American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said the 13-member College Football Playoff selection committee has ranked the teams in his conference using a “double standard,” not just when measured against the Power 5 conferences, but also the other Group of 5 leagues.
“Each time I’ve watched the release of the rankings, I’ve seen an unfortunate predictability, and why wouldn’t I be upset?” Aresco said Wednesday. “I’m not criticizing the committee personally, I’ve never done that, but what I’m doing is I’m trying to take the committee to task on their methodology and their conclusions. I want to point out the facts. My feeling is this conference has been undervalued and disrespected since the CFP began.”
“We’ve been fighting what I think is a P5 preference,” Aresco said. “We’ve been fighting it for years and we’re fighting now a double standard when it comes to evaluating G5 teams.”
When asked if there was any comment in response, CFP executive director Bill Hancock said, “Certainly, I feel that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.”
That is right Patrick but why did he sell out the G5’s This guy has no integrity.
The other way to look at it is he “heard/read” rumours that some of his top Schools are in the process of leavig the AAC.
In my my book he exeplify corruption.
I think White would be a good associate commissioner. He wants to take it straight at the p5 and sits atop a high-level program that had to rebuild from ashes. He might even make a good replacement. It would be nice to see an AAC member director assume that post one day…to show continuity and commitment to the conference.
I think that’s exactly what he’s doing which is the same thing he’s doing with the P6 thing. He and mostly everyone else know we are not going to be P6 but it’s a good marketing ploy to put in minds of others that we are the top G5.
Although this is a complaint he is making, he takes his direction from the AAC schools. He can’t make any major decisions without the schools saying yes do it or no, don’t do it.
While he is the single figure taking criticism from AAC fans, it’s the school presidents who are actually making conference decisions.
The fact that Condoleeza Rice was once on the committee says it all. The ESPN invitational doesn’t have non-football folks commentating and analyzing on their network programs, why in the world would you have non-football folks selecting the CFP teams? Wait for it, Pee Wee Herman and Mathew “the Astros WS Jinx” Mcconaughey will be elected next.
Then there’s the conflict of interest; how many former or current G5 officials have been elected to the committee? The whole setup is a joke, and Aresco needs work harder or accept things as is. His once a year fake outrage pieces aren’t enough to help the AAC.
Gary Barta and Ken Hatfield are the two biggest impediments to the G5 on the CFP committee right now. Before them, it was Barry Alvarez and Kirby Hocutt.
I love that Aresco is fighting for our league. With some teams bound to have two losses due to AAC matchups, he is trying to position them ahead of Boise and App State. He’s right too. In NO WAY should they get the NY6 over a team from the AAC this season and really most seasons.
He does this once a year and nothing changes. I’m not saying I dont appreciate him advocating for the AAC. However, if you do this once a year and nothing changes(the important part), then it might behoove you to reassess your strategy. Maybe more activity?
