Comments on: So Why Go? The Importance of Going Bowling https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2015/01/26/go-importance-going-bowling/ A Notre Dame Football Blog Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 By: Bayou Irish https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2015/01/26/go-importance-going-bowling/#comment-257865 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:59:00 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=27683#comment-257865 In reply to Terry Falk.

Terry, thanks for reading and commenting. I think the fans, most of all, expect a bowl game, but tend to get hung up on the “tier” thereof. I think our performance against LSU in the “lowly” Music City Bowl will benefit us in the future, since we now have the SEC-monkey off our back. Nothing will heal the loss to Alabama in the NCG, but the bowl game against LSU showed how far we have come. In a way. We still lost to Northwestern.

]]> By: Terry Falk https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2015/01/26/go-importance-going-bowling/#comment-257864 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:20:00 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=27683#comment-257864 My point in all of this is quite simple, actually. With as many bowl games as there are today, a team that qualifies for a bowl bid is expected to accept it, no if’s, and’s or but’s. We can yearn for a different day, when a bowl bid was a sign of a truly outstanding season, but those days are over, and they’re not coming back. Today’s recruits probably expect a bowl game as the floor for a Notre Dame team, and to turn down a bowl bid because “we weren’t good enough” (a questionable proposition as it is, given that 76 teams received bowl bids last season) is counter-productive to recruiting. At least as I see it.

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