The Polls...

[RedAR]

Have you been over to the USCHO boards recently?  Those North Dakotans have it stuck in their head that NoDak is a top ranked team (1-3), while Cornell hasn't played anyone, Cornell should be maybe a #9 team.

I'll admit, I've been getting a bit over-zealous in the discussion over there, but, man, it's frustrating trying to have a discussion with people who are as stubborn as a stone.

[jy3]

USA Today/American Hockey Magazine
Men's College Hockey Poll - Dec. 9, 2002
No. Team Total Points
(1st-place votes
in parentheses) Overall
Record
 Last Rank
1. Maine   237 (5)  11-1-2      1
2. North Dakota   236 (7)  14-1-1  T-3
3. Colorado College   226 (4)  13-1-2      5
4. Cornell   199 (1)  10-1-0      7
5. New Hampshire   181  10-3-2      2
6. Boston College   172    9-3-2  T-3
7. Denver   154  12-4-2      6
8. Minnesota   119    9-4-4   10
T-9. Ferris State   108  12-4-0      9
 Michigan   108  11-4-1      8
11. Harvard     99    9-3-0  12
12. Ohio State     79  10-4-1    14
13. Miami (OH)     41  12-5-1    11
14. Northern Michigan     30    9-5-1    NR
15. Boston University     21    8-6-2    13
Others receiving votes: Yale 12, University of Massachusetts 7, Providence College 7, Dartmouth 4

[jy3]

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
December 9, 2002

   Team      (First Place)    Record  Pts   Last Week
 1 North Dakota       (28)    14-1-1  574     1
 2 Maine              ( 7)    11-1-2  555     3
 3 Colorado College   ( 4)    13-1-2  529     5
 4 Cornell            ( 1)    10-1-0  461     7
 5 New Hampshire              10-3-2  449     2
 6 Boston College              9-3-2  399     4
 7 Denver                     12-4-2  320     6
 8 Minnesota                   9-4-4  284    10
 9 Ferris State               12-4-0  279     9
10 Michigan                   11-4-1  234     8
11 Harvard                     9-3-0  223    12
12 Ohio State                 10-4-1  197    14
13 Miami                      12-5-1   88    11
14 Boston University           8-6-2   67    13
-- Northern Michigan           9-5-1   67     -

Others receiving votes: Yale 31, Massachusetts 18,
Dartmouth 10, Providence 7, Alaska-Fairbanks 2,
Notre Dame 2, Quinnipiac 2, Brown 1, Minnesota-Duluth 1

[gtsully]

I actually liked the "Board scores..." line better, but maybe that's because I somehow didn't get into Colgate...

[jtwcornell91]

Actually, Wisconsin, Mankato, and St. Cloud are all TUCs despite having losing records, because their RPIs are above .500.

[Beeeej]

Don't feel bad; SUNY Binghamton wait-listed me.

Beeeej

[bigred apple]

SUNY-B outright rejected me.  So did Colgate for that matter. Cornell told me to try again in later, and that's what I did.  I still chant "safety school" at 'gate because they were a safety school for me.   I clearly vastly overrated my college prospects.

[asshole 04]

So, I didn't want to jinx our meaningless polls and be too "I think that Cornell is superior to your shit hockey program" with my liberal poll predictions, but after sunday's games I came up with where I thought that everyone should be ranked:

01 NODAK
02 MAINE
03 CC
04 CORNELL
05 UNH
06 BC
07 DENVER
08 MINNESOTA
09 HARVARD(SUCKS)
10 FERRIS
11 MICHIGAN
12 OHIO ST
13 MIAMI
14 (SCREW)BU
15 N MICHIGAN

Others: Providence, Massachusetts, Yale, Dartmouth, Minn-Dul, St. Cloud, Quinnipiac

With the exception of Harvard and a couple of "others", I was dead balls on the money.  Usually I think that we're extremely underrated and I think the the poll people need to spend more time licking my nut-sack, I believe that this time Cornell really got the respect that it deserved and I congratulate the pollers on being able to suck it up and be able to admit that Cornell is a national hockey powerhouse that's not to be reckoned with.  

              woot,
                 ass

dudes, I'm absolutely trashed right now, so if that made no sense at all, I apologize in advance.

[Beeeej]

Congratulations on making incredibly accurate predictions that nobody's in any kind of position to verify or believe you actually made prior to Monday's polls.  :-))

Beeeej

[bigred apple]

I predict that the 43d President of the United States will be George W. Bush.  It is going to be a very close election.

[jason]

A-hole,
Sorry to hear about your dead balls. Maybe letting all those stangers lick your "nut-sack" was the culprit. :-P

[chag]

ugh........what a disgusting visual

I predict my extra at Harvard tickets will go to someone else.

[Matthew Miller]

ouch...

[Beeeej]

Even their coach disagrees with them.  From http://uscho.com/news/2002/12/13_005675.php :

The consensus belief was that it would take another year before York and Blais were competing for any championships, but a check of the latest polls would find North Dakota sitting at No. 1 and Boston College five spots behind at No. 6.

"I think a more accurate ranking would have us at 12th or 13th," Blais said. "I don't think there's a dominant team in the country, though, so we have as good of a chance as anyone."

Beeeej