A lot of respect for Joe Pa

[DuffMan]

I recently spent 3 hours in the University of Iowa Sports Medicin Clinic and came across an old SI featuring JoePa. In the article it related how JoePa lost his coaches poll vote.

Following the 2004 season there were 3 undefeated teams. JoePa voted them all number 1 in the USA Today coaches poll. They called him up and said you can't do that, you have to vote them either 1, 2, or 3. He said he couldn't do that as it wouldn't be fair to any of them, they were all undefeated and his eyes they were all equally good. The USA Today responded by threatening to take his coaches poll vote away. He said you can have it.

I guess you could say he was making a statment as hes had something like 4 teams go undefeated that DIDN'T win a national title due to the voting process (pretty unbelievable) but I still think thats a pretty cool story.

 

[GravyJones]

I recently spent 3 hours in the University of Iowa Sports Medicin Clinic and came across an old SI featuring JoePa. In the article it related how JoePa lost his coaches poll vote.

Following the 2004 season there were 3 undefeated teams. JoePa voted them all number 1 in the USA Today coaches poll. They called him up and said you can't do that, you have to vote them either 1, 2, or 3. He said he couldn't do that as it wouldn't be fair to any of them, they were all undefeated and his eyes they were all equally good. The USA Today responded by threatening to take his coaches poll vote away. He said you can have it.

I guess you could say he was making a statment as hes had something like 4 teams go undefeated that DIDN'T win a national title due to the voting process (pretty unbelievable) but I still think thats a pretty cool story.

I'm willing to bet you were actually visiting your OB-GYN, right?

JoePa is probably mostly a senile old bat, but I've always liked him. Good for him trying to stick it to an extremely flawed system.

 

[DuffMan]

I'm willing to bet you were actually visiting your OB-GYN, right?
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OK you got me, but everythings OK. Turns out it was just a food baby.

 

[GravyJones]

OK you got me, but everythings OK. Turns out it was just a food baby.

I hope that's all mine is. I'm almost as fat as you now.

 

[TheBattman]

How dare a guy who's been at this since before there was color tv's question a bunch of computer geeks and pencil "neck" buereaucrats system where the biggest name with a good record plays for entitlement errrrrrr a title.