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Delany: If you don't win your division, you can't win it all...
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:20 pm
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:20 pm
I actually liked Delany's recent proposal for a 4-team playoff using conference champions in the Top6 ( LINK), but today's headline certainly caught my eye...lol
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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that any new format shouldn't include a team that doesn't win its division.
"I don't have a lot of regard for that team," Delany said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I certainly wouldn't have as much regard for that team as I would for someone who played nine conference games in a tough conference and played a couple out-of-conference games on the road against really good opponents. If a poll doesn't honor those teams and they're conference champions, I do."
Alabama finished behind LSU in the SEC West last season, but the Crimson Tide got a spot in the Bowl Championship Series title game and beat the Tigers.
This post was edited on 5/9/12 at 10:24 pm
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Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:22 pm to JPLSU1981
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Delany: If you don't win your division, you can't win it all...
Like it would have made a difference for the BIG 10, only difference would have been their conference champ Wisky would've lost to Oregon in round 1 rather than in the Rose Bowl.
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:24 pm to JPLSU1981
I bet he was rooting for that potential OSU-Michigan rematch back in '07.
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:24 pm to JPLSU1981
Slive needs to bitchslap his arse
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:24 pm to JPLSU1981
he mad Altho I kinda agree with him
ETA: and by he I mean Delany not the OP
This post was edited on 5/9/12 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:30 pm to JPLSU1981
Top 4 no matter what, dwi.
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:32 pm to JPLSU1981
Just a way to ensure there's only one SEC team in the 4 team playoff....it's bullshite.
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:48 pm to JPLSU1981
The two best teams were in the dome on Jan 9th... Too bad only one team showed up...
Posted on 5/9/12 at 10:58 pm to JPLSU1981
The problem with Delaney's position is that once you start to use polls and computers to say the Big 10 champ is more worthy than the Big East champ, if those same polls and computers tell you that the SEC West runner up is more worthy than the Big 10 champ, then you have to honor that. Can't have it both ways.
Posted on 5/9/12 at 11:11 pm to JPLSU1981
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Delany's
Posted on 5/10/12 at 1:49 am to JPLSU1981
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and played a couple out-of-conference games on the road against really good opponents.
well Ohio State(wait I mean THE Ohio State) would never be worthy
I like the idea of conference champs in the top 6 getting in, but no one on here will try and say UGA was better than Bama last year
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:13 am to JPLSU1981
Haven't read all the post but there were 3 teams in the SEC wesst last year that would have beaten any team in the Big 10 last year and might have beaten all of them combined.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:22 am to JPLSU1981
He's correct
4 conference champs takes away all media bias and bs
can't win your division/conference shouldn't make some national championship game, don't see what the big problem with that is.....except for one fan base
4 conference champs takes away all media bias and bs
can't win your division/conference shouldn't make some national championship game, don't see what the big problem with that is.....except for one fan base
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:46 am to JPLSU1981
Top 4 teams. Period. Jim Delaney cant have his cake and fricking eat it too when his conference hasnt won a BCS championship in 10 years and has only won 1 of them all time.
You need to get a little weight before you can start throwing it around.
You need to get a little weight before you can start throwing it around.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 11:36 am to JPLSU1981
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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday that any new format shouldn't include a team that doesn't win its division.
IMO, it just sounds like he is scared of having two SEC teams in the playoffs.
Yeah, it sucks we got our asses handed to us in the BCSNCG, but the two best teams were playing for the title.
Now, maybe one of the teams didn't show up to play, but that is neither here nor there.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 11:51 am to JPLSU1981
quote:A four team playoff should "attempt" to pit the 4 best teams in the country in that playoff. If 2 of the 4 "best" teams are from the same conference then obviously, they both can't win said conference but still deserve to be in the playoff. And that's all I am going to say about that.
If you don't win your division, you can't win it all...
Posted on 5/10/12 at 1:55 pm to JPLSU1981
I agree, plus if you don't win your conference you don't play. 
Posted on 5/10/12 at 4:21 pm to JPLSU1981
BS. Take 2011 Bama 1 loss and undefeated LSU. Now consider a 10-2 OSU ranked lower then Bama or a S E C, but OSU or a Michigan wins the Big 10 no way do I agree they get in over a higher ranked 1 loss team. No integrity to the process if that is what happens.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 5:29 pm to JPLSU1981
Everyone but bama should be ok with this
Posted on 5/11/12 at 2:29 pm to JPLSU1981
Under Delaneys system, Bama or LSU could join some pussy conference like the ACC or Big East and be a conference champion every year and easily make the 4 team playoff.
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