With the airlines jacking up prices and car rental shortages, it may be cheaper to find a packaged tour deal that includes airfare, lodging, game tickets, and shuttle bus to and from your hotel to the stadium. If you spent $3,800 on airfare and found out you don't have a car rental, that will be a major bad hair day.
It literally is for the conference
Ticket sales really don't matter. Most lower tier bowls are just cheap programming for ESPN. They could be played in a warehouse and people would tune in.
If you are thinking about flying in to Las Vegas and driving, check the car rentals first!
This would normally be a really good idea, but I HATE the fact that the damn game is downtown in that stupid baseball field. Big difference when you're driving from LV and going to the Cardinals stadium in Glendale and driving all the way into the heart of PHX.
Weird fact about this is that Jarret is a transfer from none other than Bowling Green and the brother Seth that beat us in 2012 is the WR’s coach for Bowling Green
What part of behind the scenes is confusing? Absolutely nothing to be gained by making a public stink about the bowl selection. Except for maybe making a handful of pissed off fans feel better I guess.
LOL. It's 18 miles farther.
it's nuts how the dodgiest football beats out almost anything else in ratings. like a Tuesday night Toledo-Kent State tilt will match the World Series in ratings.
I second this. Jerome is what Sedona was 40 years ago. Might even be worth taking the route from Vegas all the way to Flagstaff, and then down through Sedona and check out the canyons around Slide Park (if I remember correctly). And then on over to Jerome.
We packed a week's worth of adventure into one overnight in Jerome. No fewer than three paranormal haunting experiences while we were there, one of which bounced back at us three days later.
Yep. That's why I hate the opinion that a deserving P5 team like Cinci shouldn't be in the playoff. As if people won't tune in to a semifinal game just because it's a lesser known school? Of course they will. (well, except that it's on NYE this year..)
Yeah, terrible time for us and even worse for West Virginia fans. They gave the earlier evening prime spot to Texas Tech (6-6) and Mississippi State (7-5). Gophers got the wrong end of the stick at 8-4 and 4th in the nation in total defense.
Well it is literally why we are in Arizona and Maryland is in New York
We are literally talking about MN Gopher Bowl game placement.
Behind the scenes isn't confusing. Behind the scenes is exactly what the conference wants and what gets MN the bowl it was assigned.
Could have flown to London and watched an EPL for the same price.
Sure. Flight searches and open seats on existing flights are indicators of demand. My point was that I’m not sure they will see the demand they have for past bowl games.
And it’s run wholly by the Fiesta Bowl organization. It should also be noted that tickets can only by purchased through the U or resale sites. It’s sold out but for single seats.
This. And be sure to eat at the Haunted Hamburger.
Whatever. If you are waiting for the U to throw a public temper tantrum like people do in here when they don't get what they want or feel they deserve you are going to be waiting around for a long time.
It’s ridiculous!
Nah….we won’t be ranked if we beat a 6-6 team.
So you feel the bowl game assigned is appropriate for the results of this team. Correct?
The absolute best spiked milkshake I've ever had, and it's not close. On a different level than the others.
Not what I said at all. It is a joke that Penn State got slotted into the Outback over MN, Wis, and Pur. But as I have been saying, there is NOTHING to be gained by the U to go out and bash the conference, or the selection process or act like we got slighted. The job of the U is to put the best spin on it and get as many fans as possible to the game.