If actual property is all about location, location, location. Then soccer is all about timing, timing, timing. All groups play a season. However, in reality, there are seasons inside a season.
Earlier this 12 months, Alabama seemed just like the worst Nick Saban-coached crew within the final ten years. On Saturday, they seemed like they could possibly be the perfect crew within the nation. In September, the Broncos seemed just like the worst crew within the league. Now, they’re within the playoff image.
With this in thoughts, it is best to take a look at the School Soccer Playoff Committee’s choice to snub undefeated, convention champion Florida State, not as the good factor to do however as the best factor to do.
School Soccer Playoff Choice Committee Chairman Boo Corrigan defined the committee’s reasoning to ESPN on Sunday.
“Florida State is a special crew than it was the primary 11 weeks [of the season],’’ Corrigan stated. “As you take a look at who they’re as a crew proper now with out Jordan Travis, with out the offensive dynamic he brings, they’re a special crew, and the committee voted Alabama 4 and Florida State 5.”
Boo Corrigan, the chair of the School Soccer Playoff committee, explains why they selected Alabama over Florida State: pic.twitter.com/17yNkBhRuZ
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The committee chosen Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama.
Corrigan additionally burdened that the coaches on the committee performed a significant position within the choice.
“One of many questions that we ask from a training standpoint is, ‘Who do you wish to play? Who do you not wish to play?’” Corrigan stated. “We’re the place we’re at the moment, not the place we have been three weeks in the past or eight weeks in the past. [The former coaches] acquired a big voice within the room. We went round and round late [Saturday] night time and got here again once more [Sunday] morning to do it once more. We got here again with Florida State at No. 5.”
For this reason the committee exists.
Judgments have to be made. The judgment right here wasn’t that Florida State’s physique of labor was undeserving. The judgment was that they weren’t something near the crew they have been with Jordan Travis and would possible get smoked within the first spherical and never severely problem for the championship.
And who can dispute that reasoning?
Florida State barely received the ACC on Saturday with a third-string freshman QB who accomplished solely eight passes for a whopping whole of 55 yards in opposition to however finally restricted Louisville squad. What would have occurred when that third-string freshman QB, Brock Glenn, confronted Michigan’s protection? We’ll by no means know, however chances are high it might not have gone properly.
Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles holds up the trophy after the Florida State Seminoles defeated the Louisville Cardinals 16-6 within the ACC Championship at Financial institution of America Stadium on December 2, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Pictures)
If Jordan Travis had been Florida State’s QB in that sport they most likely would have hung 50 on Louisville. However they didn’t as a result of he wasn’t, and Florida State is a special crew with out Travis.
Florida State was not crew. They have been an important crew. And nothing that anybody says will make them or their followers really feel any higher a few season that would have very possible ended with them successful a nationwide championship.
However, the committee didn’t rule in opposition to them due to bias or some sinister plot. The timing simply didn’t work out.