I just can't understand why turning down a bowl game is "honorable". The players get to go play another game, the AD get's some cash dollars, the fans get to watch another game.. All good things!
i agree with what you say about the next 2 games.. but COMPLETELY disagree with a 6 win nebraska team not getting a bowl invite.. fans travel to well to not get an invite.. especially a small bowl would want to jump on the huskers asap.. ie. shreveport for independence again, or tempe for the insight? that is IF we get to 6 wins.. not likely but possible
The team could do the honorable thing and decline any invite for a 6-win season, but that'd be like giving up your blackshirts for poor play.
That is about the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time from a Husker fan. There are many many reasons to play a bowl game besides the obvious which has to do with reward for a season well played. If we have the opportunity to build PT for some players and get exposure nationally, who cares what the 'honorable' thing is to do. It's not even about 'honorable' If we get an invite...we go and any AD who turns down an invite should be immediately fired. Ridiculous statement.
I may have been a little harsh, but did we suddenly all wake up in the Pac-10 conference? Or worse, become Notre Lame?
I know I've lived out of state for 17 years, but I can't believe the Program has "Dropped down
BELOW Mediocrity" enough to consider 6 wins a "well played" season.
I know..(X2) Financially it doesn't make sense not to go..although we probably don't break even in a December Bowl..and it's usually beneficial to have the extra practice time (Although maybe with these coaches, the less time with them the better). :dunno
How many of you (Especially Recruits) lose all respect for Notre Dame each year they're invited to go bowling with a 6-win season? Especially when they lose big in that 'Lil Bitty Bowl?
My memory isn't as good as I'd like, but it wasn't that long ago where the team almost voted down a Bowl invite after an 8-win season..'Cause it just wasn't up to our standards. (I'm not positive it was 8 or 9 wins, but I'm rememberin' 8 today) :hmmph
I could almost see if the two wins came at the end of the season after a wholesale coaching change "causing" the turnaround...Then yeah go..Just for the extra experience..
But if we're still getting "beat like a kid at Kmart" (to quote Johnny Rodgers) and still squeaking out 2 wins and keeping the same coaching staff..Why humiliate them any more?