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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2102696, member: 1969"]
I guess we agree to disagree.   It's something the committee says over and over to disregard every year.  Time of year of a result does not matter.   Virginia was left out with an 11-7 ACC record some years back because it did too much damage to itself in OOC.

Injuries they do take into account as they state.   I don't know if I have seen this actually applied to a bubble team getting in or out though.  It probably has, it's hard to notice.   I don't remember it being cited as the reason for one team getting in.   My general perception is that the threshold for playing "what if" has to be very high, I don't think they like to do it with bubble teams.

I also think JB's departure was not going to make an impact last year.  I think the article written by the Syracuse writer last year was a poorly written.    His took direct quotes but the key points in his article were not in quotations but explanations of quotations.   I didn't fully buy it.   And the chair himself after the selection show said that it was a totally irrelevant factor (maybe it was a dodge).  But I think in the end they didn't need to consider it because we proved ourselves as streaky with the bad run at the end of the year (1-5).   The quality road and neutral wins put us over the top.

As for changing lineups I believe that is 100% irrelevant.  The storyline was probably presented by some media types when they argued why a team should get in. Even if Memphis got in, I doubt that was a factor.  But maybe I am wrong.
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