I agree the system wasnt broken. The best team has won the NC every year. People complain because they think it make them look smart.
Uh, no….take a minute….& let yer 2nd or maybe 3rd gear to kick in.
This. Folks bowls aren’t going anywhere. It’s a huge tourism boost to the economies that get them. It’s easy to say “no one cares about the other bowls” but did you care about the Capital One, Outback, Birmingham (input any other bowl we’ve attended) when we went? Of course you did because it’s your team.
At the time those were considered good bowls. Any bowl game played after New Year's Eve was considered a top-notch bowl game and very respectable. It was something to brag about.
I got a crazy idea......BEAT THEM !!!! If it goes to 12 team. Bama , clemson and OSU will make it every year until the end of time . If bama somehow goes 9-3 and gets in. People will be complaining a lot more about that than they are now.
Unfortunately, the plethora of laughable bowls featuring mediocre, undeserving teams will continue.
We care about our team, but the rest of the country doesn't. Just like I don't watch a bowl game that features Arizona State or some other similar team.
Wow! That's a pretty bleak assessment of our team's reason for being. I think it's a bit more than that myself. Go Cocks!
Come on, King. I enjoy the bowl season. It's a chance to watch match ups that rarely, if ever, occur during the regular season. It coincides with the holiday season, which also makes them kind of fun to watch. I hope they continue. I'll usually forego the first few match ups. But once it gets to teams from the P5, I recline in my Lazyboy with some good snacks and watch 'em play.
That’s if the playoffs are enhanced, added to the NIL attraction of the power teams, player stipends, television enrichment to the power conferences, fading away of mid-tier bowls, and so forth comes around. This is not a knock on South Carolina, but a reality which may occur as the rich get richer.
I was more enamored when I was younger. My priorities have changed some.
And, fans of the teams invited will want to go, The majority of the players will want to go for a much needed "vacation" as a reward for their work during the season.
Unfortunately, the older you get the more life throws at you. I wish my passion for sports was still there but now it seems like mere existence has taken over as the days grow shorter. And by that I mean I'm experiencing way more deaths around me than I ever have. Everything around me is shifting in its order of importance.
Things are pretty good for me. I just like golf more than college athletics.
From what I've seen on television prior to the pandemic, and based on a few "attendance" experiences of my own, fans don't want to go to the extent they used to. Actual attendance has fallen way off.
Not being argumentative, but how can this be addressed? Schools can't force kids to play football for them another year, much less attend and pass classes.
They are already dead. Nobody cares about the non-playoff bowls as it is. If athletes really love them so much why are they dropping off their teams at increasing rates every year to avoid playing in the bowls?
that’s what is funny about this whole thread.. the op is griping about bowls disappearing, but the proposals in place would likely make MORE bowls part of the playoffs every year, meaning more bowls will actually matter and fewer players will opt out every year- that is how you do something about it!
