This REALLY bothers me.

[theman]

Back in the good ol' days, half of all college football teams did NOT go to bowl games. You can bet if you were in a bowl game in the 60's 70's 80's you were a legitimately good team. There were many, many 7, 8, 9, and 10 win Wyoming Cowboy teams that never even went to a Bowl Game.

So this is what really irritates me. I dislike seeing NEW MEXICO BOWL and LAS VEGAS BOWL etc...... up in the WAR with Sugar Bowl, Sun Bowl, etc... Honestly should the 2009 New Mexico Bowl team be mentioned in the same breath with the Sugar Bowl team?

With all the new dot.com, autozone, credit union type bowl games and every team that goes .500 making a bowl game why do the coaches get as much credit as the teams in the old days?

How come every article I hear about Dave Christensen mentions he is the first Cowboy Coach to take the team to a bowl game in his first year??? BIG FVCKIN DEAL!!!!

Or every time some ( 7-5) no name team makes a bowl game for the first time in 40 years, they think its a big improvement??? WTF, if they didn't make it easier to make a bowl game, the team would still not be in a bowl game, so your team is no better than they were the past 40 years.

Whats next, we hang banners up for going .500 in basketball too? :brick:

 

[fromolwyoming]

Well, going to a Bowl game helps out with recruiting and building confidence in a program, no matter how low it is, it is still a bowl game. Yes, it has been very diluted since the 60s, but there are also more teams in Div 1 now then in the 60s. Wasn't UNLV only founded in the 60s?

 

[PokePride.com]

Well, going to a Bowl game helps out with recruiting and building confidence in a program, no matter how low it is, it is still a bowl game. Yes, it has been very diluted since the 60s, but there are also more teams in Div 1 now then in the 60s. Wasn't UNLV only founded in the 60s?

1956 was the groundbreaking for UNLV.

 

[WyomingAg]

Our team use to get left out of bowl games with 10 wins because we have such a small fan base. Considering we haven't had an 11 win season since 1988 which was the only way to guarantee a bowl game in the old days for Wyoming, consider me happy that we have a chance to go to some low-tier bowls to build the program, improve recruiting, and get extra practice time. Once we actually have a team that competes with top 25 teams and regularly makes bowl games, then I will be dissappointed about making low-tier bowls.

Would you actually be happy if this years team had actually gotton to 8, 9, or 10 wins and been left out of a bowl game again? Were you actually happy when good to very good 10 win wyoming teams were left out of bowl games for worse teams with bigger fan bases? Because with less bowl games, only the popular name teams and big fan base teams made the bowl games with any regularity.

 

[ELKMT]

It is a new era so yes they should be put up. Does a bowl mean the same as it used to? Nope. Does that mean you don't put up current bowls? Nope, cuz everyone else does and again it is a new era. Should we not put up a WNIT banner? WNIT doesn't mean anything, but it is still something to brag about I guess. I guess we can change things if there is ever a college playoff and put up play off appearinces or something like that. It is kind of like comparing different eras of baseball. Since the wildcard round was added all the old playoff stats records we broke because players play more playoff games. Kind of like the new bowl system.

 

[McPeachy]

:troll:

 

[msuhunter]

Once again this proves why the FBS is a joke. Look at Boise St., no matter how well they play and no matter who they beat, they'll never get the respect they deserve. If UW fans aren't concerned about this, they should be. What if by some miraculous miracle (seeing how this team has played this year) turns around and is consistanly winning 9-12 games per year for five or six years in a row. Will they get any respect or invites to major bowls? No. Hell, even if they went undefeated two years in a row in the MWC, they'd still get the shaft and be on the outside looking in. Holy hell, the FBS blows!

 

[kansasCowboy]

Hell, the littlest bowl carries more prowess than an FCS championship! That's all I have to say hunter.

 

[Wyokie]

My only "real" problem with the bowls, in general, is the dumbassed corporate named ones like the Insight Bowl I miss it's old name, the Copper Bowl.

 

[Adv8RU12]

My only "real" problem with the bowls, in general, is the dumbassed corporate named ones like the Insight Bowl I miss it's old name, the Copper Bowl.

Could be worse: "Campbell Soup Bowl". "Kohler Toilet Bowl".

 

[Wyokie]

My only "real" problem with the bowls, in general, is the dumbassed corporate named ones like the Insight Bowl I miss it's old name, the Copper Bowl.

Could be worse: "Campbell Soup Bowl". "Kohler Toilet Bowl".

Yeah and I could see it happening evemtually. :brick:

 

[laxwyo]

My only "real" problem with the bowls, in general, is the dumbassed corporate named ones like the Insight Bowl I miss it's old name, the Copper Bowl.

