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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    The representation narrative is an old one. At one time I truly believe it had legitimacy but the past several years haven't shown that to be true. I think the NCAA cleaned that stuff up, to be honest.
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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    Fair enough. Philosophically I agree with you on that and think you raise some good points. I think the committee has been progressively getting better in the past five years breaking old trends and thinking outside the box. I truly believe they've become more stat savvy and I dont think they...
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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    I'm a huge numbers guy. I love algorithms. I love power ratings. I swear by them and I've been begging to have them incorporated into the process for years. However, I do not want a process or algorithm where every game is treated as being exactly the same because they're not. A game in...
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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    Technically, in most tests of accuracy retrodictively, Joel Sokol's LRMC ratings fare the best. Pomeroy's ratings do well no doubt, but they arent necessarily the most accurate. I wouldn't want to depend on any single rating system though. I would want at minimum a composite of several points...
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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    They've never released the specific weight because there's never been a specific weight. Its always been up to each committee and each member to decide how they want to consider the criteria. I like what they're doing here. Theure moving to a more analytical approach and are going to use more...
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    NCAA Selection Committee Criteria Changing Next Season

    It's an arbitrary cutoff, sure, but it doesn't mean the committee can't or won't take that into consideration. It's not like they're going to say "oh this win on the road against No. 75 is in Tier A and this win at home of another team against No. 26 is in Tier B so we have to give the edge to...
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Chlamydia maybe, but not this.
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    Ohio State never really had a shot at Sean Miller nor did they think they did. They may have had a shot if timing were better, but this season of all seasons they weren't prying Miller away. They knew that. Never thought otherwise. They made a firm offer to Chris Mack and loose offers to Billy...
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    He looks like that because of spending the last 10 years on pain pills due to his botched back surgery which caused his drop foot. He has serious medical issues. There have been days he can barely get out of bed or walk.
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    They basically said in the press conference it was mutually agreed upon that it was time to make a change based on performance. I think his health issues played a role, but it was basically a forced resignation. Ohio State has said they will pay out the last three years of his contract rather...
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    You're absolutely right it was. The whole season was pretty bad. I think total apathy had set in. That's one of the reasons why a change was made. It has got to the point where the program was in a slow downward decline and the fans had taken notice. It spilled over into the gameday atmosphere...
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    Despite the football school reputation, Ohio State had been top-15 in national attendance average all but two of Matta's 13 seasons (the first and last seasons being the two exceptions). They had top-10 attendance in seven or eight of 13 years and top-5 in attendance twice. Fan support has...
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    OT - Tad Matta out of tOSU

    Mick Cronin will never... ever... ever... EVER be the head coach at Ohio State. There's a lot of history there and OSU would never hire him even if he wanted to be hired (which I doubt). Cronin is forever blackballed at OSU. My understanding is Chris Mack doesn't want any part of OSU. I don't...
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    OT - Rutgers and the Big Ten

    I would give Ash a pass because it's easy to look overwhelmed when you flat out have very little talent to work with. But I agree with the other sentiments. In fairness to Rutgers, they're essentially still operating on an AAC budget against the Big Ten. Once they're full members, I'd like to...
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    OT - Rutgers and the Big Ten

    That's fair, but man, Rutgers is setting football back 148 years.
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    OT - Rutgers and the Big Ten

    Rutgers this year against Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State: Outscored 224-0 Outgained 2,258 yards to 382 You're welcome.
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    If you are rooting against ESPN

    Probably not as much. Most of the cord-cutters were only paying for basic tiers of cable anyhow. Those sports channels, in most places, were on an expanded basic package. So while I'm sure they've lost some subscribers, it's probably not as bad as the channels that were exclusively on basic...
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    For the first time, I believe we may actually be screwed in the long run of conference realignment

    Know how successful businesses go under? Relying on doing things the same way just because it used to always work. Acting like Notre Dame will always be elite just because of their mystique is the quickest way to become irrelevant. Brand names cease to be brand names after a new generation of...
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    For the first time, I believe we may actually be screwed in the long run of conference realignment

