Playoffs

[panther1]

SDSU wants no part of UNI. It will be tough for them to beat us twice this year. I like our chances, I would like them better in the Dome. San Diego is the best matchup we could have hoped for next week.

[Mudrafan]

SDSU wants no part of UNI. It will be tough for them to beat us twice this year. I like our chances, I would like them better in the Dome. San Diego is the best matchup we could have hoped for next week.

A better matchup would have been playing a team called “bye”. What the hell are the point of the rankings when you are ranked sixth and aren’t seeded. And see a conference foe that finished fourth, gets beat yesterday, wasn’t in the top six. They get a bye and host you. Rankings are completely ignored and once again the committee has their own agenda

[Blue42]

Will be interesting to see what our line up looks like next week.

We're trying to get some key guys back like McShane, Weston, Hoosman.

And also trying to "budget" games with Logan Wolf and guys like Briley Moore and perhaps Korby Sander who might be back in the fold (I think) who are working with the 4 game RS rule.

We really didn't want to have to play an extra game.

But it is what it is. Let's go get W's.

[panther1]

A better matchup would have been playing a team called “bye”. What the hell are the point of the rankings when you are ranked sixth and aren’t seeded. And see a conference foe that finished fourth, gets beat yesterday, wasn’t in the top six. They get a bye and host you. Rankings are completely ignored and once again the committee has their own agenda

Had we won last week, top 4 seed. Respectable last week and a seed. Curb stomped by Bunnies left in the hands of the committee. We know UNI has never gotten a favor from the playoff committee.

[UNIGrainer]

I dont think they have their own agenda so much as they’re just lazy.

1st priority: Total wins
2nd priority: Head to head

Doesnt seem to matter who you play.

Also, how much money does avoiding plane trips really save? Especially when it comes to conference rematches. It just sucks that a lot of teams end up playing the same teams in their own league over and over year after year. Can we start a gofundme or something?

They should at least try to avoid rematches through the second round. Sucks for the team with a bye too, going to the playoffs and getting someone youve already played.

[vbfan19]

UNI's only good win was against Illinois State.
SDSU's only good win was against UNI.
UNI is better than Illinois State, so SDSU gets the seed over UNI

That's likely the justification that the committee used (along with the H2H slaughter) to justify that move.
You could also mix in "quality losses" if you like. SDSU played NDSU tough. UNI didn't.
UNI had an impressive showing at Iowa State, but SDSU had an impressive showing at Minnesota, and the Gophers have gone on to be more impressive than the Clones.

The last few seeds were really a tossup with some criteria or another out there to back up whoever the committee ended up choosing.

[vbfan19]

IAlso, how much money does avoiding plane trips really save? Especially when it comes to conference rematches. It just sucks that a lot of teams end up playing the same teams in their own league over and over year after year. Can we start a gofundme or something?.

That's just how the NCAA is for tournaments outside of their cash cow (MBB) and their token equality (WBB).
They have the same 400 mile directive in volleyball (and it costs alot less to fly a volleyball team somewhere than it does to fly a football team)

[TravelingPanther]

SDSU wants no part of UNI. It will be tough for them to beat us twice this year. I like our chances, I would like them better in the Dome. San Diego is the best matchup we could have hoped for next week.

Curious why you think San Diego is a good matchup

[panther1]

Curious why you think San Diego is a good matchup

Only two real opponents were lower half Big Sky. They lost both. Their lines will not match up well with UNI and they have little chance to stop the run or establish the run. UNI will score 40+.

[vbfan19]

UNI will score 40+.

I definitely wouldn't bet on that.

[Blue42]

Still trying to figure out how the committee rationalized that the 4th place team in the MVFC at 8-4 is deserving of a higher seed than Central Arkansas...but the 2nd place team in the MVFC who is also 8-4 and played a better non-con is not.

That is a long walk.

It's bad enough they dropped two spots below us in the conference to grab SDSU...but then changed logic to take CArk over UNI.

[panther-state]

Only two real opponents were lower half Big Sky. They lost both. Their lines will not match up well with UNI and they have little chance to stop the run or establish the run. UNI will score 40+.

Yeah, I'd love to see it but I don't think they're a total pushover. They beat Drake by a larger margin than SDSU did

[havok58]

If UNI gets past San Diego, then they get a chance to prove the committee wrong. If they beat again by SDSU, then the committee will look like they’re geniuses. That said, the randomness of the selections now gives hope for the third and fourth place teams in the valley in the future that they may be able to leapfrog and get a seed. Does the committee have to explain their selections?

[run&blade]

San Diego is over glorified DIII.

they don’t give scholarships. UNI should be able to beat them without risking their injured players and save them for following week.

I was really hoping to see a good team visit the dome this year. No such luck.

[vbfan19]

San Diego is over glorified DIII.

they don’t give scholarships. UNI should be able to beat them without risking their injured players and save them for following week.

I was really hoping to see a good team visit the dome this year. No such luck.

Sounds like the sort of thing that people on here said about Lehigh when they came to the Dome for the first round of the 2010 playoffs.