(03-06-2018 01:30 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 11:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 10:08 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-05-2018 05:57 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-02-2018 04:53 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  Sportsmen prefer that all participants have their shot based on on-field performance rather than comittees or polls.

In all sports, nobody is allowed to just hop off the couch and declare themselves a "participant" that the top dogs are obligated to compete against.

If I'm a tennis player, i can't just pick up a racket, show up at the gates of Wimbledon, and challenge Roger Federer. I have to prove I'm a valid 'participant' by winning many tennis matches against other top professionals, earning the points needed to gain entry. Only then is Federer obligated to play me. If I just try to declare that it isn't "sporting" of him to otherwise ignore me, I'll be hauled away by security.

As has been explained to you several times, FBS is not that kind of league, because the "participants" weren't selected for their worthiness, they just met the extremely low entrance requirements for FBS - 15,000 fans for two years, and about 85 schollies.

So no, just because a school or conference is FBS doesn't mean it has proven to be a viable 'participant' that has earned the right to compete for a title on the same level as an Alabama.

You've never heard of the US Open golf tournament? If you have $200 and 1.4 or better handicap index you can pay your entry fee at a local tournament and earn your way to play against the very best. The tournament has twice been won by people coming out of local and sectional qualifying. In 2012 a local and sectional qualifier placed fourth. In 2012 two collegiate golfers made it through local and sectional to tie for 16th.

The way the CFP is designed, a G5 cannot earn the right to play in the field of four absent a freak year of P5 chaos.

The US Open isn't any more prestigious than The Masters, and the Masters doesn't have an "Open" style admissions process.

Point is, a championship event doesn't have to offer a straight path for everyone in order to be a valid championship.

And of course, the P5 conferences aren't guaranteed admission to the playoffs either, just ask the B1G and PAC champs this past season. Yet you don't hear them whining about it.

Which is utterly irrelevant since the claim was there was no such all comers event.

It doesn't matter if there are. Point is, there also aren't, and those 'aren't' events aren't regarded as "shams" or invalid as a result.