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  1. 9 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    If an 8 team playoff comes before TV negotiations, I'd bet my house that all current Big 12 schools will be in the Big 12.

    Texas and OU leaving their best chance to the national title in order to schedule an extra couple games against blue bloods every other year is complete insanity.

    I agree with this. The best chance for the Big 12 to survive with Texas and Oklahoma is a playoff system with automatic berths for P5 champions.

    I'd still only put it at 50/50 for survival but it's absolutely imperative. Still doesn't address the population and TV market issues.

  2. 26 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    I was not saying I was asking.

    lulz

    Everyone believes you, I promise.

    So now that you've been educated out of your ignorance, what's your response?

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  3. 3 minutes ago, rickyspub said:

    You are conflating the issues. Show me the NCAA bylaw that guarantees an undefeated team access to the current playoff. There is only your belief that it should be so. The current division is an anachronism and it is 'real business' that keeps it that way. The G5 is well within their rights to drop down to 'Football Championship Subdivision' where the NCAA's rules for inclusion to the championship would guarantee a slot to an undefeated team. They don't drop down because they are happy to take the P5's money. Why does the G5 get more of the playoff money than any individual P5 conference, even though we all acknowledge they have no shot at being included? If fairness were so important, why would they take a bribe? 

    The system is a marriage of convenience, probably more for the G5 than the P5. It is still called Football Bowl Subdivision because that is the promise...a bowl game. I feel confident we will see a split before we see a playoff that includes the G5 as a third of the participants. 

    You are really hard-headed. I admire that and welcome you to the club.

    The NCAA has no rules about the playoff at all. This should probably be a major hint to you that I'm correct that it's an illegitimate championship playoff considering it purports to be for the championship of NCAA FBS football yet the governing body (the NCAA) doesn't even sanction it.

  4. 9 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    Do you not think we should adopt best practices from other countries? I forever hear about being like this country or that country in regard to different issues.

    Mexico adopted a law in 2003 requiring the state to offer all of its services in native tongues to indigenous peoples. This means that Mexico currently by law requires that official services be provided in dozens if not hundreds of different languages.

    You were saying?

     

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    You can tell by the Bronx Sarah Palin thread that leftie extremists do not understand math, economics, or consequences. There is a reason only 1-2 left wing extremists on this board engages in anything other than emotional name calling and ad homs.

     

    2 minutes ago, Kyle said:

    Blah blah blah .... race card ... blah blah blah ... national socialist ... blah blah blah ... my virginia hurts.

    lulz

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  6. You are conflating at least three different issues.

    A setup where a team can follow every rule, win every game they play, then not participate in the championship playoff is illegitimate. If the belief is that a subset of teams in a league have no real business competing for the championship then they should be in a different league.

    Again, I'm fine with a division split. But if they're in the same division then their conference champions deserve a bid. It really is that simple.

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  7. we've had jet transport since the 50s and everyone has a video phone, why do we need months of lame duck season? 
    With respect to video conferencing it's also one more thing that makes keeping the House at 435 members ludicrous. The House needs to AT LEAST double in size. If not much more (I think setting it to one Representative for every 200,000 people would be a good start).
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  8. The point is that the opponent matters when it comes to media valuation. (You know that.) A G5 playoff opponent isn't going to draw like a P5, it will get even worse over time if the G5 participants don't consistently punch above their weight. Sure, as a playoff game, there will be more value than a regular season game, but the same rules apply. A 16-team, CFB committee selected playoff would guarantee better TV ratings and money than a 16-team, 10 CCG champs and 6-at large teams. Is any media partner going to risk paying out a large additional sum for the second over the first? Is there even enough value to consider it over an 8-team playoff? For better or worse, the system is venal. They aren't going to expand to 16 unless the payoff is worth it.
    Also, a playoff doesn't have to include every group to be a playoff. It is just a series of contests to determine the winner of a championship. The selection process can be completely arbitrary or tightly regulated, the basic definition doesn't require one or the other.
    I say the G5 are only in the same division out of convenience, so I don't see why that convenience sets up a threshold for 'deserving' full access to the championship. The rules for FBS inclusion are largely arbitrary and are set at some minimal number to not seem too restrictive, but not so low as to encourage every second tier college to jump up.  It certainly wasn't devised on the concept of establishing a minimal quality of play. And I believe the rules were created pre-BCS, though perhaps they have tweaked them more recently.
    It's not really a playoff if a team in the league can go undefeated the entire year and not be the champion. Playoff implies that a team can win the title based only on what they do on the field.
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  9. 8 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    Liverpool are for real

