Who is the dissenter?
July 17, 2014 by Mike CasazzaAs expected, WVU found itself in eighth place in the Big 12 media’s preseason poll released Thursday. Two things here to discuss:
1) [REDACTED!] [Cripes, the title doesn’t even work now…]
2) WVU was 127 points out of seventh place, which was only 80 points out of third place. That’s amazing and also concerning.
I wrote a little about this in Tuesday’s paper — “Placing is important, but point totals matter, too.” — because realistically the preseason polls and teams are about perception. Placing reveals the perceptions six weeks before the first game, but the point totals allow you to read between the list’s lines.
So the concern here is that not merely that WVU is in eighth place, for a second straight season, but that WVU is perceived to be alarmingly outside even the rather large middle class right now. That’s not a good thing in the third year of this deal.
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