Brando's "Blue Ribbon Panel"

[TrueGritnPluck]

Given the nature of Brando's dislike of Alabama and stance against a rematch and for an automatic AP Title for LSU now, I have been satelliting his show pretty regularly.

Timmy is now pushing a "Blue Ribbon Panel" of BCS selectors, who will use the polls and computers but not be bound by them. This group of "experts" will then select the participants on their own.

I have heard others in the media agree with this theory, and even local people discussing it.

My initial thoughts are that a small, 12-15 man NCAA BAsketball type selection committee would have the potential for more bias and problem than what we have now.

Thoughts and opinions on this idea? :BigA:

 

[TideEngineer08]

It would make it worse. I don't understand why people want emotion removed from these processes, then they whine and cry about the result.

Putting a panel of human beings in place will make this process a great deal more biased.

 

[RKel32]

Given the nature of Brando's dislike of Alabama and stance against a rematch and for an automatic AP Title for LSU now, I have been satelliting his show pretty regularly.

Timmy is now pushing a "Blue Ribbon Panel" of BCS selectors, who will use the polls and computers but not be bound by them. This group of "experts" will then select the participants on their own.

I have heard others in the media agree with this theory, and even local people discussing it.

My initial thoughts are that a small, 12-15 man NCAA BAsketball type selection committee would have the potential for more bias and problem than what we have now.

Thoughts and opinions on this idea? :BigA:

Two sides of the coin. Either you have a panel of experts who are tasked in being knowledgeable on the teams in contention and their individual merits, or you have let computers and the coaches decide. I've never understood the coaches poll. We all know good and well that part of CNS' week is not spent watching games to put together his top 25. He is focused on our team and our opponents. So most coaches pass it on to their SID or someone on the staff. Is this person's ballot any more legit than a panel of experts? I doubt it.

On the other hand, you're then putting the BCS decision in the hands of a small panel rather than a larger group of voters, so the base from which you are grabbing your consensus is much smaller and may not represent the true opinion of the nation.

I don't know... I see the arguments from both sides. Ultimately it doesn't matter how you decide who gets in if #2 and #3 both have a legitimate claim to get into the game.

 

[GreatDanish]

This would basically be just like the AP poll or the Coaches poll, except made up of fewer people (meaning there would be greater opportunity for "influence"). You can't tell me a small group of people picking participants in a game would not be influenced by money.

Bad idea.

 

[Rasputin]

Anything other than a college football playoff and you are going to have bias and subjectivity involved...Period!

 

[TideEngineer08]

Anything other than a college football playoff and you are going to have bias and subjectivity involved...Period!

You will have bias and subjectivity involved in a playoff. Any playoff.

 

[theBIGyowski]

You will have bias and subjectivity involved in a playoff. Any playoff.

Exactly. You cannot have 120 teams in a division and expect to be able to objectively come up with a fair and honest playoff. You could easily realistically send half of the FBS teams to another division and then pull 24-32 teams from that pool of 60 to be in a playoff.

But that will never happen.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Putting more human involvement means putting more biases in place. Take Brando for example. Could you imagine someone like Brando and all of his stupid logic being a part of a panel that decides the fate of someone's chances to play in the big game?

Our luck they'd pick Fulmer and Bill Curry as two of the "experts" on the panel.

 

[mrusso]

A playoff would ultimately be no different than what we have now. As it stands now the voters, along with computers, decide who is 1 and 2. Who do you think is going to decide who is 1 thru 8, or 16, or whatever the magic number is for a playoff? It's the voters and computers. So at the end of the day, someone will get left out. We'll hear the "it's not fair" song, certain media members will whine, and our government will decide that they in some way need to intervene and make all this right.

I thinkl that the ESPN's, CBS's and others love this bickering. What better way to gain viewers and television ratings than to have major controversy like we have this year. It couldn't have worked out better for them.

 

[rizolltizide]

I'd like to take a blue ribbon and choke Brando about half to death with it.

 

[RJ YellowHammer]

We have a Blue Ribbon Panel. We call it the Coaches Poll and the Harris Poll. What's the difference?

I agree. If the number of people participating in the selection process is reduced, biases are more likely.

 

[CullmanTide]

Brando knows what's in store for his beloved Tigers and he just can't stand it.

