They had a 5 loss champion because their conference has too many teams and it was stupid 5 way tiebreaker that got Duke in there. SMU had a chance to get in easily but couldn't beat a shitty Cal team. Miami beat Notre Dame. That should matter and it did. Notre Dame can easily solve all of this by joining a conference so they too will have to be in a championship game with risk. The committee wasn't leaving out the ACC. Where they screwed up was having Notre Dame ranked ahead of Miami last week. It would've gave them easy cover to exclude Notre Dame regardless of the ACC championship or to swap them and piss off Miami if Virginia had won on Saturday.
Yeah the ACC is sitting over there saying, what the hell did I do? Is whiny Pete thinking the ACC colluded with the committee to get Miami in? I guess Notre Dame can try to get their special deal with the Big 10 who will tell them no. Or the SEC, same thing. Or the Big 12, well...no.
West Ham, we were up 2-0 so he wasn't needed. He was subbed in for Gakpo against Sunderland. Not sure why he wasn't subbed on for Leeds other than we had a 2-1 lead until the 75th minute and then Szobo put us up 3-2 in the 80th and we went with more defensive options. Mo's form has fallen off a cliff. We already have a shitty left attack with Gakpo so having Mo also doing nothing is one of many reasons why the offense is bad. I guess Slot is down to his final answers.
I frankly don't give a shit what dumbass commentators say about Mo. There are no titles without him. He was Klopp's greatest accomplishment.
All good things eventually come to an end. Mo made himself bigger than the club. The club responded. I don't like it but I understand why they did it. Mo made a bad situation worse. We'll see if he's on the bench for Brighton.
Pretty sure Mo did this with Klopp just not as nuclear option wise. If I say anything there will be fire or something like that. I get he’s frustrated but he just made himself bigger than the club. I love Mo but nuking your manager is a shitty move when he’s not wrong to bench you.
Carragher wasn’t wrong two weeks ago when he said you never hear from Mo in rallying the team. Only from VvD. I love Mo but all good things eventually end. I hate that he’s going out this way. But this what happens when you are losing or mediocre and no one has a clue to fix it.
The full quote:
Steve Sarkisian on the effect ND opting out of its bowl game can have on college football: "I don't know about the ripple effect for everybody. We all have goals and aspirations of winning conference championships and winning national championships, at least we do. But I also think there's an experience factor in all this, there's a growth in all this. There's development in all this. There's camaraderie. There's so much that goes into this that sometimes a bowl game is about celebrating a season and finishing a season the right way."
I don't think Miami was going in until Duke won the ACC and the committee didn't want the entire ACC to not be in the playoff over G5 schools. I doubt they had any intention of moving them up. This way the only person angry is a team that has no real right to complain.
We could probably make a long list of the multiple times this season that people on this site whined that they would no longer watch Texas football only to be right back the following week.
No, he's right. You're just being a bitch because we didn't make the playoff. Sark can't think like that. He needs to build a culture of winning. Beating a helmet team like Michigan helps with that, especially going into next year.
10 wins, securing your spot for next season versus losing it to a freshman or portal guy, free bowl swag, pride, wanting to step on the field one last time with your teammates.