Does it bother nobody else that the University of Hawaii accepted a bid to the Hawaii Bowl, making it their fifth straight bowl game in Hawaii?
The bowl committee and UH department of athletics are practically the same entity, with Hawaii Bowl executive director Jim Donovan being a previous UH associate athletic director and current UH AD Herman Frazier on the bowl's committee.
Hawaii will likely play an inferior team — Scout.com projects UCLA — and blow 'em out, giving them their fourth straight bowl victory. But it won't be so much a bowl win as it is a nationally-televised home game.
I have little doubt that UH is worthy of the Top 25, and I'm fully aware that two, yes two, of our contributors are big time Warriors fans. But I gotta call shenanigans. Most of us would love to see them play someone their caliber like BYU. That would truly be the battle for the title of Best Western Mid Major Team Not Named Boise State, and someone might even score 70 points in that game.
Instead, they'll likely face a potentially 6-6 UCLA team. And "aloha" means "cherry pickin' football program."
Bury: Description of a rock that is completely behind another rock.
And the Steelers are done. The Baltimore Ravens basically sunk their season with a 27-0 shutout. Can we just give the division to the Ravens now? At 9-2, they are three games ahead of the Bengals. Or should we wait until after Thursday when the Ravens travel to Cincy? Because their remaining schedule ain't so tough: Kansas City, Cleveland, the aforementioned buried Pittsburgh, and Buffalo.
Gripper: A piece of equipment worn over a shoe so one can walk on the ice.
Ben Wallace and Scott Skiles both need to get a grip. After Skiles made a team rule that no one can wear sweat bands during games (huh?), Wallace defied the rule and entered the game wearing one. The $60 million center was promptly benched.
Article comments
1 - berkeley joe
Matt, Matt, Matt, in ref: the UH Hawaii bowl situation. NOTHING would please us more here in Hawaii for our Warriors to go to a big time mainland bowl and play a higher caliber opponent, trust me. but this is not a matter of UH "cherry picking," this is a matter of UH being able to get into a bowl game at all. you prolly don't recall, but a few years ago, UH had an excellent year, finished at 9-3 I believe, BLEW OUT byu by about 50 points at home, and, because there was no local bowl that year, sat at home, bowlless. How could this be, you ask? well, because the university of Hawaii football program does not, as they say, travel well. No bowl in its right mind is going to take Hawaii if they can avoid it, because people don't fly out from Honolulu to see a mainland football game. Add to that that the WAC has just about no pull on the college football landscape and you have your answer, which is, basically, UH needs this bowl game, or else they sit home and twiddle thumbs, no matter how well they do. also, the bowl game needs UH, because in years that UH doesn't play in it, of course, attendance drops through the toilet. quid pro quo, clarice.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
I think that had to do more with lack of WAC bowl tie-ins than no bowl in Hawaii. And I feel ya -- in 2001 and 2002 BGSU went 8-3 and 9-3 respectively, and no bowls either year.
To be fair Boise is a repeat offender of this practice as well.