CBS Source: Playoff selection committee nearing completion

[BleedGopher]

per CBS:

The “who” part of the College Football Playoff selection committee is about done, it's now just a matter of logistics, a highly placed source in the process told CBSSports.com

A week away from the BCS commissioners next meeting, the source indicated that CHP executive director Bill Hancock is close to finalizing that lineup of 12-18 persons who will select the 12 teams for the new postseason iteration beginning in 2014.

What's left, the source said, is the still complicated process how those teams will be selected. There has been talk of using some sort of metric similar to the basketball committee's RPI, but that has yet to be determined. Also to be decided, the transparency issue -- how the information will be disseminated to the public.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...layoff-selection-committee-nearing-completion

Go Gophers!!

 

[Coolew01]

If these guys are somehow related to football conferences I would hope it would be transparent as to who they are voting for, so they can praise/criticism for homerism or lack there of.

 

[EG#9]

How funny would it be if Maturi was on the committee? I can't decide if he would just vote Wisconsin every year or try to get the other members to agree to some sort of lottery system so records didn't matter and every school had an equal shot at the exposure. In the latter scenario, their would be no seeding as to not hurt the feelings of any school represented in the process.

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

If the BCS was controversial, wait until this bunch gets involved. It won't be like picking hordes of teams, as in basketball. There will be only four, and the polls will still be operating. Teams poll-ranked ahead of those chosen will howl and the usual loud complaints will come from teams ranked (even by the committee) 5 through 15 or so. They'll all be complaining. It will be controversy from the start. The one good thing about the BCS is that it merged the polls, which is what they should do again, probably without computers - just the coaches' poll and the AP - if they can be persuaded to cooperate. The talk radio nuts and the controversy-seeking columnists will be on this like a dog on a bone.

 

[year of the gopher]

Great Plains makes some valid points and I'm sure he's right, but I have to say that I still think giving 4 teams a chance for the championship is better than 2. I'd ultimately like either an 8- or 16-team playoff. At 16, you could automatically include every major conference champ and just about anyone with 1 loss in addition to any undefeated FBS teams. From there, all the b!tching could be about the seeding.

Of course, people will complain about any system put in place. They even complain in hockey, which has a very set mathematical formula for deciding who gets into the NCAA and how they are seeded.

 

[dpodoll68]

How funny would it be if Maturi was on the committee? I can't decide if he would just vote Wisconsin every year or try to get the other members to agree to some sort of lottery system so records didn't matter and every school had an equal shot at the exposure. In the latter scenario, their would be no seeding as to not hurt the feelings of any school represented in the process.

I don't get the Maturi/Becky jokes. If he loves Becky so much, why did he go to Notre Dame? Typically, jokes should make sense in order for them to be funny.

 

[Ole]

I don't get the Maturi/Becky jokes. If he loves Becky so much, why did he go to Notre Dame? Typically, jokes should make sense in order for them to be funny.

As a general Maturi hater, listen to the halftime interview in 2010 at Camp Randall.
I couldn't have been sicker listening to the joy and love in Maturi's voice when describing Madison, the campus, the stadium, how great of a place it was.

As AD, I don't need fanatical hatred of your rivals like a hardcore fan, but he basically could have been in a recruiting video for becky, as his football team was in a battle against them.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

If the BCS was controversial, wait until this bunch gets involved. It won't be like picking hordes of teams, as in basketball. There will be only four, and the polls will still be operating. Teams poll-ranked ahead of those chosen will howl and the usual loud complaints will come from teams ranked (even by the committee) 5 through 15 or so. They'll all be complaining. It will be controversy from the start. The one good thing about the BCS is that it merged the polls, which is what they should do again, probably without computers - just the coaches' poll and the AP - if they can be persuaded to cooperate. The talk radio nuts and the controversy-seeking columnists will be on this like a dog on a bone.

I prefer the computers to the coach's and AP polls. The computers are immune to things such as school name recognition, and the hated "eye test" from the basketball selection committee.

 

[bleedsmaroonandgold]

I don't get the Maturi/Becky jokes. If he loves Becky so much, why did he go to Notre Dame? Typically, jokes should make sense in order for them to be funny.

He was an associate AD at UW from 1987 to 1996. I am not saying that the Maturi/Becky jokes are funny (they aren't, even though I have no shortage of frustration with Maturi as our AD), but that is the connection.

I do appreciate the joke about not hurting feelings.

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

I prefer the computers to the coach's and AP polls. The computers are immune to things such as school name recognition, and the hated "eye test" from the basketball selection committee.

Reason I left out the computers is that they fueled controversy - you're right that they make a good correction. I wouldn't mind the BCS formula for the top four if they could get the AP back in: # 1 vs. # 3 and # 2 vs. # 4, then the championship. More than four tends to make the playoffs more important than the season.

 

[wait!what?]

That 2010 interview where Maturi was late to the cco halftime interview cause he was partying with badger fans and friends. Maturi's words. it was over then.