 

[Rasputin]

A playoff would ultimately be no different than what we have now. As it stands now the voters, along with computers, decide who is 1 and 2. Who do you think is going to decide who is 1 thru 8, or 16, or whatever the magic number is for a playoff? It's the voters and computers. So at the end of the day, someone will get left out. We'll hear the "it's not fair" song, certain media members will whine, and our government will decide that they in some way need to intervene and make all this right.

I thinkl that the ESPN's, CBS's and others love this bickering. What better way to gain viewers and television ratings than to have major controversy like we have this year. It couldn't have worked out better for them.

You always here about the 3-5 teams on the "bubble" going into the NCAA Basketball playoff that get left out, but in the end their griping and complaining is drowned out by great games and a competitive playoff. The team that wins it at the end of the playoff deserves it and no one ever complains that they did not deserve it!

I will leave you with this example:

I was apart of a football team in high school that was projected to be the worst team that we have had at this particular high school in decades. We had 2 returning starters and we weren't even ranked in the top 10 going into the season. We came out with a big boom and won our first 5 games and shocked a lot of our fans and jumped into the top 3 in the rankings. We then played 2 solid teams and lost back to back games and fell out of the top 10 and never returned. Many thought, "see I told you they weren't any good, this is the team I was telling you about, they don't even deserve to be in the playoffs." But we earned our way into the playoffs based on the rules that the AHSAA had put into place. We worked our butts off week to week and gave it all we had. We went on that year to win the state championship against a much bigger school that was ranked 2nd in the state.

Moral of the story, young men are going to have blemishes and are going to make mistakes. The beauty of a playoff is that is gives some teams a small forgiveness for mistakes, and gives the kids hope for tomorrow. Hope to get better and to keep striving to give their all and reap the ultimate prize.

I know that 17 year old kid that played high school football on a team that "wasn't going to be any good" and had lost 2 regular season ball games is sure thankful that the top 2 teams in the rankings didn't get to play for it all. Those are memories I will never forget and it is all due to a system that allowed teams to win the games on the field in a structured regulated way, with no bias...

 

[Crimson Cat]

So are all these people on the panel going to watch ALL THE GAMES? Because if not, I don't see how its any different than having the Coaches Poll or Harris Polls involved...its still somebody's (a human) opinion which will always be biased one way or another who hasn't seen but clips or highlights of games....in fact I think there is greater chance for just that sort of bias to happen because of a smaller pool of people involved.
We need to stop trying to make college football like every other stupid sport. JMHO.

 

[h2o]

Let's just turn everything upside down. Let's have this "Blue Ribbon Panel" pick 2 - 4 teams to play in the National Championship Game BEFORE the regular season starts. Then everybody can just play the regular season for fun with zero pressure attached.

 

[CrimsonProf]

You can justify the bubble in CBB due to the fact that it is a thirty game season, or thereabouts. Win two more games and you're in. A panel for a CFB playoff would be leaving out one-loss teams. HUGE difference.

 

[Rama Jama]

Brando is a buffoon. He claims to be a non biased media member when that is furtherest thing from the truth. Why CBS keeps any of the boobs doing the games and in studio is beyond me.. The only decent analyst is Barnhart. The rest are all guys who almost always have an agenda. Brando thinks LSWho is going to lose or he wouldn't be arguing so vehemently for a split title.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Brando really is only upset because LSU has to rematch against a team it already beat especially since that team is Alabama. You would not be hearing this if LSU were playing anyone else - not even Oregon.

My question to Brando is the same question I have for anyone out there upset with the process currently in play in college football. What happens when you have a playoff, and you have rematch? It's the same scenario as what we have today. A playoff solves nothing. Don't tell me it makes it more legitimate. It's the same process. 2 teams, 4 teams, 16 teams.

Brando really is the worst of the blowhards. I've never known of someone who enjoys listening to themselves talk more than Brando.

 

[WishIwasInBama]

I have boycotted Brando, anytime he comes across my television set I change the channel. I know it doesn't affect him a bi,t but it sure makes me fell better

 

[TIDE-HSV]

It all comes down to who picks the pickers. Any other arrangement and Bama gets picked to rematch with LSU and I'll guarantee you that Brando will be on the air criticizing that arrangement. The only consolation is that no one is going to pick him to pick or to pick the pickers...