Tressel & The Voting Conspiracy - Part II

[OH10]

Well, everybody knows Stewart Mandel is an Ohio State homer...

Illinois Coach Ron Zook voted Florida No. 2 ahead of Michigan. Zook, of course, was the Florida coach before Urban Meyer.

Circle this date: Michigan plays at Illinois on Oct. 20.

And so much for Miles someday getting the Michigan job: The coach, who played for Bo Schembechler and was a longtime Wolverines assistant, voted Florida No. 2.

Miles has always been on the short list of possible successors to Lloyd Carr.

Well, at least he had been.

I like how the LA Times writer took the Michigan viewpoint hook, line and sinker in his column.

 

[SanClementeBuck]

And that same LAtimes sport entertainment staff picked Cryami by a zillion points before our Bucks beat 'em in AZ.

 

[Brutus1]

 

[tsteele316]

so when osu smokes UF in Glendale after USC beats a downtrodden michigan team, how long will it be before we hear that usc would have beaten osu if they didn't look past ucla.

 

[OCBucksFan]

so when osu smokes UF in Glendale after USC beats a downtrodden michigan team, how long will it be before we hear that usc would have beaten osu if they didn't look past ucla.

My guess would be right after the NC game. I am pretty sure if USC blows out UM we'll be hearing it the whole time leading up to as well.

Heh, I live in SoCal and the day after the USC/UCLA game I walked into "Your Buckeyes got lucky, we would have destroyed you!" Nothing quite like the hype that USC has.

 

[Bob Buck]

Ugh... the ESPN college football podcast before the USC vs. UCLA game was horrible. All Beano Cook and Ivan Maisel wanted to talk about was how USC would be playing for their 4th national championship in 4 years.

I just have one word for everybody on the USC bandwagon: onepeat.

It pisses me off that USC fans think they have a national title from 2002. Thank God for Tressel... he wins real championships!

 

[MaxBuck]

Excellent Commentary from MGOBLOG re Tressel BCS Vote

4. What is the general impression of Tressel abstaining from his poll vote, his vote for UM would have surely put you guys in the title game. Some have commended him for staying neutral others have hammered him for not having the guts to take a stand. How do you feel?

Um... Tressel's vote wouldn't have mattered either way. During D-Day I wasn't surprised or concerned. I probably would have done the same thing in his position, since however he voted it would have been spun as an insult to his opponent. If he had gone with Michigan, Florida would have bulletin board material about bias and not wanting to play Florida and SEC disrespect. If he had gone with Florida, Florida would have claimed disrespect since Tressel wanted them instead of Michigan. There would be dozens of columns, all of them very, very dumb, about the vote and what it means.

As far as I can tell, the argument for having Tressel cast a ballot revolves around "balls" and stuff about how he signed up to vote and knew what he was getting into, but Tressel's job is to do what's best for Ohio State and that's what he did.

Excellent commentary from the fine MGoBlog site.

 

[fourteenandoh]

I like that site. Its always entertaining, and usually informative.

 

[Zurp]

It pisses me off that USC fans think they have a national title from 2002. Thank God for Tressel... he wins real championships!

First, are you serious that anyone contests Ohio State's 2002 national championship? I can understand USC's claim to the 2003 national championship - being #1 in the AP poll and all. But I think that USC had 2 losses in 2002. I seem to remember that they were behind Iowa in the BCS rankings (though, they smoked Iowa pretty handily in the non-championship bowl game).

Second, you ought not get pissed about that. They can claim to be the prime ministers of Ireland. Not only will they look like goons, the people who argue with them will also look like goons.

 

[osugrad21]

Link

At Wednesday's Division I-A coaches' meeting, the AFCA agreed to firm the criteria for coaches who vote in the poll.
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was criticized when he declined to vote in the final regular-season poll this season. He said he didn't want to vote either Florida or Michigan No. 2 because of the controversy either decision would have created. There was no penalty for Tressel because there is nothing in the AFCA rules to penalize coaches who decide not to vote.
Starting with the 2007 poll, a coach who decides not to vote in a poll will have his vote taken away.