College Football - The Bowls!

[Ming]

Lord knows we haven't had much luck convincing you when you are sober

[Imran Siddiqui]

All other comments will be excised in deference to Ming...

Yes, confronted with logic, you shy away... how... typical .

[GhengisFarb™]

Alright, in a VERY brief moment of sympathy for the poor teams who didn't get to play in a Bowl game I figured I would try to make up a few more so everyone could go to a Bowl and feel good about themselves.
GhengisFarb's Future Bowl Proposals (Take 2):

The Kellogg's Cereal Bowl
The Charmin Toliet Bowl
The Purina Dog Bowl
The Wolf Brand Chili Bowl
The Pace Salsa Bowl
The Campbell's Soup Bowl
The Nabisco Cookie Bowl
The Viagra Up and At'em Bowl

[Drake Tungsten]

Bill Callahan is the new head coach at Nebraska.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=38&u_sid=969160

I really don't know what to make of this hire. The man led the Raiders to a 4-12 season, but he also led them to the Super Bowl the year before. Guess I'll just have to wait and see on this one...

[asleepathewheel]

I guess since no one else who is currently employed wanted the job.....

[asleepathewheel]

Not sure if this was posted already

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/ncaa/01/08/bc.fbc.championshipprop.ap/index.html

NCAA says no to computer company's $30 million title-game proposal

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Unhappy with college football's split national championship, the head of a computer company thought he could entice Southern California and LSU to play each other later this month by offering $30 million in scholarship money.

The NCAA quickly hit the "delete" button, saying there was no way such a game could be played.

Ted Waitt, chairman and CEO of Gateway Inc., which is based in the San Diego suburb of Poway, offered each school $10 million in scholarships for disadvantaged students if they'd play each other the weekend of Jan. 24-25. The winner would have gotten an additional $10 million in scholarships and $1 million in Gateway products.

"Everybody wants to see it happen," Waitt said. "It'd be fun. But everybody is afraid of the NCAA. We just want to know one good reason why this can't happen."

Waitt made his proposal in letters faxed Thursday to LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert, USC President Steven Sample and NCAA President Myles Brand.

"It's just not as simple or easy as doing that," said Wally Renfro, the senior adviser to Brand. "Decisions about postseason football are made by the membership of the association. Those two institutions would not be able to make that decision in any event.

"Right now, by the bylaws, it couldn't happen."

And the NCAA wouldn't jump even with $30 million in scholarships up for grabs?

"No," Renfro said.

Besides numerous logistical problems, games aren't allowed past last Sunday, which was the date of the Sugar Bowl.

USC was No. 1 in both the AP media poll and USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll at the end of the regular season, but slipped behind No. 2 LSU and No. 3 Oklahoma in the computers and the final BCS standings because of a weaker strength of schedule.

LSU won the BCS national championship by beating Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl while USC won The Associated Press title by beating Michigan in the Rose Bowl.

[Drake Tungsten]

Plenty of people wanted it, but Pederson didn't want them for some reason. Turner Gill and Bo Pelini were both begging for it, as was Monte Kiffin.

[Drake Tungsten]

Just found out that Callahan used to be an assistant at Wisconsin. I wonder if Barry Alvarez recommended him...

[Drake Tungsten]

Trev Alberts weighs in on the biggest news story of the year so far...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Further proof that the people at Nebraska are a bunch of idiots. Now if you replaced Solich with Spurrier, fine... but Bill Callahan?! WHAT?!

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd much rather have Callahan than Spurrier. The Fun 'n' Gun would never work at Nebraska; Callahan's offense should be good.

Hopefully we can keep Pelini at D Coordinator...

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Fun 'n' Gun would at least be able to get the necessary players for that offense. Callahan is an average NFL coach with little experience in recruitment.

And Callahan runs a West Coast Offense. You don't have to do the option, but a Walsh-lite won't work at Nebraska either... Hell, look at Willingham at Notre Dame (he had to go back to a power running game to avoid getting totally embarassed this year).

[Drake Tungsten]

The Fun 'n' Gun would at least be able to get the necessary players for that offense.

The Fun 'n' Gun would never work in Nebraska. You ever been to Nebraska in November? What's Spurrier going to do when it's 10 degrees out and the wind is blowing 20 miles an hour?

Callahan is an average NFL coach with little experience in recruitment.

He was a college assistant for over a decade. Barry Alvarez raves about his recruiting skills.

As for him being an average NFL coach, well, the average NFL coach is better than 95% of all college coaches. And he must not be that bad if John Gruden wanted him to come be Tampa's offensive coordinator.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Fun 'n' Gun would never work in Nebraska. You ever been to Nebraska in November? What's Spurrier going to do when it's 10 degrees out and the wind is blowing 20 miles an hour?

We aren't talking about some ho-dum college coach, we are talking about Steve Spurrier! I mean this guy gave Duke (DUKE!!) winning seasons!

As for him being an average NFL coach, well, the average NFL coach is better than 95% of all college coaches. And he must not be that bad if John Gruden wanted him to come be Tampa's offensive coordinator.

O-Coordinator is a fine place for him, but when his team had to literally restrain themselves from punching their head coach, I'm not sure that head coach should be a head coach anymore. I mean Nebraska just hired a guy that totally lost control of his team. I give him 3 years at most with the Huskers.

They should have just thrown more money at Houston Nutt.

[Drake Tungsten]

We aren't talking about some ho-dum college coach, we are talking about Steve Spurrier! I mean this guy gave Duke (DUKE!!) winning seasons!

North Carolina is a hell of a lot warmer than Nebraska. Even Spurrier knows his offense won't work in cold climates, which is why he said he'd never coach in any place farther north than D.C. Spurrier will be a good choice for Texas when they fire Mack Brown next year, but he never would've worked at Nebraska.

They should have just thrown more money at Houston Nutt.

Now you're really talking crazy. I'd take Callahan over Nutt in a heartbeat.