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Kannell (again)...

I like the idea of 6 or 8. I've been a playoff proponent for years.

I think Kannell is as biased as can possibly be. As much as I dislike his partner Galloway, he seems to have a bit of since about him.

Since Verne and Gary were brought up I'll catch up on them too. Verne needs to retire. He's has a long great career, but he should pass the torch.

Gary, imo, is a consummate professional. I know people are complaining about things he said towards the end of the Iron Bowl, but to me it didn't come off as bias. I think he wants to see coaches, no matter the team, make smart moves. I do that in non-Alabama games.

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Alabama has beaten what, 9 bowl eligible teams? How many has Clemson beaten? Kannell is actually worse than Galloway, and don't even get me started on Heather Dinich. She started slamming us before the season started and she hasn't stopped. She was also among those singing the praises of auburn before the season started.
 
selmaborntidefan said:
With a four-team playoff, it doesn't matter. But once again - using THAT line of reasoning, why didn't Hawaii play for the 2007 national championship?
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Also, to your point, why isn't Iowa #2? If he is going to be consistent then it should be #1 Clemson, #2 Iowa, #3 Bama, #4 OU. His rankings for this year prove he doesn't believe the garbage he's spewing.


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Kannell and Joey Galloway irritate me to no end. I can't watch the post game wrap up at night anymore. Mark Maye and Lou Holtz (as obnoxious as Lou was) was better to listen to than Joey. I'ml glad Joe Tessitore sets him straight. you can tell Tessitore is always getting the best of Galloway. Galloway may be the biggest Big 10 homer I have ever seen. He hates Bama with a passion. I'm sure Ohio St. losing just ripped his heart out when he had to remove them from his #1 spot and move Bama into his top 4 (barely).
 
rgw said:
I think 8 is the natural end game for this playoff system. Give autobids to the power conference champions and 3 at-large bids.


There is some nuance needed because sometimes autobids will backfire (like when Wisconsin won the Big Ten due to Ohio State being ineligible for postseason play), but the general idea is what is needed.
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8 isn't the end game for the playoffs. they will keep adding teams until the regular season becomes pointless just like basketball. I am sure most thought 64 was the end game in that sport.
 
DzynKingRTR said:
8 isn't the end game for the playoffs. they will keep adding teams until the regular season becomes pointless just like basketball. I am sure most thought 64 was the end game in that sport.
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Great point.

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They're not the worst anymore.

Colin Cowherd has Clemson, Oklahoma, Michigan State, and Ohio State as his top 4. Alabama is not included because the SEC is an "overrated mess."

Need to unfollow that troll on Twitter.
 
Colin Cowherd says the SEC an "overrated mess". Good teams in other conferences beat up on each other and it proves how great that conference and those teams are, but in the SEC it just means we are overrated. Bama gets the Ole Miss loss shoved in their faces by these idiots every day, yet losing to 5-7 Nebraska, not a big deal. 4-7 Texas, it happens. Play a schedule of teams with .500 records or worse and then go 1-1 against the only two quality teams; you're in. The butt hurt is strong with the anti-Bama crowd. And it's compounded with fear that we may win it all. Again. They will say anything to try to create doubt about Bama belonging.
 
You don't tug on superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger and don't make the best team in college football angry. Keep talking smack, you "analysts", all you are doing is poking the bear.
 
BamaBuc said:
Because they've gotten rid of most of the talking heads that made even a little sense...
They have to fill the time voids with someone, they even put a basically non-sports forum into Cowherds old spot!
Fox-Sports is going to slowly take over the market!
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Speaking of that moron, Cowherd has Alabama out of the top 4. He has Ohio State in 4th because the SEC is "an overrated mess."


Edit: I see that this was already posted, but it is worth piling on. He is a moron.
 
I was at the USC-clemson game. Watson is the real deal for them at quarterback, but their defense has issues. By the second half their LBs were gassed. They run a lot of gambling blitzes that a better offense will exploit. Their DL gave up some yards between tackles to the last place team in the SEC playing a rotating combination of its 2nd, 3rd, and 4th string QBs and its 2nd and 3rd string RBs, and with a makeshift OL. A good offensive team can put up 50+ on Clemson in my opinion (USC is a bad offensive team and they put up 32).

clemson & UNC have dined on horrible ACC opponents all season, it's just a bad conference (not that the SECE is anything to write home about - but the SECW more than offsets that). To put it in perspective, the worst team in the SEC (USC) beat the second best team in the ACC (UNC) and took the best team in the ACC (clemson) to the wire. I hope clemson doesn't get Iowa in the 1st round of the playoffs, because I think any of the other teams in contention will beat them soundly.
 
