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Or- and hear me out here- ORRRRR my employer could pay me to my agreed upon salary.

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You’re absolutely correct that your employer should pay you the agreed up salary. It’s ridiculous that we have gotten to the point in this country that the majority of the posters downvote you, essentially saying that you should be punished for your employer’s malfeasance! by having to go find another job - likely losing seniority and other benefits in the process. It’s your employer who is clearly in the wrong.

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It's a terrible point. You've got better teams sitting at home watching this scrub suck arse.

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Those “better teams” like Notre Dame and Texas had their opportunity to win games and make the playoffs. ND probably should have gotten in over Alabama the way they lost in the SEC-C, but otherwise ND doesn’t have much of a gripe.

So by your logic, since Tennessee got blown out in the 1st round last year 42-17, the SEC didn’t deserve to have three teams in the college football playoff?

The biggest whiners about missing this years playoffs are Notre Dame and Texas, which are programs that expect “special” treatment. Give Clark Lea credit, he admits his team had the chance to get it done on the field, and didn’t.

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Nothing objective about DEI. Tulane got routed by the only P4 team they played and lost by more than one score to a 6-6 G6 team.

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You’re spouting DEI because it’s a dog whistle to a certain group of mouth breathers, but this has nothing to do with that.

The criteria to make the playoffs, established before the season, was to be one of the five highest ranked conference champions or one of 7 at large teams listed. Tulane and JMU both met those OBJECTIVES.

Now, Alabama - which lost by two scores to a team with a losing record and lost two of their final four games, including a 3-score drubbings, didn’t make the playoffs based on their objective merit, but because of someone’s subjective opinion that they were one of the seven best at large teams. Your issue with DEI is actually more applicable to their case, as they were shown undo favoritism due to non-merit factors.

You’re complaining because 8 teams subjectively ranked 11-19 missed the playoff. Those rankings were made by the idiots on the playoff committee.

Sorry, but Tulane and JMU both made the playoffs per objective criteria established before the season - being one of the five highest rated conference champions. Tulane beat the ACC champ head to head.

Now, maybe it won’t matter with this year’s teams, but we’ve had several occasions in the past where a team outside one of the power conferences was good enough to contend for a national championship, but didn’t get a shot (UCF) because a media darling was chosen instead.


I’d offer that the NCAA basketball tournament (especially the first two days) and the US Open are two of the greatest sporting events because of their expanded fields that teams can win their way into.

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I've actually done a bit of research in the last year or two to sate my curiosity, and moving away from considering lunch to be part of the work day is fairly modern. Eight hour "shifts" were the norm until fairly recently, and you'll hear people referring to desk jobs euphemistically as "working a 9 to 5". "Giving" employees an hour for lunch but requiring them to work a nine hour day is one of the more oddly pernicious things I've noticed about the modern work paradigm.

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It’s just part of the overall screwing of the American worker, turning people into a disposable commodity. You can throw in the move from pensions to 401Ks with this too.

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I’m not a ND fan either, but Texas, Vandy or ND should have the 11 & 12 spots. It’s a complete joke that JM & Tulane are in. Common sense was not used in the way they picked the 12 teams.

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I don’t understand why people keep saying this. The committee didn’t pick JMU or Tulane over Notre Dame. They picked JMU and Tulane over 8-5 Duke.

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I for one am glad that they have the auto bids for conference champions because it at least adds some objectivity to the process.


Tulane and JMU fully earned their way in by what they did on the field….that’s what all the pro-playoff people were crying about.


The controversy with Notre Dame is because of the subjective decisions of the committee, and their arbitrary uses of criteria when it comes to comparing teams. A few years ago, UGA dropped from #1 to #5 after a 3-point sec Championship game loss to Alabama. The bulldogs were also two-time defending national champions (fwiw).

This year, Alabama gets blown out by three scores in the SEC-C, and doesn’t fall at all. And yes, while you could agree (except for BYU) that a loss in an extra game you earned shouldn’t keep you out of the playoffs…..how you played/lost should certainly factor in.

There is an even better reason. LSU finished the season #1 in the Anderson & Hester rankings, which is a recognized selecting organization by the NCAA.

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Yeah, put the team who lost by 14 to Alabama in

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Iirc, Bama kicked a FG with 4 minutes to seal what had been a one score game. Then scored with :17 on the clock to run up the final score to 16.

It was hardly a crushing defeat

Aside from the fact they played twice, the situations have very little in common.

LSU’s “reward” for winning the game of the century was getting to play UGA for the right to go to the BCS championship game.

Alabama’s penalty for losing was to get a free pass to the BCS game.