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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5274760, member: 27"] No. I didn’t say the concern Syracuse had with accepting the Holiday Bowl bid was with the length of the plane ride. That was your idea. Going out west is a big deal. It is a lot tougher on the body when you change time zones and the more time zones you change, the worse it is for your body. And the more times you do it over a couple of months, the tougher it is. But I think SU was more concerned over over saturating the fan base Syracuse has out west. What have we done, played out west once in 20 years and then we are going to ask our fans out there to travel to a distant venue and spend big bucks three different times over the span of less than three months? Going out west is a great thing for students. Gives them a chance to see a different part of the country, experience different climates and some cultural differences. It is great. But we have done that plenty already this season. If Duke, who had not been out to Cali this year, was amenable to a switch, awesome. Can’t hurt to try. I hope they tried. I suspect that they tried. Especially if we knew the Gator really wanted us. This is a good problem to have. We want to be in a situation where a couple of really good bowls want us. I am not really upset. I have a lot of respect for the Holiday Bowl. It has a lot of tradition and I am sure they will take care of our players and give them a first class experience. I just really wanted a shot at playing Ole Miss in the Gator. That would have been epic. I think all our players would play in that game and we would have had a giant turnout of fans. Hopefully the players will still all play and hopefully we somehow end up with a great turnout from our fans out west. Maybe some of the people who have already traveled to the west to see us play once or twice this year will be willing to do it again at a time when prices are at their highest. It just is not ideal. I really would have preferred to play in our first Holiday Bowl in a season we hadn’t been out west twice already. Hopefully we get a chance to play a highly ranked SEC team in a bowl game in a warm place again soon. I suspect if Duke played out west and we played in the Gator, the ACC had a lot better chance to get 2 wins in these games. Life rarely works out perfectly. We had a really good season and are going to play in a really good bowl game in the best climate in the US. Things could be far far worse. [/QUOTE]

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