re: Pat Dye "all Condi Rice knows about football someone told her"

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Neither should active AD's of BCS conference teams. But it's what it is.

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This is a huge conflict of interst. Pat HAden and Dan Radicovich...give me a break!

I would prefer a true football insider. This feels like a PR "celebrity" appointment, but Rice is probably not as bad as most think.

Tom Jernstedt is an NCAA basketball guy as well. Every single person appointed could have arguments made against them. Folks jumping on the bash Condi bandwagon have little arguments, if they don't make similar arguments against anyone picked.

As I said before, it's not going to be a difficult decision to pick the top 4 teams. The BIG issue, imo, will be how they seed them, especially if 2 from one conference make the cut and it appears obvious to fans, they are 1 and 2. Will the committee seed them for a potential rematch/all conference matchup. Or will they purposely seed them in round one to eliminate one, but guaranteeing one makes the game? That will be the hand wringing issue, I think.

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Heaven forbid she provide a different perspective based on her own experience that might come in useful when contrasted with the views of others who have been firmly rooted in the sport for 40 years.

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Condi Rice is very bright. She is a fan of the game. She is a quick study. You don't have to have been a player to understand the game, nor do you have to be a genius (although she is pretty close)to be able to pick the best 4 teams for a playoff. Most folks who follow college football with some attention could get those picks right most of the time by season's end. If you look at some of the ridiculous votes in the Coaches Poll, I feel certain that she will be a better selector than some of those guys.

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I just have to agree with and support what Dye says because well, he is Pat Dye and he is never wrong.

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But seriously, if they were jonesing to put a woman on the committee why not pick a former sideline reporter or one of the women who call football games (like the lady who used to do all the early AM Big 10 games, don't know her name). Because it makes too much gd sense to put people on a college football committee who have actually been in or around actual college football. Putting Condi on the committee is borderline to picking a random fan out of the stands on a Saturday to join the committee.


And don't get me started on the idea of putting serving fricking AD's of BCS teams on the committee, what a load of horse shite that is.

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y, if they were jonesing to put a woman on the committee why not pick a former sideline reporter

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Are you... are fricking serious?

What a dick.

Everything you know about dick suckin your daddy told you.

All I know is that I'd trust pretty much anyone over Pat Dye to pick a playoff team. The guy's a drunk and doesn't know to wash his hands after sticking his fingers in the turf. It's perfectly possible for a smart, capable, educated person to understand how good a given team is without having spent his autumns in high school playing 3rd string DB just to elevate his chances of getting laid by girls too ugly to attract the attention of the star quarterback. I played high school ball (2nd string, bitches) and I'll freely admit I'd trust Rice over pretty much every football player I knew because, frick, she's smarter and more capable of objective analysis than any of them.