Conlan O'D's blog

The College Football Playoff (CFP) is a system that was designed to crown a national champion of NCAA Division I FBS football, but it has been the leading cause for debate the last decade.  It was originally created in 2014 to take over the previous BCS (Bowl Championship Series) system, which was a pretty boring way of selecting teams based upon polls, rankings, and algorithms to determine who were the two most qualified teams to compete in the national championship.  While this system took a lot of criticism at the time, and rightfully so, it only took us 10 years to criticize the 4-team playoff format that we currently had, up until 2024.  The leading cause for debate around the world for the 4-team playoff format was that it lacked not including everybody. It was the same teams, same names, and same conferences year in and year out.  For example, Alabama appeared in the playoff eight times, Clemson seven times, Ohio State six times, and the Georgia Bulldogs and O...

PITTSBURGH – In late June of 2023 Jim Duzyk received a phone call from fellow friend and Duquesne SID Dave Saba about a position opening up after 26 years.  What Duzyk would come to realize is that the job Saba was referring to, was his own.  On July 10th of 2023 Dave Saba would announce his retirement from Duquesne Athletics as the Men’s Basketball Sports Information Director. A position he had held since 1997, and would conclude before the start of the 2023-24 Men’s Basketball Season.  The opportunity arose for Duzyk after spending 25 years at Robert Morris University as the Sports Information Director for the Men’s Basketball program, but what people don’t know is that basketball isn’t even Duzyk’s favorite sport.  Duzyk grew up loving the game of baseball and still does to this day. He went to college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and decided to walk-on to the baseball team as a freshman.  Although, Duzyk ultimately decided that after a year he wante...