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Interesting how many coaches DID NOT vote for Pitt in the latest Coaches Poll

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So in USA Today there was a list of 58 coaches and their top 25 poll they made. 6 teams coaches(Rutgers, Clemson,LA Tech, Tulsa, East Carolina and Indiana weren't able to be reached to get their ballots posted.

Anyways, out of the 58 published ballots by the Coaches, only 22 coaches had us in the top 25.
They are Matt Campbell(Iowa State)#23, Rod Carey(Northern Illinois)#21, Paul Chryst(Wisconsin)#24, Chris Creighton(Eastern Michigan)#25, David Cutcliffe(Duke)#22, DJ Durkin(Maryland)#20, Larry Fedora(North Carolina)#21, Jimbo Fisher(Florida State)#22, James Franklin(Penn State)#24, Justin Fuente(Virginia Tech)#23, Mike Gundy(Oklahoma State)#22, Clay Helton(USC)#25, Joey Jones(South Alabama)#24, Brian Kelly(Notre Dame)#23, Chuck Martin(Miami of Ohio)#22, Chad Morris(Southern Methodist)#23, Brian Polian(Nevada)#24, Mark Richt(Miami FL)#24, Nick Saban(Alabama)#25, Tony Sanchez(UNLV)#24, Ron Turner(Florida Intl)#25, Kyle Whittingham(Utah)#24.

DJ Durkin from Maryland had us the highest at number 20 and a good amount of ACC coaches had us in the top 25. Interesting Brian Kelly and Nick Saban had us ranked and so did Paul Chryst and James Franklin lol.

As for coaches that did not vote for Pitt, some notables were Urban Meyer, Rich Rodriguez, Dino Babers from Syracuse(who we put 76 points on) and Bob Stoops.

Eh Screw Them!!!
 
Chryst coached here, no surprise. I'm more surprised franklin didn't vote PSU 1, Michigan 2, and Pitt 3. Obviously he was voting for a team he lost to.

Meyer can't see past the big ten and sec, so nobody cares what that jagoff thinks. Rich rod.... HAHAHAHAHA!!! Stoops idk, probably reads the lair and how much we hate Jason white ;) Dino babers, say what you want, is pretty much admitting his own team sucks really bad. He's either thinking, wow they gave up 61 to us, that's embarrassing! Or he's thinking, eh 76 points, it was only against Syracuse :D
 
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The coaches poll isn't a great idea for a lot of reasons.
These coaches have a lot of history with eachother, AD's, and with other U's.
Much of the history hasn't been a good experience so how can anyone expect them to cast an objective vote.
Maybe it should be a selected rotating group of active and retired coaches who agree to vote based on facts not emotion or how they feel about a U, AD, etc.
 
Isn't Meyer the guy that said, you have no business in a playoff, if you can't even win your conference? Fake heart attack jerkoff
 
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Isn't Meyer the guy that said, you have no business in a playoff, if you can't even win your conference? Fake heart attack jerkoff
I can't stand the guy, but that was a different time (BCS era.) although I still say if penn State was gonna make it this year, it absolutely had to be at the expense of Ohio State.
 
Holgerson, who didn't have a signature win all year didn't either. F him too....
 
If I were Babers I am not sure how I would rank us as a team. No defense in that game at all. If we had a decent defense this season we would have won 10 - 11 games!
 
It is stupid for coaches to vote because as one stated they more than likely delegate it anyways and B, outside of the teams they play they don't follow football because they are too busy to watch other teams.

As far as Franklin voting for us, he has to we beat them, that would make his lose look worse if we were not ranked. As far as Urban and Holgy not voting for us, why would they? They both recruit against us, so if we are a borderline team they are on the side against us.
 
Why cast a vote for a team that you recruit against!
Not much thought went into the "coaches poll."
 
Why cast a vote for a team that you recruit against!
Not much thought went into the "coaches poll."


There is so much conflict of interest in a Coaches poll. The quote above is one example. You also want your seasons opponents ranked as high as possible. I am sure there are more if I want to think about it.
 
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