Bet Joe Lunardi is jumping up and down in anticipation...

[Jason Svoboda]

"We did talk about it and certainly have been monitoring what the football committee has been doing," Dan Gavitt, the NCAA vice president of men's basketball championships, told USA TODAY Sports. "Even going back to last year, before football started doing what they're doing, we had some ideas of possibly taking more steps with what I think has been a real good effort over the years in transparency in the process -- additional things we could do in that regard but also possibly take advantage, as the football committee has, of the promotional/marketing value of that as well.

"It's tricky, because you've got to make sure to balance those two things. There's the integrity of the process that needs to be maintained."

Gavitt said if the basketball committee were to release information ahead of Selection Sunday, it would not be a full bracket. "There was some discussion of four (one seeds) or 16 (total seeds), the top four seeds in the four regions. The way the committee left it was, we'll discuss it again (at meetings) in January."

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/mor...-may-mirror-approach-to-football-playoff.html

 

[Bluethunder]

Just leave the thing alone. Always trying to make a great thing better and it almost always backfires.

 

[SouthernForest]

Just leave the thing alone. Always trying to make a great thing better and it almost always backfires.

+1.

The football selection committee provided an object lesson on how not to release information on the status of the selection process. The only thing I understand less than why TCU got dropped from the roster of playoff teams is why TCU was included in that group the week before. The committee managed to produce a defensible conclusion while tainting the process by which that conclusion was reached. The basketball committee isn't always perfect. In fact, some years it isn't even very good. But they've never had to resort to the logical contortions that the football committee was forced to employ this past weekend. I think only having one set of official rankings to defend has been of considerable help to that end.

 

[SycamoreKen]

+1.

The football selection committee provided an object lesson on how not to release information on the status of the selection process. The only thing I understand less than why TCU got dropped from the roster of playoff teams is why TCU was included in that group the week before. The committee managed to produce a defensible conclusion while tainting the process by which that conclusion was reached. The basketball committee isn't always perfect. In fact, some years it isn't even very good. But they've never had to resort to the logical contortions that the football committee was forced to employ this past weekend. I think only having one set of official rankings to defend has been of considerable help to that end.

The football committee showed a name as important as success on the field and then used the Big 12's bad handling of the end of the season as an excuse. Similar to when the basketball committee take a weak team from a big conference over one from a lower conference. Let's just play the season out and keep it as is.