Possible candidates for the "Not Very Nice" Awards?:
 
> When I was at Minnesota, we always called them the Fighting Green Snot.  I
> think that would be appropriate.                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
Gee, I thought Gopher fans only hated Wisconsin (and more recently,
Northern Michigan)!
 
> The Amazing Prediction Machine
> Go Gophers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> (Northern sucks!)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey Martin, Erik's been a lot more positive, while staying true to
his team, than this!  In fact he and I just made a pact to support
WCHA teams when they're not playing each other.  (I suppose if LSSU
gets by UAA I'll have a moral dilemma--given my earlier-joined pact
with Bob Gilreath re U.P. teams!  :-).  )
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>
Larry Latour says:
 
> BIAS - that's a funny word.  There's real BIAS, and there's
> the appearance of BIAS.  Take the NCAA selection committee
> for example (oh, no, not again! - but why not? let's discuss it).
> There was the appearance of BIAS last year with Cornell AND BU, with
> Cornell being a "surprise" seed and BU getting a "surprise" bye over
> BC.  Notice that I quoted "surprise", ONLY because the decisions
> APPEARED TO BE controversial. Again this year we set ourselves
> up for apparent bias by putting TWO committee members in the
> position of making controversial decisions.
>
Although I think the seedings for this year, especially in the West
where I feel more comfortable having an opinion on them, are quite
reasonable, I agree with Larry that appearances mean an awful lot,
no matter how properly behaved the principal characters actually
are.  In fact, I suspect that Rick Comley would have preferred not
to be in the position he was this year, from a remark or two he
made recently. (Maybe my feelings come from my being a university
administrator and having many years of dealing with faculty sensi-
tivities concerning appearances and process.)
 
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