CBS' Dennis Dodd's selection committee list

[goDAWGSsicem]

List of 50, he prefers a "media heavy" list... whatever, I like some, some not so much.

Fab 5-0: How the playoff selection committee should look - CBSSports.com

Tony Barnhart, CBSSports.com – Mr. College Football, the conscience of the sport. If there was a commissioner of college football, he'd be it.


Rachel Bachman, Wall Street Journal – Talented former Portland Oregonian staffer covers the national scene for the WSJ.


Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel – Influential Florida (and national columnist) who knows where the skeletons are buried at Miami, Florida and Florida State.


Mark Blaudschun, Boston Globe – What hasn't he done? When Blau writes they pay attention all over the Northeast.


Kirk Bohls, Austin American-Statesman – Knows more about Texas football than Darrell Royal.


Rick Bozich, WDRB, Louisville – Made headlines recently by moving to the dark, er, TV side. One of the most talented columnists in the country, formerly of the Louisville Courier-Journal.


Chuck Carlton, Dallas Morning News – Chuck pretty much is the college coverage at the Morning News. Intimate knowledge of the Big 12.


Gene Corrigan, retired -- One of the most respected administrators in history as Notre Dame AD and ACC commissioner. Also served on several NCAA commissioners. His advise is still sought.


Ron Dayne, 1999 Heisman Trophy winner.


Vince Dooley, former Georgia coach. Hall of famer. Gentleman.


Tony Dorsett, 1976 Heisman winner.


Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times – National college columnist for a national newspaper. He doesn't turn phrases. He puts them in a head lock and makes them tap out.


Bruce Feldman, CBSSports.com – Three best-selling books, 17 years at ESPN, colleague. Incredibly insightful.


Pat Forde, Yahoo! Sports – Former ESPN.commer whose weekly Forde Yard Dash is a referendum on the sport.


Vahe Gregorian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Has covered Missouri, Big Eight, Big 12 and the nation for more than 20 years.


Ken Goe, Portland Oregonian – Talented Oregon and Pac-12 beat writer. We should all work so hard.


Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune – When not playing golf with celebs or covering majors, Teddy G holds it down on the Big Ten, Big Ten Network and Northwestern.


Archie Griffin, president/CEO, Ohio State Alumni Association – Only double Heisman winner. Experienced voice as an athlete and administrator.


Glenn Guilbeau, Gannett Louisiana Newspapers – Insider on LSU football.


Wally Hall, Arkansas Democrat – Experienced sports editor and columnist. With apologies to LeBron, we kneel at the foot of his throne.


Matt Hayes, Sporting News – The sport's idea man. All of them make sense.


Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN – Any loyal Buckeye who has to move from Columbus to Nashville because he's too “critical” is OK by me. Voice of reason on the show that sets the national agenda (Game Day).


Ron Higgins, Memphis Commercial-Appeal – At the hub of Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Memphis. Also writes for SECSports.com.


Mike Huguenin, Rivals.com – Prolific national columnist with incredible analytic talent.


Keith Jackson, retired broadcaster -- The voice of the game. At 83, he is still God. We remain the faithful.


Don James, former Washington coach – West Coast football is different because of him. Three-time Pac-10 coach of the year won a national championship and 178 games in 21 years as a head coach.


Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star – As newspapers take a hit, the Star sports section has risen above the turmoil to become one of the best in the country. Kerkhoff, the national and Big 12 writer, is one of the reasons.


Roy Kramer, former SEC commissioner -- Invented the BCS. Don't blame him. Listen to every word. Roy broke the seal on divisional play and conference championship games. He is the father of the modern SEC that rules the landscape. Bubbas everywhere owe him respect.


Chris Low, ESPN.com – Only Mike Slive knows more about the SEC. Maybe.


Tom Luicci, Newark Star-Ledger – Forceful voice in the Northeast covering Rutgers and the Big East.


Bernie Machen, president, Florida – Machen is retiring next year after overseeing Urban Meyer at two schools (Utah as well). That should be enough to qualify him. The respected administrator also has degrees from Vanderbilt, St. Louis and Iowa.


Ivan Maisel, ESPN.com – Creative, wonderful cfb writer who has set the agenda for years.


