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Actually, I think most UK fans agree with me, that bowl games ARE pretty important. If Rich Brooks had scheduled a couple more major-conference teams the last three years, UK likely would have finished 5-7 instead of 7-5 or 6-6. As a result, we would not have played in any bowl game at all, and Rich Brooks would be long gone from Kentucky. Instead, he's looked at as someone who has "turned around the program", enough so that the higher-ups decided to lock in his assistant as the future head coach. Plus, I went to both Music City Bowls against Clemson and FSU, and there were at least 45,000 UK fans who made the trip to Nashville both years. Sound like the fanbase is unhappy to you?

I must also correct you, UK does not have 4 "boring pansies" on the non-conference schedule. In case you forgot, UK still plays Louisville every year, a program that up until last year had been a perennial top 20 team, not to mention one that cleaned UK's clock most of the time. People tend to forget that Louisville is a fellow BCS program.

In college football, the bottom line is that in order to become a better team, you have to get better players. And with recruits, perception is everything. What do you think will catch a prospect's attention better, going to a fourth straight bowl game and getting the national exposure on ESPN that comes with it? Or going 5-7 and staying home in December because you scheduled ambitiously and lost a hard-fought game to another BCS school?

Wow, a lot wrong with your post to be so condescending. Nobody said bowl games aren't important. Their nonconference schedule is very very weak no matter how you spin it. Nobody tends to forget Louisville is a BCS program. And you missed my point that while lower tier bowl games were fantastic for the bowl starved UK program a few years back, people are no longer thrilled with 4-0 against a very weak nonconference schedule, 2-6 in the SEC, and a low-tier bowl. UK still doesn't get many players the top-tier SEC schools want. So its time to step up the schedule expect more. Also, since when does it mean you "scheduled ambitiously" just because you don't want to have one of the worst nonconference schedules in the nation??? Again, look at the empty seats in Commonwealth when a pansy comes to town to see who's right. Want to make a little wager on the number of empty seats for the La.-Monroe and EKU games in Lexington?

I don't want to take the low road, do the least possible, get the least amount of good football in Lexington and hope to sneak into a low-tier bowl. I want more. We can be more.

Other than all that, your post makes sense.