Comments on: File under “Radar, No Longer Under the” http://cusecountry.com/?p=1539 Your Home Away From Dome Sat, 25 May 2013 02:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Josh http://cusecountry.com/?p=1539#comment-5975 Josh Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:07:39 +0000 http://cusecountry.com/?p=1539#comment-5975 I'm less and less enamored with the rankings. You would think that in today's media-saturated age, the voters would be <i>more</i> informed about the teams, not less. Yet the ranking system seems to have devolved to the point where "moving up in the rankings" is completely equivalent to "hasn't lost recently". For instance, in the AP poll SU moved up three spots (from 16 to 13). The three teams that dropped below us are Purdue (lost to #7 Duke), Michigan St (lost to #1 UNC), and UCLA (lost to #6 Texas). Why does losing to a higher-ranked team make you fall in the rankings? It makes no sense. SU is a good team but #13 seems too high for their current stage of development. It's on the coaches to keep the players' heads out of the clouds over the next week of "cupcake" games -- that are not really cupcakes but rather are decent small-conference squads -- leading up to Memphis in 11 days. I’m less and less enamored with the rankings. You would think that in today’s media-saturated age, the voters would be more informed about the teams, not less. Yet the ranking system seems to have devolved to the point where “moving up in the rankings” is completely equivalent to “hasn’t lost recently”.

For instance, in the AP poll SU moved up three spots (from 16 to 13). The three teams that dropped below us are Purdue (lost to #7 Duke), Michigan St (lost to #1 UNC), and UCLA (lost to #6 Texas). Why does losing to a higher-ranked team make you fall in the rankings? It makes no sense.

SU is a good team but #13 seems too high for their current stage of development. It’s on the coaches to keep the players’ heads out of the clouds over the next week of “cupcake” games — that are not really cupcakes but rather are decent small-conference squads — leading up to Memphis in 11 days.

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