It's a gimme because there are almost 40 bowl games

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Dec 16, 2014
6:29:53pm

Hinta

It's a gimme because there are almost 40 bowl games

More than half the teams go to a bowl, so it is not the accomplishment it was in Lavell's day.

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Hinta

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Bronco's bowl success has created bowl fatigue in the fan base

jrifkin48

12/16/14 6:23pm

My explanation is that he has created a mediocre product that people aren't

JamesDean

12/16/14 6:26pm

Calling mediocrity success is what we do now. Apathy/excuses/delusion has firmly

12/17/14 1:29am

I sort of agreed up until the last sentence.

cougarnerd

12/16/14 6:26pm

Those ticket sales are just those purchased from BYU

12/16/14 6:27pm

It's a gimme because there are almost 40 bowl games

Hinta

12/16/14 6:29pm

It's not even the accomplishment it was in Crowton's day

Blugar

12/16/14 7:32pm

Does anyone remember the Holiday Bowl?

Brigham

12/16/14 6:40pm

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East1999

12/16/14 6:43pm

Exactly

cajuncoug

12/17/14 4:21am

Playing Memphis is part of the problem

franklyvulgar

12/16/14 6:45pm

oh, come on. "Abysmal"?

StantonMac

12/16/14 6:52pm

when Virginia is the biggest name team on your home schedule I think it's

franklyvulgar

12/16/14 7:43pm

Problem is that CSU is still in the MWC and playing a mid/lower level pac12 team

12/16/14 6:55pm

We should make it mean something. Winner gets BIG12 invite.

sah22

12/16/14 8:39pm

The BYU team has to step it up to get fans excited about BYU football again

HighHorse

12/16/14 6:46pm

So, losing last year was a success? Never mind, I do remember Bronco saying so.

12/16/14 6:48pm

there are so many bowl games now that almost 2/3 of teams make a bowl

cougarfann888

12/16/14 6:54pm

84 teams out of 128 were bowl eligible this year.

cougarfann888

12/16/14 7:01pm

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cougarfann888

12/16/14 7:02pm

yet Bronco's bowl streak is touted as some major accomplishment.

swingcat

12/16/14 7:28pm

For most programs, having an unbroken string of winning seasons is accomplishmnt

keylimesoda

12/17/14 12:42am

bowl opponents would make a difference with this as well. If we played

Tuskaloosa Cougar

12/16/14 7:07pm

RE: bowl opponents would make a difference with this as well. If we played

southernfriedcougar

12/16/14 7:39pm

Crappy bowls and opponents have contributed more to the fatigue

Blugar

12/16/14 7:30pm

Going to 10 straight bowls with BYU's schedule is not that impressive, the

byu_09

12/16/14 7:42pm

Yer probably right,location also.being able to drive & go low budget route

MatthiasG

12/16/14 9:00pm

Crappy bowls against crappy opponents. That's what fans don't care about.

Singcat

12/16/14 9:07pm

Do you realize how bad you have to be to NOT goto a bowl game?

12/17/14 1:25am

Don't lift the hood on the "winning seasons, bowl streak" stuff

cajuncoug

12/17/14 4:36am

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