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Saw today UVA is seeking a waiver for a 7th season for Chandler Morris so they dont need to portal a QB
Robinson staying
Brody Meadows and Joshua Clarke announced they are returning.
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We won 3 this year and pissed away 3 more games that should've been wins. With what we had and the coaching we had, we really were a 5-6 win team
Curious what games you think we pissed away this year besides Wake.
My biggest gripe with the Pry era was it felt like we would do everything possible to end up with 3 more L's a year than we deserved. But for the most part this year, it seems like the games we lost we basically just got our ass kicked.
We won 3 this year and pissed away 3 more games that should've been wins. With what we had and the coaching we had, we really were a 5-6 win team. Pretty sure Franklin and Co. will not be worse than that; that's hard to imagine.
Oops. Sorry about that. One of the nice things about retirement is I don't really know what day it is anymore.
Agreed. All conference champions. No byes. Fill out the bracket with at-larges. ESPN can even keep the committee for the at-larges and the seeding so they can have their special unveiling show.
Win and advance. Lose and go home.
December 21st*. I've been sitting here watching a replay of the game, thinking it was live lol.
Bingo.
If every team knows an undefeated record is safe, and a single loss is game over, we have a self-moderating level of competition in the sport.
Once we start letting the SEC and Big Eleventy super load their conferences, and then scribble the bracket in crayon each season to include as many teams in as they can, we kinda lose that.
A 12 team playoff should always be an improvement over a 4 team playoff in any sport.
The only reason the CFB postseason remains unsatisfying is because we just let the 12 team playoff be just as subjective and corrupted as the 4 team playoff. The expansion didn't really have anything to do with guaranteeing conference champs a damn thing.
The playoffs central purpose is making TV networks money. It should be about playing college football.
FCS, Divisions II & III, just about every team sport in the world manages to do this.
USC with Big 10 moving to 9 game schedule has ended the annual commitment to Notre Dame. Dominoes starting to fall on the Crying Irish
The idea that we can find a system to correctly judge resumes seems like a feasible goal.
Then ESPN starts treating Heather Dinich's newfangled criteria of "P4 wins" like some legitimate metric. (It's a redundant way of saying P4 teams louder. Only P4 teams have lots of P4 wins because of the existence of conferences).
Resume comparison might be a valid way to judge teams in a league with some kind of legitimate governing body. But ESPN drastically overpays for the SEC, then gets to control the narrative and create a new postseason from scratch each year to milk the most out of their stupid investment, and we're supposed to trust the process? Nah.
If i read it right, there's 3x 6-team pots = 18 teams.
These 18 teams are then split into 6x groups of 3 teams for scoring purposes. Each of the 18 teams plays 1 home & 1 away over the course of a couple of weeks. Wasn't clear how these matchups are determined.
Then the top-scoring teams from each of the 6 pods, plus the top2 runners-up from across all the pods are seeded into an 8-team playoff.
or something
I think what I like the most is that after you lose one game, you no longer control your own destiny.
I LOVE this, and I loved how especially true it was in the BCS era.
What bothers me is two things:
For some teams, they lose control over their destiny after losing one game, for some teams they lose control over their destiny after losing zero games - they just never have control over their destiny.
For other teams, you really only lose control over your destiny after losing 2 games, and in some cases, maybe even three games.
No, I don't remember that at all. Last coach I remember is Frank.
Now we have a new coach that is Frank - lin.
I know it's weird, but I am the other way regarding Indiana. I don't want anyone except us to upset the big dogs and beat the rigged system because if they do, it's a brutal reminder that we should also have been able to do it but couldn't figure it out. Seeing Indiana go from football afterthought to #1 CFP ranking at 13-0 doesn't give me hope - it makes me feel worse that we couldn't get anywhere close to that because it makes it feel possible.
Again, I know most fans don't feel this way, it's just my thoughts on the matter. As much as I like Oregon, I weirdly enjoy that they also don't have a natty in football. It makes it one little bit less painful that we don't have one because I can be like "well look even those guys can't get one"
Yes, we've already been there and done that.
I think Franklin is a good hire, but performance is measured by results, not surveys.
It's a good question. I kind of feel like we still have that "patient fanbase" that would be alright seeing a 2+ win improvement from year 1 to year 2 and be willing to give year 3 a fair shake. Not everyone, but i think that'd be the most popular stance.
Bama should have been excluded, as they had 3 losses.
I could be mis-remembering, but I thought ESPN lauded the hire for VT saying that Fuente was the big up-and-comer of the season. And we all saw how that went.
I'm not saying that's going to happen again. I personally believe that Franklin will do well here. But let's not go anointing him before he even coaches a game for us.
Resumes are predicated on perception. Here's why: If two teams have identical records, the team that has beaten the "better" teams will have the "better" resume. "Better", of course, being subjective. The ONLY part of the resume that should matter at all is whether or not a team has won their conference championship.
Regardless, I think you're kinda missing my point. You're saying rankings(or resumes) should be used to seed a field for the playoffs. I'm disagreeing with that on a fundamental level. Resumes and records shouldn't matter. Win your conference championship. If you don't win your league, you're not in the playoff. Too bad, loser. Want to play for a national title? Win your league. Try again next year. The SEC and (to a lesser extent) the B1G are the biggest group of feather soft snowflakes there is in college football. Doing everything and anything in their power to make sure at least one of their teams gets a title to boost their fragile egos. It's kind of embarrassing, actually.
It's going to be interesting to see if Franklin can be victorious over the "coastal chaos" that has taken over the whole ACC. High spending universities, and good programs like FSU, Miami, and Clemson haven't found the answer yet. FSU was the last team to go undefeated in league play. What are people's thoughts about that?
Legal fees probably cheaper than paying for a new QB.