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Exactly. I mean why play the game? I could care less who is "better". Have some criteria and let teams play it out. If they're right, the winner should be who they think it is. We've watched Bama lose to two 6-6 teams. Give some other teams that have merit or meet certain criteria a chance. If we don't, what's the point in playing the game.
Total agreement
Just saying that the BCS rankings are historically pretty aligned with the committees decisions
I feel a lot better about him than Collins. I don't really have an opinion on Quinn. I wished we would've gotten Dex instead of Marve from the get-go and worked any kinks out these last few years.
If the NFL operated like college the 2017 Eagles wouldn't have been allowed in the playoffs after Wentz hurt his knee and Foles would have never been allowed to go on the run he did. But the unexpected is what is great about sports. The most deserving teams don't always win. The big money doesn't always win.
ESPN is actively trying to make sure their investments always cash, rigging the desk in their favor. And it's bullshit.
If it does end up being Poindexter - how do we feel? One of my biggest concerns with the Pry regime when it was first announced was a first-time HC with two first-time Coordinators. Hiring Poindexter as DC will be hiring another experimental first-time coordinator. Is Pry willing to bet his job on it on this first-timer panning out?
NEVER MIND - I posted a question without looking enough into Poindexter's history to realize that he has DC experience.
His shoes are from 1987.
Imagine if this is how the NFL worked, where being the best on paper was more important than your record. Detroit would be getting hammered by the media just like FSU did when the injuries hit, Minnesota might be on a pedestal (higher than KC) because of their SOS, and the Ravens would be a lock because they have Jackson at QB despite being tied in their division w Pittsburgh, splitting the season, and Pittsburgh having a more difficult schedule.
Which is fine, I think they got it right this year but its the continued narrative that drives me nuts and IMO will eventually lead to the committee being weaponized to support the $EC.
"5-star recruit *name* seen here tossing a t-shirt at VT in 2024. He was VT's first 5-star recruit since Kendall Fuller, but unfortunately he was big-dogged away from Tech after leading VT to an 11-1 record his freshman year by Vanderbilt, whose revenue income was triple that of VT's due to VT still being locked into the same awful Grant of Rights contract through 2036."
Pretty sure the BCS rankings (had they been continued) would have matched cfp selection every year until FSU was left out.
I'm all for computer rankings. Just publicize the algorithm(s).
Yep if you say Florida, Kentucky, USCe, Miss State, Missouri are great teams, impossible places to win over and over and over again, despite no truth to it, you feed the machine.
ain't no way the SEC will agree to an independent body determining SoS because then someone might actually take a critical look at their OOC scheduling and realize that the conference is famous for never playing true away games and any neutral site has to be solidly within their footprint.
This year if anything makes a case for contracting the playoff- absolute shit games thus far. 8 teams would have been enough.
yupp we have so many independent advanced analytics now, find an independent model that's consistent and limits subjectivity and run with it.
Great then don't expand it or the rest of football can tell them to go spin on a stick
2 very good football rules that people never follow. 1. Don't draft a QB that sucked in college. Don't. ( Levis, Tribisky, Richardson) sucked. Watch them against good teams - suck. 2. Don't hire a defensive coordinator (Collins) that sucks. Sucks. Don't do it Pry. Don't. UNCs defense sucked and were softer than ours.
The B1G and SEC are on record saying they won't agree to playoff expansion unless they get multiple automatic bids.
Oh they are 100% going to kill the fucking golden goose. 100% . Herbstreit is rich because college football is a passionate regional sport with a meaningful regular season. He's living proof- is e famous for his fucking NFL thursday night gig? Does anyone give a shit that he calls Rams Saints on a random thursday? no. But they tune in to watch him on Saturday mornings. Why? because it used to mean something to be a VT fan, an - insert not SEC- team fan. If they continue to simp for one conference and give them 4, 5,6 auto bids in the playoffs- the regular season is meaningless- much like it was for Tennessee and Penn State this year... lose to the best teams you play, get in the playoff. Tennessee Bama was MUCH bigger when the loser went home basically. They will kill it soon enough
Just as long as the rankings are not a criteria because otherwise that's how they would game the computers. Independent body determines Strength of Schedule criteria.
I'm putting VT on notice: start putting together an offensive line!
I'd take the magic computer BCS selections back please. I'm tired of ESPN and the media raising and sinking entire conferences just based on what they say.
It's the company line, and he works for the company.
And they want all the pie for themselves.
That is just shamelessly setting the table for the national media to completely discount and disqualify anyone but the SEC from having a seat at the playoff table.
Such fucking horseshit. I used to respect this man but he whored himself out HARD for the SEC over the last 10 years or so, and now he's nothing more than a SEC shill with the biggest platform to spew whatever talking point the league front office wants to focus on this week. He single handedly led the charge into dismissing the entire FSU undefeated season last year because of one injury and now he's laying the groundwork to preemptively apply that same disqualification it for the vast majority of teams in college football before the games are even played because they don't have the correct conference patch on their jersey.
Case in point, a few years back, look at his argument when it came to discounting his own alma mater so that it would benefit the SEC
Here's what Kirk Herbstreit (& Jesse Palmer) said on the day of the 2017 CFP selection show when 11-1 Bama was put in over 10-2 Ohio St even though OSU had 2 better Ws per the CFP rankings than Bama did.Why is it different in 2024? The only constant ESPN narrative is pro SEC https://t.co/89FDlOvggH pic.twitter.com/FkcuVY1kZf— Jack Grossman (@JackGrossman97) December 23, 2024
He's everything that is wrong about college sports right now. Absolute personification of the greed and grift that it has all become. Two faced hypocritical asshole who will spew whatever bullshit he needs in order to satisfy whatever agenda he's being told to support this week. The only morals he has anymore is to do whatever is best for the SEC, and not college football in general. Fuck him.
He's kind of been on a similar track as Pry. DC at a lower level (UConn for 3 years), then co-DC for a while at lower P5 program (Purdue), then big P5 program. He's seen how things can and can't be successful at various levels and has familiarity with Pry's system and has connections in VA. To me this is a much lower risk compared to hiring Marve who had never been a DC before besides "defensive run game coordinator" for one season.