I don't see anything out of whack here. You have some positions I didn't choose but you always "show your work" as it were.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:37 am The Poll that Doesn't Matter:
1. Northwestern -- sorry, got to put them here, and it is like sticking an icepick in my foot. Sammy White is back.
What the hell happened between you and Northwestern, Sea? I thought I had a thing against Maryland (and I do) but you sound like a guy who's been traumatized by this team. lol. (I think it's hysterical by the way. Not criticizing in the least. More of it, please. I'm just curious as to how it all started. Was it a game? A series of games? What?
2. Syracuse -- losses to NU, Maryland and Stony Brook. As a certified homer (TM), I am discounting the Terp and SBU losses as stuff that happened almost to someone else, on another planet, in a fictional universe. I am convinced that Syracuse would beat them both now.
3. Notre Dame -- don't know what to say; when they are good, they are good. Put them here just because everyone else is brainfarting (yes, Virginia, I am looking at you).
4. Boston College -- they are here for now, but the fact is there is something I can't put my finger on that is missing here. I don't think Smith is "regressing," as someone said. She just isn't in the rhythm of this offense the way she was with previous teams. The win against UNC yesterday was OK, sort of workmanlike, nothing like the Syracuse pasting of UNC.
Agreed
5. Penn -- impressive and disciplined effort and result in Terptown mid-week.
6. Maryland -- good bounce-back win in Ann Arbor yesterday, and Reese and Phipps outcoached Nielsen and staff. Maryland's offense will be the thing that keeps them from the Final Four this year.
7. Michigan -- lost to Terps at home, in the first game (as usual, and I mean it: no offense to any other team) that actually mattered. This idiot observer thought that the immense tension on Nielsen's face the entire second half trickled down to her players and tightened them up for at least the entire 4th quarter. Reese, on the other hand, was smiling and making the players laugh and loose. It matters when the chips are down. Michigan's offense is, actually, pretty anemic.
Outstanding insights. You really study/watch the games. I don't know how you do it with 3 games humming at the same time, but... In any event, I didn't pay nearly as good attention so this is good shtuff.
8. Loyola -- played Colgate and -- surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- won easily.
9. JHU -- very convincing win over a good -- not great -- JMU team. Twenty-one goals against a pretty able defense.
10. Florida -- just cruising along now. But realistically, since the relatively narrow win over Princeton (16-13), they haven't played anyone who could really be expected to give them a game. Let's see if JMU gives them a game in a couple of weeks.
Yale, Denver, and Virginia (losing to Duke is very nearly a felony; surprised these kids aren't in jail this morning) hovering just below.
OK, tell me how badly I f*cked up here. And since when did you become ol' Latrine Lips? lol
Great lines: Virginia (losing to Duke is very nearly a felony; surprised these kids aren't in jail this morning)
I am discounting the Terp and SBU losses as stuff that happened almost to someone else, on another planet, in a fictional universe. I am convinced that Syracuse would beat them both now.
And agreed on the Syracuse take, by the way.
