You remember that bowl game planned for Yankee Stadium in December? It has a name. Please welcome the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
The New Era Pinstripe Bowl will be held on Dec. 30, 2010, and televised nationally by ESPN.
A press conference announcing the name will be held at 10 a.m. at Yankee Stadium. The name comes from the game’s four-year title sponsor, headwear and apparel manufacturer New Era Cap Company, Inc.
The bowl will match the third-place Big East team with the sixth-place Big 12 team, after the BCS teams from each conference are excluded from consideration. Both teams will stay in Manhattan, the Big East team at the Grand Hyatt and the Big 12 team at the Sheraton New York.
The bowl’s Web site, newerapinstripebowl.com, will be launched later today.
According to the press release I got sent:
There is a four-year agreement extending through 2013 for the Big East and Big 12 to participate in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. In future years beyond 2010, games will take place no earlier than Christmas Day and no later than New Year’s Day.
Will it last beyond that? I have no idea. Just as I have no idea if the Big East and Big 12 will be around in 4 years.
I’m not sure if it will last, but you never know!
20’s in the Bronx might stink, but after Chrismas in NYC is INCREDIBLE! My wife will be so happy shopping. Hell the years Pitt goes to this bowl I won’t even shop for a Gift.
I see Freebird’s and Omar’s points about the new bowl. NYC is an awesome place to visit between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. But it will be frigid. More like going to a Steelers playoff game than a bowl game.
That said, let’s just tell Wanny to make sure we dominate the conference, so we always go to a good bowl. 🙂
On another topic from another thread- next year’s basketball line-up, I thought over things hard today:
From the outset, the starting five will be 5-McGee, 4- Robinson, 3-Wanny, 2- Gibbs, 1- Woodall. I think the 4 is Robinson’s to lose. The formula of starting Robinson and bringing Gilbert off the bench, sometimes to the extent of 30+ minutes per game, has been successful. Dixon doesn’t seem to have a problem bringing a senior off the bench a la Keith Benjiman. Brown is obviously a more significant contributor for this team, but Dixon has said in the past he’s not hung up on who starts. The primary beneficiary of Jermaine Dixon’s minutes will likely be Lamar Patterson, who can move into the 3 and slide Wanamaker to the 2 with Gibbs at point. Patterson, I think, is the next Wanamaker in his style and overall contributions.
Taylor will continue to share time with Gary and, unless he can push himself on a more aggressive improvement trajectory than Gary, will not start. It won’t be until his junior year that he sees anytime at the 4 position. Even then, Robison will still be in the program and have started for two years, so Taylor would have to surpass Robinson to start over him. By that time, with McGee gone, Dante will be the most experienced center on the team, so I don’t think it is wholly unreasonable to foresee Taylor not starting at the 4 until his senior year. Hopefully by that time, Richardson and/or Zanna have developed as post players. Two years from now, with only Robinson and no Gilbert Brown to play 4, there may be spells when Rich/Zanna is playing 5 and Dante is moved to the 4 as Robinson goes to the bench.
In the back court, it will be interesting to see if Epps or Wright can displace anyone, but if they do, it may be because of lack of development (or regression) by Woodall the way Fields moved in on Benjiman’s time. Still, if those new guys can all progressively develop and contribute, it would be nice to have a solid 4-guard Big East backcourt for a couple of years. Perhaps there’s an outside chance that Epps or Wright is a star right off the bat. In that case, Woodall and Patterson would see less time. But Woodall will be in his 3rd year in the program and hopefully have overcome his “issues” earlier this year. And Patterson is closer to being more physically ready for BE play. So it will be tough to dislodge either unless someone can REALLY shoot or CREATE shots on their own or play defense at the level of Jermaine Dixon. Those two guards will most likely play support roles early in their career otherwise. If JJ Moore comes in with Epps and Wright, one of them will redshirt. I think Miller will be asked to move on. This is how I’m seeing things….Now, anyone want to buy these damn second round BE tourney tickets off me?
Try a warm southern climate, its great!
I lived in Pittsburgh/Northeast for 40 years.
High taxes and cold weather, I heard Pittsburgh had 40 inches of snow in February!
Enjoy!
You’ll find some southern cities a paradise!
Enjoy the Bronx!
It wasn’t a statement that my life is better than yours. I think Pittsburgh is an awesome city as are the others you mention. My whole family is still in the ‘Burgh and I visit as often as I can.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, the original purpose of the bowl games – and having them in warm weather cities – was to reward the teams first and foremost for their performances during the season. But, would I take NYC over Birmingham or Charlotte? Hell yeah.
Warm weather is great, but you’ll never convince me that a bowl in some crap city in the great plains or SEC country is better than NYC. Yes it will be cold (NYC is in the mid-30s in late December so not frigid), but NYC has so great day time activities and outstanding night life. The game is just a good excuse to get up there in December.
What a treat!
I’ll take the Papa John’s Bowl in Birmingham, it will be at least 50 degrees and a hotel room won’t cost me $300, plus southern women are a bit more friendly.
Little secrets not widely known outside of NYC: People go outside in cold weather (after the streets are plowed of snow). Coats and hoods do a lot to temper the weather. NYC is a great city. At Christmas time, however, bring your walking shoes if you are going to mid-town. You will become very frustrated if you try to drive. It ain’t a good idea.
hahaha.
