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New Orleans attack

I’m pretty sure Martha Raddatz would say something to the effect that it happened in less than a handful of cities.
The incessant need to downplay misbehavior by illegal immigrants from the left side of the aisle is quite fascinating.

They’ll tell you in one breath they don’t support illegal immigration, then prattle off a million reasons why illegal immigrants are actually good in the next breath.

Nevermind that anyone who tells you they know what the crime rate is of illegal immigrants is a LIAR. Most major cities won’t even detain illegals so ICE can come get them. Progressives have perverted the justice system so badly that trying to come up with a crime rate for illegal immigrants is an impossibility. They want it that way.
 
Maybe a 4 team playoff was right
Disagree.

1. Make it 16
2. No conference championship automatic bid
3. No home games. All neutral sites.
4. Small selection committee of only 4-5 “independent” members to pick and seed the field. (I realize this would be difficult, as who is really unbiased?)

As in the NCAA, there is always just a handful of teams with a real shot at winning. Along with that, however, you have to include those teams slightly below the top tier that with a great run can make a statement. Hamstringing them by playing first round games on a lower-seeded team’s campus is just wrong. I’d say the same if ND had had to play in Bloomington.
 
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Disagree.

1. Make it 16
2. No conference championship automatic bid
3. No home games. All neutral sites.
4. Small selection committee of only 4-5 “independent” members to pick and seed the field. (I realize this would be difficult, as who is really unbiased?)

As in the NCAA, there is always just a handful of teams with a real shot at winning. Along with that, however, you have to include those teams slightly below the top tier that with a great run can make a statement. Hamstringing them by playing first round games on a lower-seeded team’s campus is just wrong. I’d say the same if ND had had to play in Bloomington.
The issue I see with the neutral sites is shitty environments. Half empty stadiums. Fans don’t have the time or money to go to that many away games.
 
The issue I see with the neutral sites is shitty environments. Half empty stadiums. Fans don’t have the time or money to go to that many away games.
They would go to regional sites for a playoff game. The half empty stadiums are in the bowl games where half the team chooses not to play.
 
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The issue I see with the neutral sites is shitty environments. Half empty stadiums. Fans don’t have the time or money to go to that many away games.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Remember when early NCAA games were played in Assembly Hall and a team had to come to Bloomington and win in order to advance? I’m sure UAB and St. Joseph’s just loved that in 1981.
 
They would go to regional sites for a playoff game. The half empty stadiums are in the bowl games where half the team chooses not to play.

I suggested as such...make them Regional games as much as possible, while avoiding same Conf games...

Play IU/ND @ Indy
Play OSU/Tenn @ Cincy or Lexington
Have SMU Play Tex @ Waco or College Station...or Houston
Have Clemson play PSU in Blacksburg...or DC.
 
I suggested as such...make them Regional games as much as possible, while avoiding same Conf games...

Play IU/ND @ Indy
Play OSU/Tenn @ Cincy or Lexington
Have SMU Play Tex @ Waco or College Station...or Houston
Have Clemson play PSU in Blacksburg...or DC.
This would be good. Then do the same for the next rounds to the extent possible
 
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I suggested as such...make them Regional games as much as possible, while avoiding same Conf games...

Play IU/ND @ Indy
Play OSU/Tenn @ Cincy or Lexington
Have SMU Play Tex @ Waco or College Station...or Houston
Have Clemson play PSU in Blacksburg...or DC.

Sites would need to be determined well in advance. Probably before the season even started. Can't just book a football stadium on a weeks notice.
 
This was a horrific tragedy. There are a lot of people on this thread who should be embarrassed by the gratuitous, toxic, deplorable comments they’ve posted. You know who you are and shame on all of you
 
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Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Remember when early NCAA games were played in Assembly Hall and a team had to come to Bloomington and win in order to advance? I’m sure UAB and St. Joseph’s just loved that in 1981.

I've got no problem with the home games. I'd expand to 16 teams and do away with the byes. Give the P5 conference champions a guaranteed spot, but seed the field 1-16 with all the first round games played on campus. Give the visitors a guaranteed payout of some sort and maybe 20-30% of available seats.
 
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He did give $20.00 to ActBlue, so he had that going for him, which is nice.
This is the kind of terrorism that has become a matter of course in Europe but we see relatively less of here.

I’ve maintained for a long time that we’re extremely lucky to have predominately Mexicans and South Americans invading our country rather that Africans and Middle Easterns.
 
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Sounds like multiple people involved in the attack. Hopefully this is the only attack, given a game underway and another about to start.
 
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I've got no problem with the home games. I'd expand to 16 teams and do away with the byes. Give the P5 conference champions a guaranteed spot, but seed the field 1-16 with all the first round games played on campus. Give the visitors a guaranteed payout of some sort and maybe 20-30% of available seats.

I don't either...if there's a clearly defined, mathematic seeding pattern like the NFL, and it's not simply a beauty contest...which it is now.
 
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