I coach football!
You see this guy? Yes, it's Joe Glenn, head coach of the University of Wyoming ... that football juggernaut that finished 5-7 this season with heartbreaking losses like the 50-0 one they suffered to Utah on Nov. 10.
Why do we care about Glenn kiddies? Well, because according to the USA Today coaches poll, he had Georgia No. 10 on his ballot. Behind who you ask?
Let's see ... how about Hawaii (No. 5) and West Virginia (No. 7) and Missouri (No. 9( and, wait for it, Florida (No. 8). Yes, that's right ... the same Florida team that has three losses and was beaten by Georgia by two touchdowns.
Think it's silly? Well, why not tell him. He can be reached via email at jglenn@uwyo.edu.
Other mind-bogglers?
Hal Mumme, formerly of Kentucky and now of New Mexico State, had Georgia No. 9, while Howard Schnellenberger of Florida Atlantic had LSU No. 5, Oklahoma No. 7, Georgia No. 8 and Kansas No. 2.
In the shamelessly partisan department, Bob Stoops of Oklahoma had LSU No. 6 and Georgia No. 8.
Not including Mark Richt, six coaches had Georgia No. 2 - UAB's Neil Callaway, UConn's Randy Edsell, Texas Tech's Mike Leach, Rutgers's Greg Schiano, Tulane's Bob Toledo and Notre Dame's Charlie Weiss.
posted by Jmac at 11:44 AM
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If you think this coach voted Ga number ten, you're wrong.
This coach didn't vote. Maybe his assistant SID voted, but the coach didn't. No more than Mark Richt did or Les Miles or Bobby Bowden voted.
You and I as fans watched more football than these guys did. These coaches are concerned about two teams: theirs, and the one they're playing next Saturday.
If you think Urban Meyer was up late breaking down film of Oregon-Cal so he could decide whether the Ducks should be ranked ahead or behind Michigan State or Boston College, you're nuts.
Bitch about the coach's poll all you want, but don't kid yourself into think coaches are actually voting in the coach's poll. They're not.
That's why polling is a flawed concept. You have idiot writers doing one of them, and over-taxed coaches "doing" another.
You want a poll? Let Vegas rank the teams. The only thing Vegas cares about is money. Vegas is completely objective. Writers are morons; coaches are preoccupied and coaches have agendas. Vegas has none of those shortcomings.
And listening to Georgia whine today is like listening to Al Gore complain in 2000. Both have the same problem: they couldn't win in Al Gore's home state. Shut up already. Take care of your business, and votes you don't get aren't an issue.
At least Al could legitimately taunt "Scoooreboooooard!"
Okay, bold Mr. Anonymous, but this is a year where nobody "took care of their business." It's not like Georgia fans are arguing that their losses be ignored. They are arguing that their losses not count more against them than other teams with the same number of losses.
Georgia was the king of the 2-loss pack for a month. They have the longest BCS conference winning streak in the nation, I think. Perhaps I'm wrong there, but if I am than we're talking about a team that lost at least 3 games before the first week of October and then won 7 in a row. I don't think anybody fits this characterization...
That said, I agree that once you lose it's out of your control. I don't think Georgia has gotten 'screwed.' It's close to impossible to 'screw' a two loss team out of the national championship. But I think UGA had at least as good an argument as anyone else, and the sudden turn against them in the mdeia and by the coaches contradited almost all known practice in college football polling. That's okay, since polls are just popularity contests anyway. But the idea that Georgia was excluded this weekend by reasonable and objective people who simply applied principled and consistent criteria of judgment to the contenders is patently false.
Since you mention him, albeit mis-spelled, here is Coach Weis's take from today:
"I ended up voting Ohio State 1 and Georgia 2 because that's where they were on the line. They were 3 and 4. Not that I'm a big fan of Ohio State or Georgia or anyone else, but if you're next in line and you don't play, and the two teams ahead of you lose, I think that you move up. I just don't know how you get penalized for not playing. I think right now if I were Mark Richt I'd be out there whining today because wasn't he sitting 4 last week? So he's sitting 4 but now he moves down a spot. He doesn't play, he wins his last six games, one of the hottest teams in the country, and now he gets penalized. I don't think he's a whiner because I know the guy and I like the guy, but I think if anyone has a gripe today, it would probably be him."
By the way, anonymous, Coach Weis does fill out his own poll.
What does it mean if I kinda like the coach at Notre Dame? I feel so lost--somebody help me.
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