My Email to the committee chairman

[UNI92]

I'm not sure if I wanted to address him as an ass clown or a slap dick!
Embarassing work...absolutely disgusted with their selections.



Mr. Bourne,

I am absolutely appalled at the work your committee did on the playoff selection. You should be ashamed of your poor work and you should feel very embarrassed. Your committee's work is the laughingstock of FCS football. If I did my job as poor as you did on the committee, I would be fired.

If the FCS got more attention nationally, your selection committee would be the joke of talk radio and non stop criticism on TV.


I am a lifetime UNI Panther season ticket holder and was hoping for a bid. In fact, I even understand not getting in because we were 7-5, but to exclude YSU and Southern Illinois and send SDSU on the road??? You're making a mockery of the system. There is no way that your committee is doing the necessary research and makes me wonder if they are drawing teams out of a hat!?!?


Serious question for you and your committee:

How do you not honor the best conference top to bottom in the nation (Missouri Valley Conference??)


Seriously: Answer this question. How do you leave out UNI?
•7-5 record. 7 D 1 wins
•3 OT losses with many injured players
•Playoff team is much closer to full health now and has won 3 in a row.
•A win over Big 12 member ISU (who took Texas to the wire and beat another Big 12 team last night 34-0)
•Destroying McNeese St 41-6
•1 point loss at the overall number 1 seed NDSU
•History and tradition is trumped by only a few other teams in the league
•Did the other bubble teams seriously match this resume?????


If you have any professionalism you will give a dedicated fan an answer that I can live with!

[Newsbreaker]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

UNI isn't the slighted party here.

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

If they were willing to listen to reason, things wouldn't have turned out the way they did today. I think you're wasting your time, but thanks for at least letting him know how a lot of FCS fans feel today.

[UNI92]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

The whole MVC is slighted.

I'm seriously interested in drinking what these guys had in the room when they selected the field?
What was it???
Grey Goose, Busch Light? Tanqueray? Wine? Steel Reserve? Old English?

[Purrrrrfect]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

Concur, we all knew UNI getting n was a loonnnng shot but leaving ysu out is stupid.

[JayJ79]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

to be fair, the home games in the first round are decided completely on a bid basis.
(unless they deemed SDSU to have "unsuitable facilities" b/c their field is torn to hell)

[JCPanthers]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

Make sure you CC Troy Dannen. He was on the selection committee.

[UNI MadCat]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

You weaken your email with the rant regarding UNI's resume after stating you can understand why we might be left out. Stick to the main issue of the total conference bids and you might have received an actual response -- canned, perhaps, but something of a rationale. In the end it just comes off whiney.

[panther-state]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

I'd also leave out the the last 2 sentences in your initial paragraph. Insulting the guy and name calling won't accomplish anything. It makes you look foolish, not him

[Cat80]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

Concur, we all knew UNI getting n was a loonnnng shot but leaving ysu out is stupid.

Leaving YSU out was correct. 3 Non-scholarship wins and lost head to head vs UNI. They also lost they're last 3 games of the season. 4 Big Fluffy's and 2 MEAC's is stupid.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

You weaken your email with the rant regarding UNI's resume after stating you can understand why we might be left out. Stick to the main issue of the total conference bids and you might have received an actual response -- canned, perhaps, but something of a rationale. In the end it just comes off whiney.

My reaction as well.

[panther1]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

I'm not sure if I wanted to address him as an ass clown or a slap dick!
Embarassing work...absolutely disgusted with their selections.



Mr. Bourne,

I am absolutely appalled at the work your committee did on the playoff selection. You should be ashamed of your poor work and you should feel very embarrassed. Your committee's work is the laughingstock of FCS football. If I did my job as poor as you did on the committee, I would be fired.

If the FCS got more attention nationally, your selection committee would be the joke of talk radio and non stop criticism on TV.


I am a lifetime UNI Panther season ticket holder and was hoping for a bid. In fact, I even understand not getting in because we were 7-5, but to exclude YSU and Southern Illinois and send SDSU on the road??? You're making a mockery of the system. There is no way that your committee is doing the necessary research and makes me wonder if they are drawing teams out of a hat!?!?


Serious question for you and your committee:

How do you not honor the best conference top to bottom in the nation (Missouri Valley Conference??)


Seriously: Answer this question. How do you leave out UNI?
•7-5 record. 7 D 1 wins
•3 OT losses with many injured players
•Playoff team is much closer to full health now and has won 3 in a row.
•A win over Big 12 member ISU (who took Texas to the wire and beat another Big 12 team last night 34-0)
•Destroying McNeese St 41-6
•1 point loss at the overall number 1 seed NDSU
•History and tradition is trumped by only a few other teams in the league
•Did the other bubble teams seriously match this resume?????


If you have any professionalism you will give a dedicated fan an answer that I can live with!

Your rant at the end about UNI is completely ridiculous. We didn't belong this year. Could we beat anyone in the field? Probably. But we lost 5 straight conference games, 2 of which we're not to good teams.

[Cap'n Cat]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

Your rant at the end about UNI is completely ridiculous. We didn't belong this year. Could we beat anyone in the field? Probably. But we lost 5 straight conference games, 2 of which were not to good teams.

End of discussion. Move on, people.

[dan_beeding]

Just stop.

[UNI92]

Re: My Email to the committee chairman

Some of you guys are slap dicks and ass clowns...

You honestly don't think that we belong in the field and are not one of the best 24 teams in FCS?
You really think that the committee did an honorable job picking the at large teams?
Yes, we lost to 2 average teams but so did every other at large team...plus, they didn't play the non conference schedule that UNI did, or play in a league as tough as the MVC...


Maybe my email to him should have included congratulating him on doing such great research and honoring the best FCS conference in the country then!