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Re: Outback Bowl
Here's one for your Hawkeye lifers hiding behind your transparent bowl rationalizations...
No school benefits from the current bowl system more than Iowa. They are the poster child for the current system.
They are marginally relevant in FBS football and would only rarely have the chance to participate in a playoff system with a field of 16 or less.
But they manage to qualify for a bowl game with a good paycheck most years by hanging an 8-4 type season and leveraging their highly mobile fan base, sometimes leapfrogging better teams with smaller fan bases in their own conference.
This allows them to line their pockets and label their season as "successful" because they got to take the kool-aid drinkers to a southern state to scrimmage another also-ran in game uniforms.
Why would they ever want to change this system. Where else can you get paid so well for being so mediocre? They almost can't lose...unless they hang back to back 6 win seasons as they did in '06 and '07.
Here's one for your Hawkeye lifers hiding behind your transparent bowl rationalizations...
No school benefits from the current bowl system more than Iowa. They are the poster child for the current system.
They are marginally relevant in FBS football and would only rarely have the chance to participate in a playoff system with a field of 16 or less.
But they manage to qualify for a bowl game with a good paycheck most years by hanging an 8-4 type season and leveraging their highly mobile fan base, sometimes leapfrogging better teams with smaller fan bases in their own conference.
This allows them to line their pockets and label their season as "successful" because they got to take the kool-aid drinkers to a southern state to scrimmage another also-ran in game uniforms.
Why would they ever want to change this system. Where else can you get paid so well for being so mediocre? They almost can't lose...unless they hang back to back 6 win seasons as they did in '06 and '07.
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