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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 2175596, member: 204"] Your logic is impeccable. Maybe I should clarify what I meant. One of my points about the bowls season is that bowl games afford teams the chance to play in the post-season, and to win their final game in the [B]post-season[/B]. They are named champions - they receive a trophy - and they get to dunk their coach with Gatorade. That's fun. I recall how much fun it was when the 2010 team dunked Marrone at Yankee Stadium, and how after all the work and intensity the team let go and fully embraced Marrone on the sideline. It was great. That is a far different experience than winning a final regular season game. It seems to me that much of what we hear from our players is their desire to play in a bowl game. It apparently means a lot to them. Why? Because it is an accomplishment of sorts. It allows them to travel to hopefully an interesting place and to be showered with a bit of attention and some decent gifts. And, it affords them a chance to play a national game and to get a trophy. I know that going to a bowl game means a lot to me. I want to go the game and I want to see the Orange play no matter how little prestige might be attached to the bowl. I still recall how enjoyable it was watching the Troy Nunes and the Orangemen defeat KY in the Music City Bowl - it was a fun game and a nice to win. I remember being in Phoenix when Pasqualoni's 2001 team beat K-State - I recall watching the OL jump into the pool in centerfield of Bank One Ballpark. So I like bowl games and I don't get off belittling the ones that are not the Orange/Sugar/Fiesta/and Rose Bowls. What I don't like is the apparent effort to consolidate college football - where only a certain number of teams matter. I have no doubt it's being done for money. The BIG and the SEC and the others are greedy and don't want to share. And so there is a real effort to marginalize all of the bowl games other than the ones involved in the play-offs. And in my opinion, that's a bad idea. Because removes one of things about college football that I have always liked - the vast number of teams that matter in some measure I don't like that Sports Illustrated no longer includes in its College Football Edition a squib on every team and conference. All that is listed now are the Top 25 teams - the usual suspects. I don't really need to read about Ohio State and Alabama - to the exclusion of the smaller programs. I believe that it is less important to identify the college football NC by playing two extra games that it is to include the entire college football universe in the process. In my opinion, the traditional method for naming the national champion was just as accurate as the system utilized now - maybe even more accurate. I think that in the end this trend will hurt Syracuse University even though we are in a great conference. I [/QUOTE]

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