ESPN New Year's Day Promos...

Mean Green Matt · December 30, 2013

Include the games on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2, but no mention of the HOD bowl, at least that I've seen. I've said before this game is more about the fans in the stadium than TV exposure, so I'm not particularly shocked, or upset, it just seems silly for them not to even mention it.

Edited December 30, 2013 by Mean Green Matt

GRN-WHT · December 30, 2013

Include the games on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2, but no mention of the HOD bowl, at least that I've seen. I've said before this game is more about the fans in the stadium than TV exposure, so I'm not particularly shocked, or upset, it just seems silly for them not to even mention it.

The game is on ESPNU. That tells you everything you need to know about what they think of the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

PlummMeanGreen · December 30, 2013

The link at the end of the 2'nd paragraph will tell those who will face the music much of what we will slowly have to overcome to gain respect which I believe Coach Dan McCarney has begun that process this year.

For decades, many of us older alums all but begged for a a HFC for UNT with P5 major college head football coaching experience and now we have one. I think most will be able to see the difference of having such a coach with the way Coach DMac carries himself compared to what we've had for well over 30 years. http://mcubed.net/ncaaf/teams/nt.shtml

I know this is the instant gratification generation who wants respect "NOW" but we are not going to get it until we put a string of winning seasons together with annuual improvement at the turnstiles. That's how Boise got theirs along with their attendance numbers which grew annually. The local media will not be impressed with us until we impress our fans and alums to come out and create SRO kind of numbers at Apogee, too, which I really think is most do-able considering where our school is located.

I was watching The Herd "radio show" on ESPNU and they also kept forgetting our bowl. Hey, that's ESPN's loss--not ours. They are the ones who need to sell soap during HOD Bowl game commercials.

:bling: We are already going to give the HOD Bowl people the best damn host team crowd they would have gotten from any C-USA school whether that from the old C-USA membership or the present new C-USA collection of schools--even with just a 1 season winning streak to boot. Only wish they'd been able to give us what the previous 3 C-USA schools had at this bowl game and that a P5 school with traveling fans.

GMG!

Edited December 30, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

CMJ · December 30, 2013

The game is on ESPNU. That tells you everything you need to know about what they think of the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

So was the Houston/Penn State one? They promoted it decently.

Green Crazy · December 30, 2013

So was the Houston/Penn State one? They promoted it decently.

a couple of major differences between our game and theirs. penn state was in the game, not unlv and joe pa was fired and the child abuse scandal happened less than two months prior to that game. of course it was promoted.

Mean Green Matt · December 30, 2013

a couple of major differences between our game and theirs. penn state was in the game, not unlv and joe pa was fired and the child abuse scandal happened less than two months prior to that game. of course it was promoted.

I'm not saying its a "sexy" matchup, but not even mentioning it is silly.