End of Year Coaches Poll Predictions
Michigan got one vote in the coaches' poll
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankings?pollId=2&seasonYear=2009
This makes them tied for 57th, just a shade above dead-center amongst all teams, i.e. average.
Thoughts?
First of all, does RichRod vote in the coaches' poll?
Secondly, will they have more or less votes in the end of year poll? Inquiring minds want to know.
EDIT: Changed subject to curb the double-post complaints
posted, around nineish or so :-(
And I even checked in around then. Don't know how I missed it.
Oh well, I'll keep this up because threads usually die by the third page and the main topic of my post is different: is this higher or lower than our end of year standing?
higher, but like i've been saying in the other threads about our current stature, it's where you finish, not where you start!
More..Coaches are going off of the michigan from last year, and simply put, we will be MUCH better than there expectations.
4th time this has been posted.
Yes RR does get a vote
The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 59 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2009 season: Robb Akey, Idaho; Gary Andersen, Utah State; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Tim Beckman, Toledo; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tim Brewster, Minnesota; J.D. Brookhart, Akron; Rich Brooks, Kentucky; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Neil Callaway, UAB; Dave Christensen, Wyoming; Dave Clawson, Bowling Green; Mario Cristobal, Florida International; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Butch Davis, North Carolina; Todd Dodge, North Texas; Ron English, Eastern Michigan; Larry Fedora, Southern Miss; Al Golden, Temple; Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Jim Harbaugh, Stanford; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Brian Kelly, Cincinnati; Steve Kragthorpe, Louisville; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Jim Leavitt, South Florida; Bill Lynch, Indiana; Les Miles, LSU; Dan Mullen, Mississippi State; Rick Neuheisel, UCLA; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; Tom O'Brien, N.C. State; Stan Parrish, Ball State; Gary Patterson, TCU; Bo Pelini, Nebraska; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, Michigan; Nick Saban, Alabama; Mike Sanford, UNLV; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Mike Sherman, Texas A&M; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Houston; Jeff Tedford, California; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State; Charlie Weatherbie, Louisiana-Monroe; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tommy West, Memphis; Paul Wulff, Washington State; Ron Zook, Illinois.
End of year predictions...
1. Michigan
2-120. Who cares?
:D
Do we think RichRod put in that No. 25 vote?
As for predictions, assuming we end up at 7-5 or 6-6, we won't be ranked. If we can pull of an upset or two and get to 8-4, I think we sneak in somewhere in the twenties.
I hope RR did give UM their only vote. It would bode well for the program if the head coach actually thought his team was worthy of a top 25 vote.
Also, telling the team that he was the only coach who believed in them enough to vote them into the top 25 would be a really nice variation of the "no respect" card when needed for motivation.
I say we'll go 7-5 and then win a lower level bowl game to finish 8-5. We won't be ranked in the top 25 at the end of the year but we'll be around the 30 range I will guess.