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Stech OP
Dec 18, 2021 at 12:02 PM ET
I suggest the ACC trade the Pinstripe & Fenway Bowl 4 Bahamas Boca Bowls!
I think BC and Syracuse teams though from the respective states, would rather be in the Bahamas and Boca, but maybe that’s just me?🌴😎

[Post edited by Stech at 12/18/2021 12:02PM]

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reestuart reestuart
Here is a report from a past Bahamas Bowl. Greatest event ever.
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Stech OP
LOL, that’s quite a party…I mean Bowl Game. 😎🌴
AnotherTechW AnotherTechW
Bahamas bowl pretty much only game I would consider going to at this point
It’s the Bahamas in December. Maybe throw together a basketball tournament at same time.

Im willing to throw my money at this type of event
reestuart reestuart
I’ve still got the Rose Bowl as a bucket list game, but I realize
that the game I end up going to may be missing key players. I’ll be there for nostalgia only.
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Vippie1
The location of schools has little to do with these bowls
not like the local economies of NYC or Boston are affected.
Totally made for TV events- organized for the media dollars.
And the bet is the average viewer is more marginally drawn to the novelty of a game at those venues
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Stech OP
You would have to show me the numbers to convince me of that.
I think more people would like to see palm trees when it's cold outside, especially if it were the ACC versus the Sun Belt or whomever is playing in the Boca and Bahamas Bowl.
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Vippie1
Yeah the Pro Bowl in Hawaii was such a draw
but seriously , the expense of getting suitable venues down there? hoops works great. a minor bowl game in NYC or Boston makes a ton more financial sense.
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Stech OP
How does it make a ton more financial sense?
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Vippie1
How many ready football facilities do you know of the Bahamas
ready for a college football bowl game and all the "festivities" of a crowd of say 25-50k? How expensive would it be to get players and fans there.
It it was feasible- it would have been done 30 years ago.
VTHokie2000 VTHokie2000
FWIW a college football game can be played on a football (soccer) pitch
which is exactly what happened with the Bahamas Bowl. It is worth noting that the San Jose Earthquake originally played their home matches in San Jose State's football stadium until PayPal Park opened on February 27, 2015.
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Stech OP
They have 1 & do a bowl game there, answer with facts not questions please,
or just say in my opinion, it would be more expensive, but I have no financial facts to back it up.

Because in my opinion, most people would rather watch a Bowl game whether in person or on TV, in the Bahamas and Boca Raton and I don't think it is close. You "feel" differently, that's okay, but unless you have financial facts that say otherwise, I am not buying your point of view. Both Pinstripe and Fenway will likely be cold non-events, especially in NYC and Boston. The empty cold stadiums will not look good on TV. I think along with the zipper model scheduling, this is another swing and a miss by Swofford, if I may use a baseball analogy, in those baseball stadiums.

[Post edited by Stech at 12/19/2021 10:08AM]
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Vippie1
Well I think 90 percent of bowl games are unwatchable and worthless
and exist just to create content for TV.
Me, if VT had played ECU in the Military Bowl I wouldn't have driven 40 minutes to see it. And may not watch it on TV. Yet, when I heard 5 or 6 moths ago that VT hoops would be playing in Annapolis I bought tickets the first day possible.
So maybe I'm the wrong guy to opine- I dont care for bowls anymore. But money decides everything- if more coin could be made elsewhere, it would happen.
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Stech OP
I have to agree, the bowls are just lingering in no man's land right now,
so I get the ho hmm attitude.

I am just trying to see the bowl as the spring game, although this year, with the new coach not coaching, we probably won't learn as much as a spring game.
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EDGEMAN
It doesn't help that we had a "down" season, and ended up getting an...
...invitation to a bowl in a cold northern city on lockdown. Hopefully having our backs against the wall with a skeleton staff and team will inspire the lads to kick a little butt!

I'm usually more motivated when we're not huge underdogs.
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Millpoint
ACC’s penalty for taking BC and Cuse
mrcaniac mrcaniac
I think most people would prefer Boca/Bahamas
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MaskedRacer
***In the 2020's bowl games other then playoff are postseason exhibitions