I see that the MAC will be one of 3 conferences participating in the newly created Myrtle Beach Bowl. Nice to have a bowl venue that is within reasonable driving distance.
http://conferenceusa.com/news/2018/11/13/football-fb-espn...

Jesus you’re a grinch.

You really think adding another bowl to an already watered down system is a good thing?

C'mon guys. Be serious.

80 out of 130 FBS teams go to a bowl with this. Really!?!? Is "earning" a bowl bid even a reward anymore? Hell, you have players that even sit them out. Half the teams don't even want to play in them if it's not a higher profile one ... and even then some teams just go thru the motions.

So adding a fourth bowl between MAC/Sun Belt/CUSA teams is a good thing?!?!

All this is is another way for ESPN to line their wallets with TV money.

Are you really going to be excited to see 6-6 Akron face off with 5-7 Texas State?

Seriously.

Fine ... call me a Grinch.

Never understood why people get so offended at more Bowls. Just don't watch. Maybe it would make people feel better if we put a 13th game on the schedule with opponent TBA?

ESPN is footing for the bill for en extra game for the players, typically with a mini-vacation involved, doesn't interfere with academics and gives the school some exposure. What's so bad about it?

In 1997 there were 112 1A schools.

That year Ohio went 8-3, including a win at Maryland and 3-pt loss at #20 Kansas St.
Fiami also was 8-3.
So was WMU.
Toledo was 9-3 after losing at T'erd in the MACCG.

There were only 20 bowl games back then.
None of these teams went to a bowl game.

In 1997 GaTech went to a bowl with a 6-5 record.
So did Pitt.
And Utah St.
Pitt and Utah St lost and finished 6-6.

In 1997 Cincy, Mizzou, Clemson, Iowa, MSU, WVU, and VaTech were among the 7-4 teams that went to bowls.
All but Cincy lost and finished 7-5.

So even back then the bowl system rewarded mediocrity.
Today is largely the same, only at a different level.
So why complain about today?

Why complain about today?

Correct if I'm wrong (the lines forms to the right, please) ... but isn't a bowl supposed to be a reward for a good season. Not a mediocre one?

Last year 15 teams that went 6-6 "earned" a bowl bid? In 2017, 17 6-6 teams and three teams with losing records!

C'mon! What are we doing here?

I agree ... in 1997, the bowl system was a mess. You had 6-5 Pitt earning a bowl bid over 8-3 Ohio. (And total sidenote ... Ohio that year won at Maryland, at Hawaii, lost by 3 at K-State in non-conference. A little different from playing Hampton, UMass, Idaho and Kentucky)

So it's better there are more bowls than there were in 1997. But I think it's gone too far. Do we really need 40+ bowl games?!?!

We're rewarding teams for being average ...

Aside from that ... what I have a bigger problem with is the bowl tie-ins. It's just another massive stake driven between the "haves" and "have-nots" in CFB. The P6 & G5 schools.

If you're going to have 40+ bowls ... why do they have to be P5 vs. P5 and G5 vs. G5 games?!?

Wouldn't it be much more interesting to see a 12-1 Buffalo team get to face a 9-3 P5 school rather than facing off with a Sun Belt team?

Hell, I'd rather see a 12-1 Buffalo team face a 7-5 P5 team!

These Arkansas St vs. Toledo ... Georgia Southern vs. NIU ... Ohio vs. Troy match-ups every single year get old and stale.

Just like the Virginia Tech vs. Wisconsin battle of 7-5 teams does.

The fact all these bowls are locked into certain conferences takes away a ton of the luster (along with the fact there are too many of them)

It was pretty evident when this season started that no matter how good any MAC school was ... they were most likely headed for Mobile, AL and the Dollar General Bowl. Woo. Hoo.

Even if Buffalo went 13-0 ... that was the best they would do. Because even the divide between the MWC/AAC and the Sun Belt/MAC in the G5 has grown.

CFB is a mess. Period. We can have 40+ bowl games ... but we can't figure out a way to play an actual playoff where more than four teams are involved?

You have nearly a month between conference championship Saturday and the major bowl games.

You're telling me that you can't have a 8 or 10 team playoff that starts in mid-Dec?

I think we're going to see a potential mutiny if the playoff ends up Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia and Clemson this year ... especially if Washington State goes 12-1 and wins PAC-12 and WVU wins Big XII at 11-1 and Ohio $t or Michigan wins B1G at 12-1.

Three power five teams left out would certainly raise some eyebrows.

The stubbornness and greed of CFB is ruining it.

Bottom line is ..... yeah, I might be a crotchety old man ... but I like to see good teams get rewarded ... mediocre teams forced to get better .... and everyone starts the season not already knowing their best-case scenario.

Take this with the grain of salt that I'm off work/work-from-home around the holidays (the one perk of working for a university), but even if Ohio isn't playing, I'll almost certainly watch it, unless its a mid-week day in that week before Christmas. What else am I going to do, watch Todd McShay and Mel Kipper debate the NFL draft? [insert barfing emoji]

Well if the options are those two things, and nothing else was on, I'd probably follow your lead there. Bad bowl games are always better than NFL Draft analysis. On the other hand, I'd rather watch mid-major college hoops than either of those most of the time.

Too many bowls now..... we do not need another one where few people attend and viewership is minimal.
Is this decision all part of the "EVERYONE GETS A TROPHY MOVEMENT?"






GO BOBCATS

No. Bowls have always been (at least in the last 50 years or so) about tie-ins with conferences and getting big-name schools to put butts in the seats and eyes on the tube. It didn't matter that Toledo might be 8-3 or Akron or WMU might be 7-3-1. Because they didn't win the conference to get that one tie-in the MAC had, they stayed home while a 6-5 Baylor played 6-4-1 Arizona in a bowl (see 1992, for example). Bowls are essentially something to give fans some place to go during the holidays and TV networks something that might draw a larger audience during a time of year when TV watching is traditionally down. And its an extra chance for the players to suit up for their school.

Agree. Take your pick folks - who wants to (can afford to) go Bahamas? How about Boise? I'll take an easy trip to M.B. Not my type of beach, but they will be a great host. And helps open the program up to S.C and southern NC recruits. Also coordinates with the MAC basketball tourney being sponsored by MB.

Also, not a surprise, we are playing in the Myrtle Beach Basketball Classic next year. Affiliation to bowls influences other opportunities as well. http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPa...

Pretty much on par with the CIT or CBI in hoops. Agree with BShot on the tie-ins...would prefer a bowl with a tie-in with an opponent from the AAC or Mountain West. That said, if the Bobcats are playing, I'd watch.

Drove through Conway, SC a few weeks ago for a golf trip in Garden City. We all wondered why Coastal Carolina was doing what looked like a major renovation to the football stadium- question is now answered.