonders for their Ratings during the holiday season that is the reason for so many bowls. You need to understand ESPN's rhyme behind their reason.

    Texas will sell 10-15,000 tickets to whatever bowl game they go too.....of the minor bowls it will have the highest TV ratings of any other minor bowl game.
     
  28. Broken Spoke

    Broken Spoke 100+ Posts

    Bowl or no bowl, LET'S BEAT BAYLOR!!!!
     
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  29. arieshorn

    arieshorn 1,000+ Posts

    NO THANKS.... we can't even sell out DKR this season. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We still have Baylor and they are going to be playing angry AF after the TCU loss. I don't think anyone is going to want to go see Texas after that upcoming curb stomping. Sorry guys. Just keeping it real.
     
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  30. El Sapo

    El Sapo Bevo's BFF

    Hullabaloo Dinesh Dinesh..... ;)
     

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