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Skipper

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  1. I swear someone posted this was going to happen like a week or 2 ago here or on twitter or somewhere and assumed some idiot making things up. Or like Crabtree I just dreamed it in my head.
  2. Came to see if any updates, and nope, Cloak Room Retards gonna Cloak Room Retard.
  3. I don't see how ND, Miami, BYU, Bama, Texas. OU, Vandy etc. aren't comparable teams despite the fact that I agree with you the committee will claim that they weren't in order to justify ranking. At the end of the day, the committee reverted to head to head with OU-Bama and Texas-Vandy order and then with Miami and Notre Dame. But I think where they slotted ND/Miami/BYU within that grouping (which had to be Miami ahead of Notre Dame) was just the committee ignoring the rest of what was supposed to matter for comparable teams and doing what they wanted.
  4. I'll agree with you that the committee has done and will continue to whatever the fuck they want. Whether or not that has historically followed computers or "BCS proxy" I don't know and don't care. The below is what they were supposed to follow per their own guidelines. If they actually followed the below correctly, ND would have been behind not only Bama and Miami but also Texas, BYU and Vandy. PRINCIPLES The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering: Strength of schedule, Head-to-head competition, Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory), and, Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.
  5. Sorry, I must have missed the section in the 'playoff committee principals' where they look at "Massey Ratings" or a "simulated BCS" that takes into account the morons that vote in the worthless AP and Coaches polls.
  6. Strictly by the numbers that are supposed to matter (SOS, SOR) Texas, BYU and Vandy all have better claims than ND and Miami.
  7. Where are the receipts for this slight Domer is throwing this massive tantrum about? What did they actually do? Assuming they didn't post the equivalent of "Fuck Notre Dame" on Twitter I'm not sure what the bitching is about. The ACC has an obligation to lobby for its actual conference teams to get in (you know, where the conference will benefit from revenue unlike a ND playoff slot). Lobbying for a conference team should have been expected by anyone with a brain. Only Notre Dame is tone deaf, self-absorbed and arrogant enough to not understand that. I've never been a true Notre Dame hater but this pathetic reaction to a just outcome the last 24 hours may have turned me into one. I'm actively rooting for Texas and every other relevant program to cancel the series and black ball them going forward. Fuck them.
  8. The latter 2 are head-to-head against meaningful NFL games as well. That is the reason Aggy got screwed with an 11AM kick. I fully expect ratings for both the later games to be embarrassing.
  9. That's fine. Let them. If money is equal, let them convince top players playing a bunch of mediocre programs with shitty ratings and only stepping up to real competition in the playoffs is a better opportunity than playing for Texas, Bama, UGA, Michigan, OSU etc. and being the focus of the CFB world multiple times per year. It wouldn't have an immediate impact, but multiple years of shit schedules like next season, if combined with no playoff success, and their 'brand' will continue to fade.
  10. There is talk that USC wants out as well. Again, that's what I'm curious about in all of this. ND AD is blowing things up with the ACC like he has leverage, so either he's already cut a deal better than what he has or he's totally misreading his hand or acting overly emotional after a snub to appease boosters. I just don't see why either of the B1G or SEC wants anything to do with ND (absent full partnership in the B1G). I'm hoping ND misplays this and we look back at them like they are Blockbuster Video 10 years from now.
  11. It's a different calculus though for a Big 12 or ACC team. They may very likely miss any top 10 matchups in conference play. For an SEC team, now particularly with 9 conference games, you are pretty much guaranteed multiple top 10 and numerous top 25 matchups on your schedule every year. Again, to be clear, a 2 loss Texas team (including the loss to Florida) would have been in over both ND and Miami given quality of other wins that neither could match. Texas would have been slotted at 8 above OU. Committee set precedent that H2H is important but only in a tiebreaker scenario. That is consistent throughout placement of the top 15.
  12. This I agree with. Too much money to be made by networks. I didn't think expansion to 24 was realistically on the table but that, combined with greater emphasis on SOS, would likely create enough of a buffer that schools like Texas, UGA, Bama, Ohio St., Michigan, etc. would keep those games on the calendar.
  13. Points we probably didn't really deserve last night but I'll take it! I took my kid last night and in early 2nd, a buddy pinged me that his corporate glass seats weren't being used so my son and I sat down there rest of the game. We were behind the goal to Otter's left for that shootout performance which was sweet. My spoiled ass kid getting to go to multiple games per year and now sitting on the glass (that was only the 3rd time I've ever sat front row) doesn't know how good he has it.
