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InVOLuntary said:
Haney punches.
Butch punches back.
Haney punches back.
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IMO, it would only be a punch back because he put CBJ at #2 on the list. The article is saying that if UT has another 8-4 season and potentially 8-5 season depending on who the losses are to, CBJ would likely be fired. I understand we replace some key players going into next year, but if we have another 8-4 season in 2017, I would expect there to be serious consideration over CBJ's job. Not earth shattering.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Well used to, if you lost one regular season game you were pretty much done. With the playoff now you can afford to lose a game and still get in. So, it does diminish the importance of the regular season. I think it is minimal at the moment but if you expand the the playoffs, it will diminish significantly more IMO.
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I actually think it makes more games important at the end. In the end, the PSU/Wisconsin game was meaningless. They would have been playing for seeding or even a spot in the top 8. The OU/OSU game would have been for a playoff bid. Colorado would have been playing for a playoff birth.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Why is Butch above Sumlin? That doesn't make any sense. Hard not to believe that Haney is doing this stuff on purpose.
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Agreed. I had thought that the "culture" article was a shot at Butch by Haney and this confirms it to me. How is Butch listed over Sumlin? This was the first year Butch didn't at least meet expectations when Sumlin hasn't met expectations since Johnny Drama left TAMU.
 
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Didn't see anything on this as it appears we have gained another PWO at LB:

Two-star senior linebacker TJ Minnifee of Wilson Central High School in Lebanon, Tenn., announced Sunday night on his Twitter account that he has committed to Tennessee as a preferred walk-on.

The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Minnifee chose the Vols just three days after he received an offer to join them as a preferred walk-on. He previously had reported scholarship offers from South Carolina, Miami (Ohio) and Jackson State.
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- 247 (Callahan)
 
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Ron Swanson said:
And ruin the regular season? No thanks. I'd rather they went back to no playoffs. Further expansion will make the regular season games we love so much become meaningless. And then we're college basketball, just waiting for March. Would be awful.
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One thing in which I disagree with you, Ron. There are very meaningful college basketball games played in November and December. There are several teams that if a game or two go the other way, then it effects them getting into the Big Dance.

At least we aren't at the point anymore where if we lose to UF in September, we aren't done for the year. That was brutal for me.
 
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McGeesPub said:
I'll put it like this. I'd rather have the Penn States of the world left out in order to keep the Wisconsins of the world out of the playoff than to include both.

I think quibbling with the selection process as it stands is fair, though.

But yeah, as I said, I think six could work well.
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If Wisconsin isn't good enough, they'll get eliminated. People say it makes regular season mean less, but teams with 2 early losses at this point have a totally meaningless season after; so I'd argue that an expanded playoff would actually increase the amount of significance of the regular season for every single team except the top 4.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
And ruin the regular season? No thanks. I'd rather they went back to no playoffs. Further expansion will make the regular season games we love so much become meaningless. And then we're college basketball, just waiting for March. Would be awful.
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Disagree. I think it would add more meaning. Suddenly games that didn't matter would. 16 teams, 10 conference champions, 6 at large teams.
 
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appyvol said:
Disagree. I think it would add more meaning. Suddenly games that didn't matter would. 16 teams, 10 conference champions, 6 at large teams.
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I'm not on board with 16, but I agree that many more games would matter if you expand the playoff. None of Penn States games mattered later in the season, none of Wisconsins mattered, none of Oklahoma mattered, none of USCw mattered once they and many others lost early. An expanded playoff would have made all those games and a lot more mean something instead of being meaningless.
 
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I think there's a reason every level of football from high school to NFL, including all of college except for one level, is decided by a playoff involving a double digit amount of teams.
 
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appyvol said:
Disagree. I think it would add more meaning. Suddenly games that didn't matter would. 16 teams, 10 conference champions, 6 at large teams.
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Holy crap....you already have us going to 16 team playoffs? Why not make it the Top 25? If we're going to get crazy with it, why not go full blown bat sh** crazy?
 
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I think that if the P5 champs had automatic bids and then x amount of at large spots, then the regular season would matter. Why should the BIG 10 champ be left out while OSU, who didn't win their conference, be included? Fwiw I think there should be 3 at large spots so the really good G5 teams could have a shot.
 
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jave36 said:
I'm not on board with 16, but I agree that many more games would matter if you expand the playoff. None of Penn States games mattered later in the season, none of Wisconsins mattered, none of Oklahoma mattered, none of USCw mattered once they and many others lost early. An expanded playoff would have made all those games and a lot more mean something instead of being meaningless.
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I agree. I think we'll see 8 very soon. Hopefully 2018.
 
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8 team playoff makes sense to me.

1) Take one of each of the highest ranked power 5 teams

2) Take the top ranked non power 5 team and make them play the 1st seed

3) Take the next two highest ranked teams
 
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SergeantVol said:
I think that if the P5 champs had automatic bids and then x amount of at large spots, then the regular season would matter. Why should the BIG 10 champ be left out while OSU, who didn't win their conference, be included? Fwiw I think there should be 3 at large spots so the really good G5 teams could have a shot.
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I think that's the perfect scenario
 
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jave36 said:
I'm not on board with 16, but I agree that many more games would matter if you expand the playoff. None of Penn States games mattered later in the season, none of Wisconsins mattered, none of Oklahoma mattered, none of USCw mattered once they and many others lost early. An expanded playoff would have made all those games and a lot more mean something instead of being meaningless.
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They did matter. Games that mattered a little more didn't go their way.

Expand playoff and PAC12 game doesn't matter. ACC game doesn't matter. Ohio State v Michigan doesn't really matter.
 
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LynxVol said:
Could be some truth to this. I've heard that UT could potentially involve a search firm, and one may have already been contacted.
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Don't need a search firm! Hire Blackburn!!! Good grief. Who are these people? Are they clueless? Good grief this is so simple. Hire me to be your search firm. I'll take your money and call Blackburn. Job done, search ended
 
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