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    Friday, August 1, 2008

    Coaches Poll Released WVU #8, some observations

    Well the USA Today College Football Coaches Preseason Poll is released. Is a national championship in the cards? The Joker may have an answer for us, and likely as is this poll almost as corrupt. WVU is ranked 8th in the nation. Truthfully, that is not a bad place to be. Not at the top but within a reasonable striking distance of the top. WVU will be playing preseason #11 Auburn, #21 South Fla., # 30 Rutgers, #33 sPitt, #37 Cincinnati, #39 UConn, #51 Louisville, and # 53 Colorado. (Admittedly, this means about as much as any opinion regarding strength of schedule.) However, it is harder for WVU to gain a "quality win than it is for a team from the SEC. Only where the SEC helped us did we get to play a top 15 (aka quality opponent)see my rant in 3rd point below for greater explanation.

    Some observations about this particular poll as it relates to WVU.

    1st WVU Head Coach Bill Stewart is not a voting member. That is right my Mountaineer Brethren we will need to woo the voting members of this poll without any direct influence. Did I say that Michigan has a vote this year.


    2nd Bo Pelini is a voting member. How is it that Nebraska gets a first year head Coach with a vote and West Virginia does not?


    3rd Once again the SEC gets an inordinate amount of love. Why would this be? It could be that these coaches vote in a block. Georgia, Florida, LSU, Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennessee, South Carolina each have a vote in this poll. Hmm? Well how did those teams fair in the poll you might wonder. Let us see: Georgia #1, Florida #5, LSU #6, Auburn #11, Tennessee #18, South Carolina #27, Mississippi State #41. Other SEC teams receiving votes in the poll were Alabama #26, and Kentucky #42. Several of these teams will compete at the highest level no argument about that but. It is a far cry easier to get love for you team in the SEC than in any other conference. Either theses schools have it right in that they see to it that one loss is aok as far as a national championship is concerned or the rest of the BCS school leagues are idiots for not pressing the issue further.


    4th The Big East as was reported above has the #8, #21, #31, #33, #37, #39, and #51 teams. Our voting members are from South Florida, Rutgers, Louisville, and UConn. Let us hope that theses guys would help the Big East in as much as they can.


    5th On what basis is Michigan in the top 25 (they were 24th), Rich Rod strikes again?


    6th During the season this poll is the least credible of them all. It appears that no conference can have more than half of there members represented at any time. That is suppose to do something to curtail undue influence of any given conference but I think that you can see how that stopgap has some flaws. When do these coaches watch enough games to have an educated opinion to render a vote.


    When we release this blogs first poll in October of this year you will see that we are completely transparent in our votes. You will see how each of our voters vote and we will have had the benefit of actually watching college football to educate our admittedly biased votes.


    Look forward to hearing your thoughts,


    Da Geek

    2 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    The perceived bias you see the poll has for the SEC isn't even as strong as the bias you have against them. While the Big East did appear to be shunned w/ only 2 teams, the SEC didn't fair as strong as even the Big 10 or the Big 12. The SEC has 5 teams ranked out of 12. The Big 10 has 5 teams out of 11, and the Big 12 has 5 teams out of 12 ranked in the top 14.

    Need some more #'s. The SEC has won 4 of the 10 BCS championships. The Big 12 has won 2 and all other conferences 1 each. Additionally, the SEC has NEVER lost in the championship game, indicating that the teams that do make it from the SEC certainly belong.

    How is it that the SEC sees their teams as being aok w/ one loss going for the championship? Only one time in the BCS has an undefeated school from the big six conferences been left out of the championship game. Auburn went 12-0 in '04 in what was rated as the strongest conference and was left out of the championship. The result was an obviously inferior Oklahoma getting trounced by 35 points.

    It's unfortunate that the Big East didn't get a third team ranked in the top 25, but you need to direct your frustrations more accurately. The bias you see is really just accuracy.

    Anonymous said...

    Upon speaking w/ the geek, he pointed out that he was merely stating that the SEC has 7 out of 12 coaches voting in the poll and the BE only has 4 of 8. The fact that he didn't notice that 7 out of 12 teams in the Big 12 have votes, and 7 out of 11 teams in the Big 10 have votes shows that he was only looking for evidence that the SEC has an advantage over the Big East. Interestingly, those conferences faired better in the polls than the SEC did, but the geek would only point out the "love" the SEC was unfairly getting. It still sounds like you are the one who's biased to me.

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