I've seen this a few places and it just highlights for me the idiocy of the expanded playoffs.
Most recently, I read about it relating to James Franklin. It was noted that he had failed to get PSU into playoffs in the 10 years of the 4-team format. However, as a significant caveat, the article noted that if the 12-team format had been in place during that time, he would have had PSU in the playoffs in 6 of the last 8 years. So they were arguing that his tenure should be looked at in that light.
It's downright asinine to me that there will be teams who will make no-improvement from last season, but make it to the playoffs only b/c it has been expanded to 12 teams. But they will celebrate being a playoff team as if they've taken a step forward, even though they are precisely where they were last season.
It's beyond asinine to me to look a coach's tenure basically retroactively and say "well, yeah, but if there had been a 12-team playoff his tenure would look a lot different" when, in fact, there would not be one thing different.
Most recently, I read about it relating to James Franklin. It was noted that he had failed to get PSU into playoffs in the 10 years of the 4-team format. However, as a significant caveat, the article noted that if the 12-team format had been in place during that time, he would have had PSU in the playoffs in 6 of the last 8 years. So they were arguing that his tenure should be looked at in that light.
It's downright asinine to me that there will be teams who will make no-improvement from last season, but make it to the playoffs only b/c it has been expanded to 12 teams. But they will celebrate being a playoff team as if they've taken a step forward, even though they are precisely where they were last season.
It's beyond asinine to me to look a coach's tenure basically retroactively and say "well, yeah, but if there had been a 12-team playoff his tenure would look a lot different" when, in fact, there would not be one thing different.