    Notre Dame will think it's a problem when they find themselves not even a top-20 program in revenue after having always been top-5 since the age of television. It doesn't matter if it's actually a 'problem.' They're not going to be OK with not being a top-20 program in generating revenue. Ego is...
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    For the first time, I believe we may actually be screwed in the long run of conference realignment

    And again, it's not the main issue right now but it will be when the trend continues over the next 10 years. Wait until you see the gap in 2025 if Notre Dame still isn't in a conference. If you think NBC is going to continue to view them as the golden goose with the ratings as they have been...
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    For the first time, I believe we may actually be screwed in the long run of conference realignment

    The gap has already widened. Seriously, take a look back at the revenue of Notre Dame now to its peers and check what it was 10-20 years ago. Arguing that Notre Dame isn't falling behind is ignoring reality. It's not happening drastically, but it's most definitely been happening gradually. In...
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    For the first time, I believe we may actually be screwed in the long run of conference realignment

    Big 12 is on its deathbed. Not sure if it will happen in the next few years or if they'll wait out the Grant of Rights and start jumping around 2023, but it seems a pretty good bed. it's dead. That means anywhere between 10-26 spots that will opening up for a four conference power structure in...
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    Non-Key Tweets

    It basically means Fox and Mark Silverman would like Oklahoma to join the Big Ten. Silverman is presumed to be the next commissioner when Delany retires and Oklahoma has had a great working relationship with Fox already.
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    Non-Key Tweets

    Resorting to playing dirty, I see. Considering you've been taking jabs at so many people in this thread, it's clear you're not really debating from a position of strength or logic. You're simply distracting people from the facts by lobbing insults and taking jabs at people. Surest sign you never...
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    Non-Key Tweets

    Well sheesh who am I to argue with that sort of intellectual superiority. You got it all figured out. You must be making billions of dollars with all this foresight into the world.
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    Non-Key Tweets

    I'm not defending flug. I've said my opinion on the matter. I don't really care. I'm perplexed why you spend so much time trying to talk people out of believing him, but whatever. That's your call. Point is, you're so hellbent on convincing folks he's wrong about everything that you're actually...
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    Non-Key Tweets

    There's not evidence of that at all. The only evidence I see is that the Big 12 is dying and everyone knows it and can see it except you and West Virginia bloggers. I'm sorry that it goes against your discredit flug mission. But it's true.
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    Non-Key Tweets

    It's been reported by virtually everyone that no one could agree on the teams involved, so what's the point in fighting if not everyone else could agree either? Secondly, they already look like fools. And if they expanded only to leave in 6 years, they'd still look like fools. It's for that...
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    Non-Key Tweets

    Why go to the trouble of voting for schools if they are already halfway out the door? Seems like at this point just keep status quo and get the Grant of Rights over with and get the heck out of there. I don't see any reason to support expansion if they just wanna get the heck out.
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    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    Actually in non-revenue sports, teams often do travel together. The concept is simple: two teams close in distance would fly or bus together to a destination close to two opponents also close in distance. They would stay a few days playing each opponent and then basically switch opponents and...
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    So what's next?

    Should others join you because you have a problem with paying for channels you don't watch or should they join you because you don't want your $1 a year going to the Big Ten until/unless UConn joins?
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    So what's next?

    The average household well over 100 channels in their cable package. Everyone is literally paying for dozens of channels they don't watch or need. It's an easy argument to say that most sports fans watch the BTN more than the many cooking channels, news networks, reality stations, etc., that is...
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    So what's next?

    I truly believe UConn is in the Big Ten or ACC in 2025. If everyone agrees the Big 12 is on its death bed, then it stands to reason we're heading to four power conference. That means somewhere between 16-20 schools in four leagues. At that point, there's no way UConn is left out one of those two...
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