Further Blogpoll Rejiggerations

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Election Night Dawg Bites
Published 7/16/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
I’m not going to lie to you: I have a lot of ground to cover and we’re going to be jumping around quite a bit, so, if all this seems pretty random, don’t worry; it’s not just you. Here are the minutiae of which you need to be aware, arrayed in all their crazed randomness: I’m thinking seriously of taking a week off, because Paul Westerdawg is doing the work of ten Georgia bloggers. Among his latest gems is this run-down, which confirms the sad news that David Ching now will be covering Auburn. I wouldn’t wish an Auburn affiliation on a beat reporter I didn’t like, but, since David went to school there, he ...

Under Renovation
Published 7/28/2008 by Joey (noreply@blogger.com) at Straight Bangin'
... 1) The BlogPoll Voters Are Gone. Indeed. My college-football blogging has waned over the past year, and with it went my membership in the BlogPoll. I got dropped as a voter earlier this month. Ironically, I intend to write much more about Michigan football this season and in the future, as I will no longer sound like a (validated) broken record, what with bummy-ass Lloyd Carr gone off into the sunset. The Roch Rodriguez Era brings with it uncertainty and, I'd imagine, many new topics to consider. The BlogPoll decision coincided with my desire to clean up the ...

A Preliminary Public Draft of My 2008 Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
Published 7/28/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
After offering some preliminary notes on my preseason BlogPoll ballot, I drew up and circulated privately an initial draft of my top 25, with respect to which I solicited and received feedback from friends and family members. Ere I submit for your review a revised (yet still far from final) version of my preseason rankings, I feel compelled to include a handful of caveats: This top 25 is intended to have what it almost certainly will lack; namely, predictive value. If I am successful in my objective, my final BlogPoll ballot and my original BlogPoll ballot will be identical. My goal is to produce an ...