Posted on 12/05/2023 1:41:12 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Gov. Ron DeSantis is adding financial heft to the backlash from undefeated Florida State’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff.
DeSantis announced Tuesday that his 2024-25 budget includes $1 million for “any litigation expenses that may come as a result of this really, really poor decision by the College Football Playoff to exclude an undefeated team” that won a major conference title. The Republican made his remark during a news conference to present his budget.
DeSantis said the 13-0 Seminoles “earned a spot” in the playoff but were excluded in a “very, very controversial ruling.” FSU is the first undefeated Power Five conference champion to be leapfrogged by a one-loss team in the history of the playoff and its predecessor, the Bowl Championship Series. Alabama, the 12-1 SEC champion, took the fourth and final spot, joining 13-0 Michigan, 13-0 Washington and 12-1 Texas.
DeSantis said an undefeated season should “really be significant, and they’re telling us that it doesn’t — that other factors matter more.” He said he wants to see the state’s traditional powers — FSU, Miami and Florida — get back to all competing for national titles again. He also wants more blue-chip recruits to stay in the state; he made that point previously while signing Florida’s landmark name, image and likeness into law in 2020.
DeSantis said he did not know what, if anything, would come from potential litigation, but his budget would provide help for FSU, if necessary.
“It’s unfortunate that we have to even do that, but we are going to put aside $1 million and let the chips fall where they may on that,” DeSantis said.
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While I doubt it will happen, I’d love FSU to win by 20 points.
Bryon Donald’s made this statement today.
“First of all, what the committee did was wrong to the players. That’s number one. Number two: Florida State is a state institution. They are funded by the state government, they get taxpayer money. This decision by the committee, all-told cost the ACC and Florida State over $10 million. That’s a major investment in Florida State, so yeah, there’s reasons why people are looking at this. But third and overall: an unbeaten team, a Power Five champion is left out. That just doesnt pass the smell test. Unless you are an Alumni or a student at Texas or Alabama, you’re looking at this saying man, this is fishy, it stinks, who got paid and what’s going on? People need to look into this.”
FSU takes state money and the University of Florida doesn’t?
Both are state supported Universities!
‘Splain yo’self, please!
That will kill any votes from Alabama he was counting on. He should be thanking the selection committee for sparing Florida State the embarrassing blowout Michigan would have laid down on them.
If Florida State beats Georgia then they should be declared co-National Champions.
DeSantis needs to get ahead of this and let the NCAA know that FSU (with a win) will be National Champions of 2023.
“Florida is not the same team after they lost their starting quarterback... and then their second stringer.
Did the NCAA really want to let a team into the final four that would most likely have been slaughtered in the semi-finals?”
indeed they obviously didn’t want another TCU ... the FSU-Louisville ACC championship game this year was one of THE WORST NCAA championship football games i’ve ever watched ... both teams were pitiful ... our household figured that FCU wouldn’t make the cut because of that and the desire to avoid another TCU debacle ...
Weren’t the college football playoffs designed to eliminate this sort of controversy?
humm. ok, let me analyse your claim that DeSantis’ action is ‘childish:’ 1. either you think it’s ‘childish’ desire and fight for what is right, or 2. you believe he’s ‘childish’ because he’s wrong that their football team was gypped by a political process, or 3. you believe that their football team deserved to be gypped, or 4. you believe he’s got a more adult way to fight for his position than in the courts. well that’s all i got off the top of my head, but feel free to enlighten me with why you support your position.
sorry, can’t agree with any of those as being ‘childish,’ or if those are all childish then i’m with the child...
Florida State University (FSU) should not be called Florida, but where did you get the idea that the University of Florida (UF) gets no money from the state of Florida? They are both state supported universities. UF is not a private school.
The CFP is a fraud. At this point, pay the players outright if you are gonna screw their hard work.
Lolz, thats not supposed to be how it works.
Make a product? Got to be shitting me. Thats not their job.
Their job is to reward good teams. This is all for TV money and they had to be dragged kicking a screaming to allow their indentured servant athletes to make a pittance of money or even transfer schools. No wonder this country has fake elections too.
Base on QB injury? Once again, not their job. A very, very bad excuse, does not even make sense. Its a joke, a sick joke. Fake elections, fake college playoffs.
What is not is "conference champion," when there are "Power 5" conferences and only 4 spots.
Even if all 5 were undefeated conference champions, one was going to be left out. With a 2nd string quarterback, in the weakest conference, perfectly reasonable to leave them out.
Somebody in the Governor’s office who’s room mate in college now has a big law firm will make damn sure this million dollars of taxpayers money gets spent.
Good point.
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