Poly got screwed in this poll IMHO. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you in the end. Win out and hope for the best is all you can do.
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Poly got screwed in this poll IMHO. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you in the end. Win out and hope for the best is all you can do.
Few coaches care where they're ranked, so I don't know why I should. Their main purpose is for the press to have something to write about. If I were a coach, I'd want to be undervoted for the bulletin board material.
I run a collegiate basketball coaches poll. Some of my voters don't pay a lot of attention to that weekend's scores, lag a week behind. xnonox I would have asked the Ga. Southern #1 voters if the ballot included GSU's loss, but used their ballots if they didn't fix it in time. If they were paying attention, which I doubt, the #1 votes mean that they think that GSU is still the best team, just got caught on a bad day.
As a lifelong Poly fan, they aren't far below where they should be. I'm thinking more like #22. South Dakota is still ahead of them because the gap between them was too large last week.
Only agree with the placement of 2 teams: NDSU & JMU
That is S-A-D
Well, that explains Maine's lack of respect.......no coach that has faced Maine is voting and McDonnell (UNH) is one of the voters. And Laycock (who beat UNH) is the other CAA voter.......LOL. No wonder UNH almost passed Maine.
By the way, anyone notice that most of the voters coach at less than stellar programs?
Reality is that we have to win out which will be tough but it is doable. I cannot wait until next year when we join a "real" conference and can eliminate that 2nd FBS game from our schedules. A rematch of the old Great west days at the fargo dome would be really a great treat for both teams, and hey, who knows, maybe Poly could come away with their second win in a North Dakota Dome this year???
Gotta love this LOL!! All we needed in addition to North Dakota and South Dakota being ranked ahead of us was Southern Utah in there. Wow! Sweep your conference and wind up ranked behind them. Another fine week for the Zero Validity Poll.
Poly's D2 game hurts Poly a lot more than a 2nd FBS game. With the way things are shaping up, it wouldn't surprise me if it keeps an 8-3 Poly out of the playoffs. Theyv'e been bit before by that, but they couldn't scare up an FCS opponent to save their lives. Big Sky will be much more handy there.
couldnt agree more, but thats just the way things go when you live 3 hours from the nearest airport of any significance (no, im not counting the santa maria airport, even though they have great deals to vegas). You have to schedule road games against fbs teams, travel long distance with no reciprocity (south alabama this year, nwst, mcneese st, odu, in years past etc. ) and generally hope you can get any fcs team to come visit. This big sky move was long overdue if they wanted to save the football program from elimination, and im just happy the big sky let us (and davis) in without forcing us to leave the perfect situation in the big west that we enjoy in all other sports