**** Official Bowl Selection Thread ****

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Boyceofsummer

This post was taken from the Tigger board admist their melt down after losing out on the BCS bowls... Just thought some of you might get a chuckle....


Perhaps the Orange Bowl wanted us as their choice, but took Kansas as the back-up choice. Perhaps Pinkel & Alden wanted to play in Dallas, Texas where we've got a serious recruiting pipeline underway, where we can easily get lot of our fans to, where lots of our current recruits and their families can see us play, where Chase Daniel will get incredible local publicity as a hometown hero, where we get to play a name opponent that we most likely can handle, and where we can still play on New Year's day as the first game out of the gate. Other than the Orange Bowl having a bit more prestige as a BCS bowl, we will get more mileage out of the Cotton Bowl. That's why I pose the possibility that the Cotton is what Pinkel wanted.




Remember before the BCS show at 7:00 started it was rumored here that MU was accepting the Cotton Bowl. If true....................................QUIT UR ****IN BITCHIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhh no.....millions of dollars for the MU program on the line....no....they got hosed. I guess they thing KU fans will travel better.

[pikesome]

I'm late to the party, did MU get screwed? Or do I need to start a new thread to ask?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

Ahhh no.....millions of dollars for the MU program on the line....no....they got hosed. I guess they thing KU fans will travel better.

Yeah, I'd have to hear that from Pinkel himself to believe it.

Although the recruiting aspect will certainly play to our advantage. Nobody in Florida's going to commit to KU, no matter what they do in that game.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by frazod

Yeah, I'd have to hear that from Pinkel himself to believe it.

Although the recruiting aspect will certainly play to our advantage. Nobody in Florida's going to commit to KU, no matter what they do in that game.

Hilarious how MU fans talk about KU's program like they know anything about college football. Suddenly, MU is elite.

FYI, there was an article earlier in the season I read that was talking about a few Florida recruits that said specifically that they had taken notice of KU. They probably would not have even considered the Jayhawks had it not been for KU going undefeated (at that time) and been on TV a lot. But you keep hoping that these things aren't true if that makes you feel better about your KU hatred.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Hilarious how MU fans talk about KU's program like they know anything about college football. Suddenly, MU is elite.

FYI, there was an article earlier in the season I read that was talking about a few Florida recruits that said specifically that they had taken notice of KU. They probably would not have even considered the Jayhawks had it not been for KU going undefeated (at that time) and been on TV a lot. But you keep hoping that these things aren't true if that makes you feel better about your KU hatred.

Get over yourself. Did I say anywhere that MU was elite? NO. Top Florida recruits wouldn't come to MU based on a single Orange Bowl appearance any more than than they will KU. They will go to the major Florida/SEC schools.

You can't honestly be stupid enough to think otherwise, can you?

Well, maybe you can.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by frazod

Get over yourself. Did I say anywhere that MU was elite? NO. Top Florida recruits wouldn't come to MU based on a single Orange Bowl appearance any more than than they will KU. They will go to the major Florida/SEC schools.

You can't honestly be stupid enough to think otherwise, can you?

Well, maybe you can.

You said nothing about top Florida recruits. Your exact words were:

Nobody in Florida's going to commit to KU, no matter what they do in that game.

I called you out on that ridiculous statement.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Lzen

You said nothing about top Florida recruits. Your exact words were:


I called you out on that ridiculous statement.

Wait what.....KU doesn't recruit Florida and probably shouldn't......there's 3 huge schools there..not to mention the UCF's and USF's the whole SEC recruits that state and even SC will go down there for players...

Competing in that state isn't a good idea unless you have major pull.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Wait what.....KU doesn't recruit Florida and probably shouldn't......there's 3 huge schools there..not to mention the UCF's and USF's the whole SEC recruits that state and even SC will go down there for players...

Competing in that state isn't a good idea unless you have major pull.

This whole conversation is ridiculous. It's like the parties involved have never followed recruiting at all..which is no surprise.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Wait what.....KU doesn't recruit Florida and probably shouldn't......there's 3 huge schools there..not to mention the UCF's and USF's the whole SEC recruits that state and even SC will go down there for players...

Competing in that state isn't a good idea unless you have major pull.

That's not even mentioning Illinois, WVU, Rutgers and USCe (with Spurrier) which all get quite a few Florida players each year.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Lzen

You said nothing about top Florida recruits. Your exact words were:


I called you out on that ridiculous statement.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were picking nits and arguing semantics. My mistake.

Yes, Lzen, I'm sure that if some kid from Florida gets rejected by every team in Florida, the SEC and the ACC, but Kansas offers him a scholarship, he'll happily take it.

Feel better now?

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

Ahhh no.....millions of dollars for the MU program on the line....no....they got hosed. I guess they thing KU fans will travel better.

I found that it's about $17 million for the Orange and $3 million for the Cotton... but those are 'conference payouts'.

I saw one article that said a team got about $1 million of the $3 million for the Cotton Bowl last year, and the conference split the rest. Would it be the same split for all bowls?

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I found that it's about $17 million for the Orange and $3 million for the Cotton... but those are 'conference payouts'.

I saw one article that said a team got about $1 million of the $3 million for the Cotton Bowl last year, and the conference split the rest. Would it be the same split for all bowls?

I don't know what the ratio is, buts it would have really helped the program.