Coaches/Harris Polls

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:05 pm

Does anyone know where they post these polls with the breakdown of how each member voted?

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:11 pm

Coaches was released yesterday in USA Today:

Coaches

Harris is here:
Harris

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:40 pm

Grascias

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:41 pm

Now fuck off until after Jan 2nd. :D

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:42 pm

Quit mouthing off in here and get you ass back to the sticky so I can taunt you some more.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:17 am

What I like is Mack Brown and his older brother both voting USC #1 in this season's final poll...

:-)

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:43 am

Nice voting by Houston Nutt not having WVU in the Top 25.

Greg Schiano giving Rutgers a vote in the Top 25 was pretty funny as well.

M2 · Post by M2 » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:08 am

Van wrote:What I like is Mack Brown and his older brother both voting USC #1 in this season's final poll...

:-)

Hey... Mack can't make any points that would count by putting Texas as #1... plus we can see how the coaches voted this year...

I wonder how Mack voted last year??? When the coaches could hide their votes...

m2

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:59 am

Haven't seen his vote but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Pete Carroll didn't vote Texas #1...

:-)

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:38 pm

There were a lot of questionable calls on the coache's list. I don't know enough of the people on the Harris pole but there was obvious bias amongst some of those coaches. However, I think the overall pole is pretty fair.

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:15 pm

Coker voting Miami #4?

Belotti voting Oregon #4 and ND #9?

Nutt leaving WVA out of the Top 25?

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:26 pm

Cicero wrote:Coker voting Miami #4?

Belotti voting Oregon #4 and ND #9?

Nutt leaving WVA out of the Top 25?

There was plenty of strange voting. Look at Skip Holtz's ballot. Also, SOS had ND 14th, Weis had them 4th, Solich and Fran had them 3rd.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:31 pm

Coaches really should have no business comprising a poll that we use in the grand system. They have too many personal interests involved, and though they probably know more about the teams in their conference than anyone else, I can't imagine they spend much time evaluating teams that aren't on their schedule....that would mean they're not paying much attention to 90% of the teams. Of course I don't know that for sure, but I would bank on that being the case for the majority of coaches. But ya, it helps we can now see how they vote.

Terry in Crapchester · Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:32 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Coaches really should have no business comprising a poll that we use in the grand system. They have too many personal interests involved, and though they probably know more about the teams in their conference than anyone else, I can't imagine they spend much time evaluating teams that aren't on their schedule....that would mean they're not paying much attention to 90% of the teams. Of course I don't know that for sure, but I would bank on that being the case for the majority of coaches. But ya, it helps we can now see how they vote.

Agreed. I've heard (not sure if this is urban legend) that some of them actually give their ballot to their secretary to fill out.

PrimeX · Post by **PrimeX** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:45 pm

Believe the Heupel wrote:Pete Carroll doesn't have a vote this year, if I recall correctly.

You are correct. The voting panel has 62 members and a Pete Carroll ain't one.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:17 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Coaches really should have no business comprising a poll that we use in the grand system. They have too many personal interests involved, and though they probably know more about the teams in their conference than anyone else, I can't imagine they spend much time evaluating teams that aren't on their schedule....that would mean they're not paying much attention to 90% of the teams. Of course I don't know that for sure, but I would bank on that being the case for the majority of coaches. But ya, it helps we can now see how they vote.
Agreed. I've heard (not sure if this is urban legend) that some of them actually give their ballot to their secretary to fill out.

Wouldn't be surprised. I'd have to think these guys put in more hours in a given week than just about anyone in any occupation. So with what little free time they do have, I doubt they're spending it on checking out football teams they're not concerned with.

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:18 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:Agreed. I've heard (not sure if this is urban legend) that some of them actually give their ballot to their secretary to fill out.

Yeah, I have always heard some coaches pass it off to their assistants or other FB personnel. Maybe true, maybe not but I think the system evens itself out.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:22 pm

If that's the case, I'd have to applaud them. If they're not paying attention to what's going on, and if they don't care enough to fill one out, then they should pass it off to someone else to ensure a higher percentage of accuracy.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:32 pm

I bet Oregon would love to play SMU, that coach voted them 15th