It's pretty stupid, Javvy :) Fan polls can - and are - rigged by fans. Special codes? Okay, that might work, but it would be subject to hacking like we've never seen before. I can see it now. Nevermind Nimda. Goner would be a-goner. We'd have "Football" viruses instead, except that their purpose would be to PREVENT fans from being able to send in their ballots, or to send in counterfeit ballots in their place.
A better system would be to simply use the RPI, as is done in college basketball. Screw the polls. Screw the computers. It's not how much you win by, it's who you beat (or lost to, as was Georgia's case last year). -----Original Message----- How 'bout this: !. Coach's Poll 2. AP Poll 3. Fan Poll All 3 top 25 are equal in weight. #25 gets 1 point and #1 gets 25 points. The point totals from all 3 polls are added up each week to determine the final place in a ranking system. Sounds fair to me and would also include the fans. Sure the fans could try to find ways to cheat the polls but technology could twart that. maybe the fan polls could be 1000 fans randomly picked from applications each year or even each week and who send in their ballots via internet with special codes to assure authenticity. Imagine sending in your application each summer and hoping you are picked to vote for the top 25 in week 6. Would that not be the biggest rush? OK. Now somebody tell me how stupid the idea is... To unsubscribe from this list just send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a BLANK subject line and the single word "UNSUBSCRIBE" (without the quotes) in the body or visit http://www.RollTideFan.net
