I’m not counting on it at all. But do bowls have to invite teams in order of APR finish, or just make sure it is “good enough” to not raise to many eyebrows?
it's just the football team. but transfers play a huge part. if they stay academically eligible...they apparently earn points for their former school. and it's averaged over a few years so us relying on so many transfers is why our apr is reduced now compared to then
I am serious on my opinion that a losing team shouldn’t go to a bowl. But really, I’m just exhausted by it. Every other team with any history of success in the past 50 years has been able to bounce back except us. Even Washington is back to being great. It’s absolutely demoralizing. And before you all say it’s just Rhule’s first year, it’s not the losses. It’s how it came about. Stupid mental mistakes. Turnovers. The same crap that should be fixed day one that hasn’t been fixed for 21 years. Why should that inspire any hope? I accepted that our QBs sucked. I accepted the weaknesses. That’s not the issue. The issue is that they keep beating themselves. Every season, every game that’s the story: they beat themselves. That is why I’m concerned. We’ve seen this before.
How would you fix those issues in one day?
I have seen other programs quickly fix these issues so I don’t want to hear it. You would expect at least some improvement yes? Worst turnover margin in the country. That’s inexcusable.
This might be the worst take ever. Because. That's why. Nobody cares about any bowl game anymore outside of the playoffs. The benefit is for additional practice, recruiting and the players come home with a bit of swag. Remove that incentive and it completes the destruction of college football. Sorry, I can't get behind your suggestion. We don't deserve a bowl game, we don't get to keep practicing. We have to get better. Win one more game. That is not a hard concept.
I don’t know, but they clearly did something we didn’t. Again, the season one excuse only goes so far. Look if we just got beat in each of the final four losses, fine. I’ll grant Wisconsin, we didn’t turn it over. But Maryland, MSU, Iowa? Inexcusable. Inexcusable to lose like that, shooting ourselves in the foot. Those are not losses that happen with good coaching. Now maybe Rhule does turn it around. Great. But right now, my confidence isn’t there because I saw a team that made zero improvement in the mental department. Good our defense was good. That’s great. I wanted most of all to see a team that STOPS BEATING ITSELF EVERY GAME. Hell, win just one of MSU, MD, Iowa, Minnesota. It’s not even the losing season. It’s the way we lose. It’s been years of this. Decades of this.