FCS Playoffs

[Hawkster]

36 minutes ago, FSSD said:

And let's be clear two individuals (Montana AD and NDSU AD) are acting as the NCAA and had a vested interest in improving their own schools' chances and punishing rival schools and other conference mates.  Take Montana out and put YSU in.  How does the bracket play out.  Take Delaware out and put YSU in.  How does the bracket play out.  Take both Montana and Delaware out and put in YSU and Chatty.  Your brackets are very different.

The NDSU AD would have still found a way to screw UND over.

[Johnny Five]

2 ADs don't have that power lol

[zonadub]

At kickoff, every home team is leading in the FCS playoffs. It’s up to UND to change that.

Go Hawks!

[SiouxHawkGuy]

Bigger crowd if at Alerus 

[Sioux94]

On the bright side.....SEMO is up 7-0 on Montana at the end of first quarter.  FTG 

[Sioux94]

10-0 SEMO now....13 minutes left in 2nd quarter.  Sounds like they scored a TD on defense.  

[Sioux94]

SEMO playing a 3-4 defense.  

[ToDaClub]

17-3 going into halftime. 

[Sioux94]

Nice 7 minute drive by Semo to close the first half......up 17-3 at half.  

Note - Montana also plays a 3-4

Semo looks pretty fast on defense....quick pursuit to the ball on the outside.  

Montana not putting up a very good case to deserve a home seed.  

[Sioux>Bison]

29 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Nice 7 minute drive by Semo to close the first half......up 17-3 at half.  

Note - Montana also plays a 3-4

Semo looks pretty fast on defense....quick pursuit to the ball on the outside.  

Montana not putting up a very good case to deserve a home seed.  

Not only does Montana sneak into the field with a home game but they get a TV spot on ESPN 2. Can’t tell me that is not rigged. Also Delaware gets St Francis in the first round. We got screws this year but can’t go back in the future. Need to push to change these dumb selection criterias

[Sioux94]

Wow Semo just pissed away a 17 point lead by allowing two kick returns for TD's

[Sioux>Bison]

8 minutes ago, Sioux94 said:

Wow Semo just pissed away a 17 point lead by allowing two kick returns for TD's

Yeah pretty tight with the flags on those returns but hey the announcers like it! If I was a SEMO fans I would not be impressed with this road game with homer announcers…

[Sioux>Bison]

Wow no review even on that pass/fumble! FCS is so embarrassing….

[The Sicatoka]

So who made the final 16?
According to Massey it is:

28 at 11 (UNH at HC)
38 at 10 (Gard Webb at W&M)
7 at 9 (Furman at Inc Word)
25 at 2 (Delaware at SDSU)
5 at 4 (Weber at Mont St)
22 at 6 (SELA at Samford)
8 at 3 (Montana at NDSU)
17 at 1 (Richmond at Sac St) 

If those 16 were seeded "Massey":
38 at 1 (GW at Sac)
28 at 2 (UNH at SDSU)
25 at 3 (Delaware at NDSU)
22 at 4 (SELA at Mont St)
17 at 5 (Richmond at Weber)
11 at 6 (HC at Samford)
10 at 7 (W&M at Furman)
9 at 8 (Inc Word at Montana)
 

[Siouxperfan7]

https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/records-show-unds-bid-to-host-fcs-playoff-game-far-exceeded-weber-states

Records show UND's bid to host FCS playoff game far exceeded Weber State's

Weber bid - $41,683.50

UND bid - $127,500

 

[homer]

It’s too bad UND can’t financially support its football program……..

[UNDColorado]

Of course UND gets screwed here. Now watch all of the gaslighting about how bids aren't the deciding factor even though we had to go play a team with a f%#$*& tent as a locker room because they had the higher bid.

[Dustin]

On 11/26/2022 at 11:17 PM, Sioux>Bison said:

Not only does Montana sneak into the field with a home game but they get a TV spot on ESPN 2. Can’t tell me that is not rigged. Also Delaware gets St Francis in the first round. We got screws this year but can’t go back in the future. Need to push to change these dumb selection criterias

Not trying to scapegoat UND's failure to win on Saturday on the NCAA, but the process was especially bad this year.  I think 16 teams need to be seeded and get to host.  The at-large selections (17-24) can be sent to their nearest 9-16 seeded team (if regionalization is still a priority) for the first round.  Top 8 teams still get a bye.

[UNDBIZ]

 

[Nodak78]

1 hour ago, UNDBIZ said:

 

Very good read.  Sam did a bang up job on the article.

[SiouxFan100]

I will continue to pay passive attention to the playoffs. 
 

If the team I want to win the most is eliminated I revert to hoping some teams lose.

anybody but the other North Dakota team. 
 

is that bad?

might be a little jealous 

[Sioux94]

1 hour ago, SiouxFan100 said:

I will continue to pay passive attention to the playoffs. 
 

If the team I want to win the most is eliminated I revert to hoping some teams lose.

anybody but the other North Dakota team. 
 

is that bad?

might be a little jealous 

I'd be ok if NDSU lost this weekend, but they won't. Therefore I hope NDSU piss pounds Montana 55-0.  Would also like Weber to beat MSU. 

[tnt]

On 11/28/2022 at 3:02 PM, UNDColorado said:

Of course UND gets screwed here. Now watch all of the gaslighting about how bids aren't the deciding factor even though we had to go play a team with a f%#$*& tent as a locker room because they had the higher bid.

#player experience!

[The Sicatoka]

I've belittled Sam Herder in the past for his pro-Bison biases, but with this he is spot on.

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You can’t give Weber a home game over a UND team that bid higher and say it’s due to performance, and then give 7-4 Montana a home game on ESPN2 despite being one of the last teams in the field and having a 4-4 conference record due to its higher bid over a SEMO team who had a 9-2 record, won its conference, and actually owned a ranked win. You can’t talk about cost-saving measures when you leave more than $80K on the table to give a team a home game because you felt they were more deserving. The lack of consistency and deciding at random when to use subjective criteria (like performance) over objective criteria (bids) is when people question the credibility of a bracket that already has its warts.

If you want further proof that the committee has typically leaned toward bid amounts and not athlete experience or who deserved a home game more, there have been multiple examples in the past of a team hosting first-round games and the visiting team’s locker room was a big tent outside for goodness sake. 

So some years you are ok with sticking a team in tents for a visiting locker room because the other team had a higher bid? But then this year you gave a team a home game based on performance and not the bid. But then this same year you gave one of the last teams in the field a home game because of their bid?

What are we doing here? 

 

Compliments to Mr. Herder. 

[Sioux94]

Another article about the playoff selection process. Maybe something will actually change this time with as much publicity as this is getting this time around.