TSN Poll Voters Exposed

[CoachL]

Pioneer Football League

Cody Bush - Media Relations Director Pioneer Football League AND Sports Information Coordinator for Austin Peay of the Ohio Valley Conference

Jack Cronin - Play-by-play announcer for San Diego

Drew Dickerson - Director of Athletic Media Relations at Morehead State

Jeff Elliott - Sports writer for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, FL

Mike Ferraro - SID at Marist

Marc Gignac - SID at Davidson

Ted Gosen - Associate Director of Athletics for Media Relations at San Diego

Joel Lamp - SID at Jacksonville

Mike Mahon - SID at Drake

Barry Milligan - Assistant to the Athletic Director and play-by-play announcer for Jacksonville

Chuck Mraz - Play-by-play announcer for Morehead State

Joe Prisco - Assistant Sports Information/Football Contact at Campbell

Ryan Wronkowicz - Assistant AD for Media Relations at Valparaiso

No one from Butler or Dayton.

[Col Hogan]

Putting their names on a list is not exposing their shitty ballots.

The TSN will only fix itself when its willing to show each of these ballots.

Matt Vautour, who is the UMass Sports beat reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, usually posts his poll...

Here's his ballot from the past week...

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[blukeys]

So will we ever find out which of these idiots voted for Delaware State to be in the top 25 when they were winless for 6 weeks.

This of course be more of Kevin Tresolini just pumping up DSU for their big time rivalry with UD.

[Knucklehead]

Big South:
John Avery
Wade Branner
Blake Freeland
Adam Gutes
Brent Hager
Matt Hogue - Don't like this guy at all, but not sure about his qualifications. He's some kind of AD type at Coastal
Chris Lang - Writer for Lynchburg N and A. Best man for the job from the Big South, familiar with Big Sky teams as well as Big South
Marc Rabb
Mark Simpson
Todd Wetmore- Liberty Assistant AD of Sport Comms. I can't imagine he's following every game, as he's pretty busy.

Wade Branner is the VMI SID

[JayJ79]

I wonder if the same people vote each week, or if it changes from week to week, depending on who sends in their ballots. (I could also see it perhaps being the case that a ballot is sent to the Sports Info office of the various schools and they can pick whoever on their staffs to fill it out on any given week)

[clenz]

Yeah, I'm not sure how Kara got the vote from UNI a head of some of the others in the department

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

I know Ace Hunt (Indiana State) and Mike Williams (Illinois State) pretty well...good guys!

I sure wish their first names were switched.

[siuham]

I know Ace Hunt (Indiana State) and Mike Williams (Illinois State) pretty well...good guys!

I sure wish their first names were switched.

Ace's real first name is Achim. Achimhunt? Eh...Still not funny enough.

[CatMom]

I wonder if the same people vote each week, or if it changes from week to week, depending on who sends in their ballots. (I could also see it perhaps being the case that a ballot is sent to the Sports Info office of the various schools and they can pick whoever on their staffs to fill it out on any given week)

Tyler Mayforth hasn't missed a week and he has posted his every week.

[∞∞∞]

Rich Radford's ballot this week:

The Sports Network is now running the names of all of its poll participants. Of course, if you read this blog for a while now you know I vote ... and I reveal my votes every week. Here's how I voted this week:

1. Delaware
2. Appalachian State
3. Jacksonville State
4. William and Mary
5. Villanova
6. Stephen F. Austin
7. Montana
8. Wofford
9. Chattanooga
10. Jacksonville
11. Southeast Missouri State
12. Bethune-Cookman
13. James Madison
14. Montana State
15. Massachusetts
16. New Hampshire
17. Eastern Washington
18. Cal Poly
19. Penn
20. Grambling State
21. Furman
22. Liberty
23. Jackson State
24. Elon
25. South Carolina State

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/my-votes-fcs-poll-week

[SmallCollegeFBFan]

Southern Conference:

Jay Blackman - UTC, Assistant AD - Communications and Media Relations
Tommy Bowman - ASU, Winston-Salem Journal App beat writer
Rose Carter - GSU, Assistant AD/Media Relations
Mike Flynn - ASU, SID
Don Heath - GSU, Savannah Morning News GSU beat writer
David Jackson - ASU, Assistant AD/Media Relations/Radio Play By Play
Joey Mullins - Samford, SID
Noelle Orr-Blaney - The Citadel, Media Relations Director
Chris Rash - The Citadel, Assistant Director of Media Relations
Hunter Reid - Furman, SID
Mandrallius Robinson - Furman, The Greenville News Furman beat writer
Adam Smith - Elon, The Burlington Times-News Elon beat writer
Brent Williamson - Wofford, Assistant Athletic Director of Media Relations
Jason Yaman - SoCon, Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations

Rash is actually at Elon. Jackson is just the play by play guy for ASU and not a media relations person. The rest are correct from what I know.

[CatMom]

I wonder if the same people vote each week, or if it changes from week to week, depending on who sends in their ballots. (I could also see it perhaps being the case that a ballot is sent to the Sports Info office of the various schools and they can pick whoever on their staffs to fill it out on any given week)

Tyler Mayforth hasn't missed a week and he has posted his every week.

