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re: Lsu AD - other SEC AD's aren't being fair.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:43 pm to bbap
Posted on 3/20/14 at 12:43 pm to bbap
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its so obviously that it would hurt conference teams from reaching the playoff moreso than help i didnt think elaborating was at all necessary. its straight up common sense.
People don't understand that the SEC won't get left out of the playoff and it won't get two teams in. 8 games, 9 games, it makes no difference. It's a zero sum game. What 9 games does it force ADs to have more exciting matchups, and less double directionals. There is a chronic problem that scheduling too many power puffs is going to create, and I hope someone like Slive with common sense forces the SEC to go to 9 games even when coaches and ADs bitch. Remember, they all bitched about the SEC Championship Game for the same reason they're bitching about 9 games.
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Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:02 pm to TeLeFaWx
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People don't understand that the SEC won't get left out of the playoff and it won't get two teams in. 8 games, 9 games, it makes no difference. It's a zero sum game. What 9 games does it force ADs to have more exciting matchups, and less double directionals. There is a chronic problem that scheduling too many power puffs is going to create, and I hope someone like Slive with common sense forces the SEC to go to 9 games even when coaches and ADs bitch. Remember, they all bitched about the SEC Championship Game for the same reason they're bitching about 9 games.
If the SEC can get two teams in the BCS championship game (a rematch, no less), I don't see why it would be impossible to get two in a four-team field. I realize that the make-up of the selection committee is regionally diverse on purpose, but if they really do their job in picking the four strongest teams, that will sometimes mean two SEC teams.
And if the playoffs ever expand past 4, perhaps to 8 teams, the SEC will be sending two teams more often than not.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 1:14 pm to TeLeFaWx
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What 9 games does it force ADs to have more exciting matchups, and less double directionals. There is a chronic problem that scheduling too many power puffs is going to create, and I hope someone like Slive with common sense forces the SEC to go to 9 games even when coaches and ADs bitch. Remember, they all bitched about the SEC Championship Game for the same reason they're bitching about 9 games.
^^^This...
The Pac-12 has been playing a 9-game conference schedule for 6 or 7 years now and the Big 10 will be goin' to a 9-game schedule starting in 2016, I believe. Regardless of what you think of those conferences, that will give them a leg up with the committee come play-off time, with not only selection but seeding as well...especially since I think the committee, similar to basketball, will give more credence to strength of schedule as opposed to polls...
Posted on 3/20/14 at 2:45 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Remember, they all bitched about the SEC Championship Game for the same reason they're bitching about 9 games.
It cost Tennessee a shot at a national title in 2001.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 4:46 pm to TeLeFaWx
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What 9 games does it force ADs to have more exciting matchups, and less double directionals.
I don't know why you keep saying this when its absolutely not true.
It will make it MORE likely the OOC games suck arse b/c schools will simply say there conference schedule is too tough to warrant playing good OOC teams.
Just ban FCS games and require that you play at least 1 P5 school every year. I'd much rather that than end up with Kentucky, Vanderbilt, or whoever the hell else is a bad team from the opposite division each year.
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 4:54 pm
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