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Gene Smith (Former AD, ‘10 AD of the Year, '13 NAAC Organizational Leadership Award)

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Jaxbuck said:
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I just can't stop laughing because I'm thinking Gene is about to
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
What exactly was the guy who was recused from being able to consider the Buckeyes supposed to do?
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Not much, but there is a point to be made about not penalizing teams for playing top-4 competition in nonconference play. It is not a good trend to set to simply favor power conference teams with fewer losses regardless of who they have played, but that seems to be the direction the committee has turned. I'm not saying their choice was all bad, but the direction the committee is going in basically giving an edge to weak schedules is not good.

Bama literally has no incentive to play anyone other than the Mercers of the world outside of conference play - just avoid losing more than 1 game & they're likely in. This does cheapen the regular season in my mind.
 
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DZ83CK said:
Not much, but there is a point to be made about not penalizing teams for playing top-4 competition in nonconference play. It is not a good trend to set to simply favor power conference teams with fewer losses regardless of who they have played, but that seems to be the direction the committee has turned. I'm not saying their choice was all bad, but the direction the committee is going in basically giving an edge to weak schedules is not good.

Bama literally has no incentive to play anyone other than the Mercers of the world outside of conference play - just avoid losing more than 1 game & they're likely in. This does cheapen the regular season in my mind.
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I agree with that, but there is no evidence Gene didn't make this argument to the members when given the opportunity, which is my only point on this thread right now. I'm not a Smith apologist, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to be on his dick about the results of the playoff committee. Not that you are doing that.
 
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This probably had no impact but there was no one in the committee to speak on behalf of the Big Ten. Gene Smith had to recuse himself from discussing anything regarding the Big Ten's only hope. Jeff Long of the SEC got to sit in there and go to bat for Alabama along with a dude who coached at Vanderbilt and played for Clemson yet had no recusals
 
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