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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1005831, member: 1969"] You come on here each year, pre-selection, saying this will happen because of this, this will happen because of this... and you are almost always wrong because the reasons you give are not at all consistent with what the committee says they will do. The reason you are often wrong on your pre-selection predictions is because you predict/assess things based on how you think they should be done, rather than the way they have said they will be done. Now you are attacking me because I bothered to listen to what they have said they will do, and how things have been historically done[I].[/I] I make my assessments based on how they said things would be done. Remember when I brought up SMU as a major concern and did not think Louisville would get a great seed - that was for a reason The committee seeded teams according to how they said they would - the entire body of work and success in the top 25/50/100 games, with a few exceptions. Most notable was Virginia that was a little more eye-testy. but I get the feeling they wanted the last #1 to be earned. [I][B]Now I am not saying that you are wrong in saying teams should be seeded under a different philosophy, and under that philosophy teams did not get seeds where they deserve. That is a different discussion. [/B]But that is not the philosophy they currently use, so why make predictions or state teams deserve "x" seeds under a different set of rules. And why criticize someone that is assessing things based on current rules?[/I] BTW, I have been very harsh on the committee in the past on Selection Sunday. There have been some years where the seeds did not really follow the criteria they said was important. I don't always kiss their ass as you imply. This year my predictions (based on the criteria they have established) were pretty bang on - so of course I will think they did a good job. [I]I think the real point is you don't understand the current process or choose to ignore it. One of the two. Why don't you just acknowledge that.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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