No Upside to Bowling

[Pablos Tunnel]

I would like your thoughts. Is there any upside for the Gators to go to a bowl game this year?

Lots of downside.
Another bad loss.
AR gets hurt.

What say you?

 

[URGatorBait]

Extra practice?

Free schit?


Are you suggesting we go out and lose to FSU? Because it looks that way

 

[GatorJB]

I like the idea of finishing the season on a two game win streak instead of a losing streak two years in a row.

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

Extra practice?

Free schit?


Are you suggesting we go out and lose to FSU? Because it looks that way

I am not. However, we can decline the invitation. Does this team really deserve a bowl?
They had a shytty year
Quit on their coach and each other
Showed no improvement
Had no team discipline

 

[LagoonGator68]

Extra practices are valuable to the new coach

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

I like the idea of finishing the season on a two game win streak instead of a losing streak two years in a row.

No guarantees
What if we get blown out by NC State or UCF?

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

Extra practices are valuable

For who?
We have a new regime coming and I bet we have a bunch of transfers in and out

 

[URGatorBait]

I am not. However, we can decline the invitation. Does this team really deserve a bowl?
They had a shytty year
Quit on their coach and each other
Showed no improvement
Had no team discipline

so quit more? I don't see how that makes them any better.
You keep putting their feet to the fire and make them see it through.

you play the game, and use the extra practices.

 

[LagoonGator68]

For who?
We have a new regime coming and I bet we have a bunch of transfers in and out

For the damn players and the new coach.

 

[gator1946]

No. Costs money and a visit to a toilet bowl costs reputation, what little is left. Practice with who? Coaches who won't be there next year?

A proud program would just call it like it is. We failed this year. We aren't prolonging it.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Practice just makes more bad habits. I'd rather have them in the weight room with the next coaching staff.

I'd like to win and then turn down the Turnip or Blueberry Bowls.

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

so quit more? I don't see how that makes them any better.
You keep putting their feet to the fire and make them see it through.

you play the game, and use the extra practices.

Or you can decline and send a message to the players that mediocracy is NOT to be rewarded

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

For the damn players and the new coach.

No way a new staff is assembled by then or transfers are completed

 

[Swamp Donkey]

No way a new staff is assembled by then or transfers are completed

Yeah, the NEW staff never coaches the bowl.

 

[Detroitgator]

Ohhhhhh... "Bowl"ing! I thought this was going to be some Kingpin schit...

 

[LagoonGator68]

Yeah, the NEW staff never coaches the bowl.

Slingblade will.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Technically guys, even if we lose this game, we are bowl eligibible, thanks to our APR.

 

[URGatorBait]

Or you can decline and send a message to the players that mediocracy is NOT to be rewarded

meh, anything outside of a playoff bid is mediocracy if we are going to stay consistent.

 

[Pablos Tunnel]

We need the rising seniors to be hungry, angry and take charge for the next staff and next year

 

[gator1946]

If there are pieces of a new staff. Get out and salvage something of a disastrous class. Recruit first. Coach later. Just a distraction leading to a giant splat win or lose. This is one case where that decision ought to appeal to the geniuses in the administration. They know they will lose money on a bowl attended by nobody.