This Article Seems To Give Alot Of Credit To JJ

[Kaos]

Ok, you win. Jay Jacobs had no part in it. Even though that's his job. It's logical to assume that the Outback Bowl's committee went through the bowl fairy instead.

Thank you. 

[Pell City Tiger]

"When we heard the Auburn fans chanting at the end of Fridays game 'Its great to be an Auburn Tiger' we knew there was something special about the excitement around this football team. The Tigers have everything we are looking for in a New Years Day team-They are a tough, exciting team, extremely well coached, and have what might be the best fans in College Football." -Jim McVay, Outback Bowl President/CEO   

Impossible!

[The Prowler]

Impossible!

I don't think it's impossible, I mean hasn't greaseybammer been saying that all along?  And yes, Jay Jacobs did have something to do with the Outback Bowl selecting Auburn....too bad Mr. Shitstache can't accept that.

[Iwannaplay]

You are all tards except Kaos.  UGA is down and the fan base isn't excited right, evidence why they fell all the way down to Shreveport. Auburn fan base feels like they are on the rise and excited that's why they got it b/c they will go and spend money. If you've ever been in an athletic department or worked in an athletic department trying to get a bid, its about what the fans.  The bowl will select what fans will come and spend money, not about the pitch that the athletic director will make.

[Snaggletiger]

You are all tards except Kaos.  UGA is down and the fan base isn't excited right, evidence why they fell all the way down to Shreveport. Auburn fan base feels like they are on the rise and excited that's why they got it b/c they will go and spend money. If you've ever been in an athletic department or worked in an athletic department trying to get a bid, its about what the fans.  The bowl will select what fans will come and spend money, not about the pitch that the athletic director will make.

"It's about what the fans"????  Stop, please. Look, the bowl reps go to the games and yes...the Iron Bowl was very influential.  But anyone who doesn't think those same reps and the AD's (Jacobs, in this case) aren't on the horn wheeling and dealing..is delusional. 

" I am an OUTBACK REP...and I went to teh Iron Bowls.  And I decree that Auburn fans are...teh best". 

Bullshit!!!!!

There's all kinds of logistics to work out from transportation...to room and board...advertisement..to bands etc.  People ...pleeease..the Outback Bowl reps did NOT look at Auburn's fan base and make this decision solely on one game. It's a $3.1 million dollar payout per team.  And you think there aren't serious discussions and debates going on?  Really? 

[AUChizad]

"It's about what the fans"????  Stop, please. Look, the bowl reps go to the games and yes...the Iron Bowl was very influential.  But anyone who doesn't think those same reps and the AD's (Jacobs, in this case) aren't on the horn wheeling and dealing..is delusional. 

" I am an OUTBACK REP...and I went to teh Iron Bowls.  And I decree that Auburn fans are...teh best". 

Bullshit!!!!!

There's all kinds of logistics to work out from transportation...to room and board...advertisement..to bands etc.  People ...pleeease..the Outback Bowl reps did NOT look at Auburn's fan base and make this decision solely on one game. It's a $3.1 million dollar payout per team.  And you think there aren't serious discussions and debates going on?  Really? 

^This.

[Kaos]

"It's about what the fans"????  Stop, please. Look, the bowl reps go to the games and yes...the Iron Bowl was very influential.  But anyone who doesn't think those same reps and the AD's (Jacobs, in this case) aren't on the horn wheeling and dealing..is delusional. 

" I am an OUTBACK REP...and I went to teh Iron Bowls.  And I decree that Auburn fans are...teh best". 

Bullpoop!!!!!

There's all kinds of logistics to work out from transportation...to room and board...advertisement..to bands etc.  People ...pleeease..the Outback Bowl reps did NOT look at Auburn's fan base and make this decision solely on one game. It's a $3.1 million dollar payout per team.  And you think there aren't serious discussions and debates going on?  Really? 

I talked to an Outback rep during the rain delay of the West Virginia game.  Or was it halftime at the MSU game?  I can't remember. 

I want credit, please. 

[Snaggletiger]

You get no credit.  It was storming and no one could see you. Unless you have video of said Outback rep singing, "Living on a Prayer"...it didn't happen.  David says, fuck your BBQ and your inside sources.

[Kaos]

You get no credit.  It was storming and no one could see you. Unless you have video of said Outback rep singing, "Living on a Prayer"...it didn't happen.  David says, phuk your BBQ and your inside sources.

