[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=18261.msg216639#msg216639 date=1512265672]
[quote author=Snorlax94 link=topic=18261.msg216599#msg216599 date=1512251480]
Mick,
What’s wrong with the Alamo Bowl (besides what happened last time)?

I think Stanford has a good team and I’d like the best possible bowl and opponent.

Candidly, for me it's about the whole experience.  If I'm going to take off time from work and spend a fair amount of money, I want to see Stanford play and preferably win, I want it to be in a great venue and beautiful city and if possible, I want friends and family around.  I wouldn't even mind getting some work in.  I can do all of those things in San Diego.  In San Antonio, I can see the game.
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San Antonio has the Alamo, the Riverwalk is great, and some of the best BBQ on the planet. It's not San Diego, but I wouldn't totally write it off.
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It's not that I'm writing it off.  It's an investment for me.  No friends, no family, we don't have an office there and it's on television.  Besides, why would I want to be in cozy, warm, 65 degree San Antonio when I could enjoy frigid, god-forsaken, 14 degree-with-wind-chill Detroit, Michigan?

[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=18261.msg216639#msg216639 date=1512265672]
[quote author=Snorlax94 link=topic=18261.msg216599#msg216599 date=1512251480]
Mick,
What’s wrong with the Alamo Bowl (besides what happened last time)?

I think Stanford has a good team and I’d like the best possible bowl and opponent.

Candidly, for me it's about the whole experience.  If I'm going to take off time from work and spend a fair amount of money, I want to see Stanford play and preferably win, I want it to be in a great venue and beautiful city and if possible, I want friends and family around.  I wouldn't even mind getting some work in.  I can do all of those things in San Diego.  In San Antonio, I can see the game.
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San Antonio has the Alamo, the Riverwalk is great, and some of the best BBQ on the planet. It's not San Diego, but I wouldn't totally write it off.
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It's not that I'm writing it off.  It's an investment for me.  No friends, no family, we don't have an office there and it's on television.  Besides, why would I want to be in cozy, warm, 65 degree San Antonio when I could enjoy frigid, god-forsaken, 14 degree-with-wind-chill Detroit, Michigan?