Stewart Mandel, SI.com – National college football columnist wrote, “Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy That Reign Over College Football.” Any questions?


Archie Manning, chairman of the National Football Foundation – Seems to have done well starting a family.


Tim May, Columbus Dispatch – Knows more about Ohio State football than Jim Tressel. Especially now.


Malcolm Moran, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism at Penn State – Decades of experience at New York Times and USA Today, to name just two.


Austin Murphy, Sports Illustrated – The embodiment of Cali, except that this Bay Area resident covers it all lyrically for SI.


Brian Murphy, Idaho Statesman – The Idaho Statesman columnist has been at Ground Zero for the rise of Boise State as a national power.


Chuck Neinas, outgoing Big 12 commissioner – The game literally owes its modern success to Neinas. As head of the old College Football Association, Neinas helped lead the fight against the NCAA in the landmark Supreme Court anti-trust decision. His latest accomplishment: Saving the Big 12 from imploding. Not bad. Universally respected. There is no credible committee without Neinas.


Lenn Robbins, New York Post – This year's Football Writers Association of America president. Day job is keeping national college football on its toes.


Tom Shatel, Omaha World-Herald – The conscience of Nebraska football. Lover of golf, San Diego and the College World Series.


Chris Spielman, ESPN – Former Ohio State, NFL great whose book “That's Why I'm Here: The Chris and Stefanie Spielman Story” will make you weep.


Roger Staubach, 1963 Heisman winner.


Pete Thamel, New York Times – Respected national college writer. There was a time when the NYT gave passing interest to college football. Thamel has changed the dynamic at his paper and nationally.


Mike Tranghese, former Big East commissioner -- Look at it this way. When Tranghese was commissioner, the Big East was successful and thriving. Look at it now. Tranghese would have the ear of every voter on this committee.


Herschel Walker, 1982 Heisman winner and big Dawg – USFL legend. Athletic freak, MMA enthusiast.


Jon Wilner, San Jose Mercury News – His blog “College Hotline” does major invasive surgery on the Pac-12 and national scene.


Bud Withers, Seattle Times – Veteran who knows it and writes it all in the Northwest.


Dick Weiss, New York Daily News – If you don't know who "Hoops" is, stop reading. Now.


Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports – There is no selection committee without one of the authors of “Death To The BCS”.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

My favorites:

Tony Barnhart, Vince Dooley, Bruce Feldman, Pat Forde, Keith Jackson, Roy Kramer, Chris Low, Ivan Maisel, Mike Tranghese... Not sure about Herschel Walker, but I trust that he would be an honest voter.


Hell - Fucking - NO:

Kirk Herbstreit, Archie Manning, Mike Bianchi (or anyone else from the Orlando Sentinel), Bernie Machen

 

[Smart]

Speaking for anyone who has seen Jon Wilner's AP ballots, he does not belong on that committee. I like the rest of the suggestions, and I would like to see a more media-heavy list. I also would like to see an 80 year old age limit, which would limit some of the former coaches (James and Dooley are 79, for example).

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

I can't agree with an age limit. Dooley is a stand up guy and he wouldn't do anything to tarnish his image, especially this late in life... and what about Keith 'Whoa Nelly' Jackson?

 

[Brasky]

FOUR OHIO STATE PLANTS???? FUCK THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bchampy]

I can't agree with an age limit. Dooley is a stand up guy and he wouldn't do anything to tarnish his image, especially this late in life... and what about Keith 'Whoa Nelly' Jackson?

You want Dooley but no Machen? Homer much?

 

[bchampy]

I wouldn't want Dooley anywhere near a selection committee w/o someone from Florida to balance it out.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

You can't honestly compare Dooley & Machen, and Machen has already expressed that he's no fan of certain Big10 schools.

 

[bchampy]

You can't honestly compare Dooley & Machen, and Machen has already expressed that he's no fan of certain Big10 schools.

Dooley has made it known throughout the years he's no fan of a certain SEC school.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

Dooley has made it known throughout the years he's no fan of a certain SEC school.

Maybe you guys should clean up your act then.

