Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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@tmft I gave up all hope on the committee being objective and unbiased when they talked about OSU having a couple "game-changing" type athletes. I don't think that was their exact adjective, but it 100% indicated and confirmed their lack of objectivity.
At the end of the rainbow were Pop-Tarts. Bet the leprechaun didn't expect that.
This trend of "opting out" doesn't bode well for the bowl system.
Schools that are eligible for a bowl game and announce that they will turn down any invitation should, in the following year, be ineligible to participate in the playoffs or bowl games, or even to be ranked. Stop being whiny pussies.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
They don't want to share football money, it's all about greed.
@shooter Its finally being floated by media pundits. I've been pushing for this for a few years now. College Football, and College Basketball for that matter, need a Commissioner. The NCAA obviously doesn't have the stick to enforce all these various common sense things that need enforced.
If I were hired as the commissioner...
1. 14 team playoff next year. 6 campus home games, 2 byes for top 2 seeds. A modern version of the BCS system brought back. 4 P4 Conference champions are auto qualifiers. Top rated G5 team makes it. 9 at larges. Straight seeding for first round. Reseeding for rest of rounds. BCS formula criteria announced right now. So programs can prepare for it. Blend of AP, Coaches Polls, advanced metrics, SOS, all that stuff. There's enough parity any more, that I think expanding it slightly makes sense. But if you make it 16, I think you probably are forced in to ALL the top 8 teams hosting campus games, and I think that could dilute the competitiveness late in the year to finish in the top 1-2, to get the bye.
2. No published polls until week 5. New BCS/CFP Poll not released until week 8.
3. Playoffs start week after conference championship games. Then proceed every week until Natty game. The "bye" week provides an incentive to finish in the top 2. Which should make B10/SEC regular seasons and championships remain interesting.
4. Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Peach bowls still apart of the CFP. All other bowls are played between Christmas and New Years. Teams required to participate if selected. Encourage, maybe require, NIL incentives for participating teams, from bowl sponsors.
5. Portal opens week after Natty game. Is open for 10-14 days.
6. Players are allowed 1 "free" transfer during their eligibility. Must sit out a season for every transfer after that.
7. Coaching changes provide immediate transfer waivers, all the same medical and personal hardship waivers available. Decisions on those will be made no longer than 2 weeks after they're applied for.
8. Consider "contracts" for NIL compensation. But I really think the portal rules will do wonders to help regulate NIL as well. A letter of intent then starts to mean something again, and is, in a sense, an NIL contract.
I'm a lot more disappointed that they let Bama in...
IMO, they didn't earn it... NO team with 3 losses, regardless of who they lost to, or when they lost them should even be considered...
The selection committee is made up of a bunch of hypocrites... they make a joke of the entire process.
I'm a lot more disappointed that they let Bama in...
IMO, they didn't earn it... NO team with 3 losses, regardless of who they lost to, or when they lost them should even be considered...
The selection committee is made up of a bunch of hypocrites... they make a joke of the entire process.
You have to get rid of conference championship games then if you are going to penalize teams for losing an extra game.
@boogie ... I agree that conference championship games are no longer needed but, a loss is a loss, and the way GA beat down Bama in the SEC championship game proved the Tide wasn't good enough to be considered in the title hunt. They should never ignore the results of one game and act as if it didn't happen....
If OSU had smothered IU the same way GA did to Bama the selection committee would have hammered IU down to a 4 seed for sure and possibly even a 5 seed....
Bevacqua (ND AD) went on the DP Show this morning and blamed the ACC for lobbying for Miami over ND and claimed the ACC has "certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame.”
What in the hell does he expect the ACC to do? ND wants to football to be independent, which means they aren't part of the ACC for football and also wouldn't share any of the CFP money. Miami is an ACC member and would share rev with the conference. This is such a BS case to make. I was good-naturedly poking fun at ND for not making it, but after declining all bowls and blaming a conference of which they're not a member, it's just so freaking soft. You're either an Independent or you're a member of a conference. I hope the ACC punts the other sports out of the ACC. Let ND go to the Big East for the other sports. Maybe they'll let them have it both ways. They certainly wouldn't advocate for a different football team in the CFP.
What a rat faced asshole
https://twitter.com/dpshow/status/1998064300691165574
https://irishsportsdaily.com/s/26681/notre-dame-ad-pete-bevacqua-transcript-dan-patrick-show
their arrogance leads them to believe they are entitled to have it both ways
Just saw that next year if ND is in the top 12 they get in automatically No other team gets that.
The ND schedule is brutal next year 🙄
- Wisconsin (in Green Bay)
- Rice
- Michigan State
- @ Purdue
- @ UNC
- Navy (in Foxborough)
- Miami
- BC
- SMU
- @ Syracuse
- Stanford
- USC
By my math, that's 9 gimmes, 2 probablys (SMU, USC), and only 1 youwillhavetofightforit.
You guys put too much value on the early CFP rankings. They meant nothing. They're a TV event for a few weeks. Nothing more.It was obvious to everyone after Saturday's games that there were 3 teams for 2 spots: ND, Bama, and Miami.
Personally I would have left out Alabama, not just for the blowout loss to Georgia but also for barely beating an bad Auburn team in the game before, losing to FSU, and being a 3 loss team. Miami > ND > Bama.
But the committee apparently valued strength of schedule above all else and put Bama in.
Then, that decision made... it was Miami and ND for one spot, and logically their head-to-head game mattered. Why did it not seem to matter in earlier rankings? Because it was never an either-or choice, then. It was 3-5 teams in a pack and there was obviously no round robin head-to-head or even a critical mass of common opponents, so other things were considered.
On the overall season, who did ND beat? Who did Alabama beat? I notice no one arguing ND got screwed is mentioning this.
@boogie ... I agree that conference championship games are no longer needed but, a loss is a loss, and the way GA beat down Bama in the SEC championship game proved the Tide wasn't good enough to be considered in the title hunt. They should never ignore the results of one game and act as if it didn't happen....
If OSU had smothered IU the same way GA did to Bama the selection committee would have hammered IU down to a 4 seed for sure and possibly even a 5 seed....
A loss in conf championships isnt a loss that should punish teams. Its should only be used for the conf champs to play themselves in and for those already in, shuffle final seeding. You can't punish a team for a bonus game played against top competition when idle teams dont haveto play an additional game vs top comp.
If we agree they should cancel conf championships, then do that but until then, you can't humanly drop someone out of the top 10 autobid, if they are there before the conf champ games.
You guys put too much value on the early CFP rankings. They meant nothing. They're a TV event for a few weeks. Nothing more.It was obvious to everyone after Saturday's games that there were 3 teams for 2 spots: ND, Bama, and Miami.
Personally I would have left out Alabama, not just for the blowout loss to Georgia but also for barely beating an bad Auburn team in the game before, losing to FSU, and being a 3 loss team. Miami > ND > Bama.
But the committee apparently valued strength of schedule above all else and put Bama in.
Then, that decision made... it was Miami and ND for one spot, and logically their head-to-head game mattered. Why did it not seem to matter in earlier rankings? Because it was never an either-or choice, then. It was 3-5 teams in a pack and there was obviously no round robin head-to-head or even a critical mass of common opponents, so other things were considered.
On the overall season, who did ND beat? Who did Alabama beat? I notice no one arguing ND got screwed is mentioning this.
Who did Alabama lose to? I notice no one who thinks it’s good that they’re in and ND is out mention this.