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re: Tim Brando: Fiesta Bowl is a glorified exhibition
Posted on 12/7/18 at 12:33 am to Metaloctopus
Posted on 12/7/18 at 12:33 am to Metaloctopus
If you have major conferences, they should mean something. It’s pretty much how every playoff works.
Otherwise we’re just guessing on eyeball test alone.
Look st the NFL, MLB the NCAA tournament. They all have auto bids and sometimes yes: shorty teams get in, but you sees the low and move On. It makes conference championship games and division races that much more interesting. Also very rarely does a bad division winner actually win their conference. It would be a complete rarity.
You can’t complain about conference bias when you’re conference gets an auto bid. I think That shuts down most complainers.
If you can’t definitely say you’re one of the best 3 teams to not win your confeeence you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.
Otherwise we’re just guessing on eyeball test alone.
Look st the NFL, MLB the NCAA tournament. They all have auto bids and sometimes yes: shorty teams get in, but you sees the low and move On. It makes conference championship games and division races that much more interesting. Also very rarely does a bad division winner actually win their conference. It would be a complete rarity.
You can’t complain about conference bias when you’re conference gets an auto bid. I think That shuts down most complainers.
If you can’t definitely say you’re one of the best 3 teams to not win your confeeence you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.
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Posted on 12/7/18 at 12:46 am to SammyTiger
Your argument is ignoring the entire basis of my point, dude. This ISN'T the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL or NCAA basketball tournament.
Again, in the pros you have a very limited number of teams where you can just take the best records in each conference (aside from the division champion being an automatic qualifier). You're dealing with a lot more teams, and the competition is not anything close to equal for even all of the power 5 teams.
And the NCAA basketball and baseball tournaments have auto bids because they have 64 and 68 team fields. You can't do that in football. And, also, who said the auto bids were even a good idea in those tournaments? I hate that are so many crappy teams, and teams with losing records, that get in over teams from real conferences who actually play somebody all year.
You see my point? It fixes nothing. It just muddies up the field and waters down the significance of the regular season.
Again, in the pros you have a very limited number of teams where you can just take the best records in each conference (aside from the division champion being an automatic qualifier). You're dealing with a lot more teams, and the competition is not anything close to equal for even all of the power 5 teams.
And the NCAA basketball and baseball tournaments have auto bids because they have 64 and 68 team fields. You can't do that in football. And, also, who said the auto bids were even a good idea in those tournaments? I hate that are so many crappy teams, and teams with losing records, that get in over teams from real conferences who actually play somebody all year.
You see my point? It fixes nothing. It just muddies up the field and waters down the significance of the regular season.
This post was edited on 12/7/18 at 12:48 am
Posted on 12/7/18 at 2:09 am to SammyTiger
you can't make conference champ auto qualifiers without first balancing out the conferences. It is not the same accomplishment being the big 12 champ as being the sec champ. 2nd and 3rd place in the SEC is tougher to achieve than being big 12 or ACC champ. Clemson played PITTSBURG FOR ITS CHAMP GAME AND Oklahoma PLAYED A CRAPPY TEXAS TEAM.
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