puc86

If you actually have moral objections you can handcuff your member on who they can take money from, just like how parties are handcuffed on contributions. So the SEC would be able to say that no team can take money from any person or business that is giving X or more dollars in NIL contracts but they do not care about it like that, they care that other teams may actually take one of their players or one that they want and that is where a line has to be drawn.

No that is the very small insignificant minority view, you see it as taking away because you know the G5 probably should lose it (which sounds pretty pessimistic). The overall view is that everyone is gaining something in that everyone regardless of conference affiliation still has the exact same chances of making it into the playoffs just as long as they show the committee they are the best teams (that sounds optimistic). Why should the rich and powerful playing the toughest schedules be punished for their success that doesn't sound very fair, doe is? Does anyone really want in because of pity and technicalities just to get embarrassed when they can actually earn it and have things be fair?

It isn't pessimistic and I do not think it is working out for the worst, I just think people looking at it that way are looking at it from the wrong perspective of where it is designed to be looked at from.

Lucky players grow up dreaming of becoming Bulls though, otherwise imagine where we would be.

I thought we were shelfing this conversation until it happens for the first time, at which point I fully expect you to be shocked by the idea that they could possibly do this...again. 68 teams does not equal 12 and 5 on 5 does not equal 11 on 11 especially when most people do not play iron man and its actually closer to at least 25 vs 25 from a fielding perspective. Cinderella story runs are from survivorship bias based on volume. Most Cinderella hopefuls are back to scrubbing floors 1 minute into the tournament on games no one noticed because 10 or them are going on at the same time.

The action wasn’t to expand the playoffs to the g5 it was to expand the playoffs. The G5 part makes an argument for the size of the expansion and appeals to fairness. The G5 part was important to fairness because it requires more from athletes and if its just the P5 they already settled it in the season and in the conference championship. The same fairness argument will then be used to remove the G5 because they aren’t qualified and it’s unfair to those that are qualified. The G5 isn’t losing anything it’s just making it fair for everyone and every year the G5 has top 12 teams they will still get in.

I don’t even actually know what it means, I just like it as a retort. Along with G-d helps those who help themselves which I sometimes rebrand to Puc helps those who help themselves.

I know I’m hyped to have such an influential member

Were you the Jack Harlow halftime show set designer?

No they changed the rule to expand the playoffs, why does it need to be so big when it will require student athletes to play longer for the same rewards and most teams were already disqualified by the teams already in it? Well because fairness and trying to squeeze in one of the little guys that we couldn’t let in when all of these other teams are more deserving but maybe if we just go bigger we can justify it. Oh wait we just realized these teams aren’t qualified and it’s not fair to not have the most qualified teams in the playoffs, sports should be merit based so we should remove the other parts and just go to straight merit, of course the g5 teams have just as great a shot as anyone if they just earn it. You do want things to be fair and for people to get in on merit and not technicalities and quotas, don’t you?

I do have faith, faith in a VPMK administration to fail in every conceivable way and the aac to completely destroy our athletics. Faith without works is dead and we will be too if we keep our faith in the things that fail us without fail.

Sure, we can revisit this the year after implementation

I mean you can, it’s pretty basic physics

Everyone thought they were in a top 4 conference and the fifth was the sucker, even though the sec thought they were all suckers and they would get 4 every year.

The lottery is random chance, this isn’t a random chance event. This is a clear path with a clear pattern that the power brokers aren’t even pretending to have any other possible scenario about. Pattern recognition is one of the few things people are actually good at until we have to invent reasons why you cannot consider the actual pattern. No one can honestly think anyone with the money , spending the money or making the money is going to for the first time consider how do we spread it around to more places for no value to ourselves when everything else we are doing is focused on concentrating that wealth and has resulted in exponential growth for all of us. It just doesn’t make any sense and there isn’t a way anyone could possibly believe it does.

Translation - it’s only fair when we take things from other people and not okay when they find a way to do it too

Half the teams in FBS vs a tenth of the teams in FBS isn’t the same thing. The rules were changed to allow for the expansion to 12 and not to actually include any teams like Liberty, once it actually happens the fairness argument will pivot to how it’s actually unfair to skip over 11 more deserving teams in order to get to a team skating by to undefeated season by playing a cupcake schedule every other team would have went more than undefeated playing. Are you watching the same movie? This only ends one way and there isn’t some G5 redemption arch that’s finally going to play out for the first time. Most of the time Goliath wins, that’s why no one writes stories about it.

Moving up means you get to lose and still make it in over those in conferences that aren’t poaching p4 teams even if you go undefeated and are supposedly in a p4 conference. Everyone in the playoffs are from a poaching conference, if a team like liberty ever actually makes it into the playoffs the rules will be changed immediately.

It does matter entirely; for a single instance and the it would be rectified based on the outrage from the injustice that is letting in these undeserving teams. Every defect that is letting in G5 teams is parched immediately, there is never any outrage about correcting the G5 errors because collectively no one cares about the G5.

An aac championship isn’t going to generate enough revenue to even pay for the banner

Liberty getting in is a Trojan horse to expansion, there is no way anyone can actually expect that to continue

Marketing geniuses would market something more people care about

How many times does anyone honestly believe a #23 Liberty would get in before the P2 realize they can just let more of their teams in?

We will never compete until we get an arena on campus and then remodel it

You will have to enlighten me this is the extent of my NASCAR knowledge