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UCFBfan said:
Joke or not it was a bowl game within a short distance that many could take the train or drive to. For people who can't afford long travel, hotel room, and ticket, it was a good bowl game to have access to.

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Off the top of my head, bowl games the Pinstripe Bowl was better than for UConn fans. (Assuming the old B12 tie-in)

Fight Hunger Bowl in SF
Potato Bowl in Boise
Military Bowl in D.C.
Birmingham Bowl
Belk Bowl in NC
Houston Bowl
Insight Bowl in Tempe
Motor City Bowl
The defunct one in Toronto
The Bayou Classic
Holiday Bowl in San Diego
Hawaii Bowl

Add in all the bowls we wouldn't have invited to and the Pinstripe wasn't bad at all. Behind only the BCS, Liberty, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and any bowl in TX or Fla against a BCS league opponent.

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An expanded playoff would be nice, but its not happening for a very long time.
 
SubbaBub said:
Off the top of my head, bowl games the Pinstripe Bowl was better than for UConn fans. (Assuming the old B12 tie-in)

Fight Hunger Bowl in SF
Potato Bowl in Boise
Military Bowl in D.C.
Birmingham Bowl
Belk Bowl in NC
Houston Bowl
Insight Bowl in Tempe
Motor City Bowl
The defunct one in Toronto
The Bayou Classic
Holiday Bowl in San Diego
Hawaii Bowl

Add in all the bowls we wouldn't have invited to and the Pinstripe wasn't bad at all. Behind only the BCS, Liberty, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and any bowl in TX or Fla against a BCS league opponent.

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I'd add either of the two bowl games in LA. The Autozone 500 whatever bowl and the GoDaddy bowl.....yuck
 
huskymedic said:
This is the last year of the Big 12 - Big East/AAC agreement.

After 2014 - all bets are off for a number of bowl affliliations.
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Still hope for us to go to this bowl. Alright!

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SubbaBub said:
Off the top of my head, bowl games the Pinstripe Bowl was better than for UConn fans. (Assuming the old B12 tie-in)

Fight Hunger Bowl in SF
Potato Bowl in Boise
Military Bowl in D.C.
Birmingham Bowl
Belk Bowl in NC
Houston Bowl
Insight Bowl in Tempe
Motor City Bowl
The defunct one in Toronto
The Bayou Classic
Holiday Bowl in San Diego
Hawaii Bowl

Add in all the bowls we wouldn't have invited to and the Pinstripe wasn't bad at all. Behind only the BCS, Liberty, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and any bowl in TX or Fla against a BCS league opponent.

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Funny that UConn has been to four of those bowls.

I was talking about prestege, not what is better for UConn fans. As I said, unless the venue is in Pasadena, New Orleans, Glendale, Miami, or Dallas, these bowls are more or less the same...glorified exhibitions on which the schools lose money.
 
From what appears to be a free article posted today on UCFSports.com:

>>Commissioner Mike Aresco says the American Athletic Conference is working to establish a new bowl game and he's hopeful they can retain tie-ins with the Russell Athletic and Pinstripe bowls.

Aresco made the comments to Tony Comas and Kyle Israel, hosts of "Comas and Kyle," during his Wednesday afternoon guest appearance on 810 CBS Sports Radio in Orlando.

College football bowl contracts expire at the end of the upcoming season and leagues have been working this spring to solidify lineups for 2014 and beyond. Reports have indicated the Russell Athletic Bowl, played locally at the Citrus Bowl, may be dropping The American in order to sign a deal with the Big 12. The Pinstripe Bowl has been rumored to feature an ACC/Big Ten matchup.

"At this point, bowls are a top priority of ours," Aresco said. "We were visiting with the Russell Athletic Bowl yesterday. We really want to keep the Russell Athletic. It's a good bowl for us with UCF right here. We'd like to keep the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City. I think we have a good shot. Some may have heard the ACC has a good chance or other conferences, but we're putting our best foot forward. We're showing bowls what we can do with arrangements that make sense for those bowls."

While Aresco said they have a chance with the Russell Athletic and Pinstripe, he admitted the odds were against them in retaining the Belk Bowl in Charlotte. The SEC is likely moving in because they're losing their tie-in to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, which has become one of the new access bowls. "The Belk Bowl will be more difficult," Aresco said. "But we haven't given up. That's a great group of people there, but that one is dicier."

Aresco said they're looking to solidify anywhere from six to eight future bowl tie-ins. He said they "intend to keep" the Liberty Bowl (Memphis) and Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl (St. Petersburg) and would be meeting with ESPN about opportunities in their bowls.

Later in the interview, he dropped the nugget about creating an entirely new bowl game. "We're looking to establish our own bowl game in a way that makes sense," Aresco said. "I think we can get a good opponent. We're looking to do innovative things with our group."<<
 
Bowls give us another practice season, I know that we can always use it... more work in with the guys, more results in the long run. As long as they have bowls I want us in them... even what everyone is calling the second tier.
 
gregauman 1:50pm via Web
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl in St. Petersburg has kickoff Dec. 23 at 2 p.m. at Tropicana Field, televised on ESPN. Teams from American vs. C-USA.

BBVA Compass Bowl
The eighth annual BBVA Compass Bowl will be played Saturday, Jan. 4, at 1 p.m. on ESPN. The game is played at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala., and will pit a team from the American Athletic Conference (formerly the BIG EAST) against a team from the Southeastern Conference.
 
