hwdgeplague
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People excuse the Ohio State loss to a new QB. Why not excuse our losses to a new DLine...
It doesn't work like that. We are in the ACC we don't get respect. Bottom Line is we are a 2 loss team looking at the Orange Bowl so we should be happy with that.People excuse the Ohio State loss to a new QB. Why not excuse our losses to a new DLine...
I do think its funny last year when Northwestern won their first 4 games they were all over the place. They had some player doing physics on TV, it was unreal how ESPN was covering them. If you don't know the ending to that fairy tale look up their final record. We get none of thatIf i was calling the shots in GT's athletic department, I'm doing everything I can this week to create my own narrative. I agree with most people here, the rankings will be influenced by corporate profit interest (tangent - read manufacturing consent. will give you a good framework for understanding the media industry's incentives). But on the bright side, there's an inherent fairness to greed. "Greed is good." If money is all these cats really care about, let's feed them a story with mass appeal & that furthers the interest of the ESPN (/NCAA's) bottom line.
Why ESPN Might Benefit From 0 SEC Teams in the playoffs this year
It's ludacris to think that average american would care more about TCU than GT. It's like saying the average American would watch the Cardinals in the superbowl, but not the Vikings. People will watch NCAA playoffs just like they will watch the SuperBowl regardless of the teams, if it's marketed successfully (albeit not nearly as many people). Thus, give your average american, who doesn't care about college football, a "feel good" story / underdog team to cheer for. it's simple & a time tested strategy. ESPN's playoff tv contract provides incentive to maximize the # of viewers, not promote the SEC. ESPN could possibly even increase the # of general viewers by not having an SEC team in the playoffs this year. ESPN's SEC tv contract would provide incentive to expand the playoffs to 8, especially if 0 get in this year. . . that would make every SEC game "important" --> more viewers per game --> more revenue.
Possible Selling Points for GT's storyline
- Cinderella Story - predicted to finish last in the preseason. Win the ACC Costal.
- America's favorite plot
- Zack Laskey is a poster boy for the NCAA. What more could you want from a student athlete?
- Shaq Mason would be another great story. No name recruit to All ACC & proud father
- Same with Deandre Smelter & PJ Davis. . . our star players are also outstanding people. Put them in front of the camera
- Other teams lost star players because they received improper benefits. GT lost star players because of our STEM entry requirements
- From a cynical standpoint, don't you think the useless people running the NCAA would rather keep profits, rather than redistribute the profits to the 85 players on 100+ teams?
- But obviously you can't say that. So refocus the issue. Talk about the world class education the GT players are receiving. How could the current model be broken if a team like GT is succeeding in the classroom & on the field?
- Let's highlight the miracle recovery of Jaylend Ratliff & our school's commitment to him (Okay, I feel bad about this. What he went through and the support from our fan base was genuine. I'm not willing to sell out here).
- History / Legacy
- It's the essence of college football. Remind people who the Heisman trophy is named after
- Bobby Dodd Stadium (oldest stadium/field...which is it?)
- Cumberland Ball (222-0) auction, purchased by your average GT millionaire alumni
- World's best fight song
- Atlanta - home of the college football HOF. NCAA Sports Hub.
- GT's status as a world class research university
- This is the age of the nerd. look at silicon valley. look at the WSJ (stories on Harvard & MIT football the past few weeks). Let's capitalize on the great research & contribution our school makes & our society's obsession with obtaining wealth.
- Get the IE department to come up with some calculation to show how preseason rankings are biased & distort final rankings. Reach the conclusion that games late in the season should be weighted more to make the rating more fair.
- Then, do whatever you have to do make that story/research go viral. I'm sure some CS whiz sitting in his dorm has a legion of twitter bots armed & ready for a task like this. Employ famous GT alum to spread the message. How many twitter followers does Megatron have?
- ^^the point is, feed these national "experts" in the media an intelligent sounding, simple, slogan that supports GT's inclusion
To Hell with Georgia.
- Blow out FSU. 49-10.
People excuse the Ohio State loss to a new QB. Why not excuse our losses to a new DLine...
I was at the Baylor/Texas Tech game in Dallas Saturday with family and of course all Baylor fans are rooting for us. But the article is right in that we will be America's team Saturday night because of the character or rather lack of it for FSU.
I wore a GT shirt and was told by many after the game we are rooting for you against FSU. Being undefeated is another reason.