Follow Up Thought About the Heart of Dallas Bowl Situation

[Green Lantern]

Date played	Winning team		Losing team		Attendance	Notes
January 1, 2011	Texas Tech	45	Northwestern	38	40,121	notes
January 2, 2012	Houston	30	Penn State	14	46,817	notes
January 1, 2013	Oklahoma State	58	Purdue	14	48,313	notes
January 1, 2014	North Texas	36	UNLV	14	38,380	notes
December 26, 2014	Louisiana Tech	35	Illinois	18	31,297	notes
December 26, 2015	Washington	44	Southern Miss	31	20,229	notes
December 27, 2016	Army	38	North Texas	31	39,117	notes
December 26, 2017	Utah	30	West Virginia	14	20,507	notes

 

With the City of Dallas refusing to pay ESPN the $300,000 to keep this game in Dallas, there's been this misleading narrative in multiple places  thrown out there:  "The HOD Bowl matches up "lowly" G5 programs" and that's why it's struggling for attendance.  Look at above.  When has the HOD Bowl struggled with attendance? In 2015 and 2017, when they had poor match ups without a regional anchor to put butts in seats.  Tech, Houston, Ok State, North Texas and La Tech did their job when presented with an opportunity.  Attendance of 30,000 plus for a non marquee bowl match up is doing your job as far as I'm concerned.

Hey idiot bowl organizers.  Maybe don't match up teams from Utah and West Virginia and expect to blow the doors off the place. That type of match up will CERTAINLY interest casual fans in TEXAS.  Texas Tech vs. North Texas this past year would have created an incredible atmosphere and a fun game for TV.  Too bad the "P5" programs focus all their energy in bowl season doing back flips to avoid playing non power conference teams.  It's to the detriment of college football.

Just want to point out this isn't a CUSA issue.  If we send North Texas, La Tech, UTSA, Rice or UTEP up against a reasonable Big 10 or Big 12 opponent (like the bowl is supposed to have yearly), our conference can easily hold up our end of the bargain.

 

[Harry]

1 hour ago, Green Lantern said:

Attendance of 30,000 plus for a non marquee bowl match up is doing your job as far as I'm concerned.

I thought the same thing but it seems that they are more concerned with people having to stay in hotels so they don’t see our numbers as profitable as having people come in from out of town😭

[wardly]

What the HOD wants is what they got their first 3 years.

[edcollopy]

Just like New Orleans doesn’t like it when LSU is in the sugar bowl. Terrible for hotels and cab industry

[untjim1995]

The worst proof we have of the hoops that  P5s will take to avoid playing a decent G5 in a lower bowl happened to us last year when 6-6 FSU fell to the Independence Bowl and used their influence to get USM as their bowl opponent over us. Sure, the I-Bowl committee trusted USM to bring people to the game, but they also let FSU dictate the opponent that would most help them no matter how things went. Lose to USM, well they are known as giant killers anyway. But win, and that looks better to recruits and fans than beating UNT, since we had been so bad for so long. 

[Mean Green Matt]

4 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

The worst proof we have of the hoops that  P5s will take to avoid playing a decent G5 in a lower bowl happened to us last year when 6-6 FSU fell to the Independence Bowl and used their influence to get USM as their bowl opponent over us. Sure, the I-Bowl committee trusted USM to bring people to the game, but they also let FSU dictate the opponent that would most help them no matter how things went. Lose to USM, well they are known as giant killers anyway. But win, and that looks better to recruits and fans than beating UNT, since we had been so bad for so long. 

Let’s be real, FAU should’ve been given that game. FSU would’ve rather stayed home though. 

[untjim1995]

51 minutes ago, Mean Green Matt said:

Let’s be real, FAU should’ve been given that game. FSU would’ve rather stayed home though. 

Well, the I-Bowl bent over to get to FSU, so they let them dictate who they got to play. That CUSA allowed FAU to play a bow game at home against a MAC team after winning the league was the biggest joke of all. If CUSA had any balls, they would have told the I-Bowl that we aren’t letting our 6th best team play FSU while our two division champions are stuck playing a MAC and SBC team.

[MeanGreenTexan]

4 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

Well, the I-Bowl bent over to get to FSU, so they let them dictate who they got to play. That CUSA allowed FAU to play a bow game at home against a MAC team after winning the league was the biggest joke of all. If CUSA had any balls, they would have told the I-Bowl that we aren’t letting our 6th best team play FSU while our two division champions are stuck playing a MAC and SBC team.

McLeod'd

[EagleMBA]

10 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

McLeod'd

If she had any, she would be someone's uncle!