Running off-season CFB thread

I can't believe Georgia's starting placekicker isn't on scholarship.

http://www.dawgnation.com/football/...-refused-scholarship-crushing-hardship-family

But, doesn't the state of Georgia have some kind of scholarship for all HS grads that pays a large slice of their tuition costs, especially for students with a 3.74 GPA?

Also, the Cubs are talking about sponsoring a bowl game at Wrigley Field starting in 2020. With a Big Ten tie-in, this could actually draw some fans and Chicago is a great destination.

Cubs want to host college football bowl game at Wrigley Field

 

That's a horrible idea. They're going to be playing that game in below zero temps as often as not. There are cold-weather bowl games in Boise and Albuquerque, but not that cold.

 

It can be pretty cold at the Pinstripes Bowl.

 

Doesn't Detroit have a bowl?

 

It's certainly to be hoped.

Yeah. Usually 65 degrees.

 

The former athletic director at Arkansas-Little Rock -- the guy who "resigned" after his comments on the physical attributes of a women's soccer player's mother were made in front of an open mic -- was trying to get a bowl game at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Winters in Little Rock can be brutally cold, and the city kind of shuts down if there's any precipitation and it freezes.

That bowl game was just a bad idea.

 

Lots of schools don't put kickers (or punters) on scholarship.

And it isn't the off-season yet, damnit!

 

Can't be any worse than Memphis or Shreveport.

 

The 1982 Liberty Bowl between BC and Notre Dame took place in a week after a snow-ice storm. I remember driving on the main interstate into town and seeing the cars that had skidded off both sides of the road. Looked like a picture of the German Army retreat from Moscow. Locals apparently had the idea that if you drove faster over the ice, the danger would end more quickly. It was cold night of the game, like 20 or so.

 

I'm surprised Minneapolis has never tried to pitch a bowl game strictly as a winter sports extravaganza.

The reason that bowl games in semi-frosty locations like Memphis or Dallas or Shreveport turn into fiascos if bad weather hits is the locals don't know how to cope.

If they have a bowl game in Chicago (or New York) and a snowstorm hits, they'll know what to do about it.

 

Take the El or the subway?

 

Yes, I know. But according to the story, the snapper and backup snapper, holder and backup holder and punter and maybe even the backup punter are all on scholarship.

Almost all of the kickers here at Microville Tech start out as walk-ons, but are scholarshipped upon winning a starting job. And they've had some awfully good kickers/punters here.

I'm not sure how often it gets below zero in Chicago. It's a lot warmer there in the winter than in Minneapolis/St. Paul.