00:00I saw this here, Chuck, when you were talking online and you were going back and forth with people and
00:06all the stuff that was people were talking about with the committee and how they picked the 12 teams to
00:11get to college football playoff.
00:14Is there any way and anything that you could look at that would potentially change on how the committee picks
00:20these 12 teams?
00:20Look, it gets to the less you can look like anything. Right. Our trust in systems right now just generally
00:30stinks. OK, I don't trust, you know, a cabal of anybody to make decisions in the best interest of anybody
00:38other than thinking about themselves.
00:39So what do you want to do? Take away as much subjectivity as you can. All right. I get eventually
00:46you're going to need somebody to decide, OK, what should the seedings be or who should be playing whom?
00:52I might find you want to put that to a committee. But we've got to get to a situation where
00:58the where the playoffs are earned on the field and whatever that is.
01:02And you let the chips fall where they may. And now this isn't going to happen until there's sort of
01:07cooperation between all the major conferences, the four conferences for the life of me.
01:12I'm trying to figure out how the ACC and the Big 12 just said, you know what? Sure, Big 10
01:16and SEC.
01:16Why don't you guys decide what the playoff is and just let us know what the rules are?
01:21You know, so ultimately, I just want to make it so that there's you again, let the committee decide what
01:27the ones who the one seat in the two seats are, just like we do in the NCAA tournament.
01:31And fine, if you want to make the last two picks part of a committee, fine.
01:36But those first, you know, eight to 10 spots have to be earned on the field.
01:40They have to be metrics on the field. Maybe you have to finish.
01:43If you don't finish in the top two in your conference, you don't you know, you're subject to the committee
01:48if you don't whatever it is.
01:49But I think we've got to get to a situation where you just take subjectivity out of it.
01:54You know, to me, too, you know, Chuck, I mean, what you just said, though, OK, committee, that's already a
02:01problem for me because it's a beauty contest.
02:04I mean, and like you said, also with the Big 10 and the Southeastern Conference, the power that they swing
02:10right now and you got to add Notre Dame into that as well.
02:14You know, I mean, I'm not sure the committee. I mean, when I played, you had all the sports writers,
02:20right?
02:20They were going to pick the ball games mattered. Now you have a committee here.
02:24I mean, anytime you're in front of a committee like that, that means it's a beauty contest.
02:30And that's where my big problem is with it.
02:32You know, it's interesting here, Dan, is that I actually think it's Miami's initial success.
02:36Success. OK, the with that, that drove the SEC crazy.
02:43And is why they spent, I mean, think about it.
02:46Miami wins four titles in eight years, plays for the national title, a piece of it, the other four.
02:53OK, every single year, there was an argument to be made.
02:57Well, maybe my I mean, I remember 1990 Miami was easily the best team in college football.
03:01The problem was we lost two games. Right.
03:03And the way that system worked, it just was what it was, that damn BYU game.
03:06You know, remember the opener? Oh, I'm sure you remember it.
03:09Right. Elevation, all the crap that goes with that.
03:12But the point was they were tired of Miami sort of in their minds, hacking the system.
03:18Right. That they were able to do this. And it wasn't just Miami.
03:21It was Miami, Florida State, Notre Dame who were proving you didn't need a conference.
03:24In fact, the conferences kept you with the view was the conferences kept you away from being able to win
03:31national titles
03:32when you had Florida State, Notre Dame and Miami essentially dominating that that decade period.
03:37So then and BYU, which also kind of was an independent, even though they were a part of a conference,
03:42but they weren't really right.
03:44They snuck a title in there, too. You throw all of that in there.
03:47So they kept trying to devise a system that rewarded the conferences.
03:50And this entire time, they've been trying to wrestle college football so that the SEC conference was rewarded more.
04:00And they've looked, they've succeeded over the years.
04:02The top four system allowed the SEC to be the most dominant.
04:06And it looks like now, the minute you expand it, we'll be finding out that the SEC, as a friend
04:11of mine said,
04:12all the SEC has over the ACC is better stadiums.
04:16OK, that and that's true.
04:19They have it is.
04:21Look, Arkansas gets 80,000.
04:24NC State does not.
04:26Right.
04:26But it's just as hard to play in Fayetteville as it is to play in Raleigh.
04:31OK, the hardest thing to do in college sports is win a conference road game.
04:35The single hardest sport to do that in is basketball.
04:38But it is hard to win a conference road game.
04:40I don't care if you're playing at a small stadium in Dallas at SMU or you're playing in the Egg
04:47Bowl in Stark, Vegas.
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