tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post1032831519132183175..comments2024-03-11T16:39:12.344-05:00Comments on Once A Knight ...: College football: Good system, with some faultsNico Van Thynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-70571874274395401242014-12-15T18:49:31.351-06:002014-12-15T18:49:31.351-06:00From Ross Montelbano: I always enjoy your comments...From Ross Montelbano: I always enjoy your comments, even if I disagree about half the time. You base your comments with some historical, instead of hysterical, perspective. I like your eight-team playoff, IF they will drop the 12th regular-season game. However, there's not a two-loss team out there that deserves a chance to upset three teams to get to No. 1. The only reason that we are discussing eight is because we feel sorry for Baylor and TCU. <br />I don't have a problem with playing the Sam Houstons of the world. LSU already plays eight SEC opponents, plus a strong out-of-conference team. Baylor and TCU played three Sam Houstons this year, only they were called Kansas, Iowa State and Texas Tech.<br />... As far as the weekly release of the thoughts of the committtee, let's face it, it's stirs interests. TCU didn't do anything wrong. Baylor didn't have K-State on its resume. Once they did, they went around them. You are correct, if Baylor and TCU had gone out there and beaten a Power-5 team, Ohio State would not have passed them up. Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-53036131578028487162014-12-15T18:37:45.115-06:002014-12-15T18:37:45.115-06:00From Tommy Henry: I'm not high on committees. ...From Tommy Henry: I'm not high on committees. What was wrong with the objective rating system that was used in the BCS?Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-40023239323371562292014-12-15T18:36:40.520-06:002014-12-15T18:36:40.520-06:00From Marty Mule' (excerpt from his column): At...From Marty Mule' (excerpt from his column): At least the BCS title contenders were a combination of polls and computers. Now we have a committee of 12 people, all former coaches, athletic directors, and one strictly a fan, all honest but all coming to the table with strong ties to certain conferences and teams.<br />The most argumentative debate was the placing of Ohio State in the mix in the very last week of the committee's rankings, while dropping TCU from third to sixth (and out of the hunt) after a 52-point victory in its final game. Though there has been a notable lack of consistency of the rankings throughout the process, it has to be asked just how could that be in the last and determining rankings? It defies logic, especially it's been pointed out season long that the Buckeyes' Big Ten Conference is fairly weak this season and the Big 12, home of Baylor and the Horned Frogs, is perceived as the second-best league behind only the SEC.<br />It's also hard to believe that the Ohio State “brand,'' with its great tradition and legions of fans, didn't play a role over the two small private schools with limited fan bases, instead of their prowess on the field. <br />The Buckeyes' emphatic 59-0 waxing of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game convinced the committee, but not necessarily a large percentage of the sporting world, that Ohio State has more of a name than a game. Even the notoriously detached evaluators of sports competition, the Las Vegas bookies, aren't buying Ohio State.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-42876473590198907442014-12-15T18:32:15.256-06:002014-12-15T18:32:15.256-06:00From Danny Horne: I agree that TCU got screwed. Yo...From Danny Horne: I agree that TCU got screwed. You probably know that would be my stance, but I'm not sure I agree with your take on strength of schedule. <br />I absolutely concur on removal of the overrated conference championship game. Those are a joke, and the idea that those somehow arbitrarily strengthen the strength of schedule is silly. <br />The product on the field for college football is very good. That's why I watch. But the stuff that happens off the field is becoming so pathetic and absurd that it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue to care. <br />Meanwhile, every other division of college football is playing at least the quarterfinals round of their playoffs.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-75111294151010665282014-12-15T18:30:20.120-06:002014-12-15T18:30:20.120-06:00From Casey Baker: I agree with you about an eight-...From Casey Baker: I agree with you about an eight-team playoff, disagree about limiting schools to 14 games ( it would only be two schools who play 15), I agree about not playing Division I-AA schools, but not about mid-major schools. As I have told you before, I believe power-5 schools should be required to play one nonconference school on the road each year, and I don't mean at a neutral site.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125402567351329247.post-91437412964870584742014-12-15T18:28:25.241-06:002014-12-15T18:28:25.241-06:00From Joe Ferguson: Good article. Eight to ten team...From Joe Ferguson: Good article. Eight to ten teams would make a better playoff.Nico Van Thynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072351355184106484noreply@blogger.com