I'll reserve judgement until I hear what we sold it for.

On the optimistic side, maybe ESPN promised a better payout and/or a better tie in? Maybe this was necessary to get PAC-12 teams interested? No way we just threw in the towel.

Per McMurphy,

-Located to 20.5k seat MLS stadium (same one that hosts FCS title game)
-AAC vs. SBC '17, '19. MAC '18

Not looking good.

(04-21-2017 02:42 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  What the heck. I thought the whole reason we started this bowl, is so it could become our showcase bowl and we would eventually get some decent opponents in there. At least that's what we were told.

THIS^THIS. 100% THIS!!!!!

(04-21-2017 03:13 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Per McMurphy,


-AAC vs. SBC '17, '19. MAC '18

Not looking good.

those agreements were already in place prior to the sale.

(04-21-2017 02:45 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Why the hell would we sell it. That bow was the only bowl was out best shot at building a game that would have a quality opponent for our champ. Any bowl willing to pay enough to land a quality opponent from a P5 conference isn't going to sign a tie with the AAC. The only way that's going to happen is if we actually own the bowl.

And THIS^

(04-21-2017 02:47 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 02:37 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  I like this. Gives me a bowl game option to attend as a neutral in DFW that isn't 1) Overpriced (Cotton Bowl), 2) disorganized and in a woefully outdated stadium (Heart of Dallas Bowl), or 3) benefitting TCU (Armed Forces Bowl)

lol....I live in Texas and have no idea where Frisco is. I'm probably not alone.

It's the place where they used to play the FCS Championship Game. It might still be.

(04-21-2017 02:36 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  I thought the big carrot of creating that bowl was the locale.

Yeah, me too.

(04-21-2017 03:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 03:13 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Per McMurphy,


-AAC vs. SBC '17, '19. MAC '18

Not looking good.

those agreements were already in place prior to the sale.

Ya sounds like it, just that McMoustache reiterated meaning it hasn't changed.

Hoping this was traded for some sort of leverage or better tie-in elsewhere. If it was done for straight cash, that's troubling.

(04-21-2017 03:17 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 03:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 03:13 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Per McMurphy,


-AAC vs. SBC '17, '19. MAC '18

Not looking good.

those agreements were already in place prior to the sale.

Ya sounds like it, just that McMoustache reiterated meaning it hasn't changed.

Hoping this was traded for some sort of leverage or better tie-in elsewhere. If it was done for straight cash, that's troubling.

If it was sold for straight cash I want answers from Aresco. I can bump threads where he (and then posters) talked glowingly of the potential of this Bowl for the AAC. I want answers now.

(04-21-2017 02:59 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  now its the perfect bowl for the smu and north texas fanbases. great move.

Yeah, the rematch of UNT and SMU will be pretty exciting....

(04-21-2017 03:10 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  I'll reserve judgement until I hear what we sold it for.

On the optimistic side, maybe ESPN promised a better payout and/or a better tie in? Maybe this was necessary to get PAC-12 teams interested? No way we just threw in the towel.

You could be right where this is more of a preemptive move to land the PAC12 once the current deal expires. I mean I am sure the league still has the clause to replace the opponent so who knows maybe this season they grab a PAC12 team if there is one available. I have already seen a few bowls extended beyond 2019 so hopefully something is in the works. The league needs one showcase bowl or to be added to the contract bowls. Seems more likely to get the showcase bowl but who knows.

you dont play "showcase bowls" against Pac12 schools in a 20,000 seat soccer stadium in Frisco Texas.

Take off the tin hats...

The AAC shouldn't own a bowl game. We can't risk any losses that easily can happen in bowl games. We can't afford buying an opponent either. Espn wasn't really nice with our time slot. Very small crowds can travel on a workday.

(04-21-2017 03:25 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  you dont play "showcase bowls" against Pac12 schools in a 20,000 seat soccer stadium in Frisco Texas.

I didn't say this was a showcase bowl. I was saying the league needs one badly.

So this year the bowl should be an AAC-West team vs. Arkansas State/UL-LAF right?

(04-21-2017 03:27 PM)PT_american Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 03:25 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  you dont play "showcase bowls" against Pac12 schools in a 20,000 seat soccer stadium in Frisco Texas.

I didn't say this was a showcase bowl. I was saying the league needs one badly.

The PAC 12 won't be sending a team to The Frisco Bowl.

(04-21-2017 03:27 PM)PT_american Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 03:25 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  you dont play "showcase bowls" against Pac12 schools in a 20,000 seat soccer stadium in Frisco Texas.

I didn't say this was a showcase bowl. I was saying the league needs one badly.

apologies - the fact that the loss of a pre-Christmas weekday bowl game played in the Miami Marlins baseball stadium is not as pathetic as replacing it with a pre-Christmas weekday bowl game in a soccer stadium in Frisco Texas is just brain freezing.

(04-21-2017 03:27 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  Take off the tin hats...

The AAC shouldn't own a bowl game. We can't risk any losses that easily can happen in bowl games. We can't afford buying an opponent either. Espn wasn't really nice with our time slot. Very small crowds can travel on a workday.

There was at least 300 people in the stands when Tulsa played in the MBB last year.

Not surprising. The Miami Beach Bosik looked pathetic on TV. Nobody was ever there, and it was played in that circus of a baseball stadium. Should be a good match-up between high quality, evenly matched teams from the Sun Belt and MAC. Should be able to sell it out if any of the western teams are matched up agains a regional Sun Belt team.

(04-21-2017 03:36 PM)fanhood Wrote:  Not surprising. The Miami Beach Bosik looked pathetic on TV. Nobody was ever there, and it was played in that circus of a baseball stadium. Should be a good match-up between high quality, evenly matched teams from the Sun Belt and MAC. Should be able to sell it out if any of the western teams are matched up agains a regional Sun Belt team.

I hope you are right, that will mean that the AAC isn't sending a team there in 17,18 and 19. Start a new Bowl between the MWC and AAC to take the place of Poinsetta and MBB Bowls openings.