(12-13-2018 11:07 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-12-2018 04:59 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-12-2018 03:12 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(12-12-2018 03:10 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(12-12-2018 12:06 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  File this under "Least surprising development ever".

A flawed system that uses opinion as the sole justification for leaving out two of the five voting conferences every year is up for reconsideration? I am stunned... just stunned!

Eight might hold for a while. It still isn't ideal but it takes a long time for the powerbrokers to get to the obvious solution.

Eight is another step in the right direction.

^^^^^THIS^^^^^

How we can design a system that ignores an entire conference season and replaces it with the judgement of a dozen ice skating judges is just inexplicable. If you want to destroy the sanctity of the regular season---thats the way to do it.

Precisely.

IMO, better to have 12 ice skating judges considering an *entire* season for all teams than have conference champs get auto-bids, which entirely throws out all the OOC games.

That's 1/4 to 1/3 of the schedule that now means nothing, and that's actually the most theoretically meaningful part of a schedule, as conference games are local, they don't necessarily tell us how well a team stacks up to national competition, which is what a playoff is.

Plus, and it's hard to see how an NIU fan is overlooking this, the highest ranked G5 team WILL still be chosen by ice skating judges, not by winning their conference.

The ooc is the most meaningless because teams are using it to warm up and
get prepared for the games that really matter. In conference those games count and they prove their caliber, not based on ice skating judges.

So you mean if like UAB loses by 40 points to #3 Clemson, but then sweeps through their soft CUSA schedule and wins CUSA, that means they've "proven their caliber"? That's pretty funny.

OOC games are currently very important, and rightly so. But under a scheme where conference champs get auto-bids their value would diminish greatly, which would be a competitive shame.

Making conference games the ones that count doesn't prove any caliber except that you were better than the members of your conference. But just because you beat out members of your conference doesn't mean you proved anything in comparison to teams from other conferences. You didn't beat those teams out so you have no claim to say you proved you were better.

So it makes no sense to privilege those conference games.