[tweeterhawk]

Gifts? Casinos? Cash? One Virginia Tech player says bowl week has too many distractions. - ESPN

In fact, diversions and temptations are so rampant during bowl week that the game itself hinges not so much on which team prepares better but which team gets less distracted. This isn't just a Sugar Bowl thing, either -- this has been a constant struggle at each of the four other bowls I have attended.

The notion that coaches enforce a curfew during bowl week baffles me -- not because I've contracted night fever but because players actually need to be told to get home at a reasonable hour the week of the biggest game of their lives.

My advice: Do away with bowl week. Schools should practice at their respective universities just as they would any other game week, arriving at the bowl destination the night before the game. No coeds on campus, no strip joints, no casinos, no extravagant gifts or cash rewards, and no creepy bull-riders with redhead fetishes. Just film, practice, more film, meals and some more film.

[atxhawk]

Originally Posted by tweeterhawk

Gifts? Casinos? Cash? One Virginia Tech player says bowl week has too many distractions. - ESPN

In fact, diversions and temptations are so rampant during bowl week that the game itself hinges not so much on which team prepares better but which team gets less distracted. This isn't just a Sugar Bowl thing, either -- this has been a constant struggle at each of the four other bowls I have attended.

The notion that coaches enforce a curfew during bowl week baffles me -- not because I've contracted night fever but because players actually need to be told to get home at a reasonable hour the week of the biggest game of their lives.

My advice: Do away with bowl week. Schools should practice at their respective universities just as they would any other game week, arriving at the bowl destination the night before the game. No coeds on campus, no strip joints, no casinos, no extravagant gifts or cash rewards, and no creepy bull-riders with redhead fetishes. Just film, practice, more film, meals and some more film.

Uhhhhhhhh, what the?

[hawkfarmer]

I completely agree, this is what is wrong with the NCAA. Basically paying players for making it to better bowl games. I know it's a reward, but it's gone over the top.