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AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS PVS 1 Alabama (58) 3-0 1498 1 2 LSU (2) 3-0 1433 3 3 Oregon 3-0 1356 4 4 Florida State 3-0 1275 5 5 Georgia 3-0 1203 7 6 Oklahoma 2-0 1181 5 7 South Carolina 3-0 1081 8 8 West Virginia 2-0 1051 9 9 Stanford 3-0 1009 21 10 Clemson 3-0 899 11 11 Notre Dame 3-0 854 20 12 Texas 3-0 816 14 13 USC 2-1 776 2 14 Florida 3-0 743 18 15 Kansas State 3-0 683 15 16 Ohio State 3-0 680 12 17 TCU 2-0 535 16 18 Michigan 2-1 448 17 19 UCLA 3-0 429 22 20 Louisville 3-0 366 19 21 Michigan State 2-1 318 10 22 Arizona 3-0 296 24 23 Mississippi State 3-0 106 NR 24 Boise State 1-1 95 NR 25 Nebraska 2-1 80 NR <p class="mod-footer">

  • Dropped from rankings: Virginia Tech 13, Tennessee 23, Brigham Young 25

  • Others receiving votes: OREGONST 68, Baylor 55, NORTHWSTRN 41, Ohio 20, Oklahoma State 19, Rutgers 19, IOWAST 15, Virginia Tech 13, Cincinnati 9, Tennessee 6, Wisconsin 5, Texas Tech 5, Texas A&M 4, Missouri 4, Georgia Tech 3, FRESNOST 2, Utah 1

 
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You don't need to have played football to make observations about it. You don't need to have played football to officiate it. You don't need to have played football in order to coach it.

 
tmfr15 said:
You don't need to have played football to make observations about it. You don't need to have played football to officiate it. You don't need to have played football in order to coach it.
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It sure as hell helps though. I have never met a person that actually understands the deep down physical roots of football that never actually played it. That includes leach and mangino.

 
husker B-rent said:
tmfr15 said:
You don't need to have played football to make observations about it. You don't need to have played football to officiate it. You don't need to have played football in order to coach it.
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It sure as hell helps though. I have never met a person that actually understands the deep down physical roots of football that never actually played it. That includes leach and mangino.
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+1 for that last sentence. lol :lol:

 
As much as people bag on sports broadcasters and sportswriters, they pay attention to this stuff for a living, and even if you disagree with their opinions, they're not idiots. In fact, they're a lot more knowledgeable than most posters here, maybe even the vast majority. They make bad and good decisions just like the rest of us.

 
It may add to your knowledge to have played football, but I don't think it gives you a major advantage over those people who have not. If you go down the vein of you have to played it to understand it, then you have to have played college ball to understand it, major college ball, as a starter, as a starter with significant playing time, etc. etc.

Even then, it would be like, "Hey, you played DB, there is no way you would understand the battle in the trenches." Or "Hey, you have never been a kicker, so you don't know the pressures that we kickers face." etc. etc.

 
tmfr15 said:
You don't need to have played football to make observations about it. You don't need to have played football to officiate it. You don't need to have played football in order to coach it.
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And you didn't have to play football to make comments on a message board.
 
Why don't we just institute the rule that you have to have played professional football, and be a major contributor, in order comment on this message board? That should thin the ranks, to about zero.

 
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