Jimmy Patronis (Ron DeSantis) letter to Boo Corrigan.

Jimmy Patronis, chief financial officer in Florida, wrote a letter to Boo Corrigan. It is nothing more than political grandstanding. It will have zero effect on anything.

Below is my cynical response (or maybe a combination of cynicism and satire) to that letter.

Here is a link to the entire letter.

https://myfloridacfo.com/news/pressreleases/press-release-details/2023/12/05/cfo-patronis-to-the-college-football-playoff-committee--release-your-voting-records

Here is the quote I want to discuss.

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This decision will no doubt have lasting impacts on college football and the sports world for generations to come. This decision also forever altered a program's ability to recruit, the economic output of the university and surrounding community, and most importantly, the future of these players and coaches.
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Here is what an honest response from Boo, and the committee would be.

Mr. Patronis,

That was exactly our intent. We made the decision precisely because we wanted to forever change college football. We wanted to alter programs' ability to recruit. We wanted to alter the economic output of universities. We wanted impact the future of the players and coaches at those universities.

We want to make sure that everyone understands that if the university is not in the SEC or B1G then they will not be on an equal financial level with those two conferences. We want players to understand that if they want to compete for a national championship and, even more importantly, maximize their income through NIL while in college that they must attend a university in one of those two conferences. And, yes, we want coaches (like Mike Norvell and Dabo Swinney) to understand that the only way they can win a national championship is to coach at a school in one of those two conferences. We want those two conferences to pay coaches more, pay players more, have far more money to spend on facilities, staff, and infrastructure than any other conference.

Thank you for affirming that we were successful in our decision as it will help us move more quickly to achieving our goal.

As for me, personally, you might ask why I, as the AD of a university not in one of those two conferences, would support such a decision when it assuredly hurts my university and impacts my personal income. I'll ask you this question - Where do you think I'll be employed one year from now?

Boo Corrigan.

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Re: Jimmy Patronis (Ron DeSantis) letter to Boo Corrigan.

I will believe better days are ahead when...

The eye test by the committee would have given us...

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I guess I'll keep posting this again and again until one of you has the facts

Dec 6, 2023, 6:45 PM

to tell everyone exactly "who" on the CFP Committee is an SEC shill?

Here are the current CFP 13 Committee members:

Chis Ault - Retired head coach at Nevada where he spent most of his career
Mitch Barnhart - AD at Kentucky
Boo Corrigan - AD NC State
Chet Gladchuk - AD Navy Academy
Jim Gobe - Retired head coach of Wake Forest, Baylor and numerous other non SEC/Big10 schools
Mark Harlan - AD Utah
Warde Manuel - AD Michigan
David Sayler - AD Miami of Ohio
Will Shields - retired football player - Pro Football Hall of Fame player who graduated from Nebraska in 1993
Gene Taylor - AD Kansas State
Joe Taylor - Former head coach of numerous HBC institutions
Rod West - Group President, Utility Operations for Entergy Corporation with degrees from Notre Dame and Tulane
Kelly Whiteside - Professor, Montclair State University with degrees from Columbia and Rutgers

So.... which of these folks are corrupt and shills for the SEC?? Jim Grobe?? Joe Taylor?? Time to drop the idiotic conspiracy claims and face the reality - these folks made a judgement call that you don't like, will never agree with and instead of acting like a thinking adult you just throw aspersions at these people with ZERO proof.

But if you want some factual data here you go:

Boo Corrigan stated that the CFP Committee ultimately judged that the injury to Jordan Travis resulted in the FSU offense, and as a result, the FSU team as not being the same high performer as before the Travis injury. They didn't make this up out of thin air - they looked at the facts. Anyone who looks at the before and after comparison of FSU's offense above cannot dispute the fact that FSUs total offense is 52% less productive without Travis and their passing game is 67% less productive. FSUs total offense over the last two games without Travis would rate their offense as the worst total offense in college football. Furthermore - their production took a nose dive against teams that are nowhere near the caliber of the other playoff contenders. Those are the facts the CFP Committee could not and should not ignore.

You may disagree with CFP Committee's final assessment and there is certainly an argument to be made that a subjective/predictive assessment based on a key injury (which is allowed in the CFP Selection Protocols), even one made on real data, should not override the entirety of FSU's undefeated record.

However - to cast aspersions at the members of CFP Committee by accusing them of being "shills" or crooked because they made an informed judgement call that is opposite of your opinion is among the worst kind of character assassination and shows a complete lack of critical thinking and intellectual honesty.