Go back to a single game championship, or even better, the old bowl alliance system. Quit reducing the sport and season to the playoff. Go back to school pride and the love the game as the primary reason to compete. But that’ll never happen. No putting the genie back in the bottle.
Florida State..WTF
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Maybe if the NFL would hold opt outs accountable as more about themselves rather than team this wouldn’t happen so much.
Now you also have to deal with the transfer portal that opens before the bowl season is even over also.
Now you also have to deal with the transfer portal that opens before the bowl season is even over also.
Look, you guys need to understand that bowl games are for Iowa fans...they can never every reach the playoffs.
Agreed, it's why I didn't want us to make a bowl game. We're heading in a new direction, I hope, and bowl practices wouldn't have done any good.
Prior year wins have no bearing on this year. They lost to the 4 seed in the last game of the year. They didn’t earn it this year.
Glad he said something. Wish he'd had a little more conviction about it, but glad to hear someone at the top of the sport addressing it publicly. Always sounds better coming from the winning coach in that situation too, because when the losing coach says something, it just sounds like sour grapes. Hoping more take a page from Kirby's book and the noise gets louder until something is done.
"If only somebody could have seen this coming ahead of time when the NCAA made it so easy for players to quit".
Sincerely,
Get off my lawn guy
Sincerely,
Get off my lawn guy
...and thank you Florida State players who all quit on your team when you didn't get everything you thought you should, and showed the world that keeping you out of the playoff was the right call.
Yep. FSU better hope they're not on the bubble again next year. Who would want to watch this in a playoff game?
If you're really old, you remember the Orange Bowl played in the day with Curt Gowdy calling the game.
Who should they have replaced?
- A 1 loss Alabama team that they just got beat by?
- An undefeated Washington team that plays in a P5 conference (that just happened to arguably be the best top to bottom that it's ever been)?
- An undefeated Michigan team that plays in a P5 conference?
- A 1 loss Texas team that beat the team that beat Georgia?
Foolish logic. Had they kept their #4 ranking after beating a ranked team & made the playoff they never would have quit, thus making your argument moot.
I agree. That’s why it’s a dumb for the committee to vote who they think the best four teams are.. you gotta vote who the most 4 deserving teams are…
I'd say they embarrassed themselves and deservedly so. If preserving an undefeated season against an elite team in a historically prestigious bowl game doesn’t motivate you, then I don't know what will.
The funny thing is if Georgia takes care of business in the sec title game, then FSU makes playoffs and these opt outs never occur.
Maybe so but that’s a purely subjective comment. All we know is: Texas is better than bama. Bama is better than Georgia. Everything else is an opinion.
I’m guessing a title shot. A title shot would have motivated them. That’s it. Nothing else. And they earned that right.
Florida State quitters had a chance to knock off a 2 time defending natty winner and finish the seaaon undefeated..... and tbey still quit. All the naysayers now have all the ammo they need to proclaim the selection folks did their job, correctly.
I agree. We need to restore sanity to transfers. Players need to go back to sitting out a season when they transfer and they must lose eligibility for a season after playing one game. Right now we're honestly asking coaches to do the impossible job of building a roster but living with the constant threat of having players ditch the program on a whim.
I think NIL is ok but there needs to be a contractual agreement to play all the way through the post-season. I'm not sure how to enforce that however.
I think my biggest disconnect with a lot of todays kids is my work ethic is to non negotiable. Theirs? Not so much.
You're not doing any child, kid, adult, boy or girl, any favors reinforcing the idea that quitting on your team when you don't get what you want is acceptable.
The 23 players that opted out wouldn't have been able to overcome that much of a point deficit. Perhaps the game might have been somewhat more competitive, but honestly at the end of the day Georgia was simply the better team and would have found a way to win no matter what.
Alabama proved they belong by beating a great Georgia team. Florida State had a great season and I was pulling for them to win but a 63-3 just can't be swept under the rug.
Exactly, I had felt quite strongly that Florida State should have gotten in. After the complete embarrassment and spanking laid by Georgia, I'll admit I was wrong. The committee got it right.
They could have claimed a national title if they had won just like UCF did in Frost's last season. That Mike Norvell didn't think of that and rather let his team walkout in mass tells me all I need to know about his leadership qualities.
Fair enough. It will be interesting to see if players ever start opting out of playoff games.
No one cares about Ucf’s fake title. People laugh at them for it.
Yeah, wait for the day when good players say they want to opt out till they get a $50,000 bonus or some shit. Pisses me off.
Correct. They lost their playoff game to alabama. That game should mean something.
