I’m not arguing we should or shouldn’t have hosted. I understand the sentiment and don’t disagree with it. But at the same time unless you are a top five team your fate will always be left up to the committee in some way. Obviously we did ourselves no favors by losing to Pitt and Clemson. But we even if we reversed those results we still could have been snubbed. We would have had a more justified argument but that wouldn’t have changed anything. Outside of the elite teams everyone’s resume will always have warts. And a selection committee can pretty much pick and choose which warts to ignore or emphasize. And next year the criteria used to exclude us from hosting might not factor in at all. We see it in college basketball every season. It’s similar to a point I’ve made previously regarding officiating. When a bad call (or calls) play a major factor in a loss people like to say “don’t leave it up to officials” which in theory makes sense. In reality unless you are blowing a team out then you are always vulnerable to a bad call impacting the outcome. Again I get it. Control what you can control. I just think that argument is overly simplistic. Just a a random thought I had on a rainy Monday morning.