Cotton Bowl
Over the years I’ve covered numerous bowls, more than I really like to count, including all of the Bowl Championship Series Bowls.
The best run, in order, are the Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl (this year’s Sugar doesn’t count yet since it isn’t until Monday).
Rick Baker, president of the Cotton Bowl, Charlie Fiss, vice president for communications and a University of Arkansas graduate and Michael Konradi, vice president of external affairs, do a great job.
Not only of organizing and keeping everything moving forward, but of making everyone feel warm and welcome.
They make coaches, teams, officials and the media feel more like they are attending a family reunion that is celebrating a successful football season than playing in a great game.
People like Cathy Luetje, Laura Talley, Peter Irwin and James Smith, also a UA grad, make the media feel like it is a big party in their honor. Yet they understand that our jobs can be tedious at times.
It isn’t easy covering a bowl game when you work from 8:30 until 2:15 covering press conferences and don’t start writing until after that, but those folks make it just a little easier.
Flying in here on Monday my plane went over the old Cotton Bowl, a grand old lady but a tired one, too, and it made me glad the Cotton Bowl is now being played in Cowboys Stadium, but it left me with a question:
How can the BCS be the best and not have a game in the world’s greatest football stadium?
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Agree that the lack of a BCS game in the Cotton Bowl is not right. The Cotton, Sugar, Rose and Orange were the ONLY really meaningful bowls before we had too many of them.
Some have been entertaining, however.
What I would like to see in all football games is a return to tradition….the tradition of tackles from the knees down, not a bunch of crazy head hunters. I feel there should be an automatic ejection for head shots….no warnings….second offense in a season….one game suspension….third and your college career is over.
What are defensive coaches teaching?? I see too many personal fouls, but no one seems to be getting the message.
Love all the bowl games. However, they need to do away w/conf affiliation & aq’s. Start w/#1 vs #2, #3 vs #4, #5 vs #6…etc. regardless of conferance affiliation. This would eliminate bowls (Sugar) passing over more qualified teams (Kansas St., Boise St.) & probably have more entertaining games (Orange). Yes, I know Sugar Bowl had a good game…but there were other teams that were MORE deserving due to the level of competition they played in regular season. Bowl games are suppose to be a REWARD for the players not the bowl rep’s!
I am just wanted to know if you have received any comments about the two your men doing the play by play calling for the Cotton Bowl? I think they were very biased. I guess the sport world can’t take a SEC team beating a Big 12 team.
Thanks for listing!
Janis Ellington
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Gravette, AR 72736
I meant to say( young men). Sorry for the typo.
Janis Ellington