Poor Poor Las Vegas Bowl
I live in the heart of BYU and I am not a BYU fan or even close to a BYU football fan. In fact, I hate a few things in life and I’ll number them for you:
1. Duke University
2. New York Yankees
3. Dallas Cowboys
4. BYU football
5. Smell of cooked cabbage/brussel sprouts
But honestly i’m really upset about this bowl matchup that BYU got stuck with. It is bad enough that the winner of the Mountain West gets lumped into this bowl every year, but now they get to play another unmotivated Pac 10 team in UCLA. You may be thinking, didn’t they already play each other and you’d be right. Ucla beat them earlier in the season but it was a very close game.
To BYU this is their chance to go and play a Pac 10 school and prove that they belong in the upper echelon of college programs. To UCLA their is nothing to gain or to lose. If UCLA beats BYU they already did earlier in the year and if they lose a whole bunch of victim excuses come flying. Byu fans have heard them for a year after they thumped Oregon in the same bowl game last season. “Oregon wasn’t motivated because of the bowl game they were invited to,” or “Oregon had nothing to play for because it wasn’t on New Year’s day.” The list goes on and on and I think the same thing will happen this season. Ucla just fired their coach and he had a great relationship with those players. He just decided he isn’t coaching in the bowl game so the whole “let’s win one for coach” is out the window. What does Ucla have to gain here? Nothing.
My solution: Put in a clause that doesn’t allow teams to play each other twice unless that is the National Championship game. Nobody wants to watch this game much because they’ve already seen it. Second, let’s get another conference winner a chance to play this conference winner. It doesn’t make much sense to have a good BYU team play that wants to be tested play a team that shouldn’t even be in a bowl game. Let BYU or the Mountain West winner play the winner of another mid major conference and see what happens. We’ll get a far more exciting game and one that both teams want to see.
Talk about taking the excitement out of a bowl game. Nice job Vegas Bowl.
December 6th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Here’s the part I don’t get. How do you become the comissioner of a conference? It can’t be to hard because it seems like the Mt West’s comissioner has about as much vision as my granpa and he’s blind. Also is there not a way to get the moron fired? He’s spearheaded a horrible TV deal where half of the fans can’t even watch the games and he’s contracted the best Mt West team to play the middle of the pack we suck PAC 10 team every freaking year. Does he really think that is a good thing? If Wyoming won the Mt West this year there would be about 10k people in Vegas. The Mt West and Vegas are really lucky that Utah and BYU have played in that game more times than not or it’d be bankrupt. I say we kick the crap out of the comissioner and get good attorney’s to void the crappy contracts we’re in now.