DocSat complaining about M fans

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Dr. Saturday says via the twitters that he is unhappy that we are stuffing the ballot box for Michigan players in his poll of the all-decade team. So keep it going! Jake Long is currently leading with 47% of the vote; the next closest has 9%.

Link, if you didn't see it in the mgolicious sidebar: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/All-Decade-…

Sorry for posting two topics in a row. It's finals week, so I clearly have nothing better to do than be on mgoblog.

NHWolverine

December 17th, 2009 at 12:00 AM ^

I know if I were in the Doc's shoes that I'd probably be a little peeved that Michigan fans were actually reading my blog and responding to my surveys and all. If Matt is tipped off to this thread at some point I just want to say that I read his blog daily and love his insight. Keep up the good work!

Vote for Jake Long or die.

wile_e8

December 17th, 2009 at 12:05 AM ^

So let me get this straight, he posted an online poll and is now upset that certain message boards have flooded the voting? I'm sure nothing like this has ever happened in the history of online polls, prior to these dastardly Michigan fans every one had votes ranging from a truly representative sample.



At least he didn't make "Colbert" one of the choices.

SFBlue

December 17th, 2009 at 1:55 AM ^

Up to 54%. But look, no other offensive lineman was a number one overall pick, and Long is dominating in the professional ranks. It is hardly surprising that he owns this.

Huss

December 17th, 2009 at 2:02 AM ^

Matt and Brian are pretty tight in blog-o terms. Matt always gives Michigan plenty of face time on his blog and we always check out Brian's links. He shoulda saw it coming.

Shaqsquatch

December 17th, 2009 at 3:06 AM ^

Maybe the WVU choice? or a B10 choice?

I think picking someone who wasn't an obvious front runner to show our supermajority would be ideal. On that note, I'm surprised supermajority doesn't show up in spellcheck after the '08 elections...

DoubleMs

December 17th, 2009 at 3:46 AM ^

I don't understand why he's complaining.

The top 4 OL's are the only big names that have gone high in the draft, and I don't even remember McKinnie. I mean sure, the percentage is skewed to Jake, but who cares? His biggest following is M fans that know how well him and Brian get along.

Braylon truly was one of the greatest receivers of the decade, and he's neck and neck with the competition on the poll. All good there.

Lamarr... I'm not so sure about his placement on the list, since it's up in the air as to whether he was even Michigan's greatest D Lineman of the decade.

Caveat: If he gets to QB, and Henne is in the top 3, there is definite skew. At this point, there isn't really any that is affecting what the result would actually be.

bouje

December 17th, 2009 at 9:40 AM ^

I also love how the MGoLicious link comments have changed

RE: Doc Sats polls: We went from "Vote for Woodley or die"

to "# All-Decade Team: Vote for the best offensive lineman

Vote for Jake Long if you sincerely believe he deserves it."

barebain

December 17th, 2009 at 11:37 AM ^

I voted for Lamarr Woodley, Braylon Edwards, and Jake Long each once, and, as a CFB fan, have no moral or ethical issue doing so. Is he trying to argue that those three don't deserve the high number of votes?

WanderingWolve

December 17th, 2009 at 11:49 AM ^

Poor DocSat! How does it's M fans voting early & often tho? Maybe his readers just know college football and recognize the O-line dominance that was personified in Long. Being as objective as possible, I thinks his stats were most impressive.

Magnus

December 17th, 2009 at 4:06 PM ^

It is kind of silly to do a poll like this and expect great results.

On the one hand, it's done on the internet. I have a hard time believing that any internet poll could be expected to be accurate.

On the other hand, Michigan fans (and other teams' fans, I'm sure) have a tendency to be giant homers. When people tell us to go vote for Jordan Kovacs for the Rudy Award or vote on an All-Decade team or something like that, we just do because they played for Michigan.

If there was a poll saying "Who should have won the Heisman this year?" and it had David Molk on it, droves of Michigan fans would have voted for Molk rather than Gerhart, Spiller, McCoy, etc.

The whole idea is just kind of dumb, and having droves of Michigan fans vote for Michigan players just distorts the results. That's why I don't typically vote for things like this, because the results are useless.