Polls Polls! Polls!!! Polls!!!!! Ugh ...

No offense to those voting in and those reading Polls but, they're BS. What is Poll really? It's a collection of votes from people who know very little about most of the teams they're voting for. The folks who "vote" on these things are interested in getting the team they like into the spotlight and after that they vote by reputation and then finally by the latest results. Polls two weeks ago were completely meaningless as no teams had played a game. Last week they were about 2 percent less meaningless and this week they're a grand total of about 5 percent less meaningless than the first one. "Nobody" has played enough games to be rated so "Nobody" should be the only team in the polls at this point. Here's my Poll:

1. Nobody
2. Anybody
3. Wayne St. ( and only cos they're on their way out)

No other Poll matters. UND is #1 because why? Because they had a good year last year and tied a team (for two periods in a haze of fog) that had a good season last year? Does anyone really believe that results from last year have some effect on results yesterday or tomorrow? Puhlease. UND hasn't beaten "Anybody". There is a method for determining some sort of "ranking" of all the teams in Division 1 (KRACH) but you can't use it yet because there aren't enough comparisons. When there are enough comparisons and if UAA has some significant placement therein, I'll mention it here. Don't expect to see any announcements or triumphant pronouncements here based on human Polls. I wouldn't care if every single sports writing know-it-all in the country put UAA at #1. I won't mention it here. I bet Doyle Woody has a vote in a Poll. See what I mean? He admits on his blog he hasn't followed the recent Seawolves. So how could he know whether Clarkson or Air Force deserves placement? He can't. And neither can 90 percent of the professionally employed college hockey sportswriters in the country. The other 10 percent who "might" be qualified to give an opinion would admit they're just guessing at this point. Polls are ridiculous. Polls are meaningless. Follow them if it entertains you. They don't entertain me. Every Monday from here on out the InterWeb is going to be inundated with some selected fanbase running around proclaiming themselves #1. I find it laughable.

And quit listening to the political Polls eh? Is voting for a projected "winner" more important than your core values? Vote your conscience and if a pollster calls you tell them to piss off.