  14. We just better work on punt protection this time if we schedule NC state.
  15. I don't understand why the BIG or SEC would cut any formal deal with ND at this point absent conference membership. The SEC doesn't need them period. SEC absolutely killed TV ratings weekly this year and adding an additional conference game to ESPN's inventory is going to keep Disney/ESPN more than happy. Big 10 shouldn't offer anything other than full membership. I'm sure the Big 12 would cut the same deal with Notre Dame that the ACC has but that isn't going to fix ND scheduling issues if SEC and BIG teams blackball them. I'm sure we wouldn't do anything without Sankey's blessing as he's about to enter playoff expansion negotiations but both Texas and USC announcing cancellations of future games with ND would be sweet.
  16. Agreed and it's all very interesting to me. Because ND is going to have a seat at the table negotiating playoff expansion. Unless ND already has a handshake deal with Sankey or Petiti to support a preferred plan, ND's temper tantrum the last 24 hours appears on its face to be really poor negotiating strategy and not accurately "reading the room" regarding their current value to this sport because they don't have a lot of cards to play. ND played ONE top 20 rated game the entire season. With committee treatment of TX @ OSU, you already have multiple programs and/or coaches in addition to Sark (I saw Elko for example said as much) questioning the value of scheduling marquee OOC games. ND is in a position where they could very well get shutout if they aren't holding hands with someone. It seems emotional and poorly thought out to publicly attack the ACC. Both those entities need each other.
  17. Your last post was equally wrong.
  18. How is it a "cash bonanza"??? This isn't 2010. Season tickets are sold out at Texas bud. And with 9 conference games there will be plenty of high quality matchups to keep tix in demand. Texas and other Big Brands aren't going to value fucking stubhub making extra fees off third party sales over maximizing opportunities to make the playoffs. The extra few hundred thousand in revenue a ND home game might bring in is meaningless not to mention it would be a net loss compared to another team like Syracuse or someone that might agree to a 2 for 1.
  19. I think Notre Dame significantly overvalues themselves in the year of our lord 2025. They don't draw near what they used to. Notre Dame Miami had 10.8MM viewers, A&M/Notre Dame had 6.2MM and Notre Dame USC had 4.6MM. To put it in perspective, Texas/OSU had 16.6MM, Texas/TAMU had 13MM, Texas/UGA had 10.43MM and Ohio St. Michigan had top rated game of year at 18MM. Notre Dame's TV deal with NBC runs through 2029 and they aren't pulling their weight with other Blue Bloods as is. But if you combine that with the absolute fact that SEC and Big 10 blue bloods absolutely should not be scheduling ND going forward given our experience this year, they desperately need the ACC alliance in order to fill out a schedule (shitty as it is). This is a real opportunity for the rest of the College Football powers to fucking put ND in their place and further devalue their brand.
  20. I have no problem with players like Collin Simmons or even Arch not playing, but 15 practices for young players competing for a spot in the 2 deep + game reps are valuable. Treat it like an Exhibition with #1 priority being development compared to winning the game.
  21. It was not a good loss but JFC this is a dumb take. UF is a top 20 roster, easily. Kirby said as much yesterday. They were a poor coached team that underachieved (and playing #2 SOS didn't help them). But a healthy motivated UF could give any team in the country a game. Just ask UGA and Ole Miss. I was there about 15 rows up and they "looked" every bit of a top 10 team. They had dudes. And that was damn near the only game Dallas Wilson played and he looked like a top 5 receiver in the country. Again, we should have beaten them, and they had some inexcusable losses, but acting like they are fucking Kansas is just dumb. A lot of NFL talent on that team.
  22. Live sporting events are the most valuable "TV" inventory left since (i) the most popular 'shows' are now on various streaming services and (ii) anything else can be recorded to skip ads. People still want to watch sports live. This is the backdrop for the Disney/YTTV negotiations (and Fox before that) with contracts always expiring during football season. Broadcast rights for live sports keep going up and thus prices sold to streamers etc. keep going up.
  23. Seems like we've already had an entire seasons worth of injuries in less than 2 months.
  24. Sucks so bad. Obviously for the team but just beyond awful for Seguin. Dude has worked his ass off to get healthy and was having a great year.
  25. WTF? That's been a pretty productive play on the aggregate for Sark's entire tenure as an extension of the run game and a staple as the screen action sets up a bunch of other things. Bad take.
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