I wonder if those that vote in the coaches and AP college polls even pay attention to the sport they are involved in? I understand the schedule of a college football head coach, especially on game day, is quite hectic and doesn't allow for much lounging and watching ESPN or the Big Ten network. Why are these coaches polled for their opinion on who is the best teams? If I am a university president paying my football coach millions of dollars a year to coach in 12 games, I want their focus to be on whatever the team needs to do to win that week. I don't want him paying attention to the other teams in other conferences that they may not play. However, if I am a coach of a team trying to set my program apart from everyone else, I am crying out for that attention.
It is impossible to measure the effect this phenomenon has on college football from year to year. If a team is not ranked highly in the preseason, before any games have been played at all, it has no chance to play for the national championship. In college basketball, a team can float around the Top 25 all year, but ultimately each team has to win six straight games in the tournament. Utah is the most recent team screwed by the system. The coaches poll should be replaced with one that polls people who watch games.
This blant was brought about by the last basketball coaches poll that still had votes for BYU over UNLV, after UNLV had beaten the Cougars at home. What else do you have to do to curry favor with voters? It is the most obvious evidence that coaches do not watch games and should not be allowed to vote for the Top 25 teams in the land.
Very happy to see Wink attack the lane in probably the most impressive victory on the road in some time at BYU. Tre'von is coming into his own and become more aggressive and consistent. If Santee and/or Massamba can become something more than a black hole in the middle, they should be in position to wrap up a third consecutive dance bid.
We'll see what happens. 11-5 will probably be good enough to win the conference this year.
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