I appreciate the fan based polls vs. the lame VHSL computer based Power rankings, but are there any published rankings from coaches polls?
Coaches Polls
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I don’t believe such a thing exists among VHSL coaches. Would be cool if it did.
I think you are talking about the VHSL HELPER rankings that are terrible. They are made up of an estimate of wins over time.
Thanks Vol.
Not being a Natve of Virginia, I was wondering if I am missing something. There are other states that have coaches rank the best in class teams for newspapers or organizations. Kinda like college. By the end of the season the coaches poll are pretty solid.
In Virginia , if it takes Time ,Effort , or Money . It isn’t happening .
Unfortunately, district and region bias would get in the way. Happens during the all disrict, region and state teams all the time. Virginia used to have an AP Poll back in the day. It was fairly accurate too. Problem is newspaper staff are virtually non existent nowdays and the press doesnt cover high school football like they used to.
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I used to vote in the high school football AP poll when I worked at a radio station that was an AP subscriber. The advent of the internet and decline in truly local radio and newspaper killed AP as it was known.
Wish we could still do an AP poll still.
If we did one on here it'd be biased with so many fans of certain teams lol.
If we did one on here it'd be biased with so many fans of certain teams lol.
My vote back in the day was both biased and ignorant. So I am not sure doing it on here would be any worse.
The death of the AP coverage of HS sports was largely due to the retirement and then passing of Marshall Johnson. Even after he retired, he was instrumental in getting the polls and post season teams done. Once he passed away, even the AP All State teams stopped. I think 2010 was the last year that they were done. Mr. Johnson was a treasure.
https://www.richmond.com/obituaries...cle_adb65a1b-8108-5d0e-bcaa-17151edbeb2f.html
Oh wow! This is great history lesson for all of us. Thank you very much for the post.
