I say we start an online petition to get a bowl in Harrisburg ! It could be played at the old William Penn High School football field which used to host legendary games that my grandfather,father and uncles still talk about today.

Lol...love it, Remoh!

Wee need to eliminate bowls, not add more.  Ugh, this is stupid.

People need to get over the 'too many bowls"...If sponsors can be found , who cares..No one has to watch, I probably tune out over  half of them..The way I look at it, it is just evolving into a 13th game for most teams..

I always hear about "too many bowls", but no one complains  about college basketball, which is way out of hand compared to football..College basketball plays an endless glut of preseason tourneys including NIT, Maui VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND VARIOUS OTHERS, and the meaningless post season conference tourneys....The nat'l champ, Villanova this yr, I think played 40 games, half  a NBA season....It used to start beginning of Dec, now it starts early nov..It seems like college basketball players spend a huge % of time out of the classroom, vs football players, yet its accepted..

You can count me in! Use to sell cokes in the stands at William Penn's old Fager Field. "Hey, get your coke here, get your ice cold coke here!" 10 cents a coke, 24 to a tray. Bring back $2.40 to the coke man and he'd pay you a penny a coke or 24 cents for the tray. There were some hot Saturdays that I could ride my bike home with a couple of dollars in my pocket!

I didn't say anything about kids being out of school, I couldn't care less. That's all overblown nonsense, I was a track athlete travelling multiple times per year and never had any issues keeping up with class.  In fact, we had it better than most because we had private tutors if we needed them. Athletes have access to the best schooling possible, even when on the road.

And I think the NCAA has gone overboard with the CBI tournament at the end of the year, as well as the 4 "play in games" when they expanded to 68 teams.  And yes, there are plenty of complaints about it. Kentucky played 39 games back in the 90s when they won the championship, so nothing has really changed in BBall for 20 years.  Villanova in 1985?  35 games instead of 40... which would have been more had they not lost early in the Big East tournament.  So I don't think BBall has really added all that many games since Villanova's 1985 season, have they?  Maybe 3?  And lets be honest, travel is a heck of a lot easier now than it was in 1985.

The reason I don't like them is the whole mentality that everyone deserves to go to a postseason.  That's what we're doing... 5-7?  No problem, you get a bowl game.  There's nothing special about them anymore, they aren't a prize for success...  They are becoming participation trophies. And I am against that type of mindset.

I would think its closer to 5 more games per team, but just guessing..It seems that way, with that endless glut of preseason tourneys in november and December..

I preferred it too, when a bowl was  a special reward for a great season..but we're well past those days..So any additions just don't bother me, I think eventually we may see some retrenchment, as the attendance continues to decline at these 2-3rd tier bowls..What gripes me the most about the system is seeing a 5-7 team..I think a major conference passed a rule that their teams will have to have 6 wins to go bowling, but not sure about that..

I really don't know how they are surviving because it seems the more they add, the less attractive they are..I used to watch way more than I have in recent years, now I mostly skip until you get later in december....It doesn't seem declining TV ratings/attendance affect the sponsors but sooner or later, I think it has to

Lately I've been doing some metal detecting in that old football field, there has to be more silver dimes laying aroound than I've been finding!

Another big reason I hate these bowls is that it hurts the school financially, and they seem ungrateful if they turn it down. It's like they are almost forcing the school to lose money.

The smaller bowl games cost more to go to than they pay out for the schools.  Some 15-20 schools LOSE money on the games every year.  The justification for it is the sponsors and bowl executives are making the money, so financially it's good for them.  But... shouldn't the schools playing in the game at least break even?  For the lesser bowls, they don't.  At all.  Yet some say it's the marketing and exposure they get, yet no one is watching these bowl games...  LOL

It just seems like schools are getting shafted in the deal for the benefit of a very select few, and I wish many of them would just give the finger to these bowl games.

Roam, he's just hoping Rutgers will get an invite.

They'll have to create a lot more bowls to let a 3-win team go.

Too many now IMHO.

Remoh, I remember those games.  I lived uptown but went to McDevitt.  Brings back memories.