August 3, 200719 yr http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm First USA Today Coaches Poll is out.... UL checks in at #11. UK gets a vote. Nothing more useless than a preseason poll.
August 3, 200719 yr http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm First USA Today Coaches Poll is out.... UL checks in at #11. UK gets a vote. Nothing more useless than a preseason poll. In basketball yes, not football. A lot less games for things to straighten out.
August 3, 200719 yr Let's play "Who Voted For UK ?" I'm going with Tommy Bowden. :lol: The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 60 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. This season's board: Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Mike Bellotti, Oregon; Bret Bielema, Wisconsin; Larry Blakeney, Troy; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tommy Bowden, Clemson; Jeff Bower, Southern Mississippi; Art Briles, Houston; Mack Brown, Texas; Bill Callahan, Nebraska; Neil Callaway, UAB; Lloyd Carr, Michigan; Mario Cristobal, Florida International; Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State; Bill Cubit, Western Michigan; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Butch Davis, North Carolina; Bill Doba, Washington State; Randy Edsall, Connecticut; Dennis Franchione, Texas A&M; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Jeff Genyk, Eastern Michigan; Joe Glenn, Wyoming; Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Pat Hill, Fresno State; Steve Kragthorpe, Louisville; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Rocky Long, New Mexico; Sonny Lubick, Colorado State; Bill Lynch, Indiana; Doug Martin, Kent State; Les Miles, LSU; Shane Montgomery, Miami (Ohio); Hal Mumme, New Mexico State; Joe Novak, Northern Illinois; Houston Nutt, Arkansas; Tom O'Brien, North Carolina State; George O'Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Howard Schnellenberger, Florida Atlantic; Mark Snyder, Marshall; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Jeff Tedford, California; Joe Tiller, Purdue; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Dick Tomey, San Jose State; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tyrone Willingham, Washington; Ron Zook, Illinois.
August 3, 200719 yr All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. This season's board: Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Les Miles, LSU; Houston Nutt, Arkansas; Mark Richt, Georgia; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn You can narrow it down to these 7 coaches. Obviously it would behoove them to have another SEC team ranked...
August 3, 200719 yr They shouldn't issue any kind of poll til October, but what can you do. I didn't even notice that Duke got a vote, my holy goodness. They were picked to finish dead last in the ACC this year by the coaches. That would be as good as a reason of any as to why this poll is useless.
August 3, 200719 yr The read question is who voted for Duke? :creepy: Spurrier does it every year. He coached there way back when and has given them a vote every year he has been part of the poll. Goes to show how important these things really are...
August 3, 200719 yr I think I saw last year that Steve Spurrier always votes for Duke as a way of repaying them for giving him a shot at coaching. ^ Looks like someone beat me to it.
August 3, 200719 yr http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm First USA Today Coaches Poll is out.... UL checks in at #11. UK gets a vote. Nothing more useless than a preseason poll. I agree, a prseason poll can only hurt a team in the way that if you are ranked down the list on a pre season poll then there is a lot of teams to jump over to get to the top for as BCS bid. (AP.Coaches/BCS polls)
August 3, 200719 yr I think I saw last year that Steve Spurrier always votes for Duke as a way of repaying them for giving him a shot at coaching. ^ Looks like someone beat me to it. :thumb: :thumb: I remember Spurrier saying that as well. If it wasn't Spurrier it was probably Coach "K" :eek: - he thought that Duke was being treated unfairly and everyone was against them. :sssh: :lol:
August 3, 200719 yr I think I saw last year that Steve Spurrier always votes for Duke as a way of repaying them for giving him a shot at coaching. ^ Looks like someone beat me to it. What a way to repay them, patronize them with a token vote. I'm sure they take a great deal of pride in that.
August 3, 200719 yr What a way to repay them, patronize them with a token vote. I'm sure they take a great deal of pride in that. This is what he had to say when asked about it last year. http://myblogdevils.eponym.com/blog/DukeFootball/_archives/2006/8/6/2205048.html Yeah, I claim that," the South Carolina coach told the Journal-Constitution. "I've been voting for the boys from Duke since, oh, about 1990, whenever I started voting on that poll. I just want 'em to know that I haven't forgotten about 'em and I appreciate everything they did for me. That's why I did it." And the blogger had this to say: Such is a classy move by a coach whom many prefer to consider classless. Hopefully, a time will come in the not-too-distant future when Duke is receiving votes in the preseason poll out of reputation, too, rather than simple loyalty.
August 3, 200719 yr I'm sure he is doing it to be nice to them, but I think it is a bit of a mockery.
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