(12-21-2016 12:55 PM)Louisiana99 Wrote: (12-21-2016 12:50 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: (12-21-2016 12:13 PM)Louisiana99 Wrote: (12-21-2016 11:54 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (12-21-2016 10:25 AM)Louisiana99 Wrote: Our champion played in the highest rated bowl, top 5 ranked matchup a beat a team that has been a thorn in this conference side...something is incredibly wrong with this process.
And our other champion played in a bowl that most people couldn't see. And App played in a repeat bowl because 2 of the top 3 bowls wouldn't take either of our champions. But that's for another thread or two.
Were you in the meetings Tom? Or like usual you just assume you are smarter than everyone? You will disguise "what's best for everyone" to get your way. You're readable like a children's book. You have zero clue what you are talking about or how it works... or what the leadership at stAte wanted.
Leadership wanted Mobile or Camellia. Somehow, it took the AAC Intervening with the selection process for us not to end up in Arizona.
Impossible...Karl Benson and Tom control everything, they call the shots. Also impossibly that y'all want mobile and cammelia...everyone knows the entire conference wants Nola...the crown jewel of bowl
Season
If an undeserving team goes to a top bowl, then it makes things harder for the other bowls to sort it out, because there are less of them. If 2 of our top 3 bowls pick teams not in the top 3, then it creates a problem for at least one top 2 team. Bowl slots are zero sum. One team gets in at the expense of another.
I don't speak for everyone, but I'd gander that this is the consensus
9 times out of 10 (or more)
1) Every team in the conference, if given the choice...will pick NO, DG, or Camellia.
2) Every team, given a choice, will pick Cure over Arizona
It is theoretically possible that a team might pick the Cure in certain years, but its unlikely because you can't get any AAC team finishing higher than 5th. Maybe if ECU is the opponent, App might choose that bowl. But I don't see it being likely.
The only team that could conceivably pick the Arizona Bowl over any other bowl is NMSU, and they're gone after next year.