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Post by gomocs on Oct 26, 2023 7:26:19 GMT -5
Good morning. I am the admin/founder of Moc Nation for those who don’t know me. Before that I was one of the admins of Moc Fans so I have been doing this for about 20 years. One thing I have noticed over the years is that while some of the media is informed and does their job well, we as most any conference, have media that is un-informed. That same media gets to vote on preseason and postseason polls and players of the year. IMO many of us hardcore fans know the conference better than that segment of the media.
So, what I am proposing is that we have a SoCon Fans Power Poll. There will be a representative from each school who will vote weekly in an email ranking the conference teams. Initially it will be for men’s basketball only. Each representative will not be allowed to vote for his/her school, thus at least partially eliminating some built-in bias. If this works out well, we could look at adding football and women’s basketball next season. If we can show we take this serious maybe the SoCon will give us some credence and acknowledge our efforts. I will take the lead for this first season and compile the weekly poll which will be done by an email in system. So, what I am asking of you is to come up with one person for your school who will agree to take the time and do this seriously. Who is that fan for your school? You guys can figure that out.
I will check back in a day or two and hopefully you will have a name and an email address.
Additionally, anybody know any serious fan for UNCG? They don’t have a board that gets any traffic that I can find. Thanks -Bob Mulkey
My suggestion: Cole Spivey
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2023 8:55:52 GMT -5
Good morning. I am the admin/founder of Moc Nation for those who don’t know me. Before that I was one of the admins of Moc Fans so I have been doing this for about 20 years. One thing I have noticed over the years is that while some of the media is informed and does their job well, we as most any conference, have media that is un-informed. That same media gets to vote on preseason and postseason polls and players of the year. IMO many of us hardcore fans know the conference better than that segment of the media. So, what I am proposing is that we have a SoCon Fans Power Poll. There will be a representative from each school who will vote weekly in an email ranking the conference teams. Initially it will be for men’s basketball only. Each representative will not be allowed to vote for his/her school, thus at least partially eliminating some built-in bias. If this works out well, we could look at adding football and women’s basketball next season. If we can show we take this serious maybe the SoCon will give us some credence and acknowledge our efforts. I will take the lead for this first season and compile the weekly poll which will be done by an email in system. So, what I am asking of you is to come up with one person for your school who will agree to take the time and do this seriously. Who is that fan for your school? You guys can figure that out. I will check back in a day or two and hopefully you will have a name and an email address. Additionally, anybody know any serious fan for UNCG? They don’t have a board that gets any traffic that I can find. Thanks -Bob Mulkey My suggestion: Cole Spivey Not sure why you posted this here, you've got your man, seems as it's between you and Cole. Good Luck...
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Post by gomocs on Oct 26, 2023 9:34:31 GMT -5
Thanks, seems you endorse Cole. I know he loves SoCon basketball. I will ask him.
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Post by The Cats on Oct 26, 2023 12:21:19 GMT -5
I think it's a good idea if you can get someone from each school... Good Luck
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Post by gomocs on Oct 26, 2023 12:41:05 GMT -5
Since this morning we have UTC, Wofford, Citadel and expecting Cole to represent yall. Furman has the guy in mind waiting for him to show up on their board. Pushing to get all. Thanks.
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Post by catamountman231 on Oct 26, 2023 16:30:11 GMT -5
I think Cole would be an excellent choice
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Post by The Cats on Oct 26, 2023 16:34:45 GMT -5
Since this morning we have UTC, Wofford, Citadel and expecting Cole to represent yall. Furman has the guy in mind waiting for him to show up on their board. Pushing to get all. Thanks. I recommend you create a twitter account in the name of poll to announce the results each week (it needs it's own ID), then get the other boards to push the poll each week, on their board and on twitter. I'll do that for the Cats on this board and I have 4.5k followers on Twitter that I'll push it out to as well.
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Post by wcatradio75 on Nov 4, 2023 7:45:03 GMT -5
Good idea! Thanks for taking up the mantle for this. And Jerry- Thanks for endorsing.
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Post by gomocs on Nov 5, 2023 13:22:33 GMT -5
great idea.....will do it by next week.
Here is week 1
SoCon Fan’s Power Poll – Week 1 Team 1st Place Votes Total Pts Place Last Week 1 FURMAN 7 77 2 WESTERN CAROLINA 2 74 3 UNCG 1 63 4 SAMFORD 58 5 CHATTANOOGA 50 6 MERCER 38 7 ETSU 37 8 WOFFORD 25 9 VMI 15 10 CITADEL 13 Votes are cast by a respected fan of each school. That school’s voter cannot vote for his/her school. Poll as of November 6, 2023.
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Post by catamountman231 on Nov 17, 2023 16:51:20 GMT -5
Where do we see week 2?
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