Bill Sangrey writes: > Subject: Journalists > > Well at least we can all be thankful that unlike football, #1 is determined by > the players, therefore picking on individual polls (or groups of fans) will no > matter come April. > Amen to that, Bill! (I know it irritates our superb list owner when another sport gets into HOCKEY-L, but maybe Wayne will let this one sneak by since the point is sports polls in general, something which we have spent a lot of bandwidth on lately - :) .) How come that there is only ONE sport at ONE level in the NC$$ which somehow finds "the season is too long, etc., etc, , etc, . . . " to have a national playoff???!!! Funny how this doesn't bother anyone in any sport except football, and THEN ONLY at DIVISION I! (Does it show I'm a Penn State football alum?) I'd find it refreshing if coaches, etc. who oppose a Div I national football playoff would at least be honest and say "The bowls don't want it, and they are waving a LOT of $$$ in our face to keep things the way they are." As it is, we're stuck with good old biased, really-proves-nothing human polls to determine (whether we hockey fans like it or not) the "championship" of the most widely-publicized collegiate sport. (At least OUR national championship never has to be preceded by the word "mythical"!) *********************************** * Steve Christopher, NMU * * "Go 'Cats!''Going for two in '92!" * * [log in to unmask] * *********************************** > ************************************