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PurpleWhiteBoy
Max_Power said:
The only other time I have seen such a foul disparity was against Purdue but that was due to Edie and NU employing a strategy to foul him and NU was trapping. Last night their were just crazy calls like the Mullins foul on the 3.
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Well the fouls against Purdue were just as bad but it wasn't a strategy. Edey would post up, reach back and entangle our guys arms. Refs were dumb enough to fall for it.
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Gronowski

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FanatiCat said:
Who’s Wilde?

If Gronowski really wanted to be here he would’ve come with Lujan. Or at the very least, right after entering the portal last week.
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1) Gronowski got a lot of NIL money from SDSU to come back there, plus he was going for a 3-peat that would’ve put him on the Mount Rushmore of all-time FCS greats.

2) Gronowski didn’t enter the portal until after Stone had committed to NU. I’m sure we would have recruited him had he entered before or simultaneously with Stone.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

AdamOnFirst
TheC said:
Why do you think that? Doesn't that cheapen the accomplishment of an extraordinarily successful season? I realize you have to be successful to make the championship game in the first place, but it would bother me if an undefeated team loses that last game to a two-loss conference foe whom they already beat in the regular season and now, because of that, loses those perks you are providing the conference champ in your model.
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I can think of a lot of reasons, but the top two are incentives needing to be maintained for conferences not to drop the game to manipulate the playoff seeding system and the era of super-sized conferences leading to a decent number of teams playing a shortage of games against other top teams before the championship game.
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Max_Power
Hungry Jack said:
The French Revolution did not start with the storming of the Bastille. It started when people felt the first pangs of hunger.

I am getting plenty hungry for good officiating.
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The only other time I have seen such a foul disparity was against Purdue but that was due to Edie and NU employing a strategy to foul him and NU was trapping. Last night their were just crazy calls like the Mullins foul on the 3.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

TheC
AdamOnFirst said:
I think the exact opposite, conferences should be required to have the game in order to qualify for one of the automatic 5 spots.
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Why do you think that? Doesn't that cheapen the accomplishment of an extraordinarily successful season? I realize you have to be successful to make the championship game in the first place, but it would bother me if an undefeated team loses that last game to a two-loss conference foe whom they already beat in the regular season and now, because of that, loses those perks you are providing the conference champ in your model.
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College Football Commissioner?

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I've seen/heard talking heads over the past couple of weeks float the idea of a College Football Commissioner - James Franklin most notably called for Saban to become "THE" commissioner during one of his Fiesta Bowl press conferences. I've seen other talking heads suggest that all conference commissioners would essentially report to this commissioner, who would be the CFB overlord.

If there's one thing that's true about college football, it's that the people in power are selfish and only interested in protecting their own program's self-interests. It seems/feels like virtually no entity will cede one iota of power for "the greater good." This is why the NCAA (which is just an umbrella organization for ADs and presidents) is such a joke, right? So, am I missing something for how/why the creation of a commissioner would matter?
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

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AdamOnFirst said:
I think the exact opposite, conferences should be required to have the game in order to qualify for one of the automatic 5 spots.
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While I tend to agree with this, I would also agree with anyone who says conference championship games are of questionable value (besides monetary), especially in an expanded playoff model. I do appreciate that most conferences have done away with divisions to further reduce the random luck of barely being better than one half of the teams involved and then stumbling into an upset, but I also think it's just a matter of time before we have 3- and 4-way ties at the top that have to go to a 7th tiebreaker to determine which two teams make it.
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

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AdamOnFirst said:
My proposed solution to the byes thing is: move the round of 4 bowl games to the first round. Teams 5-12 play at the bowl sites. This eliminates the big advantage a team gets by being seeded 8 instead of 9, which is very marginal and subjective and probably not fair.

Give the 4 conference champs the bye week AND give them home field advantage. Now we're talking a really major advantage. The reality of the conference champs rules means a lot are still going to be underdogs and lose, but you're heaping all the advantages on the teams who actually earned it through titles and not based on seeding.
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I would argue that, by the time you get to the quarterfinals, those games should be played at a neutral site. I do believe that getting out of playing a whole extra game is by itself, an inherent advantage to the top four seeds.
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