Posted by Tyler Mayforth at 9:13 AM Monday, October 18, 2010
College Football: How Mayforth voted in the Oct. 18th version of the TSN Top 25 Poll

1. Delaware
2. Appalachian St.
3. Jacksonville St.
4. William & Mary
5. Stephen F. Austin
6. Villanova
7. Eastern Washington
8. Liberty
9. Wofford
10. New Hampshire
11. James Madison
12. Massachusetts
13. SE Missouri St.
14. Montana St.
15. Richmond
16. Montana
17. South Carolina St.
18. Bethune-Cookman
19. Penn
20. Robert Morris
21. Dayton
22. Western Illinois
23. Jacksonville
24. Furman
25. Northern Arizona

[rueful]

what the what? Im a pretty big liberty homer, but how the hell would we be above BOTH james madison and RMU, let alone ranked 8th????

[tampajag]

SWAC:
Rodney Bush - Texas Southern SID
Tom Galbraith - SWAC Assistant Commissioner for Communications
Ley Jean - Play-by-Play announcer for Alabama A&M
Leonard Moon - PVU sports announcer
Roderick Mosley - Grambling SID
Wesley Peterson - Media Relations Manager Jackson St.
Brandon Willis - AAMU SID

[UAalum72]

I wonder if the same people vote each week, or if it changes from week to week, depending on who sends in their ballots. (I could also see it perhaps being the case that a ballot is sent to the Sports Info office of the various schools and they can pick whoever on their staffs to fill it out on any given week)

No, because a number of the voters are print media employees, not from universities. Does TSN decide who gets to vote, and by extension how many voters come from each conference? Unlike the coaches' poll which has two representatives from each league.

A poll that influences at-large selections should give each league voters proportional to its number of teams.

If TSN send ballots to the league office, and the league doesn't send them all out, or sends them to reps who fail to vote, that's a different problem, and the office has to get on the ball.

[SmallCollegeFBFan]

Big South:
John Avery
Wade Branner- VMI SID
Blake Freeland- Charleston Southern SID
Adam Gutes- Stony Brook SID
Brent Hager
Matt Hogue - Don't like this guy at all, but not sure about his qualifications. He's some kind of AD type at Coastal
Chris Lang - Writer for Lynchburg N and A. Best man for the job from the Big South, familiar with Big Sky teams as well as Big South
Marc Rabb- Gardner-Webb SID
Mark Simpson- Big South Media Relations Director
Todd Wetmore- Liberty Assistant AD of Sport Comms. I can't imagine he's following every game, as he's pretty busy.

Wade Branner is the VMI SID

Filled in the ones I know

[CatMom]

what the what? Im a pretty big liberty homer, but how the hell would we be above BOTH james madison and RMU, let alone ranked 8th????

I've commented on his poll a few times. Don't honestly think he does a lot of research

[Jacksfan29]

Rich Radford's ballot this week:

The Sports Network is now running the names of all of its poll participants. Of course, if you read this blog for a while now you know I vote ... and I reveal my votes every week. Here's how I voted this week:

1. Delaware
2. Appalachian State
3. Jacksonville State
4. William and Mary
5. Villanova
6. Stephen F. Austin
7. Montana
8. Wofford
9. Chattanooga
10. Jacksonville
11. Southeast Missouri State
12. Bethune-Cookman
13. James Madison
14. Montana State
15. Massachusetts
16. New Hampshire
17. Eastern Washington
18. Cal Poly
19. Penn
20. Grambling State
21. Furman
22. Liberty
23. Jackson State
24. Elon
25. South Carolina State

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/my-votes-fcs-poll-week

Not one MVFC team rated in his top 25?

[Cap'n Cat]

Rich Radford's ballot this week:


http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/my-votes-fcs-poll-week

Not one MVFC team rated in his top 25?

Bias.

[Jacksfan29]

Not one MVFC team rated in his top 25?

Bias.

Actually, I think pure stupidity. I'll take any of the bottom three finishers in the MVFC at the end of this year and match them up with a rated school from (name the weak conference) and give you 14.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

what the what? Im a pretty big liberty homer, but how the hell would we be above BOTH james madison and RMU, let alone ranked 8th????

I've commented on his poll a few times. Don't honestly think he does a lot of research

I wonder if he does. What research do you think he did on that one that lead him to believe that Liberty is a #8 at this point? Any reasoning he did to put Liberty above JMU he would have to use that same logic in getting RMU above Liberty wouldn't he?

[DSUrocks07]

Bias.

Actually, I think pure stupidity. I'll take any of the bottom three finishers in the MVFC at the end of this year and match them up with a rated school from (name the weak conference) and give you 14.

You could say that every year...so what is your point?

[Jacksfan29]

Actually, I think pure stupidity. I'll take any of the bottom three finishers in the MVFC at the end of this year and match them up with a rated school from (name the weak conference) and give you 14.

You could say that every year...so what is your point?

I believe my point was in reference to one Rich Radford's weekly poll which had no MVFC teams in the top 25 while having a number of teams from much weaker conferences ranked.

[CoachL]

Actually, I think pure stupidity. I'll take any of the bottom three finishers in the MVFC at the end of this year and match them up with a rated school from (name the weak conference) and give you 14.

[clenz]

Actually, I think pure stupidity. I'll take any of the bottom three finishers in the MVFC at the end of this year and match them up with a rated school from (name the weak conference) and give you 14.

SDSU is 2-4 and I would put money on them against 90% of the FCS