Just how excited is the NCAA's Football Issues Committee about the prospect of its product being played in the home of the New York Yankees? It gave the new Pinstripe Bowl a four-year licence instead of the typical year-by-year contract that it typically afford bowls.The game will be played on Dec. 30, which means it will be unbearably cold. I would be stunned if the new Stadium is more than half full, with the game featuring the third-best team from the Big 12 vs. the Big East, although it may be the first time many fans can actually get inside without taking out a second mortgage to meet Yankees' ticket prices.
I've said it before in the eulogy to the International Bowl, but the fact remains that bowl games should be a destination, not a sentence. Yes, New York City is great, but not in the dead of winter and sitting in Yankee Stadium may be an opportunity to take in one of the new marvels of sports architecture, but not to watch a second-rate bowl game.
This reeks of the NCAA getting caught up in the Yankees mystique and aligning themselves with George Steinbrenner and Co., who are showing a new-found fixation on returning college football in the Bronx, with Notre Dame meeting Army in 2010 in the Stadium. But just because an Oct. 23 game is a good idea doesn't mean playing a bowl game there is too.
Enjoy that four-year licence, Pinstripe Bowl. The Señior would put his retirement pesos on this partnership flaming out.
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