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BBVA Compass is January 4th at 1pm.
 
huskymedic said:
desmondconner 3:27pm via HootSuite
#TheAmerican champ would play in #Fiesta, #Cotton or #Chick-Fil-A if it doesn't make 4-team playoff. Must be ranked higher than C-USA & Co.

Would hope it's Cotton/Chick-Fil-A and not the Fiesta travel debacle again.
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Chik-Fil-A Bowl works for me. My brother lives in an Atlanta suburb so I have a place to stay and eat! All I'd need are the plane and game tix. Might even fly to Knoxville or Nashville and visit some of my old UT buddies first and then drive down to Atlanta for the game.
 
Am I the only one that just got smacked with the harsh reality that we could win our conference and possibly be undefeated and still end up in the Chik-fil-a Bowl?
 
Hoophound said:
Am I the only one that just got smacked with the harsh reality that we could win our conference and possibly be undefeated and still end up in the Chik-fil-a Bowl?
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?No different than old Big East... Cincy went undefeated and ended up in Sugar Bowl?

The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl will actually be one of the six bowls that matter from payout/media noise standpoint.
 
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http://courantblogs.com/uconn-football/

>>Q: Also Mike, for clarity’s sake, can you explain the route to the playoffs when that system kicks in next year? It’s been presented as though your conference will be frozen out of the mix. It will be more difficult sure but there is access.

A: We have every bit as much access to get into the playoffs. This is a tiered system. We have the four team playoff that’s going to determine the national champion. We have the ability to get into that just like anybody else. In fact, Cincinnati, was No.3 under Brian Kelly a few years ago, well, they would have been in it. We are going to compete. We have just as much of an opportunity as everybody else. The other opportunity if we don’t make the four-team playoff, is to potentially end up on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve in one of those important system bowls. One of those and three we could potentially be in are the Fiesta, the Cotton or the Chick-Fil-A and there our conference champion would need to be the highest ranked of the group of five conferences which includes Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt and Mid-American. As you know, we’ve got our sights set on competing with the other five, the ACC, Big Ten, nobody is the SEC, but we want to compete with that group guys. We hope that our champion is the highest ranked of the other five then our champion on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve. If that champion doesn’t then we would also want a top-tier program but we have every bit of as much opportunity as anybody else. We have to do on the field. Strength of schedule is key. The makeup of the selection committee is going to be key here as well.<<
 
I've read all of Dez's Aresco updates today. Aresco appears great at spin. The best thing I took out of those blog entries is that Aresco believes the TV contract can be renegotiated half way through. He's been wrong so far on every front, so time will tell.
 
noeynox said:
I've read all of Dez's Aresco updates today. Aresco appears great at spin. The best thing I took out of those blog entries is that Aresco believes the TV contract can be renegotiated half way through. He's been wrong so far on every front, so time will tell.
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Aresco = Obama
 
After this season The A will have a pretty poor bowl lineup, not that is was ever great, but expect more games against CUSA and MWC and fewer against the top 5. Also expect more multi league tie-in where a bowl slot is shared between the ACC/B1G/A etc. My prediction looks like this

Best of the Rest BCS (in some years)
St. Pete Bowl (ESPN owned so we keep that)
Pinstripe (as part of a shared deal with B1G, ACC, ND and the A)
Belk (ACC vs. B1G/A, A gets the short end)
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (it's in Houston and the B1G just dropped it)
Birmingham Bowl (A vs. CUSA/SEC, no one else wants it.)
New Orleans Bowl (it's in New Orleans, no one else wants it. Likely v. CUSA/Sun Belt or else it's Shreveport, ugh)
Bowl to be named later (There will be a ESPN/A created bowl game, maybe in Jacksonville)
Armed Forces Bowl (in Fort Worth, can't sell enough tix for the Heart of Texas bowl in the old Cotton, hope for B12 opp)

Two in Texas/Florida, keep least partial access to Pinstripe, one new bowl (hopefully in Fla),one in NO, and Birmingham. Probably end up with only 7 slots in any given year.

Bowls I'd like to see but probably won't;
Liberty in Memphis vs. SEC
Las Vegas vs. MWC
At least one guaranteed bowl game against B1G and ACC every year.
One of the Texas games vs. B12.
 
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I do think they (American) end up with Liberty Bowl in Memphis but not sure it's will be against SEC.
 
Greg Auman (@gregauman)
5/21/13, 5:59 PM
Commissioner Mike Aresco says American (AAC) will look into creating its own bowl game in new lineup, potentially played in south Florida.

Key will be which conference(s) the tie-in will be. AAC is in dire straights as it is.

Stewart Mandel (@slmandel)
5/21/13, 12:27 PM
A conference-by-conference guide to the new bowl lineups in the works for 2014-19. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co.../projected-conference-bowl-lineups/index.html

Greg Auman (@gregauman)
5/21/13, 6:03 PM
Asked if American (AAC) will consider new bowl contracts outside its natural geography, even Hawaii, Aresco said league would do so.
 

Don't - go sit in a warm bath and slit your wrist instead.

But there ain't a flipping thing we can do about it other than finish first or second in league.
 
huskymedic said:
Greg Auman (@gregauman)
5/21/13, 6:31 PM
Quick story on the American (AAC) exploring creating new bowl game in south Florida, with Marlins Park as an option.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/american-may-create-new-bowl-in-south-florida/2122259
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I don't get it...Cities went away from multi-purpose-cookie-cutter-stadiums because the sight lines were not as good for one sport (typically baseball) than the other. The last one built in major sports wasn't even in the US for crying out loud. It was built in Canada.

What is the attraction with playing football in stadiums meant solely for baseball? It's assinine!
 
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