I miss? I miss when bowl season meant something. When we went to the Cotton Bowl back in 1998 and it felt like a reward for eleven wins, not a participation trophy for finishing .500. Now the whole thing is a circus with 80 bowl games and half the teams have opt-outs and portal departures before the kickoff even happens.
This whole Brendan Sorsby mess at Texas Tech just proves my point. A kid plays four years somewhere, transfers, and now the league is in federal court over eligibility. That used to be settled with a handshake and a waiver form. Now the Big 12 presidents are huddilng like they are negotiating a hostage release. And for what? So a quarterback can play in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl or whatever they are calling it this year?
The old Southwest Conference bowl tie-ins were better. You earned the Cotton Bowl or you stayed home. None of this 6-6 nonsense where you get a trophy for showing up. I remember sitting in the stands at the 1994 Independence Bowl thinking this is what we worked for? Now kids are skipping bowls to prepare for the draft and I cannot even blame them. The whole tradition is gone.
Just give me one more December where the roster is intact and the kids actually care about the game. Is that too much to ask?