I asked him to hand me a napkin at the steam tables where the (horribly poopty) food was.  I'm sure he saw the AU logo on the napkin and as a result advised the bowl committee to select us.  

Food in the AU pressbox has declined PRECIPITOUSLY in the last few years.  In the Bowden days you got Kenny Rogers chicken and fixins.  Damn that was good.  

Since then, it's gotten pooptier and pooptier.  This year was the absolute worst ever.

One week it was some casserole garbage that tasted like cardboard.   One week it was nothing but some damn dogs.  

Used to be, there were hot dogs and burgers and then a good meal on the tables.  Drinks came in souvenir cups.  Now?  No burgers.  A handful of dogs -- better get one quick if you want one or they'll be gone -- and damn lunchroom lady food.  Drinks come in thin-ass clear plastic cups that crumple in your hand.  Pathetic.  And no choices, either.  No tea.  Coke, diet coke and water.  

Even the desserts have declined.  Cookie size is halved. Once had Dove bars in the freezer.  Now it's some weak Mayfield junk.  Not the good stuff, the cheapy poopty ice cream sandwiches.  

After the game there used to be hot dogs and chips and cookies in the interview room with a carbonated drink machine.  The machine is still there, but there's no ice.  And the cups are the poopty wax ones.  The hot dogs are cleaned out  because they only bring in about six.  And there aren't any cookies or chips.  

First class to low rent.

And you know who is at fault for the piss poor food?  (Seriously? AU has gone from having the best spread to having one of the worst)  JAY JACOBS.  It's his fault.  

[JR4AU]

Ok, you win. Jay Jacobs had no part in it. Even though that's his job. It's logical to assume that the Outback Bowl's committee went through the bowl fairy instead.

It doesn't take a kick ass salesman or sales job to sell a good product that the buyer has seen and tested for themselves.  The product sells itself.  IMO, Jacobs could only have fucked it up.

[AUChizad]

It doesn't take a kick ass salesman or sales job to sell a good product that the buyer has seen and tested for themselves.  The product sells itself.  IMO, Jacobs could only have fucked it up.

This may be true. But then why did everyone and their mother have us chalked up for Shreveport or Birmingham? Absolutely no one, yourself included, pegged us for the best possible bowl of the six we were fighting other teams with identical records for.

I'm not saying he turned water into wine, I'm just saying he played, in the very least, a small part in pitching the idea that we were a worthy participant in their bowl.

[GH2001]

I asked him to hand me a napkin at the steam tables where the (horribly poopty) food was.  I'm sure he saw the AU logo on the napkin and as a result advised the bowl committee to select us.  

Food in the AU pressbox has declined PRECIPITOUSLY in the last few years.  In the Bowden days you got Kenny Rogers chicken and fixins.  Damn that was good.  

Since then, it's gotten pooptier and pooptier.  This year was the absolute worst ever.

One week it was some casserole garbage that tasted like cardboard.   One week it was nothing but some damn dogs.  

Used to be, there were hot dogs and burgers and then a good meal on the tables.  Drinks came in souvenir cups.  Now?  No burgers.  A handful of dogs -- better get one quick if you want one or they'll be gone -- and damn lunchroom lady food.  Drinks come in thin-ass clear plastic cups that crumple in your hand.  Pathetic.  And no choices, either.  No tea.  Coke, diet coke and water.  

Even the desserts have declined.  Cookie size is halved. Once had Dove bars in the freezer.  Now it's some weak Mayfield junk.  Not the good stuff, the cheapy poopty ice cream sandwiches.  

After the game there used to be hot dogs and chips and cookies in the interview room with a carbonated drink machine.  The machine is still there, but there's no ice.  And the cups are the poopty wax ones.  The hot dogs are cleaned out  because they only bring in about six.  And there aren't any cookies or chips.  

First class to low rent.

And you know who is at fault for the piss poor food?  (Seriously? AU has gone from having the best spread to having one of the worst)  JAY JACOBS.  It's his fault.  

Seriously? You sound like a whiny teenage girl getting mad because dad cut her text message plan in half and she now can only text her BFFs Haleigh and Kelcey ala carte and now dad's gonna make her pay for it. Poor you. Go buy 4 dollar watered down cokes and 4 dollar rank ass hotdogs like the rest of us.  
Boo hoo.  

[Saniflush]

Food in the AU pressbox has declined PRECIPITOUSLY in the last few years.  In the Bowden days you got Kenny Rogers chicken and fixins.  Damn that was good.  

Since then, it's gotten pooptier and pooptier.  This year was the absolute worst ever.

