Media rips College Football Playoff selection committee's decision to meet in-person
ESPN’s Heather Dinich is getting ratio’d into oblivion on Twitter Friday. It’s not for anything Dinich herself said, but for sharing a quote from College Football Playoff executive Bill Hancock.
Hancock and the CFP selection committee is being ripped by college football media for the decision to hold meetings in person. The selection committee will reveal its first Top 25 on Tuesday, Nov. 24.
Media members are quote-tweeting Dinich to call Hancock’s rationale ridiculous, advocating for the meetings to be held by Zoom. Some are even calling the in-season rankings unnecessary until the postseason selection show polls.
As you can see below, there are plenty of jokes about hotel rewards points and frequent flier miles being prioritized by committee members.
????? https://t.co/CXHrkLhjNB
— Zach Barnett (@zach_barnett) November 20, 2020
Marriott points and nice meals are too important to set the precedent that this can be done over zoom. https://t.co/FCO1ZpJqwO
— Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) November 20, 2020
Bill Hancock, the head shill for both the BCS and now Playoff, has an incredible history of saying things and then having the diametric opposite be true. It's more fun when it's just about stupid CFB stuff and not this, though. @rodger covered it here: https://t.co/2Y7rBJilDR https://t.co/ZJWuLrzY8D
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) November 20, 2020
Nobody and I mean nobody takes themselves more seriously than a committee doing rankings that don’t matter https://t.co/uVniQfzDmM
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) November 20, 2020
Six members over 60… https://t.co/uyBCxLL5Lt
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) November 20, 2020
You can't play a football game over Zoom. You can definitely rank football teams over Zoom.
I think the coaches and players would understand. https://t.co/N2bSsmo3xE
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 20, 2020
College football, are you ok? https://t.co/3fopeWhwuD
— Patrick Hruby (@patrick_hruby) November 20, 2020
This is just ridiculous logic https://t.co/Lmo0eViCEQ
— Dan Lyons (@Dan_Lyons76) November 20, 2020
Amazing that the two of us have been able to talk about CFB for hours a week for 12 years… remotely.
Way to go, team, could’ve just emailed @tyhildenbrandt for tips, his rates are premium, but worth every penny. https://t.co/bcJeKeJ96m
— The Solid Verbal (@SolidVerbal) November 20, 2020
https://t.co/pcV3q0TqIG pic.twitter.com/uqkwidIqaK
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) November 20, 2020
When you’re trying to keep that Delta Platinum Medallion status https://t.co/wR8SjVA8LO
— Kevin Wade (@KwadeSays) November 20, 2020
The reads like an Onion quote. https://t.co/tGIcism2xX
— Darian Somers (@StuffSomersSays) November 20, 2020
College football will always do everything it can to remain at least 10% weirder than any other sport. That is its solemn vow https://t.co/TrmRys4dJD
— Jason Kirk, This American Life's cornhole expert (@thejasonkirk) November 20, 2020
If courts and Congress can conduct their business via Zoom, so can the CFP committee. https://t.co/MGT6X4v0Zd
— Andrew Keck (@andrewkeck) November 20, 2020
No one:
Not one single soul:
CFP selection committee: "They won't respect us unless we rank the teams in a hotel conference room whilst eating catered lunch." https://t.co/bNZVplV7jz
— Josh Vitale (@JoshVitale) November 20, 2020
My dude, why? https://t.co/atcn4CabV7
— Mountain West Wire (@MWCwire) November 20, 2020
oh wait i just figured it out: these people are sick of being around their families https://t.co/9OkMEjisZZ
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) November 20, 2020
i assure you, it is not https://t.co/QwHmcWGKd0
— Ben Kercheval (@BenKercheval) November 20, 2020
This is a special kind of stupid https://t.co/XxWH6mYrYS
— Christopher Heady (@heady_chris) November 20, 2020
I mean, no, they could hook up every single committee member with a TV/camera setup and delivered dinner from a favorite restaurant to accomplish the same thing for increased safety and a cheaper price. But whatever. https://t.co/waGvJ2SZry
— David Kenyon (@Kenyon19_BR) November 20, 2020
g r i f t https://t.co/qxf4TsQUeD
— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) November 20, 2020
Or, and hear me out https://t.co/YWoAF5Fqvi
— Steven N. Godfrey Jr. (@38Godfrey) November 20, 2020
I'll take illogical and out of touch for $500, Alex (RIP Trebek). https://t.co/BMD0vKp8R1
— Mark Giannotto (@mgiannotto) November 20, 2020
This is absolute lunacy. The CFP rankings don't even matter until the last ones. Just have the meetings over Zoom. This isn't that hard, folks. https://t.co/20VMZGojwi
— Andy Roberts (@ARoberts_WLB) November 20, 2020
had like 12 weeks to come up with an answer and this is the best one he's got? https://t.co/F29P4qg7lO
— Michael Felder (@InTheBleachers) November 20, 2020
That makes absolutely no sense. https://t.co/qWbAbpKy5r
— Rhiannon Potkey (@RPotkey) November 20, 2020
I love college football so very much. But it does not always make very good decisions https://t.co/TX5ELPp6V5
— Matt Baker (@MBakerTBTimes) November 20, 2020
But nobody's asking the selection committee to travel. Nobody would have a problem if they met via Zoom, the way the rest of the world has had to do it. Maybe for the final decision on the playoff they meet in person. Until then? No need. https://t.co/uk8kpIz3WM
— Seth Emerson (@SethWEmerson) November 20, 2020
This is hilarious and just amazingly unnecessary. But get those points and free meals. https://t.co/41AgbWsGJJ
— Adam Kramer (@KegsnEggs) November 20, 2020
they’re also asking players to play football for free every week, but the committee members have chosen to get paid money to not play football https://t.co/b4kwaBPN9B
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) November 20, 2020
Uhhhhh… you can actually do less. Or way more! You’re threading a very stupid needle, actually. https://t.co/tJGWSpcaUY
— Daniel Kelley (@danieltkelley) November 20, 2020
Did I miss another football postponement and the CFP committee members scheduled a game against someone? This is so irresponsible and so 2020. https://t.co/6iTwKKoeSa
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonAspen) November 20, 2020
Some of these are pretty good. College Football leadership, whether it be playoff committee or at the individual conference level haven’t looked or sounded the brightest this fall.
But Biden said there would be no national shut down. Since Biden said that it should be safe to meet in person.
And Trump said it would disappear on nov. 4th. Guess that didn’t happen neither
Don’t care what the media says, if I was a committee member I would be there in-person.
The logic is goofy, but meetings are better and more productive in person. I would be in favor of meeting live for the final vote. The others really don’t matter.
The cfp committee are a bunch of white trash people. AT LEAST MASKS ON AND DISTANCING TOO! and rank the teams correctly instead of stereotyping their schedule. if theyre independent or mw or