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per Rossow:
Playing in primetime with a national television audience will heighten the Gophers’ profile, especially considering half the games this season kicked off at 11 a.m., on either the Big Ten Network or an ESPN offspring.
“Anytime you can play in one that there’s not a lot of other games going on and you’ve got the national attention … the reason you watch it a lot of times is because it is the only bowl game on that day, but it’s also been great entertainment,” Claeys said.
Win or lose, earning a trip to San Diego is on par with the pair of Sun Bowl appearances that Mason and his staff led the program to in 1999 and 2003. The achievement trails only the program’s Citrus Bowl appearance two years ago as the marquee moment during the past three decades of Gophers football. A win would put the Gophers total at nine, which would be just the second time that total was met or exceeded during that span.
“We’re excited to go out there,” Claeys said. “I have friends, and guys on the staff, who’ve been out there and they treat you extremely well. Great weather we’ll have out there, and so it’ll be a big challenge.”
http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2...y-bowl-trip-will-invaluable-exposure-program/
Go Gophers!!
Playing in primetime with a national television audience will heighten the Gophers’ profile, especially considering half the games this season kicked off at 11 a.m., on either the Big Ten Network or an ESPN offspring.
“Anytime you can play in one that there’s not a lot of other games going on and you’ve got the national attention … the reason you watch it a lot of times is because it is the only bowl game on that day, but it’s also been great entertainment,” Claeys said.
Win or lose, earning a trip to San Diego is on par with the pair of Sun Bowl appearances that Mason and his staff led the program to in 1999 and 2003. The achievement trails only the program’s Citrus Bowl appearance two years ago as the marquee moment during the past three decades of Gophers football. A win would put the Gophers total at nine, which would be just the second time that total was met or exceeded during that span.
“We’re excited to go out there,” Claeys said. “I have friends, and guys on the staff, who’ve been out there and they treat you extremely well. Great weather we’ll have out there, and so it’ll be a big challenge.”
http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2...y-bowl-trip-will-invaluable-exposure-program/
Go Gophers!!