Former Auburn Coach Pat Dye latest to chime in against Condi Rice

Ex-Auburn coach Pat Dye doesn't think former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, above, is qualified to serve on the College Football Selection Committee.

By Chris Dufresne

Oct. 7, 2013 3:15 PM PT

If you’re scoring at home, it’s now two adult men associated with the Southeastern Conference who do not think Condoleezza Rice is qualified to be on the College Football Selection Committee, which hasn’t been announced.

So far it’s just a regional bias.

On Saturday ESPN analyst David Pollack, a former Georgia player, said on “GameDay” he didn’t think a woman should be on the committee that will choose the top four teams in the playoff that will begin next season.

Monday, former Auburn coach Pat Dye chimed in.

“All she knows about football is what somebody told her,” the website Al.com reported Dye as saying. “Or what she read in a book, or what she saw on television. To understand football, you’ve to play with your hand in the dirt.”

The selection committee has not formally been announced but many of the proposed names have started to leak out.

Rice, a former secretary of State under George W. Bush, is a name that has been floated. She was born in Alabama and is a self-professed sports nut who once said her dream job was to be NFL commissioner. Her father was a high school coach and athletic director.

Dye continued: “I love Condoleezza Rice and she’s probably a good statesman and all of that, but how in the hell does she know what it’s like out there when you can’t get your breath and it’s 110 degrees and the coach asks you to go some more?”

Hey Pat, some of us have never been hit in the head with a hammer, either, but we all know it hurts.

CBS Sports writer Tom Fornelli had a great retort to Dye’s comments.

“So, to summarize, nobody can know anything about football unless they’ve played it,” Fornelli wrote. “Or watches game tape. That’s why I know about the Civil War. Not because I studied it in school, but because I fought in it. I had my hand in the dirt.”

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