One week it was some casserole garbage that tasted like cardboard.   One week it was nothing but some damn dogs.  

Used to be, there were hot dogs and burgers and then a good meal on the tables.  Drinks came in souvenir cups.  Now?  No burgers.  A handful of dogs -- better get one quick if you want one or they'll be gone -- and damn lunchroom lady food.  Drinks come in thin-ass clear plastic cups that crumple in your hand.  Pathetic.  And no choices, either.  No tea.  Coke, diet coke and water.  

Even the desserts have declined.  Cookie size is halved. Once had Dove bars in the freezer.  Now it's some weak Mayfield junk.  Not the good stuff, the cheapy poopty ice cream sandwiches.  

After the game there used to be hot dogs and chips and cookies in the interview room with a carbonated drink machine.  The machine is still there, but there's no ice.  And the cups are the poopty wax ones.  The hot dogs are cleaned out  because they only bring in about six.  And there aren't any cookies or chips.  
  

I'm not really interested in making sure ya'll are fed well. 

Besides, look at this man.  Any doubt there was gonna be heavy grazing going on during his tenure?

[Godfather]

Go buy 4 dollar watered down cokes and 4 dollar rank ass hotdogs like the rest of us.  
Boo hoo.  

This

I'm not really interested in making sure ya'll are fed well. 

Besides, look at this man.  Any doubt there was gonna be heavy grazing going on during his tenure?

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Complaining about free food? I am going to start calling you Kaostein.

[AUChizad]

Complaining about free food? I am going to start calling you Kaostein.

Or Birmingham.

[jadennis]

I asked him to hand me a napkin at the steam tables where the (horribly poopty) food was.  I'm sure he saw the AU logo on the napkin and as a result advised the bowl committee to select us.  

However, Jay Jacobs hired Gene Chizik...and I saw specifically spelled out in the blue print (page 7, paragraph 3), that "all napkins in the press box area shall display the AU logo".

It's part of his attention to detail.  And guess what, his genius coaching job in the Iron Bowl and his logos on napkins got us the Outback Bowl.

Who hired this Bowl corralling genius?  Jay Jacobs, the puppet master.

[Godfather]

However, Jay Jacobs hired Gene Chizik...and I saw specifically spelled out in the blue print (page 7, paragraph 3), that "all napkins in the press box area shall display the AU logo".

It's part of his attention to detail.  And guess what, his genius coaching job in the Iron Bowl and his logos on napkins got us the Outback Bowl.

Who hired this Bowl corralling genius?  Jay Jacobs, the puppet master.

Also make note the napkins with said logo are more expensive than regular napkins, hence leading to less money in the budget to feed the media. 

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[jadennis]

It doesn't take a kick ass salesman or sales job to sell a good product that the buyer has seen and tested for themselves.  The product sells itself.  IMO, Jacobs could only have phuked it up.

I don't think that's so true.  As much as I hate to use Alabama as an example....that football program is easy to sell...history, championships (real and imagined), facilities, support (even guys like RWS who have never been to game bleed crimson and saban), etc.  Yet until they got a guy in there that knew exactly how to sell it, they weren't bringing in top 5 recruiting classes.

The extent to which a good product sells itself is limited, you have to have someone that can sell it too.  Who knows, Jacobs may make bad decisions and seem like a goof, but maybe the guy can sell ice to an Eskimo(?).

[Kaos]

Seriously? You sound like a whiny teenage girl getting mad because dad cut her text message plan in half and she now can only text her BFFs Haleigh and Kelcey ala carte and now dad's gonna make her pay for it. Poor you. Go buy 4 dollar watered down cokes and 4 dollar rank ass hotdogs like the rest of us.  
Boo hoo.  

Obviously the rant was self-mockery. 

But there is no question the quality of the food has declined over the last decade. 

If it was just feeding the douchebags like me and Finebaum and Scarbinsky and Doucheberry, I wouldn't care.  But the folks from ESPN eat there and so do the visiting bowl officials.   

Maybe the paucity of good food got us the Outback.  Maybe it's charity because they think we are like homeless people eating discarded trash. 

[jadennis]

Also make note the napkins with said logo are more expensive than regular napkins, hence leading to less money in the budget to feed the media.  KAOS

Many people don't know that Chizik majored in economics.  His senior thesis was written on the economics of Bowl payouts.  See, the Independence Bowl pays out $1.1 million.  The Outback pays $3 million.  He knew the extra $13.04 per napkin pack would pay off huge in the end.