The Coach's poll is just as much a contrived good 'ol boy joke as preseason polls are. They are set up to maintain the iron grip the "traditional powers" already have.
Donuts...You seem to know an awful lot about someone whose efforts you supposedly don't respect... 
Doesn't that mean he is doing his job?
My only point is just because you might monitor a ton of games each week, that still would not mean you actually see and can break down each team. There is always going to be guess work that has to be done. Ohio looked terrible in the first quarter of their opener at noon. There's a good chance that's the only time voters have seen Ohio play (other games around the country were coming on, so a lot of people tuned in just to see the beginning of the new era). We haven't been on national TV, or hardly any TV for that matter. So unless the voters fired up their CUSA feed (which again, could make us look good or bad depending on what part they saw), there is nothing to go off of. Not every top 25 team considered would be in that situation, but we are talking about around 40-45 teams to check out a week to truly vote correctly.
To make it seem like it's possible to know and understand each team under consideration for top 25 votes is crazy. I don't care if Tim Burke, Tim Albin or Trey Burke says it. Only one person is making this claim though, so yeah, I said something about it.
Last Edited: 9/25/2012 11:44:38 AM by Donuts