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I would like to point out that we did win the AFC West this year.

Jim Schwartz

12/26/11

Thanks, boys.

12/26/11

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I don’t know if I can talk about that because this city has kind of grown under my skin. I love staying downtown at the hotel we stay at and I look around when I drive in in the morning. I go about 5 o’clock in the morning for a 1 o’clock game and I just drive around the streets a little bit and, like I told you, I am feeling it right now talking about it. We address it every week. We play for the city. It is really important to us.

I think one of the things that really upsets me is people don’t know what it is all about here. How beautiful it is and the people are so great. They are typical Midwestern, maybe Northeastern people, where you walk down, go to a store, and everybody is cordial and nice. It is too bad nobody knows that. They talk about Detroit like it is old New York. It is not right. We want to prove that point. They call us over-aggressive and yeah, we are. We play for a big reason. We play for this city and for the state and I got to stop, I am telling you, it gets to me talking about that because I feel like I belong here. I look around and people work for a living here. When I drive in about 4, it looks like a traffic jam. I finally figure out where they all go; they go to work. For me, personally, this is real big and real important.

Gunther Cunningham, Lions Defensive Coordinator

I teared up a little reading this.

Playoff Berth on the line tomorrow. Lets Go Lions.

12/23/11

My Playoff Plan

Every conference gets an automatic bid, and, yes, I mean every conference (currently there are 11, within the next few years we’ll be down to 9 or 10)
Other five teams are the top 5 non-champions by BCS Ranking
First and second rounds are home games for the top seeds, semis and finals (plus a #3 v. #4 game) get rotated among the four BCS bowls
Seed is everything, conference championship status only determines whether or not you make the tourney. (Which is to say that matchups and home-field-advantage is decided solely by seed, meaning a non-champion could play a home game against a champion.
No brackets, the best available team plays the worst available team each round

Potential adjustments:

Guaranteeing home games to Big Six Champions (match-up would still be based on seed). This would require situationally raising the seeds of Big Six Champions (and moving down at-larges) in situations where B6Cs are supposed to play each other. (There are none this season).
Potential limits on how many at-large bids a conference can take (I’d say two is reasonable. This year that limit wouldn’t change anything, I’d have to do some research to see if that’d be the case in past years).

This has been my preference for some time, but this is the first time I’ve tumbled it.

This is how it would look this year:

#1 LSU (SEC Champion) v. #16 Louisiana Tech (WAC Champion) @Baton Rouge

#2 Alabama (At-Large #1) v. #15 Arkansas St. (Sun Belt Champion) @Tuscaloosa

#3 Oklahoma St. (Big 12 Champion) v. #14 Northern Illinois (MAC Champion) @Stillwater

#4 Stanford (At Large #2) v. #13 Southern Miss (Conference USA Champion) @Stanford

#5 Oregon (Pac-12 Champion) v. #12 TCU (Mountain West Champion) @Eugene

#6 Arkansas (At Large #3) v. #11 West Virginia (Big East Champion) @Fayetteville or Morgantown

#7 Boise State (At Large #4) v. #10 Clemson (ACC Championship) @Boise or Clemson

#8 Kansas State (At Large #5) v. #9 Wisconsin (Big Ten Champion) @Manhattan or Madison

Extrapolating the rest of the rounds:

#1 LSU v. #9 Wisconsin @Baton Rouge

#2 Alabama v. #7 Boise State @Tuscaloosa

#3 Oklahoma State v. #6 Arkansas @Stillwater

#4 Stanford v. #5 Oregon @Stanford (Unideal rematch, I know, but it is what it is)

Semis:

#1 LSU v. #4 Stanford @The Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, AZ

#2 Alabama v. #3 Oklahoma State @The Sugar Bowl, New Orleans Louisiana

Third Place Game: #3 Oklahoma St. v. #4 Stanford @The Orange Bowl, Miami, FL

National Championship: #1 LSU v. #2 Alabama @The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA

So, yeah, that’s my plan. In the end, you still get LSU/Alabama, but at least OSU (and Boise, and Stanford, and Oregon, etc.) get to play for the National Championship.

12/4/11

That’s it.

We’re likely to get a true national champion this year, if only one team goes undefeated.

However, the rooting interest is always chaos. Chaos this year means a bunch of teams with one loss at the end of the season. So, Stanford, Oregon, Alabama, Arkansas, Clemson, Boise State, and Oklahoma go undefeated the rest of the season. This means that Oklahoma beats Oklahoma State (which still wins the Big 12 Championship), and Arkansas beats LSU (which then goes on to beat Georgia in the SEC Championship). That’s the dream scenario for BCS haters, nine legitimate teams with one loss. Throw in Conference USA’s undefeated Houston, currently sitting at #11, and you’ve got a crazy controversy on the hands of those in charge of College Football.

The solution? A playoff.

11/13/11

I see you, Delmon.

09/30/11

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My Playoff Plan

That’s it.

I see you, Delmon.

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