Finalized 2010-11 Bowl Schedule.

[TheJON]

Rumor has it that he's been a coke addict for a while. Police found $3k and coke, weed, and Rx in his place. Dude was dealing some drugs! Atta boy, DJK.........have fun sucking dick in jail instead of being out there on the football field.

No wonder Ferentz never let him speak to the media. Get the fuck outta here, DJK. What a fucking waste. Our all-time leading receiver is a coke addict. Oh, shit.........so is our all-time leading scorer in basketball (Roy Marble). That's fantastic!

[Goober McTuber]

It's a great time to be a Cockeye fan!

[Terry in Crapchester]

Hyundai Sun
Notre Dame vs. Miami El Paso, Texas
Sun Bowl Dec. 31
2 p.m. CBS
Once again, Notre Dame ends up where they shouldn't. Same can be said about Miami in this one. They both should be playing earlier. I think ND will win, as Miami will lay down because they fired Shannon - which was entirely racial.

Hmmm, where to start? How about with the conference that actually had the tie-in to the bid ND claimed -- the Pac-10. Had the Pac-10 not left not one, not two, but three bowl bids on the table due to an insufficient number of bowl-eligible teams, we're not having this discussion.

Of course, Oregon is playing in the NC game, and Stanford's #4 ranking made it a BCS AQ. Arizona got the Alamo Bowl bid and Washington got the Holiday Bowl bid. USC had enough wins to be bowl-eligible, but of course, there's the probation issue. Arizona State had 6 wins, but two against 1-AA programs, so it's not surprising that they lost their appeal to the NCAA, even though the Pac-10 supported it.

Once the bowl bid went at-large, the only realistic choices were ND or a MAC team (Ohio or Temple). Were those teams really any more deserving of a December 31 bowl bid than ND, given the difference in strength of schedule? For that matter, if the Pac-10 had had enough bowl-eligible teams, would Washington or Arizona State really have been any more deserving of a December 31 bowl bid, given that both had 6-6 records?

And let's not forget, TV is a factor as well. In case you didn't really notice the TV portion of that list, ESPN has pretty close to a f'n monopoly on bowl telecasts. The Sun Bowl (on CBS) is one of the few exceptions. And since the Sun Bowl is the only bowl game televised by CBS, it only makes sense that CBS will promote the game rather heavily. That's a lot easier to do when they have ND than it is when they have Ohio or Temple to promote. For that matter, it's easier to promote with ND than it is with Arizona State or Washington. And with the non-BCS bowls, it's more about which teams will give the game the best financial return than it is about getting the "best" matchup they can get. Along those lines, it's also worth noting that ND's ticket allotment for this game was sold out within about 12 hours of the announcement of the matchup.

As for ND and Miami "not deserving" a December 31 bowl, your proposition could be expressed the opposite way as well. Perhaps a December 31 bowl which happens to be the 4th-oldest bowl game in the country deserves a better matchup than the 4th selection from the ACC vs. the 4th selection from the Pac-10. But they don't have it.

[King Crimson]

As for ND and Miami "not deserving" a December 31 bowl, your proposition could be expressed the opposite way as well. Perhaps a December 31 bowl which happens to be the 4th-oldest bowl game in the country deserves a better matchup than the 4th selection from the ACC vs. the 4th selection from the Pac-10. But they don't have it.

dates of yer bowl don't mean shit anymore. I remember Jon harping on "new year's day" bowls and Iowa......fucking please. If it's not the Orange, Sugar, Rose, or Cotton (lol)...it ain't a NWD Bowl. and it's fake now anyway.

i posted it before, Sooner fan came away from the Sun Bowl last year with a very good time.....as long as they aren't singing narco-corridos about your head on a fence, MIdwestern whitey is cool in El Paso. get some Carne Asada or Tacos Al Pastor....and it's money.

[Terry in Crapchester]

As for ND and Miami "not deserving" a December 31 bowl, your proposition could be expressed the opposite way as well. Perhaps a December 31 bowl which happens to be the 4th-oldest bowl game in the country deserves a better matchup than the 4th selection from the ACC vs. the 4th selection from the Pac-10. But they don't have it.

dates of yer bowl don't mean shit anymore.

Not saying I disagree, but it was 'Spray who brought it up that both ND and Miami should be playing earlier. I was merely refuting that point. For that matter, two of the latest bowl games nowadays are the GoDaddy.com Bowl and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, neither one of which can expect a marquee matchup. I do think, however, that the Sun Bowl would command a more attractive matchup than it does if it were not played in El Paso, based on history, timing, TV options, etc.

[Terry in Crapchester]

The Big East being in this shit is nothing more than the NE-based media saying "we belong, too". No. No they don't. I never pull for OU. In this game, I will strap a covered wagon to my cock and put on a red cowboy hat. I will be a Sooner fan. I want to see OU win by at least 40, just so I can listen to ESPN cry and throw baby fits.

I'm still in shock at this new, gay fucking Pinstripe Bowl. Let's just hope the fans of the loser of that game burn down the fucking stadium.

as a life long UConn fan and former student there till i double secret probationed myself out the door, all I have to say is....

rack!

yeah, i wish UConn did deserve to be there. And I would love to see them roll the sooners...but, it ain't gonna happen. they got no business there. BCS bids should go to top 10 or 15 teams, not teams that just so happened to suck less than the rest of their alleged div-1 conference.

Last night on the way home I was listening to joe D, the voice of the huskies on his show. he was going on and on about how great it was that UConn was going and how the recognition would help the program.

Bull. Fukking. Shit.

The only recognition will be UConn being the posterboy for what is wrong in the BCS clusterfukk. They can do without that pub.

He was yammering on and on about how it wasn't UConn's "fault" for getting in, more or less admitting that it was a blunder on the part of the BCS.

being a bit of a ball sucking homer is fine, but, damn, have just a little bit of honesty, joe. it's not like UConn would shitcan you for saying they really didn't belong there.

UConn is far from the first team to finish with a poor ranking and still earn an automatic BCS bid as champion of a BCS conference. The following is a list of schools ranked below #10 who have pulled this off:

1998: Syracuse (#15)
1999: Stanford (unranked)
2000: Purdue (unranked)
2001: LSU (#13)
2002: Florida State (#14)
2004: Michigan (#13), Pittsburgh (#21)
2005: West Virginia (#11), Florida State (#22)
2006: Wake Forest (#14)
2008: Cincinnati (#12), Virginia Tech (#19)
2010: Virginia Tech (#13), Connecticut (unranked)

Having said that, it's worth noting that until 2004, the BCS poll ranked only the Top 15 teams, and has ranked the Top 25 teams since 2004. UConn is the only unranked team in the BCS since the BCS poll was expanded to the Top 25.