Warde Manuel to chair CFP selection committee

How does Manuel Excel feel about this fit?

They found the person most effective at screwing over Michigan. Good fit 

This is hilarious.  Strength of schedule differences between conferences will have the CFP forced to do a lot of explaining to a lot of angry fans and Manuel will be the guy taking those arrows.

Also, outside of Michigan, how much actual football does Manuel watch on a Saturday?

Well that is how you get yourself some excellent jobs security...

Nobody saw this move coming, sigh. 

We're fucked.

Although Warde can redeem himself if he fucks over OSU hard.

But remember, that muppet that claims to administer volleyball at Ohio U verbosely indicted Warde as not being respected in the industry in a now stickied post. 

I want him to succeed in this prestigious gig, and am willing to let him go and do this full time for the good of college football and the nation.  

I tried to tell y’all, the powers that be love this guy. What we peons think about him doesn’t matter.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Dude saw the writing on the wall and played some 4D chess. (Audible sigh...fuck)

One minute Michigan's winning the CFP, the next minute Michigan's getting gaslighted by the CFP. What a world, what a world.

he not gone

Do they allow that if you’re in the unemployment line?

Michigan will never get a bye.  Every playoff game will be a first round home game.

The timeless rule of organizational behavior.  

Kiss up, shit down.

And we're at the bottom.

Well... if this isn't suspicious 

Like it or not, it seems his peers think highly of him.

FUCK

LMAO we are sitting here talking about why he should be fired, and he gets the most public-facing, prominent AD role there is.

LOL. OSU folks melting down. Beautiful. 

Makes sense why he didn't go out on a limb for Jim

IRVING, TX (OPI) -

Warde Manuel, the Freddy P. Soft & Neville Chamberlain Director of Athletics at The University of Michigan, was named the chair of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee for the upcoming 2024 season.

The announcement was met with some mixed reactions.  Brian Cook, priopetor of MGoBlog, issued a terse statements saying "BR(x). RPS -3". However, others were far more effusive.  "Warde Manuel is the perfect selection to lead us into this brave new era of college football", said selection committee executive Bill Hancock. "In an age where people are clamoring for a paradigm shift, there's no more revolutionary person for the job then someone as dedicated to steady inertia like Warde.  I'd like to know where you all got the notion to rock the boat, baby. Let's not tip the boat over."

Manuel accepted the appointment over dinner at a Irving area Applebee's, and was careful to reiterate that his responsibilities as committee chair would not interfere with his duties as Michigan's athletic director.  "Well, first of all, I deeply appreciate the great trust everyone has put in me.  However, all the selection committee really does is seed teams according to the ESPN polls so there's really not any work for us to do, which dovetails perfectly with my skillset.  By the way, this spinach artichoke dip is just absolutely transformational, and it's $4 off if you order three other appetizers."

Maybe Warde could take on this roll full time. He is a perfect fit for the job. Go do you Warde. 

Welll. It might help retain players since we can at least talk like it makes our chances of making the cfp that much better. 

The top criteria are knowledge and integrity. There are five categories of members: people with experience as (1) coaches, (2) student-athletes, (3) administrators, (4) journalists and (5) sitting directors of athletics. The management committee gives careful consideration to the standards for membership and to identifying high-integrity individuals who meet the criteria. Among the other valued attributes are football expertise, objectivity, ability to carefully evaluate and discern information, and experience in making decisions under scrutiny. Members are asked to commit significant time to the endeavor.

I'm impartial to the whole fire Warde hysteria. Both sides make some pretty compelling arguments. But he was on the committee last season, and watching how badly everything was managed with the football program after it became pretty clear Harbaugh had his eyes on the NFL, three years ago. I'm not sure he should devote significant time to anything other than Michigan.

The CFP Selection committee chair is chosen based on their ability to create a meaningless word salad when asked potentially tricky questions by the media.  Nothing less, nothing more.

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Rece: "Why did the committee select Team A for the last spot over Team B?"

Commtitee chair: "Well, Rece ... we really respect what both Team A and Team B did over the course of the year.  They both should be real proud.  But when you look at their entire resumes, and believe me, we looked at them in very minute detail, Team A has a bit of a better resume."

Rece: "Anything specific on their resume that put them over the top?"

Committee chair: "As I said Rece, we look at their entire body of work.  Everything from September to December, it all matters --- because it all matters, it's difficult to pinpoint anything specific.  It was a vigorous debate, but overall, we felt Team A was slightly better."

Warde’s last act—>allowing a two loss Team 145 to be excluded from the Playoffs.  

He ain't leaving.

This clown spends more time on outside matters. 

Boy is he stupid!  He mustn't be that intelligent by Michigan's standards!!!

Also may demonstrate he is not interested in fighting for our hockey team to host the playoffs. 

Why didn't Warde more aggressively investigate OSU's possible role in the "private investigation" that led to the sign gate accusations?

I don't know.  Maybe it's nothing.  But 2 of the CFP board members are OSU grads.  Are they the ones that choose the CFP chair and members?

https://www.cfp.net/about-cfp-board/board-of-directors

The Blind leading the Blind?

Someone told me our football team won a national championship a few weeks ago. Obviously Warde and the whole athletic department must be fired; we'd much rather have something to complain about.

I heard Harbaugh say on Cowherd's show that he wanted a Lombardi. There's no way he was staying unless he didn't get a decent offer in the NFL.

Put yourself in Harbaugh's shoes. You get suspended from coaching in-game for half a season; you have two vindictive NCAA investigations hanging over your head. The Big Ten coaches and ADs conspired to make life difficult for you.

Getting players signed is the Wild West - there are rules, kinda-sorta, but there aren't rules.

You get a chance to coach in and move to LA and get a Brinks truck backed up to your door, without the ridiculous headaches of college football coaching.

Explain to me why Harbaugh would have signed a contract extension here, with all that shit swirling around? I'd be gone, and I'm sure many of you would make the same choice, too.

So he can give up the AD job he sucks at for this new opportunity? Sure hope so 

Might be a quid pro quo so whereby the CFP committee got the benefit of Warde’s services in exchange for Michigan not being stripped of the national championship. 

If so, it was a brilliant chess move by Michigan convincing the other CFP committee members that they are getting a genius visionary chairman to run the playoff in exchange for nothing more than agreeing not to punish Michigan. Perfect for Warde too as he gets to show off his core competency of saying as little as possible to justify the actions of the committee. 

Brings to mind the quote from the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Konstantin Josef Jireček, but in a reworked form suitable for Warde:

"We, the unknowing, led by the unwilling, are not doing the possible for the grateful. We have done so little, for so long, with so much, we are now qualified to do nothing with everything"

—Warde Manuel’s AI avatar 😂