Could be worse: "Campbell Soup Bowl". "Kohler Toilet Bowl".

We might be in the Toilet Bowl when we play NM or CSU

 

[msuhunter]

Hell, the littlest bowl carries more prowess than an FCS championship! That's all I have to say hunter.

Sure... :roll:

 

[DanBoon]

How come every article I hear about Dave Christensen mentions he is the first Cowboy Coach to take the team to a bowl game in his first year??? BIG FVCKIN DEAL!!!!

:brick:

..And one might say (but none ever do) that he did so with Joe Glenn's recruits. :roll:

 

[kansasCowboy]

Tell me hunter, MSU has what? Three national titles? Right? And I've never seen any national attention for msu, except when they lose to some big school. (Remember, the ones you're supposed to lose right?) Yet, if you're supposed to lose, why would your FCS championship mean anything? App st was legit. Beating the big school and winning the title. They received a lot of attention, respect and they are looking at moving up to the FBS.
Earn some respect before you start flaunting it off. Like I said before, You may have winning seasons, but nothing to show for it. And you even lost to a 4-8 Wyoming team. HA!
We've been known to play with the big schools, heck even pull out wins sometimes. Tennessee, Virginia, Ole Miss, UCLA. And in the process we've gone to bowls. 6-6 overall! Not bad. I'm sure those bowls brought in more money than your losing in the first round ever other year does.

 

[cowboyz]

I like that there are a lot of bowl games. It gives the team something to shoot for if they have a decent season. Usually in most conferences there are a couple/few teams that are a lock to take the title and there are a few that are a lock to not compete for the title. The bowl games make the games at the end of the year more meaningful for the second and third tier teams of each conference. Who here didn't attend or watch the New Mexico Bowl on TV last year?

 

[Wyokie]

Who here didn't attend or watch the New Mexico Bowl on TV last year?

I didn't watch but ONLY because I'm bit superstitious.

If I watch the Pokes on T.V., we lose.

 

[kansasCowboy]

How come every article I hear about Dave Christensen mentions he is the first Cowboy Coach to take the team to a bowl game in his first year??? BIG FVCKIN DEAL!!!!

:brick:

..And one might say (but none ever do) that he did so with Joe Glenn's recruits. :roll:

And one might say that when you play 10 or 11 freshman a game your first year, and those playing are in role positions, that you won with your own recruits.
Just remember banboon, Mediocre Joe didn't go to his lone bowl with his recruits, they were Koenings. Pretty much all of them.

 

[msuhunter]

Tell me hunter, MSU has what? Three national titles? Right? And I've never seen any national attention for msu, except when they lose to some big school. (Remember, the ones you're supposed to lose right?) Yet, if you're supposed to lose, why would your FCS championship mean anything? App st was legit. Beating the big school and winning the title. They received a lot of attention, respect and they are looking at moving up to the FBS.
Earn some respect before you start flaunting it off. Like I said before, You may have winning seasons, but nothing to show for it. And you even lost to a 4-8 Wyoming team. HA!
We've been known to play with the big schools, heck even pull out wins sometimes. Tennessee, Virginia, Ole Miss, UCLA. And in the process we've gone to bowls. 6-6 overall! Not bad. I'm sure those bowls brought in more money than your losing in the first round ever other year does.

:rofl: great recruiting tools there. "well son, we don't win many, but we've been know to pull out a few wins. we were 6-6 once too!" :rofl:

 

[COS Cowboy]

Tell me hunter, MSU has what? Three national titles? Right? And I've never seen any national attention for msu, except when they lose to some big school. (Remember, the ones you're supposed to lose right?) Yet, if you're supposed to lose, why would your FCS championship mean anything? App st was legit. Beating the big school and winning the title. They received a lot of attention, respect and they are looking at moving up to the FBS.
Earn some respect before you start flaunting it off. Like I said before, You may have winning seasons, but nothing to show for it. And you even lost to a 4-8 Wyoming team. HA!
We've been known to play with the big schools, heck even pull out wins sometimes. Tennessee, Virginia, Ole Miss, UCLA. And in the process we've gone to bowls. 6-6 overall! Not bad. I'm sure those bowls brought in more money than your losing in the first round ever other year does.

:rofl: great recruiting tools there. "well son, we don't win many, but we've been know to pull out a few wins. we were 6-6 once too!" :rofl:

What does MSU tell their recruits? "We beat a 2-10 Colorado once, but other than that we can't beat any FBS teams." :rofl: How does it feel to be Washington State's only victory?