Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Looks like the Bearcats are going to the Birmingham Bowl to play 6-6 Boston College. I wish they would have found a way to get the win yesterday. Even if they lost the Cotton Bowl, a conference championship and a New Years 6 bowl beats the huge drop off for finishing second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,508 Editorials Team · Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Pitt draws Eastern Michigan. Be still my heart. FBS needs to cut back to like 24 teams in bowls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 14 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said: Pitt draws Eastern Michigan. Be still my heart. FBS needs to cut back to like 24 teams in bowls. But it's a late December trip to Detroit! How can you pass that up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said: Pitt draws Eastern Michigan. Be still my heart. FBS needs to cut back to like 24 teams in bowls. I agree 100%. It's ridiculous when a 6-6 record gets a bowl game. I didn't see who got left out, but I think there was one more "bowl eligible" team than available spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 3 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said: I agree 100%. It's ridiculous when a 6-6 record gets a bowl game. I didn't see who got left out, but I think there was one more "bowl eligible" team than available spots. Toledo. Which quite honestly, would have made for a more entertaining opponent than some of these teams that limped to the barn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Just now, captmorgandrinker said: Toledo. Which quite honestly, would have made for a more entertaining opponent than some of these teams that limped to the barn. I saw one of the bowl projections as them being left out, but I can't imagine they would be worse than all of the multi directional schools that got bowl bids. The Bearcats are still #21 and got a 6-6 Boston College team without a coach, so they need to rework the bowl system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Just now, Bearcat-Doug said: I saw one of the bowl projections as them being left out, but I can't imagine they would be worse than all of the multi directional schools that got bowl bids. The Bearcats are still #21 and got a 6-6 Boston College team without a coach, so they need to rework the bowl system. I think UC/Toledo would have been a better tilt. Surprised Kent State got a nod over Toledo; Toledo's fan base travels a lot better (and that's usually what they try to rank teams for the toilet bowls on). UC should have gotten a more exciting opponent. At least somebody that went 8-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 minute ago, captmorgandrinker said: I think UC/Toledo would have been a better tilt. Surprised Kent State got a nod over Toledo; Toledo's fan base travels a lot better (and that's usually what they try to rank teams for the toilet bowls on). UC should have gotten a more exciting opponent. At least somebody that went 8-4. Out of the AAC, Navy got the best opponent with 8-4 Kansas State. Temple got 6-6 North Carolina. The rest got "Group of 5" teams. The Bearcats should have just taken care of business Saturday and worst case is they lose a NY6 Bowl and were conference champions. Now they are in the same spot as last year. They can beat a mediocre ACC team and finish with 11 wins and in the top 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 But again, that also goes back to strongest fanbases. UC/NC would have been killer. North Carolina is better than their 6-6 record shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,508 Editorials Team · Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Or get rid of these shit bowls and do a proper 24 team playoff. A man can dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 1 minute ago, captmorgandrinker said: But again, that also goes back to strongest fanbases. UC/NC would have been killer. North Carolina is better than their 6-6 record shows. I saw the Clemson game where they tried to win it by going for two instead of tying it up and missed. Instead UC gets to play a 6-6 BC team with no coach that will probably mail it in. The Bearcats coulda shoulda won Saturday, but they lost two Memphis two weeks in a row and they got what they got. I'm just glad I can complain about a possible 11 win top 25 season when I can remember back in the 90s when their records used to be as bad as the Bengals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Just now, Reed Rothchild said: Or get rid of these shit bowls and do a proper 24 team playoff. A man can dream. I would be happy with 16 just so maybe at least two of these "Group of 5" teams could get a shot instead of having Virginia get a bid to the Orange Bowl just because they are in the ACC that sucked all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 And Norvell isn't gonna coach Memphis in their bowl game. I hate that shit; at least Frost coached UCF's bowl game when he was going to Nebraska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, captmorgandrinker said: And Norvell isn't gonna coach Memphis in their bowl game. I hate that shit; at least Frost coached UCF's bowl game when he