Recruiting Football Talk VII

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pierce60 said:
No. But Joe Milton had also thrown more than 118 passes in his 4 year college football career and been the starter at multiple Power 5 programs…Tate Rodemaker, not so much.
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Amazing what a month of practices with the ones can do for your game. Probably better to just assume he would still stink, though.
 
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Glitch said:
LU vs Oregon is a laff and a haff!
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Jimmy Football said:
Amazing what a month of practices with the ones can do for your game. Probably better to just assume he would still stink, though.
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So it’s ok to assume he’s going to become substantially better in a month? When evidence to this point is that he’s not that good….
 
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Jimmy Football said:
The playoff was supposed to rectify that. Maybe the 12-team one will.
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As long as biased, money hungry human beings are involved in the selection process, shenanigans will persist.

The solution is to develop a KenPom like computer ranking system and go with that. Remove the back room hand shakes from the picture. Computer rankings may not get it right, but at least we would know that corruption stayed out of the selection process. Imperfect but fair > imperfect and corrupt
 
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Weezer said:
Not convinced Bama and Georgia are the two best teams. That's SEC bias on your part. I'm not convinced Bama could beat Texas now, after losing to them already. I'm not sure how Michigan or Washington match up against Bama. Not sure how you can just declare Bama and Georgia are the best when they haven't proven it on the field.
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If all the team's logos, colors, and faces were blocked out of the Friday and Saturday championship games, Bama and UGA would be the two teams which most people would say were the best.

Our bias towards their baggage is what allows us to cheer for their demise. Let's just be honest about the situation.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Quality of the players is not synonymous with the quality of the overall product. More goes into the overall product than the individual players.

The NFL is a soulless, amorphous entity. Its major appeal is that you can turn on a game and expect a roughly homogeneous product as background entertainment. Fantasy has been a godsend for getting the general public to consistently watch.
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BisonVol said:
Based on what? FSU has passed every test since Travis got hurt. We can assume they aren’t one of the four best, but on the field, they’ve done nothing to confirm that assumption. Neither win was a thing of beauty, but Alabama’s wins over pedestrian teams like Auburn, Arkansas, and A&M weren’t things of beauty either.
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You take the starting QB away from almost any college football team they will not be as good and this FSU team, without their starting QB, is not one of the best 4 teams in the country. I don’t particularly care they beat two mediocre teams.
 
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pierce60 said:
You take the starting QB away from almost any college football team they will not be as good and this FSU team, without their starting QB, is not one of the best 4 teams in the country. I don’t particularly care they beat two mediocre teams.
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As good? No. Good enough to be competitive in a playoff game? Only one way to know.

They’re not one of the 4 best imo without Travis. They really aren’t. Probably not even top 6. But it’s a load of BS that Bama jumped them when all FSU did is win. If we aren’t going to let on field results be the ultimate indicator of who should be in, then FSU should have just forfeited the remainder of their games as soon as Travis got hurt and saved themselves a lot of effort and disappointment.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
If all the team's logos, colors, and faces were blocked out of the Friday and Saturday championship games, Bama and UGA would be the two teams which most people would say were the best.

Our bias towards their baggage is what allows us to cheer for their demise. Let's just be honest about the situation.
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You keep talking about other people's bias. I think you're enamored by the SEC logo. I, and many others, do not think Bama and Georgia are somehow unanimously the best teams in the country. They haven't played Michigan. They haven't played Washington. When Bama played Texas, they LOST. You see SEC and automatically think they're the best. This was a down year for the SEC. Nothing about this season screams "they're the best". I mean, Bama barely escaped a 6-6 team before playing Georgia.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
If all the team's logos, colors, and faces were blocked out of the Friday and Saturday championship games, Bama and UGA would be the two teams which most people would say were the best.

Our bias towards their baggage is what allows us to cheer for their demise. Let's just be honest about the situation.
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I just think this notion of “best” isn’t very useful, and not what the committee should be looking at.

Theoretically, you could have a team that started 0-3, and then rattled off 9 straight 20+ point wins against all the other “best” teams in college football. And if they tried to put them in over undefeated or one loss teams, the whole country would cry foul because they “didn’t deserve it”
for losing 3 games (and they would be right!).

“Best” could and should be interpreted as “most deserving,” which is really just “consistently best over the entire season.” Distilling the whole season down to “who’s good now?” really devalues the sport.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
If all the team's logos, colors, and faces were blocked out of the Friday and Saturday championship games, Bama and UGA would be the two teams which most people would say were the best.

Our bias towards their baggage is what allows us to cheer for their demise. Let's just be honest about the situation.
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No they wouldn’t. Most people would not put Bama and Georgia at 1 and 2. Only people who still have the misguided belief that the SEC is the best college football has to offer believe that.
 
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