Posted on 12/03/2017 9:35:22 AM PST by blam
This announcement is being made from a TV broadcast. This is from the National Football Selection Committee.
Alabama has been chosen as the 4th team to participate in the 2017 college football playoff.
More to follow as soon as it hits the press.
(Excerpt) Read more at freerepublic.com ...
Um. No they should not. Middle Level Big 10 or SEC team would destroy them. If UCF played 8 Big 10 or 8 SEC teams then they would not be undefeated.
Ask Ohio State how the weekly grind in a good conference gets to a team. Any team in the major conferences can have a great game and even the major schools like Alabama or Ohio state can get beat.
That’s the reason I love college football. Team shows up, plays with heart, gets a few breaks and giants go down. Doesn’t always happen but it happens enough where we can all root for our teams even if they aren’t a normally recognized powerhouse. This year year Iowa fans get to go home with a big win. In 2007 Alabama lost to Louisiana-Monroe. How great for the Warhawk’s that year.
Anyway, I think this will end up a Clemson vs Oklahoma State championship game. It will be a good one.
Great news. Roll Tide!
Are you paying attention? Everybody in the Top 4 has one lost genius.
Yes genius...but only one d idnt even win their division or conference
Because he was a walk-on at Alabama, loves that place and will be Saban’s replacement. Nick will coach for a couple more years.
Do you really want to be the guy that replaces a legend? Ask Ray Perkins how it worked out replacing The Bear?
Today we learned that losing (31 point loss to a 7-5 team) to Iowa (31 point loss to a 7-5 team) is probably not good.
We tend to look at stats, wins losses on common teams but forget these are young men who have up and down games. They are still learning. I wish the schools were more student athlete focused but reality is what it is.
My sons high school won their first and only State football championship about 5 years ago. Good group of young men and good athletes. No superstars at all. Not a single division 1 recruit on the team.
In the state playoffs -
They beat the first team Thad had a couple of Div 1 recruits.
Then beat one that had, I think 3.
Then beat a private school that was very good team. I don’t know their players recruit level.
Then beat one that had 7 that was mostly black players.
The final team had 8 or 9 division 1 signers and also mostly black. The team was easily 20% bigger or more at every position. Faster stronger .... it was a team full of stars. Difference was we has a team full of friends an no super stars. We had a 150 pound kicker that could hit from 40-50 yards out. That kicker had 120+ points for the year. We had kids that played harder because they knew that was their athletic peak and they gave it their all. Even our band was good. The othe team had many players who had many more games in the future but for our kids it was their last and they played that way.
They played that game in Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. So cool. What an amazing experience for those young men. Interesting thing the longer the game went on the more panicked the other team became. They made more mistakes more personal fouls ... the Alabama state playoffs is 32 team playoff and if it was 4 we never would have played is my bet.
My point being that I think college is more like that and any team can beat any team when the day is right. I enjoy that feel to college games. I don’t get that with pros.
Now I live in Athens, Georgia. Sic 'Em Dawgs!
He’s got a new trading bldg and a huge paycheck now. Dabo not going to leave.
Dabo’s got all the perks with none of the pressure at Clemson. At least I hope Clemson fans don’t get that jaded like we did. It kills a program very quickly.
Unless he hears "Momma calling".
The difference, when the Bear came back to Bama, they were in bad shape.
That's true, but also probably fairly rare. You could stick the modifier "almost" any team in there in a few places. I'm very familiar with the Alabama HS playoff system.
I think it would be good to expand the college playoff to eight teams, but I also hope they'll keep the conference championships, which will limit how large the playoff field could logically become. - I still contend that every gsme of the year is a playoff game, and it almost is, especially when one or more majors go undefeated as often happens.
Maybe you've gathered that I'm an Alabama fan/alumnus. Personally, Dabo gets on my nerves. He's just too hyper and jumpy to fit the Bama style of head coach. But decision time for Bama and whoever will be when Saban retires, and I doubt we'll be in as bad shape as when the Bear heard momma calling.
If it's Dabo, I'm sure fans will adjust to him.
Have you read the book you linked to, or just read reviews of it?
I understand having a soft spot for Penn State, before the Sandusky scandal broke. I had a soft spot for them. I wanted to go to Penn State when I was a youngster. I thought JoePa was great. I admired the man even more after I got married. I learned that my father-in-law played street ball with him when they were kids growing up in Brooklyn. I wanted to believe that JoePa was a very moral man. Then I read something that jolted me, and forever changed my mind about JoePa and about Sandusky,
Curious, what do you think of this article in Esquire from 2012?
http://www.esquire.com/sports/a14286/joe-paterno-0612/
Here’s an excerpt of the article, the part I found most disturbing:
***But yes, even here, in Paterno’s archives in Paterno’s library, there are some things that raise questions.
According to the grand-jury indictment, the first time Jerry Sandusky was investigated on suspicions of sexual abuse was back in 1998. On May 13 and 19 of that year, detectives from the Penn State and municipal police departments hid in the home of the mother of an alleged victim and listened in on conversations she had with Sandusky, conversations in which Sandusky admitted that his genitals might have touched her son, and that he felt terrible about it, saying “I wish I were dead.” Then, on June 1, they interviewed Sandusky in person. Shortly afterward, for unclear reasons, the case was dropped.
Would Joe Paterno have been told about that investigation? Would any Penn State police officers or administrators have informed Joe Paterno that they were investigating his heir apparent on suspicion of heinous crimes?
We don’t know.
Paterno himself said he never knew about the 1998 investigation, and nobody has produced evidence contradicting him.
You won’t find any such evidence in Paterno’s archives.
You will, though, find something curious, and perhaps, depending on how you interpret it, troubling.
You will find, if you dig into his archives from 1998, that he was a very busy man — he wrote in one letter that he had “committed all my free time to” and was “really stretched” by the ongoing fundraising campaign. You will find that he was a very reliable man as well. When he planned to do something, he would do it. In fact, if you look at his agenda from 1998, you’ll see that he almost always kept to his schedule, and that his only cancellations fall within a very narrow window of time.
The first cancellation is on May 15, two days after police listen in on Sandusky’s half-confession to the mother of a young boy. That evening, Paterno cuts short a fundraising trip to Valley Forge, then cancels a four-day-long personal vacation he had been planning to take from May 16 to 19, to his summer home in Avalon, New Jersey. He resumes his scheduled fundraising trips in June, about a week after the investigation against Sandusky is dropped. He doesn’t miss any more events for the remainder of the year.***
That IS funny! I'm sure Mayfield will have a good game; he almost always does. I'll be surprised if he doesn't win the Heisman. It's just that his antics get old; I guess he can afford to be arrogant, though, as good as he is.
Cool that you went to school with Mayfield's mom!!
nooo, ya gotta get this to 8 teams. its fine if the power 5 get the top 5 seeds but three is more reasonable for the remainder.if the p5 were seeded by this rpi method then the next ones at 6,7,8 it would be way better , even this year. Clem/Aub winner would play OSU/USC winner versus Okla/Wisc winner v Bama/Dawg winner. Just a better approach
go tigers
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