Went to the Cavs/Spurs game last night with a buddy of mine (Pitt guy) to watch our Big Fella versus LBJ & the other Big Fella. Unfortunately, Shaq is out and LBJ sat out for precautionary health purposes. Dejuan did not start, and saw limited minutes for the Spurs (O points, 4 rebounds, 3 fouls). For the most part, Blair was a nonfactor and could never get into a groove. Strangely enough, Dejuan had been on quite a tear in recent games…and even started in many of those games. But for some reason, he was just off. BTW the Cavs ended up winning a close one. Manu was huge for Spurs with nearly 40 points. Jamison, West, and Mo Williams led the Cavs.
On a pleasant note, my friend and I walked down near the court to eye the Spurs warmup and get a closeup look at the Q and of Blair. While down there, we ran into Dejuan’s parents. WHat a wonderful couple! They took time to chat with us and share stories about Dejaun and Pitt. Truly proud parents, and the spark in their eyes was priceless as they watched Dejaun warm up with the likes of Duncan & Co.
Jeff: Thanks for the tip. I’m going to sell my stocks and buy gold and a gun before the week ends. 🙂
TampaT, you mean you live in Florida and don’t already own a gun?
If I do buy one, I may use it to shoot the Cialis-generic-drug spammer that keeps posting here. At least he finds us entertaining.
Now it is a destination in NYC for me. Just like I’d rather go to Toronto than Charlotte. I wish Charleston should build a stadium and host a bowl. There is much more to offer than Memphis or Charlotte or Birmingham.
Milledgeville looks pretty fun too.
Ah, that makes zero sense. All teams in conferences have 4 or 5 non-conference games. I think that 90%-100% of the teams would make room on their schedules to play ND along with the fans and notoriety that it brings. Why would ND want to split its TV contract and Bowl proceeds with conference members? Obviously, I missing something. Please explain.
Where do non-students get tickets for this ?
The prices are over inflated for 400 level seats on stubhub.
Any other sources to get tickets from ?
My understanding is that the per-team revenues from the Big 10 Network are approaching ND’s own $9M deal with NBC. It could very well make financial sense for ND. Whether they’re willing to give up being “special” is another question, but a Big 10 offer won’t be so easy to dismiss this time around.
Maguro, I have no facts to dispute your comments; however to me it is surprising. The Big 10 is regional while ND is national. I suspect that an ND-USC game on national TV would have a larger TV audience than the collective audience of 5 or 6 Big 10 games. One thing I have to believe, however: besides being able to recruit good athletes, ND can also recruit good accountants.
HbgFrank, you usually think these things thru more deeply than I do, but it seems to me that schools (e.g. Pitt) knocks on ND’s door hat-in-hand rather than the reverse. I have a difficult time visualizing USC telling ND “thanks but no thanks” just as much as Pitt telling ND “Given the choice to play you or Cincinnati in December, we choose Cincinnati.” Somehow Pitt would squeeze Cincy in during the month of August if the only date open with ND was in December. Obviously, my opinion only.
ND joins the BE. ND/BE renegotiate a TV contract with NBC whereby all of ND’s games are on the network (instead of just its home games). Essentially, ND could keep its historical home game NBC revenues and the BE would garner the revenue when ND was not at home.
This would dramatically help the BE as it would essentially have its network.
I think the “super conference” point that HbgFrank is making is that top schools in those conferences may not be able to afford to play ND as a non-con team, because a loss could knock them out of BCS championship contention (see Pitt/Penn State). Under Weiss that wasn’t an issue :-), but if Kelly gets them competitive again, it becomes one. That would leave ND with middle teams in the “super conferences” instead of the top teams. It could happen, but probably later than sooner, so I don’t see ND doing anything before the Big 1x expansion.
Interesting suggestion, Jester. What other programming does NBC have on a Saturday anyway? The only pitfall is existing contracts with other networks, particularly the Big East and ESPN. Renegotiating those could be expensive and weaken the BE’s relationship with ESPN further. ESPN/ABC is getting stronger ties with the Big Ten and now the SEC, so the BE has to tread lightly there.
HbgFrank, my guess is that ND sells out home or away in November whether they play USC , UConn or Bowling Green. As to the BSC Championship, if ND and another team are both undefeated, my guess is that the powers to be may look at the respective schedules. If one team has a loss against, say, Ohio State while ND is undefeated against patsies, undefeated ND gets the bid. Alabama and a number of southern schools figured out the formula decades ago. Their schedules always included several patsies. They only had to defeat a few prominent schools for top national ranking. Currently, in my judgment, ND has the toughest schedule of any university. They can afford to weaken their schedule. Every conference has about 4 or 5 weak sisters that the Florida’s and Ohio State’s feast upon. If ND weakens their schedule a bit (or a lot), they will still be the prize because they are ND.
An undefeated ND playing a weak schedule at season’s end my not hurt them in the human polls, but it could kill them in the computer polls (1/3 of the BCS rank) rankinig them even against a one loss super conference team or teams (see Utah, TCU, Boise St.) Not saying that ND doesn’t carry more aura than those schools, but the computers don’t rank aura.
Plus, ND would run the risk of becoming irrelevant, like Jo Pa says of the Big Ten, if while they’re playing lesser schools or done for the season, super conference powers are playing for their conference championships. That could even hurt them in the human polls at the end.
Of course, this is all speculative and would take a few years of super conferences being in place to realize, but it obviously has the ND AD thinking.
I can’t disagree with that.
I have to admit, for all of the talk out of Providence about how the league was in a better position during this last round of negotiations than the previous round, I find the bowl lineup wholly underwhelming.