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World B. Free
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better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:09:15 PM

Bobcats 1 of 5 NCAA teams not to be invited to a bowl...
http://www.mac-sports.com/news/2014/12/7/FB_1207140344.as...=

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:12:21 PM

That's the proper result.

Casper71
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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:23:11 PM

Better PLAY next year is the more appropriate response!

Urban Bobcat
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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:52:33 PM

The Cats did not have a losing season this year!!!

URBAN BOBCAT

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:56:50 PM

I suppose technically Ohio didn't have a winning season either.

Alan Swank
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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 3:58:50 PM

You if you don't have a losing season and you don't have a winning season, how is the Ozone supposed to do wining team, losing team?

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 4:03:35 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

You if you don't have a losing season and you don't have a winning season, how is the Ozone supposed to do wining team, losing team?

Neutral Team, neutral team?

URBAN BOBCAT

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 4:09:06 PM

Sigh

Looking forward to Marshall/NIU though.

What a day at the Convo.....Wow!

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 5:21:07 PM

Not sighing.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 6:05:25 PM

Next year, there'll be one more bowl game.

Of course, there'll be about three more teams that can be bowl eligible (not sure about when Ga South, ODU and AppSt come off transition).

And it just shows that the big guys still carry the clout. None of the bowl eligible "P"5 teams are staying home. The five who missed out are Ohio, MTSU, Temps, Texas St & UAB.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 6:56:11 PM

We controlled our own destiny, have no one to blame but ourselves.

When you have six gimmes (Idaho, EKU, kents, kron, beefs, redhawk) and win only six games, then you have to question your basic assumptions...

Really; you do

Last Edited: 12/7/2014 7:00:45 PM by Monroe Slavin

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 7:00:41 PM

Pataskala wrote:

The team here that should be upset is Texas State. The other teams that stay home are 6-6, yet Texas State is 7-5, but S. Alabama, from their own conference, is going to a bowl at 6-6 ahead of them.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 9:28:06 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

Still crying over that spilled milk. 48th verse just like the first.

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." JFK

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 10:54:28 PM

Pataskala wrote:

The five who missed out are Ohio, MTSU, Temps, Texas St & UAB.

So had Oklahoma State lost to Oklahoma, which team would have been in instead?

Last Edited: 12/7/2014 10:54:51 PM by UpSan Bobcat

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/7/2014 11:12:27 PM

LuckySparrow wrote:

Sigh

Looking forward to Marshall/NIU though.

I think it will be a great game, but I think that matchup is a no-win situation for either team. These may be the best two teams from the smaller conferences and I would have preferred for each of them to show how good they are against a team from a larger conference.

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Posted: 12/8/2014 7:05:10 AM

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

The five who missed out are Ohio, MTSU, Temps, Texas St & UAB.

So had Oklahoma State lost to Oklahoma, which team would have been in instead?

I think it would've been either MTSU or Temps, depending on the bowl. MTSU finished second in their division to one of the top three or four G5 teams in the country and they had a lot of high-scoring games, so bowls and ESPN likely would find them more entertaining. Temps had wins over Vandy and ECU, which was #23 at the time. And there would be interest from a major market. The knock on both would be poor finishes; MTSU lost 3 of its last 4 and 4 of its last six, while Temps lost 5 of its last 7. Despite winning two of the last three with the loss being close to a good team, I think we had too many blow-out losses and comparatively too little offense.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/8/2014 9:17:59 AM

L.C. wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

The team here that should be upset is Texas State. The other teams that stay home are 6-6, yet Texas State is 7-5, but S. Alabama, from their own conference, is going to a bowl at 6-6 ahead of them.

Wish I could still post photos here. This was a perfect opportunity for a Kathy Ireland pic. Oh well, go Fighting Armadillos.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/8/2014 9:50:05 AM

L.C. wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

The team here that should be upset is Texas State. The other teams that stay home are 6-6, yet Texas State is 7-5, but S. Alabama, from their own conference, is going to a bowl at 6-6 ahead of them.

Why? S. Alabama beat Texas St. I don't feel that sorry for them. Besides, we all know these secondary bowl games need to schedule a "home" team to draw more than 1,500 fans, and in this case the Camelia Bowl took a home state team.

Last Edited: 12/8/2014 9:50:29 AM by Maryland Bobcat

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/8/2014 10:05:18 AM

Maryland Bobcat wrote:

L.C. wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

The team here that should be upset is Texas State. The other teams that stay home are 6-6, yet Texas State is 7-5, but S. Alabama, from their own conference, is going to a bowl at 6-6 ahead of them.

Probably also a reason the Humanitarian Bowl took Boise for so many years and the La-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns have been to the same bowl for 4 straight years. It's actually smart.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/8/2014 11:02:53 AM

GoCats105 wrote:

Maryland Bobcat wrote:

L.C. wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

The team here that should be upset is Texas State. The other teams that stay home are 6-6, yet Texas State is 7-5, but S. Alabama, from their own conference, is going to a bowl at 6-6 ahead of them.

Probably also a reason the Humanitarian Bowl took Boise for so many years and the La-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns have been to the same bowl for 4 straight years. It's actually smart.

Or San Diego St playing in their home stadium in the Poinsettia Bowl? It's not as bad as it was last year, but I still count roughly 9-10 bowl games that have a "home" team. This is something those who talk about bowl results should take into account. Generally the Sun Belt, ACC, SEC and PAC-10 have more of a home field advantage, and in some cases it's really not a neutral site.

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RE: better luck next year...

Posted: 12/8/2014 2:11:18 PM

I agree that there isn't a neutral field in many cases. Ohio though has defeated more SEC teams in my lifetime then A&M no matter where the game was played.

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