From: james.m.gibson@gmail.com
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 5:40:03 PM UTC-5, Con Reeder, unhyphenated
American wrote:
> On 2023-12-05, JGibson wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 4:28:56 PM UTC-5, Corky wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 12:05:42 PM UTC-6, JE Corbett wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >> Cry me a river. Florida State couldn't beat anyone in the current
> >> top ten without Jordan. They were barely able to score on a team
> >> that lost to Kentucky.
> >
> > With their backup to a backup. The regular backup would be back by the
> > time the playoffs start.
> If the regular backup had lit it up when he played his game, that
> might be an argument. But he was 12-25, 5.4 Y/A, 0 TD.
Well, then the committee should have dropped Florida State's ranking then.
Instead they moved them up from #5 to #4 with Ohio State's loss.
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