Dan Patrick: “Explain this to me, and how you explained it to your kids; they’re not playing in a bowl game.”
Jeff Monken:“…We were really looking forward to the opportunity to play in the postseason. We‘ve been set up to play in the Independence Bowl for over a year and had been looking forward to that, like everybody, the reward of playing in the postseason in college football…I’m not mad at the 2-win teams or the 3-win teams that are playing, in fact, I commend them that they are taking the opportunity to play this great game. What I’m disappointed in is the teams that had a chance to play, clamored for an opportunity to play this fall, and are now deciding they don’t want to play. I don’t understand it. We’ve got a team who is deserving of playing in a bowl game…and they’re a group of young men who have made a pledge and commitment to serve this nation…When there’s a team like that, that is uniquely positioned to represent the 1.3 million men and women who serve on active duty in our United States Army, they deserve the opportunity to not just play for themselves, but to represent those men and women.”
Listen to Army Football head coach Jeff Monken join The Dan Patrick Show to discuss his 9-2 team shockingly being left out of a bowl game in the wake of the Independence Bowl being called off, and why he’s upset that schools who had been clamoring about how they would play ‘anyone, anywhere’, are now the ones backing out of bowl games.
Check out the interview above as Monken details to Dan why a team representing 1.3 million men and women in the armed forces should be represented later this month.
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