You have to hope the poll is taken a little more seriously today than it was back then. Pretty crazy how Dunn didn't get a reprimand for that. The poll has always been a bit iffy anyways. For YEARS Steve Spurrier used to put Duke at #25 in his preseason vote.
Many coaches delegate that role to someone else, usually someone from the school's SID department. They are too busy with their own teams to fairly rank others, and those who do are often VERY biased. Barry Switzer gave Fresno State that first-place vote in the final poll of 1985, knowing his own team would be named national champions. Fresno was the nation's lone undefeated team at 11-0-1 and Switzer thought they deserved to be ranked. He was also still ticked because of BYU getting the title in 1984 for being undefeated against a poor schedule. So he threw his good friend Jim Sweeney a bone and ensured Fresno finished ranked. He also voted Sweeney as National Coach of the Year. The worst corruption in the coaches poll was in the final 1995 poll, when two coaches voted Florida 11th and 13th and caused them to drop from No. 2 to 3 in the final poll behind Tennessee, who they had beaten. No one has ever said who those coaches were, although I strongly suspect Ray Goff and Mack Brown, who both had a lot of animosity toward Steve Spurrier at the time. (Tennessee's Phil Fulmer is known to have voted his team No. 2, but put the Gators third, so a homer vote, but not a corrupt one.)
This doesn’t seem that bad. Zanski probably was much more thoughtful than any busy head coach with conflicts of interest. People delegate things, hardly unusual.
Not to mention some of the shenanigans that the AP has pulled. The year University of Washington and Miami shared the National Championship because 1 won 1 poll and the other won the other poll. One of the sports writers who voted for Miami admitted he never watched UW that year ... like seriously! That Miami offense would have never scored on that UW defense! Anyone who watched UW would have known that. This was pre-BCS of course.
Honestly, I believe today college football today should just get rid of the AP and Coaches Polls because they mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's not like either poll can overrule what happens in the College Football Playoff, so why are we still doing these polls?
It is conceivable the AP or coaches poll could vote for a different champion than the winner of the CFP. What if TCU had defeated Georgia in a close game?
Honestly this happens more often than not and for good reason. The head coach has more important things to do during game week than vote on the poll. This doesn't make a mockery of the process at all. It was a coach on his staff who made the picks, not a random person. This is completely legit and common
This was an open secret that many coaches did not actually cast their own coach vote in the poll. Head coaches don’t see many teams - other than their own and their opponents.
We had Mike Locksley at New Mexico for 3 years, he was by far dumber
This was dumb on Dunn's part, but he is far from the dumbest UNM coach. That's some very steep competition.
Locksley was an abusive asshole. I still think Maryland made a huge mistake hiring him.
Remember the time a crappy Idaho team got top 25 votes in one of the polls inexplicably? That probably deserves a video.
You have to hope the poll is taken a little more seriously today than it was back then. Pretty crazy how Dunn didn't get a reprimand for that. The poll has always been a bit iffy anyways. For YEARS Steve Spurrier used to put Duke at #25 in his preseason vote.
Love those old WAC videos, especially from the 80s and early 90s. What a wild conference those days.
Don't kid yourself - half the coaches in the poll probably do this same thing.
Keep up the good work and content
I'd be a little surprised to learn that most of these coaches don't delegate it to a PR person... perhaps looking over it before submitting it.
I just gave this video an upvote. And yes, that was me voting, not my assistant!
Many coaches delegate that role to someone else, usually someone from the school's SID department. They are too busy with their own teams to fairly rank others, and those who do are often VERY biased.
Barry Switzer gave Fresno State that first-place vote in the final poll of 1985, knowing his own team would be named national champions. Fresno was the nation's lone undefeated team at 11-0-1 and Switzer thought they deserved to be ranked. He was also still ticked because of BYU getting the title in 1984 for being undefeated against a poor schedule. So he threw his good friend Jim Sweeney a bone and ensured Fresno finished ranked. He also voted Sweeney as National Coach of the Year.
The worst corruption in the coaches poll was in the final 1995 poll, when two coaches voted Florida 11th and 13th and caused them to drop from No. 2 to 3 in the final poll behind Tennessee, who they had beaten. No one has ever said who those coaches were, although I strongly suspect Ray Goff and Mack Brown, who both had a lot of animosity toward Steve Spurrier at the time. (Tennessee's Phil Fulmer is known to have voted his team No. 2, but put the Gators third, so a homer vote, but not a corrupt one.)
This doesn’t seem that bad. Zanski probably was much more thoughtful than any busy head coach with conflicts of interest. People delegate things, hardly unusual.
Not to mention some of the shenanigans that the AP has pulled. The year University of Washington and Miami shared the National Championship because 1 won 1 poll and the other won the other poll. One of the sports writers who voted for Miami admitted he never watched UW that year ... like seriously! That Miami offense would have never scored on that UW defense! Anyone who watched UW would have known that. This was pre-BCS of course.
Dunn was lucky not to be stripped of his ability to vote in the poll. If he didn't wanna vote, why did he decide to remain one of the poll's voters?
Honestly, I believe today college football today should just get rid of the AP and Coaches Polls because they mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's not like either poll can overrule what happens in the College Football Playoff, so why are we still doing these polls?
It is conceivable the AP or coaches poll could vote for a different champion than the winner of the CFP. What if TCU had defeated Georgia in a close game?
This unofficial Jaguar Gator 8 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a voter in Louisiana who ranked Oklahoma too low after a win.
Honestly this happens more often than not and for good reason. The head coach has more important things to do during game week than vote on the poll. This doesn't make a mockery of the process at all. It was a coach on his staff who made the picks, not a random person. This is completely legit and common
This was an open secret that many coaches did not actually cast their own coach vote in the poll. Head coaches don’t see many teams - other than their own and their opponents.
What is different here is usually the coaches are not so up-front about their abdication of their voting duties.
you going crazy JG9 love to see it on TTH!
UNM alum... for such an insignificant program, we've been on this show an awful lot
Shocked they was nary a peep from Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Sean Hannity
😂 bro you discredit yourself calling coach Dunn a bad coach
GEAUX TIGAHS LSU 14-1 this coming season the bama dynasty is KAPUT says my memaw and I believe memaw
OK Moonpie
@@donaldpaluga who is moonpie
Video 3 let's go
First
Congratulations! You win.......ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!
😂
He must have been a Biden supporter
Look, just because Republicans can't win the White House with the Popular Vote, don't go fuming at Biden.