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July 24, 2005

Master Coaches Survey to begin in September

The Master Coaches Survey will issue it's first poll results several weeks into the season, according to the AJC. The new poll will include at least 14 former college coaches.

"We feel like all of the 14 coaches who stayed with us last weekend will join and we hope to add three or four more," said Andy Curtin, an Atlanta-based sports marketer who will serve as executive director of the MCS.

Expected to participate in the poll are: Vince Dooley (Georgia), John Cooper (Ohio State), Pat Dye (Auburn), LaVell Edwards (BYU), Hayden Fry (Iowa), Don James (Washington), Frank Kush (Arizona State), Dick MacPherson (Syracuse), Don Nehlen (West Virginia), John Ralston (Stanford), John Robinson (USC), R.C. Slocum (Texas A&M) and Gene Stallings (Alabama).

MCS coaches will watch game films and conduct a weekly conference call to come to a consensus on their rankings. The MCS will not be released until Wednesday of each week.

The MCS had hoped to be included as part of the BCS poll, but that's been ruled out until at least 2006.

Presuming that the poll does kick off in September, Fanblogs will follow it weekly.

Posted by Kevin Donahue

 

Comments:

  1. ucla2k3 said:

    posted on September 22, 2005 11:54 PM — 63.204.100.98 — link — abuse?



    As the world turns, so does the BCS. You gotta at least give them credit for trying. They have good intentions. And we all know what good intentions lead to. I'm saying it now: this new Harris Interactive Poll will exist this year and this year only. Not only that, for the first time in the history of college football, we're gonna have THREE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! THREE!!!! The AP Champion. The Coaches Champion. The Harris Champion. Do you think whichever school finishes first in the Harris Poll won't proclaim themselves national champions if they don't finish first in either the AP or the Coaches Poll? Come on now. Hold on. There's also the new Master Coaches Survey brainchilded by an attorney in Atlanta with voters being composed of former college coaches. Did I say three national champions? I meant FOUR NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!! Damn!!! If your school can't win one of the four national championship slots this year, just forget about it. The odds do not get any better than this. Good luck to all! GO BRUINS!!!

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