Why I hate Mark Schlabach

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But he loves GT this year...says in that same article the reason we do not make the playoffs is our schedule is too difficult....and that FSU won't make it because they are not good enough.
 
I don't agree. While Tech's schedule is tough, we should be better than a 2 loss SEC Champion.

hiveredtech said:
But he loves GT this year...says in that same article the reason we do not make the playoffs is our schedule is too difficult....and that FSU won't make it because they are not good enough.
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gt_white_gold said:
I don't agree. While Tech's schedule is tough, we should be better than a 2 loss SEC Champion.
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You can agree or disagree and it does not matter.

The media has already set it up this year that no matter how difficult the GT schedule....one loss and we are not going to get in over TCU. They are trying to play up the Big 12 champion this year to make up for last year.

Even Schlabach said he was picking TCU because they do not get tested at all until November.

Scheduling matters...a lot. Only SEC teams plus teams like Ohio St, Notre Dame, SoCal, Texas, etc. can get away with one loss regardless of schedule. As CPJ says...brand matters and we saw it last year when Ohio State got in with 1 loss vs. VT over TCU's one loss to #10 Baylor by two points.
 
The B12 is the biggest load of crap with their terrible non-conference scheduling. Pretty much any decent B12 team has a back loaded schedule.
 
By the way, last year everyone was picking the B1G to be excluded, especially after their disastrous first two weeks of the season. You can still play your way into the final four no matter how much negativity is thrown your way.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
By the way, last year everyone was picking the B1G to be excluded, especially after their disastrous first two weeks of the season. You can still play your way into the final four no matter how much negativity is thrown your way.
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If any Big10 team not named Ohio State or Michigan with that same schedule...lets say Illinois....then TCU would have got in.

Ohio State got in on brand. I agree with CPJ on this one.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
The B12 is the biggest load of crap with their terrible non-conference scheduling. Pretty much any decent B12 team has a back loaded schedule.
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The test in November is Baylor. Other than these two the B12 is much weaker than ACC by far. Okie U is only team that might land in top 20 this year.
 
hiveredtech said:
If any Big10 team not named Ohio State or Michigan with that same schedule...lets say Illinois....then TCU would have got in.

Ohio State got in on brand. I agree with CPJ on this one.
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i thought the committee was pretty explicit what hurt tcu and baylor last year was the lack of the big12 ability to handle conf champion. OSU getting in on brand? I am not sure about that. They had every bit a reason to get in last year that TCU did, and won their conf outright. So for me, it was a coin flip.

If GT doesn't get in with one loss, if that loss is early in the year and close and a 2 loss SEC team does. We should gripe. If it comes down to 1 loss SEC and 1 loss GT...we may be left out; bias for sure.

if it comes down to 1 loss GT and 1 loss Big12...I think we could be pleasantly surprised....
 
33jacket said:
if it comes down to 1 loss GT and 1 loss Big12...I think we could be pleasantly surprised....
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I would hope we would be surprised. TCU and Baylor have good teams, but that conference as a whole is weaker than the ACC, IMNSHO. All conferences should get priority over them until they set up a conf champ game.
 
hiveredtech said:
You can agree or disagree and it does not matter.

The media has already set it up this year that no matter how difficult the GT schedule....one loss and we are not going to get in over TCU. They are trying to play up the Big 12 champion this year to make up for last year.

Even Schlabach said he was picking TCU because they do not get tested at all until November.

Scheduling matters...a lot. Only SEC teams plus teams like Ohio St, Notre Dame, SoCal, Texas, etc. can get away with one loss regardless of schedule. As CPJ says...brand matters and we saw it last year when Ohio State got in with 1 loss vs. VT over TCU's one loss to #10 Baylor by two points.
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The media doesn't mean anything anymore. It's all about the committee, and I think they have the balls to do what's right. If we manage to finish with only one loss, I think we're a lock barring that loss being to U[sic]GA or there being four undefeated teams.

It may seem like the easy choice in retrospect, but dropping TCU below OSU despite TCU not only winning but blowing their opponent out showed that they're not holding to the traditional ways of doing polls and that they're evaluating from the ground up each week.

Maybe eventually they'll be exposed as no different from the media, but so far they've done a good job and there's no real reason to think they'll screw us other than wanting to complain and throw a pity party.
 
The ACC sweeps the SEC in Rivalry Week. Then the SEC West losses all of their bowl games.

Conclusion: ACC not making playoffs.
 
andrew said:
The media doesn't mean anything anymore. It's all about the committee, and I think they have the balls to do what's right. If we manage to finish with only one loss, I think we're a lock barring that loss being to U[sic]GA or there being four undefeated teams.

It may seem like the easy choice in retrospect, but dropping TCU below OSU despite TCU not only winning but blowing their opponent out showed that they're not holding to the traditional ways of doing polls and that they're evaluating from the ground up each week.

Maybe eventually they'll be exposed as no different from the media, but so far they've done a good job and there's no real reason to think they'll screw us other than wanting to complain and throw a pity party.
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The same committee brought us such insight as "game control" and other nonsense verbiage. Until the silliness of corrupt voters are determining the 4 teams are done away with and adopt the conference champs and perhaps, two at-large teams, a team like GT is going to have to be perfect in order to get a shot.

Schedule strength be damned, that middle of the road SEC program passed the eyeball test!:BFD:
 
I don't think OSU got in because of brand. OSU demolished Wisconsin in the championship game and the BIG12 refused to name a champion.
 
wesleyd21 said:
The ACC sweeps the SEC in Rivalry Week. Then the SEC West losses all of their bowl games.

Conclusion: ACC not making playoffs.
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:lol:

To be fair, the SEC West went 2-5, with defining wins over WVU and The Team Formerly Known as Texas.
 
If we had only lost 1 game last year, we MIGHT not have gotten in.

If we lose only 1 game this year, there's no way in hell we won't get in.
 
According to the committee website, the #1 criteria for selecting the top 4 is conference championship. How in the world to they rank teams before the season is over, there are no champions until then?

All rankings during the season are just for fan consumption, it has little to do with the playoff. Just look at Missy State last year.
 
....People already arguing why the playoff committee will or will not consider GT as a 1-loss ACC championship team. Whatever. Let's play some real games on the field and see what happens. Go Jackets
 
No way a 1-loss conference champion doesn't get in. That would mean all 5 major conferences have a team with no more than 1 loss. That is just not going to happen.
 
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