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I know what keeps getting repeated week after week - but you still cannot convince me that the polls are "meaningless". They don't have the weight that football does by any stretch, but they are not just some exercise done by writers for the fun of it either. I"m sure the truth, even if the NCAA claims that the polls are not a metric they use to make selections, is somewhere in the middle.
And, this is why we keep repeating that polls are worthless--so that folks who truly just don't know how the process works aren't misled by pages of analysis on the polls into thinking that it matters. Not talking about you--you simply won't be convinced by the facts, somewhat like conspiracy theorists. I'm talking about the casual fans who just don't follow college baseball and don't know how the selection process works.
When the committee meets, they will actually have a copy of the official RPI and something like Warren Nolan's Nitty Gritty report in front of them. They won't have copies of the polls provided.
It sounds like he realizes that, but if all year long the committee sees a #1 by LSU and #5 by A&M, more often than not bias will exist that LSU is better than A&M even if they have very similar resumes.
This is what I"m talking about more than anything.
I don't care that the committee does not get copies of the polls - one can make a safe assumption that those on the committee are at least somewhat in tune with the baseball landscape as a whole, and likely have at least casually followed the various polls throughout the season.
Again - I am not arguing that the polls are the end all of selection, much to the dismay of what twk wants to believe about me, only that the polls are not exactly "meaningless". Simple logic should tell you as much, it's really not a hard concept.
For much of the selection criteria I have no doubt that they have little, if any, sway in a decision - one would argue that those on the committee should be well aware enough of the top teams that polls are not required. But for the bubble teams, I simply cannot imagine that Joe Q. Committeeman uses only the information provided by the NCAA in front of him, and absolutely zero information he has gained throughout the entirety of the season (yes, including those "meaningless" polls) to help form the best decision he can make.
But apparently I'm just a conspiracy theorist that cannot be convinced by any facts.