bigsky33 said:
HookedonGriz said:
The cats dropped a number of spots in the coaches poll. So the guys who may actually know a bit more weren’t too impressed.
Polls are
meaningless at this point.
Good point, but not entirely useless, IMO. I play along with the polls because it gives us something to talk about in terms of "general" FCS. Who looks good, who's trending down, etc.? We get some idea of what to expect in case some of these other teams face a Big Sky opponent at some point.
It also, IMO, provides some well-needed perspective ... in both directions.
The "downers" love to poor-mouth the Big Sky as total crap. And some BSC team ain't so good, I'll concede. But if you watch a bit more in the way of FCS games ... you realize every conference has some major losers, even the might MVFC. Watch a bit of the lower-tier Southland, or most of the NEC, and then you'll see some really, really crappy teams. (And don't get me started on most of the SWAC, no matter how well they draw fans.)
Admittedly, not too many posters go the other way and try to push the Big Sky as some giant powerhouse. Certainly the top BSC are as good as any, but all the decent conferences -- even the Southland, as one example -- have some very good teams at their top and not-quite-top tier. We need to keep them in mind too, at least as competitors for a playoff spot.
So, feeble and flaky as they are, the polls at least give us some idea of where to look.