CrimsonHammer said:
Speaking of that moron, Cowherd has Alabama out of the top 4. He has Ohio State in 4th because the SEC is "an overrated mess."


Edit: I see that this was already posted, but it is worth piling on. He is a moron.
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If anyone would know overrated, it's an overrated talk show host.
 
Nice CrimsonTheory, you put a big smile on my face this morning. I like it!

"You don't tug on superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger and don't make the best team in college football angry."
 
JQBama42 said:
I was watching College Football Sunday on ESPU this morning. A female talking head, Heather something, said that Alabama needs to work on their resume to show why they deserve to be in the playoff as they haven't beaten a team in the top 25. When we beat Florida, I'm sure they will drop out of the top 25 too. Now the talking point is a push for a two loss Stanford team to make the final 4. Unreal........
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She is honestly the worst. She'd put a 2 loss Baylor ahead of Alabama if she honestly thought she could get away with it. I truly believe that. I see her analysis on that show (Championship Drive I believe?) with Mark May and it's obvious she only watches PAc-12 and Big-12 ball...which is fine because you need an expert from that arena....but some of what I hear from her is astonishing. After Ohio State lost last week I heard her on 3 - count em' THREE- separate occasions talk about scenarios in which OS can get back into the Top 4.
 
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CrimsonHammer said:
Speaking of that moron, Cowherd has Alabama out of the top 4. He has Ohio State in 4th because the SEC is "an overrated mess."


Edit: I see that this was already posted, but it is worth piling on. He is a moron.
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Cowherd is also the same idiot that said that "Gus Malzhan will run Nick Saban out of the SEC." How has that worked out for him?
 
An 8 page thread about Kannell and Galloway and the anti-SEC bias? If you think about it, ESPN's plan is working perfectly. ESPN needed to increase viewership and cash in on the rise in college football popularity. So, they bring in Finebaum and create the SEC Network to take advantage of the SEC footprint and fanbases, and at the same time promote a handful of "anti-SEC" analysts to higher profile positions to take advantage of the growing SEC fatigue. I don't know if Kannell and Galloway and Dinich really believe everything they spout about the SEC and Bama, but I don't think it's coincidence that these folks have a more visible profile now. I believe that each one of them have been given marching orders to go out and slam the SEC at every turn. It "creates debate". And no fanbase is more prone to get their collective hackles raised then the Bama fanbase, so why not continuously troll that fanbase? It also gives Finebaum the angle of SEC spokesman who's taking up for the conference....
 
Have I ever said that I just don't like this Kannell guy? If I haven't, then let me say it NOW!

I don't like or respect this Free Shoes University alumnus!
 
Tradition4ever said:
An 8 page thread about Kannell and Galloway and the anti-SEC bias? If you think about it, ESPN's plan is working perfectly. ESPN needed to increase viewership and cash in on the rise in college football popularity. So, they bring in Finebaum and create the SEC Network to take advantage of the SEC footprint and fanbases, and at the same time promote a handful of "anti-SEC" analysts to higher profile positions to take advantage of the growing SEC fatigue. I don't know if Kannell and Galloway and Dinich really believe everything they spout about the SEC and Bama, but I don't think it's coincidence that these folks have a more visible profile now. I believe that each one of them have been given marching orders to go out and slam the SEC at every turn. It "creates debate". And no fanbase is more prone to get their collective hackles raised then the Bama fanbase, so why not continuously troll that fanbase? It also gives Finebaum the angle of SEC spokesman who's taking up for the conference....
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I know from some personal experience that "alternative viewpoint" is something writers are often ordered to write. They do what they are told but don't necessarily believe what they are writing. I believe that is even more rampant on sports talk. Some of them may actually be that stupid and some are just doing what they are told. I honestly don't know how to tell which is which. One thing that I do know is that when these talking heads are proven drastically wrong it doesn't shake them a bit. They make a quick excuse and are on to the next subject.
 
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