AP dumps voter ... and it isn't Whitlock

Overheard several times in the box this week:

"Hey Jim, have you seen an Oklahoma score yet today?"

 

This guy would have been better off saying "No comment."

 

Dude lives in Baton Rouge, and the TP doesn't circulate there. Well, you can go to a Barnes and Noble or something, but you can't subscribe to it or get it out of a box or at a gas station.

 

How does this become such a big deal? Does the AP take itself this seriously? Maybe this guy has fucked up in the past, but missing one score one week is grounds for loss of vote?

It's not like this is something that is irreversible. Let's see, he gets to vote next week ... so he can correct himself. Or, better yet, the folks who tabulate could have said, "Hey Jim, you dropped Oklahoma quite a bit after a win, what gives?" To me, it's the same as if I put a grievous error in that gets by a coupla editors and into print. My bad for sure, but it's a team effort, too.

BTW, speaking of credibility, how is this worse than the many, many voters who vote for teams they NEVER see play?

 

They must not enforce that all the time, because if they did, Whitlock's poll would have been yanked last week. So that's two weeks in a row now someone didn't know the outcome of a top 25 team on their ballot. Nice.

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Honestly, if this stuff doesn't happen every week, I'd be floored.

 

Good thing those voters pay attention to the, y'know, "BC-FBC--Top 25 Fared" which moves on the wire every 30 or so minutes on Saturdays.

 

What a marvelous sport and what an joke of a system in determining who the "national champion" is.

 

" . . . there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers . . . they are entitled to a
little representation, aren't they?"

-- Sen. Roman Hruska, defending Dick Nixon's braindead Supreme Court nomination of C.
Harold Carswell . . .

 

The AP poll does not in any way help determine the national charmion.

 

Fixed.

 

Hey Knute,

Generally the AP poll vote for a particular state is rotated among the beat writers for a particular program. So the ND beat writer for a particular paper gets it some years, the Purdue, Indiana and Ball State writers get it other years.

That's usually how it works in every state.