Not sure where my head was the day after the last “National Championship Tournament Game.”
Congrats to, um, I’ll look it up later.
ETA: oh, yeah, the #8 seed beat the #7 seed.
First up: Coach does some Football-Coachy things and gets fired instead of a raise:
Oh, the way tooo early rankings, posted here way too late:
I wonder how much money or other utility measurements Bucknell makes on Fuh-baw:
Now we have College athletes holding out for a new/better contract?
QB at UNKV did this last year. Someone promised him big bucks, but the big bucks were a no-show.
To be fair, he left when the school didn’t live up to what he (and his people) felt he had been promised. He wasn’t holding out to negotiate a better deal.
It will be interesting, how quickly Nico gets picked up and if he ends up getting more than what he was getting in TN. Reports are that he was hard to work with for used of his NIL. And his stats weren’t all that great for the hype he got coming out of HS. But it is possible he could get into a situation that works better for him or maybe not. My personal feelings is that he will play for more than 1 more college team during his remaining eligibility.
No auto byes for conference champs. Top 5 will get in but seeding will be based on final playoff poll. This is the last year of the contract so expect more changes after this year too.
Seems reasonable, since the Conference Championship is a crapshoot relative to a 12-game season result.
Oh, and the playoff system is also a crapshoot. Pro/Rel is the only objective alternative.
So, um, what if a team, say, an undefeated team, decides NOT to play in their conference championship game? Would it drop them out of the top 12, or top 8 or top 4?
Keeps their players healthy for more important tournament games later. Maybe they’ll go to the school’s classes.
Note that ND now can earn a bye with a top four finish, giving their players even more time off to rest and not get injured, and maybe go to the school’s classes.
Meanwhile, SEC is trying to push some narrative that their conference schedule will always be tougher than other conferences, and thus “don’t make us play a ninth game!”
I get it. Last thing you want to do is to play tough teams and beat them.
Meanwhile, USC is rethinking that whole ND-USC rivalry game. USC wants the game a little earlier than the last game or mid-October, when a loss means a lot more than earlier on.
Here’s a biased version of the news
Counterpoint: it has NEVER been a good thing to schedule tough non-conference teams, if the goal is one of the (current) 12 spots in the Knockout Tournament. Nor was it a good idea when there were only 4. Or when there was no Knockout Tournament.
And, adding another 4 spots makes it even less a reason. Just win the games you have and hope the Committee chooses you. If anyone is whining about losing three games and not making the playoff, they should stop.