was going to Nebraska. I've always hated when coaches did that, especially for a major bowl game. Just like when Brian Kelly didn't coach the Sugar Bowl for UC because he supposedly had to focus on getting in touch with the Notre Dame recruits so they stayed committed. It's just an insult to the players that gave all they had to make that bowl game just to get left with some assistant coach that likely has no experience trying to prepare them. Edited December 11, 2019 by Bearcat-Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 24 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said: I've always hated when coaches did that, especially for a major bowl game. Just like when Brian Kelly didn't coach the Sugar Bowl for UC because he supposedly had to focus on getting in touch with the Notre Dame recruits so they stayed committed. It's just an insult to the players that gave all they had to make that bowl game just to get left with some assistant coach that likely has no experience trying to prepare them. Yep. It's a big pile o' horseshit that they can't do both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 A lot of the issue stems from the early signing period in mid December. A coach who's changing schools can't be recruiting for his new school while still working for his old one. Frost didn't really have that issue because the early signing period didn't exist when he was moving to Nebraska. I don't know why they don't ban all recruiting between the end of the season and the last of the bowl games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 1 hour ago, nrslam said: A lot of the issue stems from the early signing period in mid December. A coach who's changing schools can't be recruiting for his new school while still working for his old one. Frost didn't really have that issue because the early signing period didn't exist when he was moving to Nebraska. I don't know why they don't ban all recruiting between the end of the season and the last of the bowl games. Yeah, but Brian Kelly didn't have that excuse and still noped out of UC's bowl game way back when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, captmorgandrinker said: Yeah, but Brian Kelly didn't have that excuse and still noped out of UC's bowl game way back when. I'm pretty sure his excuse was that he needed to get in contact with all of the ND recruits asap so they didn't have any decommit before he took over the job. I honestly don't think they should have invited him back this year when they inducted the 2009 undefeated team into the UC Hall of Fame. I'm surprised he didn't get booed out of the stadium. The OC Jeff Quinn stayed to coach the Sugar Bowl game after he had accepted the head coaching job at Buffalo, so there wasn't any reason Kelly couldn't have stayed and finished out the season. Apparently he talked to the guys from the team at the induction and finally apologized for literally walking out on them in the middle of the team banquet with a police escort since ESPN started breaking the story about him taking the ND job right about the time it started. Edited December 11, 2019 by Bearcat-Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 The #1, #4, #18 and #24 ranked basketball teams all went down Tuesday and #5 Michigan lost last night and we're only through Wednesday. I think they said on ESPN when Louisville lost, that they were the fourth #1 team to lose this year and that was a record before January 1st so it's really going to be interesting to see how everything looks when March gets here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I think that's six top-5 teams that have lost to unranked opponents so far this season. I'm loving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 3 hours ago, nrslam said: I think that's six top-5 teams that have lost to unranked opponents so far this season. I'm loving it. December madness! I'm all for it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 On 12/12/2019 at 10:18 AM, nrslam said: I think that's six top-5 teams that have lost to unranked opponents so far this season. I'm loving it. My Bearcats lost at home last night to Colgate. They lost to a toothpaste. This is a weird season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 The CFB playoffs start today. Good luck to anybody's teams that are in it. I'm sure there will be some Bengals scouts at the LSU game. I wish the Bearcats had gotten the Cotton Bowl bid, but Memphis earned it. Hopefully they can get a win for the AAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Memphis put up a pretty good fight. I think they represented the AAC well and should be proud of thier season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,104 Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 5 minutes ago, nrslam said: Memphis put up a pretty good fight. I think they represented the AAC well and should be proud of thier season. The final score looks worse than how close the game was. As much as I wish the Bearcats had gotten in, Memphis earned it on the field and that's how it should be. The Bearcats need to get win #11 in their bowl game and make a run at the NY6 Bowl next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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