Vince Dooley likes Florida speed, coaching GoVolsXtra

 

[bchampy]

Maybe you guys should clean up your act then.

Vince Dooley likes Florida speed, coaching GoVolsXtra

We didn't do anything that other programs weren't doing. Dooley just did his best to make sure we got the stiffest penalties possible.

His hands weren't clean either.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

Links please.

 

[bchampy]

Links please.

While Dooley was Coach:

University of Georgia Releases Records Detailing Three Recruiting Violations - Los Angeles Times

The records detail three violations by Georgia athletic representatives in the recruitment of football player George Smith in 1981 and 1982. The NCAA investigation of the Georgia football program, initiated after the close of the Smith inquiry, resulted recently in the removal of 14 football scholarships over two years, but the NCAA did not impose sanctions on the team's television and bowl appearances.

AFTERMATH OF THE TRIAL : Jan Kemp, Georgia Have New School of Thought - Los Angeles Times

Nearly 3 years ago, Jan Kemp, the soft-spoken English teacher, challenged the university's administration, and indirectly the powerful and popular Georgia athletic department, with a revealing suit claiming that she was wrongfully fired for speaking out against preferential treatment for athletes enrolled in the developmental studies program in the early 1980s.

Kemp not only won the suit, which carried an award of $1.08 million in damages and reinstatement to her teaching position, but the suit detailed Georgia's practices of enrolling, and keeping eligible, athletes who could barely read and write but compete in revenue-producing sports.

While Dooley was AD:

Georgia gets probation, avoids postseason ban - Men's College Basketball - ESPN

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search

 

[bchampy]

There's more, but everything is archived and I'm not paying for the articles.


There is a pattern of run-ins with the NCAA while Dooley was coach and/or athletic director. Georgia got hit with major infractions for football three times (1978, 1982, 1965) while Dooley was the coach and again for football in 1997 while he was the athletic director. The Georgia basketball program got hit for major sanctions under Dooley-hired coaches Hugh Durham (1985) and Jim Harrick (2004).

And then there was Jan Kemp, who blew the whistle on the fraudulent academic support program at Georgia under Dooley in the 1980s. She refused to give athletes passing grades at the insistence of the higher ups in the athletic department and when she complained, she was fired. She sued and was awarded $1.08 million by the jury.

What happened at Georgia is important because in 1984, Florida, got hit with some of the most serious sanctions in NCAA history that included two years without television and severe scholarship reductions. The probation cost Coach Charley Pell his job and cost the Gators the SEC championship. The Gators won the SEC on the field but the Gators were stripped of the championship in a vote of the SEC athletic directors and presidents. Among the leaders of the vote against Florida was Vince Dooley.

Galen Hall was informed that he would be fired as Florida’s football coach just prior to the LSU game in Baton Rouge on October 7, 1989 (Florida won the game, 16-13). Hall’s crime was allegedly paying one month of child support for Jarvis Williams until Williams’ mom could reimburse him. Hall denied that he ever gave money to Williams and the NCAA has yet to prove conclusively that he did. Yet, Florida got a year of probation (served in 1990) with no bowl game.

It’s bad enough that Florida’s probation was dubious, at best, but the alleged incident happened before any of the players who were on that 1990 team arrived on the UF campus. Still, the SEC athletic directors and presidents, in their infinite wisdom, made the Gators ineligible for the SEC championship in 1990 and denied the Gators a chance to go to a bowl game.

Among the leaders of the vote against Florida was Vince Dooley.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

Dooley was not named/responsible for any of those UGA controversies.


As far as voting against Florida, it doesn't appear he was the only one. One vote doesn't make much happen.

 

[bchampy]

The News and Courier - Google News Archive Search

 

[JohnShadows]

Fuck all 'a that. If we can't come up with an objective numerical system for deciding shit like this, what the hell did we invent computers for?

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

:bored:

Still nothing indicating Dooley directly, and still nothing pointing to Dooley clearing having it out for Florida.

 

[bchampy]

Dooley was not named/responsible for any of those UGA controversies.


As far as voting against Florida, it doesn't appear he was the only one. One vote doesn't make much happen.

Dooley lobbied the hardest.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

Debateable.

Like I said, clean your act up.