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Dick Harmon: Las Vegas Bowl had no choice but the Bruins
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In all of Las Vegas, isn't it possible that there is so little interest in this game that they cannot build a nice, larger stadium of UNLV football, and all the other events that could be held? Sam Boyd is a small stadium build long ago, with reconstructions after remodeling until it's a mess, of slapped together changes. In one of the WAC championship games, they had old 1984 LA Olympic seats temporarily in the north end.
Pay more than you can negotiate for the 3rd place or even a better at large.
"Bolt-and-nail salad"
Is this woman the executive director of the Las Vegas Bowl or the president of Ironworkers Local 433?
As for the clever writing, Dick, it's not working.
I also think Kunzer-Murphy (what an awful name - and person from what I've heard) also needs to change her perspective of their "model" for this game. PAC-10 #4 or #5 isn't a team the MWC champ should be playing. A better model would be the MWC champ vs. the WAC champ. In most years, that will be two top #25 teams and generate a better game and event. The PAC-10 #4 or #5 in most years won't be that good and in many years, it will be a pathetic .500 team like this year's UCLA team.
It seems that BYU wants to play a better team so they won't be so embarassed when they lose.
As many have said before, this is a game we cannot lose. It would be devastating to everything done by the Cougars so far this year.
I'm just glad I get to watch the Cougs play one more time this year!!
There are good reasons why the MWC doesn't have better bowl tie-ins. To get the respect fans think you deserve, BYU should try all they can to get a better out of conference schedule, even if it means going on the road for all of the games.
By the way, Oklahoma beat Tulsa by 42 points.
Stupid logic Dick. Kansas?
It's not a matter of dissing UCLA. It's finding the MWC teams right where they were thirty years ago.
Build up a bowl, then have said bowl, dump you like a led baloon. Remember the Fiesta and Holiday bowls?
Until the Mountain West Conference creates, owns, and controls it's own bowl, it will never change.
The league should start it's "OWN" bowl, set up an endowment and pay the Visitors 2 to 3 million per year, and then they would get the number 2 or 1 of some conferences.
If you have not noticed, the game today is all about money. The BCS was "contrived" to control the bowls and the money. It's against anti-trust laws and should be challenged.
But, until then, BYU and Utah should stop pussyfooting around and play hardball, get creative and put up the money to draw a higher profile team. Raise the money and get it done.
Do you really think the Vegas bowl could not get the 3rd PAC-10 over El Paso?
The LV Bowl is doing a good job given the current system/contracts and limitations. I was very surprised to get an email back from Tina Kunzer-Murphy when I voiced my disappointment about the rematch. She sent a brief email saying they had no choice other than to take UCLA. And as Dick points out, it was UCLA who wouldn't back down. Although I still think a rematch is not in UCLA's best interest either.
I'm sure Bronco will rally the team and they should avenge the loss from earlier this year. I can't wait to see BYU destroy another Pac-10 team in a bowl game again. Go Cougars!
So she gets a flood of calls and emails from BYU fans complaining that somehow UCLA is beneith them. Last September UCLA wasn't beneith BYU, they were much better.
Grow up BYU fans! As GreyCougar put it, you have to earn your respect, it's not simply given to you.
This is UCLA, after all...a program with a great history...not Steven Henegar Beauty College
Stop the complaining and start preparing for a great game.
I were a BYU coach, I would motivate this game as a lack of respect from the big boys of the BCS.
GO COUGARS!!!!
Hopefully Bronco will be able to convince the team they can be beaten, instead of believing this bowl game will be a walk in the park.
Besides, once one shoulder is dislocated, why would anyone continue playing that qb and then complain when the second shoulder gets dislocated? Blame the BYU coaches for two dislocated shoulders, not the aTm players.
We have no signature wins and we lost to Tulsa and UCLA, neither of which is a top 25 team.
If we are honest, aren't we getting about the respect we deserve nationally?
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