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    Re: Mark May's Top 5 for 2010 season

    I found this old publicity photo of Mark May.
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    Re: Mark May's Top 5 for 2010 season

    If analysts were as smart as they are presented to be, they would be making a living betting the games, not talking about them. Secondly, if any qualified analyst was really willing to evaluate teams and not just generalize about conferences, then the whole smokescreen about who could play what schdeule would become irrelevent. Rankings would be determined not necessarily by wins and losses or strength of schedule, but by each analyst's (poll voter's) consideration of which team would beat which in a single head-to-head match-up, i.e. "would Boise beat Alabama?" If not, then Alabama would be ranked higher than Boise. Then they should ask, "would Boise beat Texas?", and so on until Boise is ranked above all teams that that analyst believes Boise would beat. This process would be repeated for each team evaluated.

    But poll voters and analysts insist on ranking teams by asking, "would Boise have a better record than Alabama after each team played LSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Auburn on consecutive week-ends?". Statistically speaking, this is an impossible task to accurately forecast, yet they proceed, undaunted, to tell you what that outcome would be and rank teams on that basis. It's a method designed to maintain the status quo because it cannot be replicated in real life.

    So the schism that will (probably) never be breached is whether teams should be ranked according to their perceived ability to beat a single team in single contests, or whether teams should be ranked on their perceived ability to beat a certain schedule of teams. Clearly the first ranking methodology is subjective, but the latter, which is the practiced norm, is impossibly subjective.
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    Re: Mark May's Top 5 for 2010 season

    Quote Originally Posted by techstudent09 View Post
    I agree with Mark May 100%. Boise does not deserve to be ranked that high until they play a good OOC schedule. OK so they played Oregon. They also played UC-Davis, Tulsa, and Bowling Green along with the very average WAC opponents. I won't take them seriously until they play a REAL schedule.

    Pass me whatever you are smoking.

    Have you not read article after article about how they are offering to go on the road, with no return game to BCS program after BCS program and they keep getting turned down? No one wants any part of them.

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    Re: Mark May's Top 5 for 2010 season

    Have yall noticed how much makeup that terd (May) wears on tv. I swear, he must have 5 lbs of it on. He looked like a chocolate bloated Gumby the last time I saw him on tv.

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    Re: Mark May's Top 5 for 2010 season

    Rivals lists Boise as #4 in their top 25 projections for 2010 and notes they could be playing for the title if they get by Va. Tech and Oregon State:

    http://collegefootball.rivals.com/co...sp?CID=1037628

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