From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 10:19:19 AM UTC-5, Con Reeder, unhyphenated   
   American wrote:   
   > On 2023-12-04, The NOTBCS Guy  wrote:    
   > > "The committee...selects the best teams." It says so in the Principles and   
   Procedures for Establishing the Bracket.   
   > More precisely:    
   >    
   > For purposes of any four-team playoff, the process will    
   > inevitably need to select the four best teams from among    
   > several with legitimate claims to participate.    
   >    
   > Note the acknowledgement that there might be teams left out which    
   > have legitimate claims to participate. As with FSU.   
   > > Oh, wait...my mistake...those are the principles and procedures for    
   > > establishing the men's basketball tournament bracket. Nobody seems to    
   > > mind that they don't choose the "most deserving" or "best when you    
   > > look at their entire body of work" at-large teams. After all, they    
   > > don't play the tournament over the entire season - just at the end.   
   > And they have a delineated list of criteria they use to make this    
   > choice of who to sadly leave out. Looks to me like they did their    
   > job just as they stated they would do from the get-go.    
   >    
   > --    
   > "The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you    
   > should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never    
   > treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." -- Quentin Crisp   
      
   Using player availability is as dumb a principle as saying you are selecting   
   the four best teams. Every team loses players   
   to injury. The phrase "next man up" has become a mantra in college football.   
   It is a way of saying losing a key player is not   
   an excuse for failing to reach your goals. A team that overcomes injuries to   
   achieve its goals should be rewarded, not    
   penalized. On top of that the committee ignores the fact that when the CFP   
   commences, FSU would have their QB2 back   
   as a starter. If they are going to downgrade FSU because they were   
   unimpressive in their season ending rivalry game with   
   Florida, why didn't they downgrade Alabama for a less than impressive   
   performance against Auburn which they won on    
   fluke play and ridiculously poor defense by Auburn. Auburn won only one more   
   game than Florida and lost to New Mexico   
   State in what was supposed to be a tune up game for the Iron Bowl.    
      
   FSU got cheated and there is no way to excuse it. Everyone on the CFP   
   committee should resign and none of them   
   should be allowed on the selection committed for next year's 12 team playoff.   
      
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