They want to be home with their families. Why would anyone bash that decision?
Frankly, the SEC sending terrible teams to bowl games "just because" should be called out a lot more. But you know, double standards and all.
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Dec 18-19 Conference Championships and other games
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They want to be home with their families. Why would anyone bash that decision?
Frankly, the SEC sending terrible teams to bowl games "just because" should be called out a lot more. But you know, double standards and all.
crosby87
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I hear ya. Sometimes in life with great reward we have to do things we dont want to do. All due respect but sometimes you act like they don’t have 4 free meals a day, fly private jet, aren’t accruing 60k in college debt etc. It’s playing in a bowl game. Not going to fight in Afghanistan.
Whatever. Some schools want to have football programs, other schools want to have a minor league football league loosely affiliated with the university and built on slave labor.
Why would Huskers opt out? Unlike USC, they loudly complained all year about not getting enough games and the public over-reacting to Covid-19.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
You don’t get it? Says lots.
Unbelievable? Not really.
I get it.
I have to wonder if CFB continuing to consolidate power and money back east is wise for the sports. People cry about the Pac12, but it is the only major conference that covers the footprint of half the country, including recruiting rich California.
Continuing to unbalance the money and marketing towards the southeast in particular is just going to accelerate the sport into 'regional' status.... which doesn't seem wise to me.
Continuing to unbalance the money and marketing towards the southeast in particular is just going to accelerate the sport into 'regional' status.... which doesn't seem wise to me.
If most of the players didn't love the game they wouldn't be there to start with, competition for spots with major college programs is tough and the sacrifices made to play the game are great.
This has been a tough year for the the players. Lots of isolation, giving up normal team activities and the normal college activities.
Going to a bowl just adds to this because this year most of the friends and family would not even be able to safely travel to the bowl game to see them play.
Fully respect teams not wanting to go this year.
ahoelsken
Well-Known Member
You've got a point-but we all knew this bowl season would be somewhat of a farce. Playing Texas is a great opportunity for us.
By unbelievable, I was referring not to the Husker spine or fears, but to the fact that they think they can talk out of both sides of their mouth so publicly.
While California is still talent rich, mostly by sheer population alone, it’s talent pool is shrinking. High school football participation is down about 10% in California over the last five years and the trend seems to be accelerating, especially in the suburban and private schools. This is a much faster decline than elsewhere in the country, although the northeast is also exiting the sport in a similar fashion.
Football recruiting: The Pac-12’s primary talent pool is shrinking faster than those of other Power Five conferences
The Pac-12 is facing numerous competitive challenges as it attempts to keep pace with the SEC and Big Ten. Perhaps none are more ominous than the drop in high school participation.
www.mercurynews.com
I see the popularity of all sports waning, as TV viewership becomes more fractured. Most kids consume “tv” in such a different way, and I hardly expect most to pay up for expensive premium pay sports channels now that cable is on its way out.
GuySmiley
Don't Drink the Kool-Aid
While California is still talent rich, mostly by sheer population alone, it’s talent pool is shrinking. High school football participation is down about 10% in California over the last five years and the trend seems to be accelerating, especially in the suburban and private schools. This is a much faster decline than elsewhere in the country, although the northeast is also exiting the sport in a similar fashion.
Football recruiting: The Pac-12’s primary talent pool is shrinking faster than those of other Power Five conferences
The Pac-12 is facing numerous competitive challenges as it attempts to keep pace with the SEC and Big Ten. Perhaps none are more ominous than the drop in high school participation.
I see the popularity of all sports waning, as TV viewership becomes more fractured. Most kids consume “tv” in such a different way, and I hardly expect most to pay up for expensive premium pay sports channels now that cable is on its way out.
I discussed this in another thread, there is a double whammy in CA, as the State Legislature severely limited the amount of contact in practice. Something like 2 sessions of 45 mins/each. It is safer, but for non-skill positions players are not developing as much in CA.
I always worry about ASU, and they seem to always underachieve. I think Herm is doing a great job recruiting, but they drop a couple of games every year that make you say WTF.
They didn’t close well in recruiting this year surprisingly
I'm not sure there's much you can say about this recruiting class for anybody. This is (hopefully) a one-off year that no one will ever have to recruit through ever again. Some schools seemed to handle better than others. Maybe ASU didn't, I don't know.
Incidentally, I'm hoping we look back at this class and say that the combination of the late start KD had and covid kneecapped us and that we were able to move forward much stronger later.
What has army ever done for you?
Typical bull**** NCAA & affiliates move.
The SEC isn't sending teams anywhere, those teams chose to go to bowl games. The fact that teams who had subpar seasons are fighting to go to bowl games just shows the mentality of teams towards football. Meanwhile these Pac12 teams who are opting shows the general apathy towards football in that conference. And I realize that Washington's reason is Covid related
College football is so broken
Trogdor
Soy Boy
UW played ZERO road games, Oregon played 4, and the defacto P12 North championship tilt was cancelled because of Washington. The whole situation is messed up ANY way it's sliced.
You can laugh but the Pac12 continues to land somewhere between a laughingstock and off the radar when it comes to national coverage, therefore further degrading the image of the conference.
From Wilner regarding today's lengthy ESPN CFB coverage
This one starts with P12.
I am not discounting the Pac-12 has issues, but is it really that hard to say losing teams in bowls is really dumb? That should be a non-controversial opinion, yet you are spinning it as a positive for the SEC. Come on.
A 2-8 team and two 3-7 teams = big time football? Or just silliness excused "BECAUSE SEC!!!!!"?
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