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Rhett Lashlee calls out national perception of the ACC - re: Playoff Bids

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Gocanes1990 said:
B1G & SEC playing politics and $$$. I think SEC is strong 1-4, UGA, Ole Miss, Texas, Bama. Tamu has to beat Texas to be in imo and Tennessee needs to beat UGA to be in imo. The B1G is soft IMO. Maybe deserves 3 spots with OREGON, OSU, PSU or Indiana
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Penn St has played/beaten nobody.

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CBurrr93 said:
I hate the SEC as much as anyone. But they’ve probably earned it at this point. I wouldn’t want to know our record year after year if we player an SEC schedule. And that’s our own fault. Struggling with the Georgia tech’s and UNC of the world
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You can't make that assumption when we hardly play one another. The bias and ESPN support the SEC gets has made it one sided. Until it's an even playing field and we play each other more no one really knows.
 
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QuattroCane said:
But are they any different than Kentucky or Vandy, even Auburn. The SEC is an inch deep and a mile wide.
And Lashlee strikes me as the type of guy that's going to have a long career in coaching. If our little brothers up north had any common sense they'd both go after him. Instead they'll fudge around and SMU will give him a raise. If SMU starts or continues to win those oil boosters will start "Pony-ing" up cash.
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Florida St would be a lateral move, but minus the campus support.
Pretty much same with Florida
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
They've been setting that up for weeks. When all the talk about teams with "2 good losses" or even 3 losses started, you knew it was over.


edit: just watched an ESPN segment from earlier today. "all 3 loss teams are not created equal" according to Heather Dinich from ESPN. they are now talking about possibly 5 SEC teams in because UGA's three losses come due to being one of the toughest schedules in the country. She flat out said that if Ol Miss loses again, they are done. But not UGA

She said she thinks Miami could be ranked 11 tonight, which would still make them one of the 4 highest conference champions. The assumption is Miami will win the ACC
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Way we have been playing, I’m not sure you can say we are going to win the ACC with a ton of confidence.
 
I get where Lashlee is coming from. He’s trying to make a case for SMU as a 2 loss team if they make ACCCG and lose. Now is the time to plant seeds for that.

But hear me out… let’s double down on efforts to get to B1G like we always planned to and then we’ll be have 4 chances to get in the playoff each year and the ACC and Big 12 can continue to flounder for that one bid.
 
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rascon said:
Florida St would be a lateral move, but minus the campus support.
Pretty much same with Florida
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Depends on what he'd be paid. Thats why I mentioned oil money. If UF pays him 11mil, and SMU is paying 5...that's hard to pass up. FSu is broke so they're irrelevant, they'd be trying to pay him with Green Stamps(IYKYK)
 
QuattroCane said:
Depends on what he'd be paid. Thats why I mentioned oil money. If UF pays him 11mil, and SMU is paying 5...that's hard to pass up. FSu is broke so they're irrelevant, they'd be trying to pay him with Green Stamps(IYKYK)
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Pretty sure UF ain’t paying Lashlee 11 mil.
But you are right, SMU boosters won’t be outbid for something they can buy.

I see why the other Texas schools blocked SMU out all these years… they know the potential.
 
QuattroCane said:
But are they any different than Kentucky or Vandy, even Auburn. The SEC is an inch deep and a mile wide.
And Lashlee strikes me as the type of guy that's going to have a long career in coaching. If our little brothers up north had any common sense they'd both go after him. Instead they'll fudge around and SMU will give him a raise. If SMU starts or continues to win those oil boosters will start "Pony-ing" up cash.
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SMU was NIL before NIL...
If those boys get rockin... they will buy anything
 
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JayCane20 said:
Need to scrap the human factor and human bias in the playoff selection and generate a BCS type model that power ranks teams and calculates a rating. The rating includes wins and losses but doesn’t have any measure on prior year, recruiting, pre-season, etc. It shouldn’t even be able to formulate data until week 3 or 4.

To perfect that model, you will need buy in from all conferences to agree to some sort of overlap scheduling like an ACC/SEC challenge in basketball type model. Cross over a couple games a year and we can really apply a solid formula to this and accurately rank teams and weigh results without bias.

The way it is now and getting worse in the future with the SEC/B1G threatening to do their own thing without 8-9 guaranteed slots is going to ruin a good product.

1-4 can be the conference champs and then 5-12 should be the next 8 highest rated teams at-large.
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**** all of that. There has been so much realignment that wins and losses need to metter regardless of what conference you are in.

I am sick of hearing about SEC teams that have one or more losses than a team positioned in what is considered to be a 'weaker' conference, and said team is punished for it.

I am not advocating for the UCFs of the world, because that self-claimed natty is straight dumb as ****, but in a way I am. That team definitely deserved a chance, and over the years they have not been the only one.
 
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