Interesting Twix from the Dark Lord himself, Greg Sankey.
While some might view this as a man standing up for his conference, here’s how I interpret it:
”Hey future Superconference Partners…schedule more SEC teams in the future. The $O$ will be equal for all of us”.
At least, that’s my .02 on the matter. I believe the future of cupcake scheduling may be depending on the powers that be coming together in the offseason to discuss the inequities of the first iteration of the CFP12.
Fuck that asshole. I wasted almost three minutes thinking about this yesterday: I we get Penn State then Miami because of the schedule, then finish out with whatever other bunch of assholes they want to throw at us for a national title ? Fine with me. Let the other fuckweasels beat their heads against each other. If the team that put the paddling on ut shows up I like our chances.
#fuckthosemotherfuckers
GC, didn’t you know the hillbillies are counting the game as a win due to the officials? Bunch of crybabies in need of a dose of copium.
My man!
(We miss you, Ranger Russ.)
I don’t think Sankey is trying to set up more games. I do think he’s saying it just means more
Yeah, I take it at face value. He’s the lead cheerleader for our conference and he’s just pointing out the obvious, that we play in the toughest conference.
For as much bitching as the B1G crowd does about the SEC scheduling the likes of Mercer and UMass, they have some amazing collective amnesia about their teams doing the same. Who did mighty Ohio State play this year OOC? Akron, Western Michigan and Marshall. Give me a fuckin’ break.
Also, and large contributor to the weak ass SOS of many of their teams is their own conference. We have a handful of bad teams, but well over half their teams are as bad as Miss State.
FTMF!
Yeah. And they complain that we don’t move to a 9 game conference schedule. If that happened, SEC teams would have more than the top 6. We would have the first 16 spots in the SOS every year!
And the extra losses to go with it. I was for the none game schedule till I saw how the conference strength is used against you. Bama, Ole Miss, UGA & TN all belong ahead of Indiana, ND, & Miami. Ridiculous to reward for not playing any good teams while punishing the lovers of a veritable round robin of tough games. Not to mention Tejas given a free ride by the conference.
Seems like they only complain because the SEC teams schedule 1 cupcake at the END of the year instead of toploading them at the start of the year. That way people forget about their cupcakes. It’s called recency bias
Understanding how much CKS loves him some motivational word speak, having gone 2-2 vs the bammers, sip country, those texass sized malcontents and big urunge kuntry in 2024, will drive him to attempt 4-0 vs the same in 2025…scheduling UGA football only helps your SOS (not that fucking yell leader in hogtown)….GO DAWGS!!
Remember all those years where Clemson sleepwalked/scrimmaged through their whole season only to have a full tank of gas for the last 2 games? Gawd that drove me nuts. Every game was play the starters, clear the bench, and at the end of the season they had depth and a lot of live action practice against horrible ACC teams.
Isn’t that more or less what the B1G teams are doing this year? Granted, that conference has more than one good team, but the majority of their games are cakewalks.
It is, and it was kinda my point. I do think the big is better than the ACC so it’s not quite the same but still, they don’t get pushed much. In what other conference right now would a team think “dang, glad we don’t have to play vandy and scarolina?”
The main problem with the B1G is the top teams hardly play each other this year. The only team to play more than one of the top ranked B1G teams is anOSU. Oregon (at least they played Boise), Penn St., and Indiana each only played one of the Top 5 ranked CFP teams from the B1G.
I am afraid the playoff committee does not give a crap about SOS.
They just look at a team’s record. If that team plays a group of high school teams and has gone undefeated, they get invited.
Agree, 209.
Kirby’s on the mutha!!
That’s certainly what the committee is saying this year. You got 2 losses? Down you go.
Let’s see if they sing the same tune if Indiana somehow beats an Ohio State University.
Oh, they already have that narrative scripted out, trust me. “When looking at Ohio State, they have two quality losses, one a narrow loss to the number 1 team in the nation, and another to the only other undefeated team in the nation, Indiana. While they have no quality wins aside from their defeat of the #4 Penn State Shittany Liars, we feel they are deserving of the #3 ranking above Penn State, who remains #4 while Indiana is a clear #2 only because they don’t have a quality loss yet from Oregon, which will happen in two weeks. Oops, we just said the quiet part out loud.”
Meanwhile:
“While Georgia handled business against UMass, the committee cannot overlook how bad the loss to Ole Miss was, without any context of matchups or other factors such as injuries. Their wins over five teams in the current CFP top 25 are of little consequence because they have a poor loss to a current Top 10 team. That’s why we dropped Georgia out of the CFP rankings altogether. Had they beaten Tennessee Tech by more points or if they had played the Colorado School of Mines instead of Clemson, the Committee would be more likely to move Georgia into the automatic national champions of 2024 slot, but we cannot overlook that they played a cupcake in November instead of in August. The earth is also flat, and Tyler Simmons was, in fact, offsides, and Ohio State would have a national championship if not for an injury to Marvin Harrison, Jr. Also, Michigan did not cheat with Connor Stalions, that’s our story, and you can’t prove anything otherwise”
Golf clap, sir, for well played snark (with a lot of truth wrapped up in it).
‘Tis a great post!
Somehow I don’t think the national pundits want to say UGA winners 3 of the last 4.
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FSU: “Now only wins matter?”
I heard Ben Hartsock on Dusty and Danny this morning say that, in his opinion, SOS should not be considered when looking at Power 4 teams. It should only apply to Group of 5 teams. His reasoning is that if you play in a Power 4 conference, SOS is more or less the same.
Pathetic, but unsurprising, take from a B1G homer and apologist.
Repeating something I said recently: The selection committee is like the old AP and UPI polls. It doesn’t go out on a limb for anybody except maybe Bama and ND. Teams go up in the rank almost solely because teams in front of them lose. Lose one game, your drop depends on how big a name you are. Lose two, go sit with the hoi polloi.
That’s about as weak a comment on the issue as you can get. Did his secretary write that? I hope that’s just his first volley. There needs to be way more pressure on this committee that apparently just uses the AP poll and accepts free trips to Dallas every week.
Sankey sux. Only interested in money. Either get rid of the SEC Championship game or split back into divisions (WEST: Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri, Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Oklahoma / EAST: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Kentucky).
I keep seeing people like Joel Klatt digging at Kirby for his us against the world antics. But this post is further proof that people who know less about football than him are determining our team’s fate. So I think it’s justified. It’s like an MD having to go to a board of nurses to be determined worthy of conducting surgery (or whatever I’m trying to say). Besides, that kind of attitude got Michael Jordan pretty far in his career. Some might say he’s the best of all time.
Committees are made up of biased or stupid or both (as in the case of the CFP’ grifters) and a committee shouldn’t be handling this. Go full bore computers with SOS, records, etc. as inputs and leave out style points against teams not ranked in the top 25 or so.
Allowing human input is inviting…even demanding…bias. This is some ridiculous biased bull crap and I hope it gets straightened out to at least a ‘semblance of fairness.
Wish there were a way to put the choices before the dummies on the committee without identifying the teams under consideration…as in Team A has done this, Team B had done this, Team C had done this…etc… Make them choose on numbers instead of names and preferences.
Apparently they don’t understand CFB esp the math of CFB. All they know is they want to even things up against the bully SEC. They are jealous and they are desperate to promote ND, PSU, and….even Indiana.
Reminds me of some officiating crews that think it’s their job to even up things in a lopsided game.
In Kirby I trust, though and I hope he takes the frustration out of GT..I think GT might crack the top 25 in the next poll..so it will help UGA’s SOS..
And all the goons on the committee say…”What’s this SOS everyone keeps bringing up?”