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Like Kyle Fuller?
That's just asinine. In these scenarios for a team to be a champion it must be the last remaining undefeated team in the playoff. The playoff is made up of top teams. Therefore a team that goes undefeated in a 8 or 16 team playoff is the champion and as a result the best team. If you meant conference champions, then it's still a silly statement. Very rarely is the conference champion not the best team in the conference, if you ignore sanctions and bowl bans which makes them ineligible because they cheated to get to be the best and deserve to not qualify.
That argument only held during the BCS because there was no way to evaluate the best teams outside of the manufactured Top 2 at the end of the season. And in many years teams were on the outside looking in with a legitimate argument of why they should be there in the Top 4 or 5 such as Boise St, TCU, Utah, VT, Hawaii, and a host of other teams with the same record in power conferences as #1 and/or #2.
Yeah, any more than that and I think the risk of injury gets too high.
With NCAA limited strength and conditioning preparation, doing more than that will end too many careers at the college level.
I would also advocate finding a way to allow supervised conditioning prep for the athletes in times where there are no scheduled practices.
In the cold of late Dec and Jan is no time for poorly prepared kids to be breaking knees and fingers just so fans can have an extended season.
Didn't say I was giving up on having 9 wins this year, just that if it took us until 2020 to win a championship, I'd be happy with that because we would have won a championship. If we win it in 2016, I'll be happy then as well.
The reason for 16 is that there are 10 conferences and, by extension, 10 conference champions. So in order to seed them all, you either have a ten team bracket where the top 6 teams get an opening round bye and the bottom 4 play in...
or you have a 16 team bracket that includes all the champs plus 6 at-large berths for the Bamas of the World who can't seem to win the big one until the postseason.
You'll have a bone to pick no matter how big the field is. People get "snubbed" in March Madness every year, but the thing is, the best team is somewhere in those top 66 teams each year. If you only had to pick the top 4 teams, you'd only be getting the number one seeds, who are supposed to win it all, but don't always. Do some teams who don't deserve to get in make the cut? Sure they do. But you're guaranteed to have the best team in that field. I don't know that you guarantee that for yourself by only picking four. I think you do guarantee that at 16 teams, and you come close to a guarantee at 8 teams. I think with 4, you have a "pretty good chance", as opposed to a guarantee.
Are we really giving up on the bowl game? We can double our returns annually if we beat UCLA so we should get to 15-0 right around 2016, which everyone is pointing towards for a potential MNC run anyway, kicked off at the Battle at Bristol.
I really don't think Loeffler is going to be a good OC. I saw nothing in his first year that suggested he was going to make this offense into anything different than it was in previous years. Honestly, I saw this team as same old same old VT.
I'll light it with my cigar and alkyhol.
Then burn it. I've never seen a shit dumpster fire.
Drove non-stop once from San Diego to Minneapolis then back a few weeks later for Christmas. SD to Ft Worth then up 35 to MN. Cold as a Bud Foster ass chewing.
Next time cross country was Los Angeles to Virginia Beach. Stopped in Az, Amarillo, Shiloh and Bristol. You are correct TN was looooong. 40 goes in and out of TN at the points.
I think (hope) Leal can surprise some folks.
A lot may hinge on Ford with Loeffler. But not everything if Fprd does well Loefflerwill be accepted if not his leash might get shorter
I live in Alabama now, and I'm pretty sure the only thing that qualifies you as a legit auburn fan is living in Alabama and flipping a coin. Heads you're Alabama, tails you're auburn.
Also, my professor made a joke about returning field goals the Monday after the iron bowl and about half the class almost got up and left. It was amusing.
Yeah but the thing about tha... DANNY COALE CAUGHT THAT BALL!
Thanks IET..I'm glad you enjoyed my picks. I just hope I can make it through the entire season next year (I started late this time around because I'm relatively new to TKP). It might be a tough act to follow.
Over time that could even out the upper conferences. Why would a 5star go to the SEC knowing only one team will make it. Could be a good thing
Their venues have10-20k seats. FBS much larger and $ and prep and ...
The existing bowls would need to be incorporated in some way yhey arent just going to go away.
VT Bowl Steak and Betting Lines:
1993 Season, Independence, vs. Indiana -- VT by 3*
1994 Season, Gator, vs. Tennessee -- UT by 7
1995 Season, Sugar, vs. Texas -- UT by 2*
1996 Season, Orange, vs. Nebraska -- Neb by 17
1997 Season, Gator, vs. UNC -- UNC by 12
1998 Season, Music City, vs. Bama -- VT by 3*
1999 Season, Sugar, vs. FSU -- FSU by 5.5
2000 Season, Gator, vs. Clemson -- VT by 6.5*
2001 Season, Gator, vs. FSU -- VT by 2
2002 Season, San Fran Walnut, vs. AFA -- VT by 11
2003 Season, Insight, vs. Cal -- VT by 3
2004 Season, Sugar, vs. Auburn -- Aub by 7*
2005 Season, Gator, vs. Louisville -- VT by 7.5*
2006 Season, CFA, vs. UGA -- VT by 3
2007 Season, Orange, vs. Kansas -- VT by 2.5
2008 Season, Orange, vs. Cincy -- Cincy by 2.5*
2009 Season, CFA, vs. Tennessee -- VT by 5.5*
2010 Season, Orange, vs. Stanford -- Stan by 3
2011 Season, Sugar, vs. Michigan -- Mich by 2.5
2012 Season, RAB, vs. Rutgers -- VT by 2.5*
So we are 9-11 ATS the last 20 years.
FBS football is the ONLY NCAA sport where the NCAA does not organize the postseason. Every single other sport in the NCAA, and all other levels of football, have an official NCAA postseason event that is organized, promoted and sponsored by the NCAA. Why couldn't they add an official NCAA football tournament at the end of the season? The only reason I can think of is that the bowl officials of the top-tier bowls would lose out on a ton of money, but is this necessarily a bad thing?
And, for example, if a #10 Oregon team is invited to the tournament, but they'd rather play in the Rose Bowl because of a higher guaranteed payout, there's nothing keeping them from declining the tournament invitation and playing in the Rose Bowl. It'll be like how the NCAA tourney and NIT were on roughly equal footing and competed for the top teams until the 1950s. The one that more people want to watch (between the playoffs and the bowl system) will win out in the end.
Haha, I knew that much. The question was "Do you know what the tardis is?"
Phoneboothy thing was not the correct answer...
Understanding what to expect will com in time . In a two season team will fully understand what is expected. It will be a learning process for the committee as well
It was a good hire for Wake. They apparently don't have any financial problems paying out money for coaches. If Clawson can put together a couple good teams at Wake, he will be set up for a BIG coaching position. Maybe take Dabo's job when he is exposed without Chad Morris and Boyd.