“This year, the BCS Standings will once again include three components: USA Today Coaches Poll, Harris Interactive College Football Poll and an average of six computer rankings. Each component will count one-third of a team’s overall BCS score in the BCS Standings.”

cool. my question was only whether you liked the coaches poll because you thought coaches are more credible or because it was a bcs factor

To Taggart and his staff, the joke is that, with all the obvious responsibilities of reloading a national title winner upon Saban, anyone would believe he has the time or interest to actually get mad at reporters.

This can’t be true, it makes too much sense.

College football is mind-bogglingly stupid when you take the 30,000-foot view.

it’s only stupid because you can’t see shit from way up there.

Didn’t this site rip Nick Saban for telling college football journalists how to do their jobs?

I’m all for pointing out hypocrisy, but that’s nowhere near the same thing.

Didn’t this site rip Nick Saban for telling college football journalists how to do their jobs?

really enjoyed this piece.

The press conference makes national headlines by morning. Several pundits are quick to jump on Saban for bullying the media and trying to control the press. Even more begin to mock the mere concept that the Hilltoppers could ever compete with Bama, let alone threaten to beat them.

When I mention the reaction — and the subsequent press it’s given WKU — on Thursday afternoon, Taggart grins ear to ear, just like Guidry, in the same amused, somewhat patronizing way. He’s sitting at his desk watching cut-ups of the Tide’s 2011 defense against Penn State and Florida.

“That wasn’t for the media,” he snickers. “That had nothing to do with the media. That was for his players. He’s an old, wise, wily veteran.”

After a beat he slaps his hands together and laughs, in on a joke that seemingly not a single member of the national college sports media gets: Saban doesn’t give a damn what’s written about Alabama, only that the media has some role in influencing his players’ mindset. Information absorption is one of the few aspects of their lives he can’t control outright, so he’s taken to a kind of disinformation campaign to refocus his team, at the press’ expense. To Taggart and his staff, the joke is that, with all the obvious responsibilities of reloading a national title winner upon Saban, anyone would believe he has the time or interest to actually get mad at reporters.

“They went from an ‘upset alert’ to this. He got the media mad, and the media got his team focused! College football, college football … You gotta love it,” he laughs.

“This year, the BCS Standings will once again include three components: USA Today Coaches Poll, Harris Interactive College Football Poll and an average of six computer rankings. Each component will count one-third of a team’s overall BCS score in the BCS Standings.”

I believe so, which is crazy dumb. They need to be held accountable. Or the SID.

do you mean the coach’s poll counts in postseason formulations?

Yes.

I’d be more interested in a break down of the coaches poll

They only release how they voted on the last one, right?