Coaches Poll to go Double Secret in 2010
The list of items to blog about from the Thursday AP article regarding college football’s coaches poll going covert in 2010 is vast. The change happening in 2010 is that the final Coaches’ poll will be secret- that is to say that we won’t get a chance to see the coaches’ final ballot as we do today.
The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) asked Gallup to study the poll and make recommendations about how to make it more credible and accurate. This alone provides further proof that it’s not that the powers in college football don’t care about fixing the game, it’s that they have no f-ing idea what the problems really are.
Never mind that coaches will be the first to admit that they don’t regularly watch games of teams in their own conference unless they’re playing them the following week, let alone games of other teams out of conference that are top-25 caliber. Never mind that little detail, instead, let’s hire Gallup to look at the “figures”.
I imagine a room full of old white guys and the conversation going a lil’ something like this:
Thurston: “My great great grandson tells me our poll isn’t on the up-and-up.”
Winthorp: “Hogwash. I just received a telegram from Bear Bryant and….has anyone seen my spectacles?”
Thurston: “Nevertheless, we should hire Gallup to look into the matter.”
Winthorp: “Here, here. Whiskey Sours for all!”
Here’s a modern day re-creation between me and a buddy of mine of that same meeting as we’re driving down the street (the car is a metaphor for college football):
Me: “Bro- the number 5 button on my car stereo presets is busted.”
Bro: “Dude- your car’s on fire.”
Me: “Bro- seriously, I can’t program any stations on the number 5 button anymore.”
Bro: “Dude, seriously, your car’s on fire. We’re going to die.”
Me: “Bro you are so funny. I think I’ll hire an Asian dude as a consultant to look into my stereo issue and come up with a couple solutions.”
Bro: (catches on fire)
By all means AFCA, go ahead and cloak the final coaches’ poll in a shroud of darkness; that oughta right the ship. Morons.
Other recommendations by Gallup include looking into reducing the poll to 10 or 15 teams plus eliminating the pre-season poll. Any amount over $1 that the AFCA paid for the study should be classified as a “financial gift” for tax purposes. What a waste of time and money.
Putting a bow on the entire ridiculous exercise was Michigan Coach Rich Rodriguez. When asked about the change, Rich Rod responded:
“By keeping things confidential, I think there will be less hidden agendas.”
First of all RR- it’s fewer hidden agendas, not less hidden agendas. Secondly, by keeping the votes confidential it increases the chances for hidden agendas, not decreases it.
All of this is precisely why nothing gets fixed in college football and why I’m half a step from declaring my allegiance for the NFL- free agency, primadonna players, useless pre-season games, sucky overtime rules all be damned.
You’re welcome.
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