Banned and Ranked

[Dad2ze]

Watching ESPN and they had a brief chat about SMU being ranked 15 and banned. I don't agree that a team can have anpost season but yet be ranked in the AP Poll. Just my thoughts.

Agree or disagree???

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

Though it doesn't seem to make much sense, rankings don't really mean anything anyways. That said, teams are ranked based on how they are playing, and despite not being eligible for the tournament, they are undefeated and it could be argued that they are under ranked due to their inelligibility.

 

[Dattier]

Watching ESPN and they had a brief chat about SMU being ranked 15 and banned. I don't agree that a team can have anpost season but yet be ranked in the AP Poll. Just my thoughts.

Agree or disagree???

It's an interesting thing to consider, but I could go either way. If I had a vote, If I were a voter, I might leave a really good but banned team out if I wanted to make room for one more, but I also might go ahead and rank them as a form of protest if I thought the punishment was too severe or something.

 

[df64]

Simple compromise guys. If Larry Brown and SMU have to fall on the sword for UNC's academic scandal, the least we can do is let them be ranked. Really kind of big of Larry to go so far out of his way to get sanctioned so at least someone from UNC got punished by the NCAA

 

[Dad2ze]

Simple compromise guys. If Larry Brown and SMU have to fall on the sword for UNC's academic scandal, the least we can do is let them be ranked. Really kind of big of Larry to go so far out of his way to get sanctioned so at least someone from UNC got punished by the NCAA

Haven't looked at it like that. Thanks for the perspective.

 

[DevilDJ]

Simple compromise guys. If Larry Brown and SMU have to fall on the sword for UNC's academic scandal, the least we can do is let them be ranked. Really kind of big of Larry to go so far out of his way to get sanctioned so at least someone from UNC got punished by the NCAA

Well said.