Why the Coaches Poll Should Be Abolished

He ignored the urge to put his Broncos at #1, and instead had them at 4 behind Bama, Texas, and TCU. (He did have them ahead of Cincy, but I’ll give him that one).

Probably the least selfish, and most level-headed ballot out there, aside from USC at #25.

But I’m guessing these guys (or their SIDs) don’t remember at all what happened back in September and are probably thinking “ooh, Arizona took Oregon to OT and beat USC” while Iowa lost to just Northwestern and Ohio State in November.

I read this today on the train into work, but I had to actually take care of the shit storm that had developed over the weekend.

Perhaps what upset me the most was the fact that we had several Big Ten coaches putting Penn State ahead of Iowa. Brewster, Bill Lynch, and Jim Tressel were the only sane coaches that realize with Iowa winning the head to head, they should go ahead of Penn State. I guess Dantonio and Rodriguez are still butt hurt about losing to Iowa in close games. Why Ron Zook would put Penn State above Iowa? It’s simple, he’s the ‘Zooker, and no one knows what’s going on underneath his perfectly sculpted hair.

I wasn’t shocked about the lack of respect we got outside of the Big Ten. That has been the story all year, and with the way the AP characterized Iowa getting into a BCS game, it seems only fitting that a coach ranks us at #18. Of course, take a look at who Paul Wulff coaches, and it’s clear, he really knows more about football than any of us. Jim Harbaugh, well, I have no clue what he was thinking, he must have been filling this out while blowing the Heisman voters in an effort to help out Gerhart’s chances of winning in New York.

In the end, I’m just glad that this didn’t screw us out of making a BCS game. Let’s see how we fare in the final rankings if we beat Georgia Tech. I’m just excited to be heading to Miami to start off the New Year. WHOO! STRIPPERS, CLOTHING OPTIONAL BEACHES, AND BOOZE!

other than “it’s always been that way”. There is no logic in handing ballots to people who frequently don’t fill them out themselves, don’t have the time to watch or analyze 90% of the teams involved, and of course, have the most to gain by manipulating the results.
I’d love to see a coach that knew he was being shown the door (I’m looking at you Zooker, keep this in mind next year) who totally screws with it. Florida, 18th. Syracuse, 4th. Or whatever team you play next week, rank them 1st. Whatever. It’s not like there are consequences other then us screaming about them.

Or is this just Exhibit Z?

is that most of the coaches have Iowa pegged higher than their BCS ranking. only a very small amount of idiots have us lower

I’m a Ducks fan, which makes me a de facto Pac-10 proponent. I’m pretty blind to bias toward the PAC-10 and sensitive to bias against it, and if anyone says anything bad about my conference, why, I’ll give ’em a cauliflower ear.

That said, when I read Harbaugh’s ballot, I commented to my coworker (who is from San Fransisco, and likes Harbaugh) that he was batshit insane. The Iowa / Arizona flub is obviously huge, and is understandably the source of your complaint against him. Putting his own Stanford team at #12 is just about as, if not more, egregious.

Wulff’s ballot is awful as well, though in his defense it’s probably hard to see the form you’re filling out through a pool of your own tears.

Those are probably the worst two on there, though there are a few more that are awful as well. DaWayne Walker’s ballot is pretty wonky. Bobby “Cataracts, apparently” Bowden ranked 7-5 Oklahoma and failed to rank 9-3 Pitt, who very nearly beat Cincy last Saturday. Charlie Weatherby ranked Troy but not LSU. But yes, I’d agree that the sins of Harbaugh and Wulff are the most egregious.