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Message: [QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 741743, member: 3201"] People like to throw around that they'd rather win five games against good competition and not go to a bowl game than win 7 and got to Birmingham or Charlotte or whatever, but that's just an emotional argument. Do you think the kids feel that way? I'll tell you, any kid that does, that would rather be sitting home drinking hot chocolate in Syracuse rather than playing in the Beef O Brady's bowl with a chance to hit someone one more time, is probably not the kid that's going to take you to the next level. ALSO, keep in mind every time you miss 6 wins and a bowl game, you lose weeks of practice time that half the other schools are getting. With staff-player restrictions on face time, do not underestimate the impact of that. Let's say a team plays in a crappy bowl game around Christmas every year for three years. Those kids that are seniors on that team have had at least 12 extra weeks of practice over their first three years. As a senior, that's almost an entire SEASON worth of practices compared to a school that missed bowl games for three years in a row. Northwestern has gone to a bowl game 7 of the last 8 years. Rutgers has gone 7 of the last 8 years. Syracuse has gone 2 out of the last 8 years. Do you realize how much more practice that is (obviously not over more than 5 years for any one kid) but also coaching experience, and institutional time with your athletes? That practice time is invaluable, and that's why nobody ever turns down the bowl games, even when the school will take a 6- or 7- figure loss on the game, and and even when it's a blue blood like Texas or Florida going to a crappy bowl in Alabama or El Paso. Nobody is willing to give that up, say goodbye to kids at Thanksgiving when everyone else will be working with their kids through New Years. Syracuse can simply not keep missing bowl games like they are likely to this year and next. [/QUOTE]

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