Will Heupel refuse a bowl invite like MO?

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Vol737 said:
No, you don’t refuse a bowl invite when you’re in our position. At worst we would have gone to the Cotton Bowl. While disappointing, you don’t turn that down. Now it looks likely we may go to the Orange Bowl. If TCU slips up and loses today, Alabama could slide into the playoff (complete garbage, but…) and the VOLS would be heading to the Sugar Bowl.

More than anything, I hope Heupel uses this situation to drive home how important it is to stay focused on what’s important and avoid whatever situation(s) the week before that was the catalyst behind the disaster that was the SCar game.
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Mizzou still going to a bowl game, supposedly they didn't want to play Kansas for whatever reason.
 
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Tman44 said:
That was malfeasance in the highest. Do you know how many extra practices you get by going to a bowl game? Many coaches say they get more player development done during bowl practice than any other time of the year. Skipping a bowl is asinine and will set a program back.
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Maybe Tennessee's secondary will improve enough to not make whatever QB we face look like a Heisman winner.
 
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JoeBob said:
Look at MO refusing their 1st bowl invite until they received the one they wanted to go to.
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The bowl money goes to the conference. If a team turns down a bowl invite, the SEC will not distribute money (millions) to that team.
 
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It was probably the dumbest move ever by Missouri. I would hope UT would never do something so weak and lame even if we would've had to suffer a Cotton Bowl selection this year, which fortunatelywe won't.
 
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JoeBob said:
Look at MO refusing their 1st bowl invite until they received the one they wanted to go to.
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We're going to a bowl that pays in the 10's of millions of dollars.

Where is the Bowl that Mizzou would go to would pay barely enough to break even with travel expenses.

You go to bowls for extra practices and another chance for exposure for recruiting.

We're going to a bigtime bowl this year! We have to go...
It's a program building game.
 
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Fightmaker said:
Mizzou disputes that they are turning down any bowl or any opponent.
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And even if they did, the bowls they are in contention aren’t even on par with the NY6. They have little to lose when wanting one crappy bowl over another crappy bowl. However, those dorks ain’t turning down anything.
 
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Why would we want to turn down the Orange Bowl against Clemson? Short of the playoff, it's a best case scenario. Prime time new years 6 with a great marketing hook for the matchup. It would be a watershed win if Tennessee can pull it off.
 
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JoeBob said:
Look at MO refusing their 1st bowl invite until they received the one they wanted to go to.
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Are we really crying over the Orange bowl? 10 wins regular season for the first time in 19 yrs! Only yr 2 for JH and look what he’s fine with basically a bad news bears lineup ! Orange bowl for all 19 yr olds on VN is one of the 4 elite bowl games!
 
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What would happen if Tennessee decided not to go to the Cotton Bowl or Orange Bowl in your opinions?
 
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loservol said:
They would call the Vols snobs if they turned down the Cotton and cowards if they turned down the Orange Bowl.
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It would be interesting if Tennessee did refuse to go and the Cotton or Orange Bowl had to pick someone not even on their potential teams lists to go to their bowls and it screwed up a lot of the bowls this season.
 
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JoeBob said:
Look at MO refusing their 1st bowl invite until they received the one they wanted to go to.
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#49
That ain’t Heupel’s style. He loves the game for its own sake and for the joy of the competition
 
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