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Lose/Lose situation for the committee today
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:36 am
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:36 am
Yeah, yeah Bama lost to OU yadda yadda yadda
SMU in: all the matters is your W-L record if you’re in a P4 conference. The SEC will not be moving to a 9 game conference slate and you can guarantee big OOC matchups will start disappearing for more Mercer type games.
Bama in: completely kills conference championship games, especially for ACC and B12. Teams would possibly opt out of them if possible.
Ratings wise, the first option is suicide for ESPN but probably the “right” thing to do, and the way I expect it to go.
They put themselves in a heck of a mess with some laughable weekly rankings leading up to yesterday.
SMU in: all the matters is your W-L record if you’re in a P4 conference. The SEC will not be moving to a 9 game conference slate and you can guarantee big OOC matchups will start disappearing for more Mercer type games.
Bama in: completely kills conference championship games, especially for ACC and B12. Teams would possibly opt out of them if possible.
Ratings wise, the first option is suicide for ESPN but probably the “right” thing to do, and the way I expect it to go.
They put themselves in a heck of a mess with some laughable weekly rankings leading up to yesterday.
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:38 am to rustupid
No melt, just facts bub
I said I expect us to be out, you slow or something?
I said I expect us to be out, you slow or something?
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:39 am to bamabenny
Saban is gone, no one gives a frick about watching Alabama anymore. In a 12 team playoff leaving out an average 9-3 team with no cache is far from ratings suicide. It's time you accept your new reality.
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:40 am to bamabenny
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If tweet fails to load, click here. I think Peter Burns put it best. Bama gets left out and that snake Sankey will make sure there is hell to pay
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:41 am to RandySavage
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Saban is gone, no one gives a frick about watching Alabama anymore. In a 12 team playoff leaving out an average 9-3 team with no cache is far from ratings suicide.
Take your blinders off. Alabama at Notre Dame in the first round would be national championship type ratings.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:43 am to msutiger
They royally fricked up by not taking the NCAABB stance that SOS is the first and most important line item in evaluating teams.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:45 am to bamabenny
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Bama in: completely kills conference championship games, especially for ACC and B12. Teams would possibly opt out of them if possible.
I don't agree. From an ACC standpoint, they had one guaranteed team in before the game and they now have one guaranteed team in after the game.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:47 am to msutiger
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Take your blinders off. Alabama at Notre Dame in the first round would be national championship type ratings
Not really... Bama has lost a lot of appeal.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:48 am to msutiger
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Take your blinders off. Alabama at Notre Dame in the first round would be national championship type ratings.
At the expense of billions lost on TV contracts for the conference championship games - which would then be extremely irrelevant. $ says protect the value of conference championship games for ESPN, ABC, etc.. v letting Bama in.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:50 am to msutiger
Bama will bring in millions more TV sets. People really don't care abou smu or their glory days.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:50 am to msutiger
Is there another team with 0 wins vs ranked teams in the playoffs?
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:51 am to RandySavage
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Saban is gone, no one gives a frick about watching Alabama anymore.
Bama had a top 4 rating game 7 times this season.
People tune in to watch Bama even if it’s just because they hope they’ll lose.
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:51 am to OleVaught14
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At the expense of billions lost on TV contracts for the conference championship games - which would then be extremely irrelevant. $ says protect the value of conference championship games for ESPN, ABC, etc.. v letting Bama in.
Removing conference championships isn’t costing conferences billions.
This situation actually reminds me of mid major basketball. Team A is clearly the best team in the conference, trips up in the idiotic conference tournament format and the conference is represented by a worse team in the tournament.
Conferences have determined the extra money is worth their teams getting a bad deal.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:53 am to kengel2
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Is there another team with 0 wins vs ranked teams in the playoffs?
Texas, Penn St., and Indiana
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:53 am to bamabenny
Poor bama.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:54 am to bamabenny
Having a 16 team playoff with NO BYES solves this problem. The "committee" shite the bed again. Then the pretenders get weeded out in the first round.
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:55 am to bamabenny
It's really the worst case scenario for the committee.
But, it's their own fault for being so wishy washy about criteria when the whole road map of pitfalls was already laid out by the history of changes the NCAA basketball selection committee has made regarding SOS and Quality Wins.
Just leaving a team that's as divisive as Alabama out of it, what's the logical, repeatable criteria for ranking SMU over South Carolina?
But, it's their own fault for being so wishy washy about criteria when the whole road map of pitfalls was already laid out by the history of changes the NCAA basketball selection committee has made regarding SOS and Quality Wins.
Just leaving a team that's as divisive as Alabama out of it, what's the logical, repeatable criteria for ranking SMU over South Carolina?
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:57 am to kengel2
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Is there another team with 0 wins vs ranked teams in the playoffs?
Indiana. Penn St has a win over #21 Illinois and Notre Dame has one win over # 24 Army. These are the schools Alabama, Ole Miss, and SCAR should get in over.
ASU and Boise State at least have more top 25 wins than all 3 of those teams.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 10:58 am to TxTiger758
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Bama has lost a lot of appeal.
Yes, there's been barely a mention of Alabama on this board in the last 48 hours...
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