(12-05-2017 05:24 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(12-05-2017 04:51 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(12-05-2017 04:38 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(12-05-2017 01:24 PM)JRsec Wrote:  I have a big what if for you guys. What if the Committee only uses the BCS formula for the selection of the final four and the rest of the time they do watch some of the games, enjoy their sequestered time for which they are well paid, eat, drink and have a good time and then send forward their chair to put on the grim face and come up with controversial and stress producing explanations just to jazz up numbers for ESPN and create a public annual furor that they hope will make even more folks tune into the games.

And just maybe this committee is quietly pushing an agenda that moves us away from CCGs so that ESPN can have three weeks worth of guaranteed viewership for the playoffs all of which they can monetize instead of the conferences keeping the revenue from the first week's CCG's.

Call me suspicious that their results don't vary from that of the BCS, but it seems that with the BCS ESPN stumbled onto how successful controversy over the selection process could be and they have now baked it into an annual soap opera.

I was under the impression that the committee members aren't paid anything - they just get expenses reimbursed.

That may be the case, I just couldn't imagine anyone doing it for nothing if it takes so much time. But my query stands. It's an angle most don't assume.

And to your post above this one computers vary wildly for the same reason opinions do. Human bias, since programs reflect the priority of their human creators. But again it's so obvious I don't get why many don't realize it.

BTW: If you conduct a propaganda war against conference championships you tacitly conduct a propaganda war against conferences specifically. I think the networks know that going forward the leverage will return to collectives. So tempting the largest brands to act independently might well become a leverage strategy of the rights purchasers.

If conferences are smart they will further consolidate the power of many into their advantage.

Yin & Yang.

CFP website says the committee members are not compensated, outside of reimbursement for expenses.

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/sp...09963.aspx

Quote:Are the selection committee members compensated?

No, there is no compensation for committee members. Expenses are reimbursed.