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<blockquote data-quote="stevo0718" data-source="post: 94336" data-attributes="member: 179"><p>Cinderellas are nice, but only when they make the ball, not win it. Remember the 2011 final four when butler and VCU both made it. Zzzzz no one cared who won that game, because ould just get destroyed by UCONN. Those situations are fun to see teams like VCU beat a team like Kansas or Kentucky. But you don't want the end result where you have 2 teams no one cares about playing each other. Remember the white Sox v Astros World Series... Two cinderellas, I'll just wait til next year.</p><p></p><p>These days you're only a Cinderella if you're not from a major conference or are someone like Duke in football. The cfb playoff is so small you can't get a Cinderella. This year it would be Miss State or Ole Miss, would you consider the cinderellas?</p><p></p><p>Cinderellas in my opinion are over rated, basically they're just puff pieces for Tom Rinaldi to report on.</p><p></p><p>I know I am comparing this a lot to other sports, but a couple of years ago (2011) the WSJ ranked the 2011 football teams and seated them in the NCAA bball bracket, they then picked the winners based on the results of the bball tourney. You ended up with a final four of VT, OK state, Norther Ill and Air Force with a magnificent championship game of VT over NIU to seal the deal. I know they're different sports, and the difference btw big and small schools is greater but it goes to show you what cinderellas can deliver.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703712504576235191915692976" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703712504576235191915692976</a></p><p></p><p>If you're going to have the playoffs, only let conference champions play. It's the only fair way to do it. You're gonna end up with stinkers (Like the Pitt-Utah fiesta bowl) , but if you don't make the playoffs it's your own damn fault for not winning your conference.</p><p></p><p>In the current system, things are based on poll opinions. And basically if youre out of the top 12 right now you have 0 shot of making the playoffs. The committee poll will behave like every other, if you win you keep your place if you lose you move down. They shouldn't come out with this poll til a week before the playoff occurs, peoples egos get in the way, they don't want to be wrong about the original poll they created.</p><p></p><p>I think its ridiculous that auburn ole miss and MSU are all in it. The poll they have today has a rematch of last years and a rematch of the Egg bowl. 3 of those teams play eachother and they could have consivabley all lost to one of the other ones. Theres no reason to create a poll (other than viewer interest) this early it's just going to set in stone who can make it and who has no shot.</p><p></p><p>These people should determine at the endof the season who had the best 4 seasons. That way you can judge all teams on their full body of work. You can say hey, maybe SCAR wasn't a very good team regardless of their preseason ranking a win against them isn't that impressive and a loss to them is pretty bad.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the rant. Dislike cfb playoff</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevo0718, post: 94336, member: 179"] Cinderellas are nice, but only when they make the ball, not win it. Remember the 2011 final four when butler and VCU both made it. Zzzzz no one cared who won that game, because ould just get destroyed by UCONN. Those situations are fun to see teams like VCU beat a team like Kansas or Kentucky. But you don't want the end result where you have 2 teams no one cares about playing each other. Remember the white Sox v Astros World Series... Two cinderellas, I'll just wait til next year. These days you're only a Cinderella if you're not from a major conference or are someone like Duke in football. The cfb playoff is so small you can't get a Cinderella. This year it would be Miss State or Ole Miss, would you consider the cinderellas? Cinderellas in my opinion are over rated, basically they're just puff pieces for Tom Rinaldi to report on. I know I am comparing this a lot to other sports, but a couple of years ago (2011) the WSJ ranked the 2011 football teams and seated them in the NCAA bball bracket, they then picked the winners based on the results of the bball tourney. You ended up with a final four of VT, OK state, Norther Ill and Air Force with a magnificent championship game of VT over NIU to seal the deal. I know they're different sports, and the difference btw big and small schools is greater but it goes to show you what cinderellas can deliver. [url]http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703712504576235191915692976[/url] If you're going to have the playoffs, only let conference champions play. It's the only fair way to do it. You're gonna end up with stinkers (Like the Pitt-Utah fiesta bowl) , but if you don't make the playoffs it's your own damn fault for not winning your conference. In the current system, things are based on poll opinions. And basically if youre out of the top 12 right now you have 0 shot of making the playoffs. The committee poll will behave like every other, if you win you keep your place if you lose you move down. They shouldn't come out with this poll til a week before the playoff occurs, peoples egos get in the way, they don't want to be wrong about the original poll they created. I think its ridiculous that auburn ole miss and MSU are all in it. The poll they have today has a rematch of last years and a rematch of the Egg bowl. 3 of those teams play eachother and they could have consivabley all lost to one of the other ones. Theres no reason to create a poll (other than viewer interest) this early it's just going to set in stone who can make it and who has no shot. These people should determine at the endof the season who had the best 4 seasons. That way you can judge all teams on their full body of work. You can say hey, maybe SCAR wasn't a very good team regardless of their preseason ranking a win against them isn't that impressive and a loss to them is pretty bad. Sorry for the rant. Dislike cfb playoff [/QUOTE]
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