LarryGamLax wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:58 pm
LarryGamLax wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 11:00 am
Someone please explain to me(with real sense) why a
5-8 team is in the top 15? Seriously?? I don't care what their name is.
Why is a 7-7 team in the top 20??
Coaches need to stop rewarding names and pasts and vote on present day merits. It's insulting to do otherwise.
And now it's two 7-8 teams in the top 20?? REALLY? Why? Can anyone explain the rationale and fairness behind that vote?
I really don't care about rankings. A good team can have a bad record and vice versa. Let's look at resume. Don't really want to touch the top 10 right now. Going off IL's current rankings, and including RPI top-40 wins only:
11 JMU: W UConn, OSU, Richmond, UVA, MD, Towson; L UNC, VT, PSU, Rutgers. Up-and-down but seem to have steadied the ship.
12 Princeton: W UVA, Temple, Cornell, USC, PSU; L Loyola, SBU, MD
13 UMass: W Vandy, Richmond, St Joes; L BC, UConn. Too high.
14 Rutgers: W Army, Georgetown (RPI 41), Temple, JMU, JHU, Michigan; L MD, ASU, NU
15 UConn: W UMass, Cornell, Albany; L JMU, Denver. Why are they behind UMass??
16 UVA: W Stanford, Richmond, Louisville; L MD, Princeton, BC, ND, Cuse, JMU, Duke, UNC (all solid teams except ND)
17 USC: W Jax, CO x2, ASU, Michigan; L Princeton, Stanford x2. Really not a bad loss here IMO... the USC-Stanford rivalry is a different animal
18 ND: W UVA, Jax, Yale; L Michigan, Vandy, NU, Cuse, VT, Duke, UNC, BC. Fine except VT and Vandy losses
19 Richmond: W Stanford, St. Joe's, Davidson; L UVA, JMU, UMass. Meh
20 Michigan: W ND, ASU, Towson, JHU, PSU; L Denver, NU, Rutgers, USC, OSU.
WAY too low at 20.
21 Stanford: W Albany, ASU, USC x2, CO; L Cuse, Denver, Richmond, UVA, CO, ASU. The Pac12 really beats up on itself.
22 Jax: W VT, Cornell; L USC, UNC, ND
23 ASU: W CO x2, Rutgers, Stanford; L Michigan, NU, Stanford, USC, Florida, SBU. Only things holding this team back from a higher ranking are Michigan being too low and splitting with Stanford. Ridiculous IMO
24 Navy: W JHU; L St. Joe's, Georgetown
25 Yale: W Albany, Penn, Army, Cornell; L BC, ND
Additional RPI top-40 teams with at least one RPI top-40 win:
NR Temple: W Army, St. Joe's, Vandy; L Princeton, Rutgers, Delaware, Cuse
NR OSU: W PSU, Louisville, Michigan; L Denver, CO, JMU, NU, MD
NR JHU: W Penn, Georgetown, Towson; L Loyola, Navy (by 1), SBU, Michigan, Rutgers, MD. IMO this team should be ranked ahead of Navy.
NR PSU: W Cornell, JMU, St. Joe's, Towson; L Drexel, Loyola, Princeton, OSU, NU, Michigan. If it weren't for the Drexel loss... but this is still more impressive than Navy IMO
NR Louisville: W VT, Vandy; L CO, Denver, BC, UNC, Duke, UVA, OSU, Pitt, Cuse
NR Vandy: W ND, Towson; L CO, Denver, UMass, Temple, Louisville, Florida
NR VT: W JMU, ND; L Jax, Liberty, Louisville, Cuse, UNC, BC, Duke
NR CO: W Louisville, OSU, Vandy, Stanford; L USC x2, ASU x2, Stanford. This team has a real case to be ranked...
NR Towson: W St. Joe's, Georgetown; L MSM, Loyola, Michigan, PSU, Vandy, JMU, JHU
NR Penn: W Georgetown; L JHU, Loyola, Harvard, Duke, MD, Yale, NU, Cornell
NR St. Joe's: W Navy, Davidson; L MD, Temple, Towson, PSU, Richmond, UMass
NR Cornell: W Albany, Penn; L PSU, Princeton, UConn, Jax, Cuse, Yale
NR Georgetown: W Navy; L Rutgers, HJU, Loyola, Penn, Towson, MD, Denver
Personally I'd move UMass and UConn down (I really have no idea why these teams are this high); USC, Michigan, ASU up. There's my top 16. Maybe bring OSU and JHU into the mix. Maybe CO ahead of Yale. To your point Larry, there are a lot of 20-25 and NR teams that have resumes as or more impressive than UVA and ND.