Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops did not mince words when asked if media members who cover college football should be included on the selection to decide which teams get into the brand new College Football Playoff.
"Oh, hell no," was Stoops' brief but telling remark. He went on to disparage media members for showing perceived favoritism. "Regardless of what you want to say about your journalistic integrity, you have agendas. You in your local area, you have a team that's undefeated and you vote a one-loss team ahead of them and you're going to pay the price for it and you're gonna think about it."
Stoops also said he feels the South Eastern Conference (SEC) is the beneficiary of media bias, a big factor in the SEC winning nine BCS National Championships since 2009.
"It's all perceptions. People will think what they're going to think. There's nothing I'm not going to do to change their mind. Personally, I think the conference thing is way overblown. How are you going to evaluate? Are you looking at the top two teams in the conference or are you going to take the conference as a whole? There's four SEC-ACC games Saturday. Let's see what happens. Who's favored in the Clemson-South Carolina game? Who's favored in the Florida-Florida State game? Wake-Vandy? I don't know. But you see what I mean? Now, if we're just talking about Alabama and LSU, that's different."
Stoops also admitted that media members are not the only people in the college football playoff picture with "agendas." "(Athletic directors) have too much of a stake in it," Stoops said. "Coaches have too much of a stake in it. We all have agendas, and/or (want to) protect our conference. It doesn't work. I don't know what's a good answer to that to be quite honest with you."
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