    City are ridiculous

    Chelsea has not fallen off

    Tottenham is still annoyingly good and Poch is for real, although if they keep refusing to bring in reinforcements I doubt how long they can keep this up

    United are in trouble. Should have kept Moysey 

    This is why people should stop trying to use British English just because they're talking about soccer. Speak your language, man. You go from teams as a plural noun to singular noun and back to plural again.

    Here in 'Murica, teams are a singular noun. If you use a plural nickname (e.g., Longhorns) then treat it as a plural noun.

    Huck out

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  10. Another thought for the guys who are so against 3 and 4 loss conference champions getting in (other than the fact that's the conference's fault for having a shitty championship system if those are conference losses).

    Let's go to an alternate universe where in 2005 Vince Young is injured before the season starts. He misses the first 5 games and Texas is 2-3. They then go on to win the last 7 games, including the Big 12 title game, by an average score of 60-7. They are clearly one of the best teams in the country with Young on the field. And for once in this universe the college football gods smile on them as Oklahoma loses two other Big 12 games other than Tech and Texas sneaks into the championship.

    So which is it? Do you want the 8 best teams in the country or only teams with fewer than 3 losses?

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  11. It's just a bad idea, man.  So Alabama has to play UGA to get in, the loser is literally eliminated, even if they are 12-1 and lose by 1 point and 4 8-4 teams are in the playoffs, and meanwhile the winner of N. Illinois/Fresno gets in?  Why?


    Because a championship system that leaves open the possibility that a team may play in the league, go undefeated for the entire season, and not be the champion is not a real playoff.

    Either split into separate divisions or put all conference champions in the playoffs.
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  12. He is a conman, a crook, a liar, a narcissist, a moron, and is a lifelong member of the corruption of the elites in this country. He has never stood for anything but self-aggrandizement and happily contributed to politicians of both sides his entire life merely to curry favor and potential kickbacks later. He managed to drive a casino bankrupt and has made a career out of being a business failure.

    You could not design a worse Presidential candidate in a lab. At least our standard corrupt politicians are usually intelligent.

    To get Donald Trump you take the most corrupt and self-serving politician in the country and take away any intelligence.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Disco Missile said:

    Every year some fluke team wins a major conference championship. Seeing a team like that in a playoff with a chance to win the MNC makes the whole idea a joke.

    So they're a terrible team that won a fluke game but you're worried about them winning three playoff games and the national championship?

    Either they're a bad team or they're not. Pick one. If they're a bad team then being in the playoff gives the #1 team a major advantage, which you should like. If they're not a bad team then there shouldn't be an issue with their playoff appearance.

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  14. 1 hour ago, retread said:

    As someone stated upthread, one of the most important things going forward will be restoring the primacy of the rule of law -- for everyone. Maybe the Ds can create the kind of transparency that our country will need...

    Hahaha.

    Oh, you're serious.

  15. 23 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Just can't abide by abortion, my dude.

    So why did you vote for Cruz? He's accomplished nothing when it comes to curtailing abortions. Hell, he didn't even vote on the last measure before the Senate related to funding for abortions.

    https://www.congress.gov/amendment/115th-congress/senate-amendment/3967

    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00191

  16. 4 minutes ago, Cajun said:

    It has everything to do with my first post on the thread.  

    Buck was responding, in part, to that.

    Try to up your reading comprehension game before doling out advice on the matter, mmkay?

    Thanks.

    So now you are forced to assume that a poster meant something they didn't say in order to defend your terrible posts. He didn't quote you and he only opined that this court case wasn't about abortion. Then you somehow twisted that into a claim that he meant that Planned Parenthood's Kavanaugh opposition wasn't about abortion.

    You're coming off like a complete moron, dude. So congrats I guess, and I'll leave you to it.

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