{"id":530,"date":"2009-08-13T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-08-13T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T08:17:33","slug":"not_exactly_what_i_had_in_mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly what I had in mind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&#8230;but word comes this morning from the mighty Orson Swindle at EDSBS that the Pac-10 has <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/huskies\/2009650773_bowl13.html\">done a deal to put a team in the Alamo Bowl<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, I will leave it to my wife to lay out the merits of the Alamo Bowl (hint: if you&#8217;re experiencing bonding between the football players and the band geeks, your bowl may suck) but I am not sure that sending the #2 team to San Antonio is any great improvement.  I had something in mind more like the Citrus Bowl or the Cotton Bowl or some such, not some indoor play-on-a-rug-on-ESPN-some-weeknight kind of bowl.  If you&#8217;re just trading San Diego for San Antonio?  Let me tell you something, there is nothing &#8211; NOTHING &#8211; in the entire state of Texas that should ever be seeded over San Diego.  San Diego is a 1 seed.  San Diego is the &#8217;27 Yankees.  Texas is the &#8217;62 Mets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other problem is that it doesn&#8217;t improve the matchup &#8211; it&#8217;s still #2 Pac-10 vs #3 Big 12, which is a no-win situation.  But then, the Holiday Bowl is going to be #3 Pac-10 vs #5 Big 12 now (Insight Bowl swooped in to geth #4 Big 12) which means that once again, Pac-10 teams will be playing down in all their bowls but one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou&#8217;d almost think the Pac-10 didn&#8217;t acknowledge the existence of any bowl but the Rose Bowl&#8230;OH WAIT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but word comes this morning from the mighty Orson Swindle at EDSBS that the Pac-10 has done a deal to put a team in the Alamo Bowl. Now, I will leave it to my wife to lay out the merits of the Alamo Bowl (hint: if you&#8217;re experiencing bonding between the football players and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not exactly what I had in mind&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}