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Originally Posted by transplant99
No ...I really dont. Nice to know you have me all figured out though. Seriously, how high is that horse you perch yourself on?
I can give all kinds of examples though. What about an unbeaten Auburn club 4 years ago? They run the SEC and dont get in. In a playoff system, they have a chance to prove they are the best in the country...not in the darn tootin, everything is swell, BCS system though. Nope.
Utah this year...no chance of playing for a title unless everyone ahead of them fails.
Same thing year after year after year. Great system for sure. So great that CONGRESS is still trying to figure out a way of making it better. Obama has stated he will make sure something happens.
But nope...those commisioners all have more sense than the majority of Americans who want to see a flawe system changed.
yup.
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It's not about figuring you out. You seem to focus on all the wrong things.
It's just math. No matter the system one set of kids win a NC ... so when you preach "but what about the children" when you propose a playoff ... all I'm saying is that one set of kids win no matter what. Obviously it's has nothing to do with all the kids, because it's a zero sum game. So mathmatically it has nothing to do with all the kids in NCAA ball, soooo maybe has something to do with the kids that have a logo on their head that is the same as your avitar??
Yep Auburn is a great example, I agree, it's not perfect and I don't care. There is too much focus on a NC. But in a playoff system you still have flaws. You could have a USC just get hot at the end and beat out a team that was perfect in the regular season ... how is that any different to the undefeated team than it was to Auburn in 04? No matter the system it will be unfair to others, but in a playoff we kill off the other bowls and devalue the regular season.
And yea, Congress and Obama aren't pandering for votes at all, very credible source. And it's NCAA's property, they can do what they want as long as it's legal. You can like it or not, same with me, but what Congress says or thinks about college football is totally irrelvant and everyone knows it. They are just pandering to the public.
And for your last comment, I completely believe that they do. It's a bit apples and oranges but I have spent my life in O&G, from that I have learned two things. 1. The general public has no problem having strong opinions about things it has no clue about and the general public would be shocked with how little it actually understood things around it. If playoff systems are so great, then why isn't NCAA basketball more popular than NCAA football? It's got a great tourneyment ... best I can think of. But it's entire regular season is rendered useless because of it. Smart people protecting their enourmously valuable and popular asset know that. Just because the general public says something, it doesn't make it correct.
You can always tell someone who has never had to manage something of large value and/or large public interest, because they always equate public sentiment to factually perfect.