You called me old before, now I’m supposed to be young?
Haha, have to stoop to an insult because you don’t want to support your view?
You are the one who quoted me and replied to me first.
You are one of two posters who have have used words fun or enjoy in a response to me about an expanded format. You also wrote this earlier:
After the above statements by you, someone is supposed to think differently about your “personal stance”?
You're over your skis here ... nothing you stated is relevant to what I posted. Your "you are the one who quoted me" statement ... wtf? No, I was speaking to you, and any others like you, who would like to keep the number of playoff teams at a small number, largely based on subjective determinations of what you think you know. "Oh, that team doesn't deserve to be in it because they lost to this OOC opponent" or "this team doesn't blah, blah, blah." The point being that, in determining who makes a playoff, I want to reduce the importance of those subjective determinations. The more teams you include in the playoffs, the weaker the argument gets that an excluded team "deserves" to be in there, so that's a decent compromise in this circumstance.
Personally, I'd love to see only conference winners make it, and for the NCAA to force conferences to only be as large as the number of teams any conference team can play in one year. That way, everyone in the conference played the same teams each year and can't cry they didn't have their shot, or their schedule was tougher. But, that's not feasible/likely, so the next best thing is to reduce the impact of "talking heads" in making determinations of who is worthy.
As to your last comment ... again you completely misunderstood (your own point, at that). You claimed: "
You guys are the ones who are so selfish you can’t seem to find any enjoyment once your team is realistically eliminated from contention." It's not about whether my team is still in the playoffs. It's about the possibility they could make it. Yes, normal people are more interested in things that have some "personal" aspect to it for them. So if the team I root for may have a shot, I'll be more likely to not only pay attention to my own team, but to what's going on around the country. If my team doesn't realistically have a shot, I'll still watch. I'll still enjoy it. I'll still have some interest in what else is going on, and then the playoffs ... but obviously it won't be to the same degree as when they're still a playoff going concern deep into season. Like most people, if my squad makes it to the playoffs and loses early, I'll be more likely to have interest in the playoff games after my team has been eliminated, because I was more invested in the season to that point. How in the hell is that "selfish"? That's such a stupid claim. So if my team goes 0-12, I should follow the rest of college football intently, and up to and through the playoffs, as an act of unselfishness? That doesn't make any sense.
