So, in light of Jon Wilner's defensive response to Mike Waters' inquiry in which he blamed it on our non-conf sched., and because it came across as the typical cliche BS answer with a hint of attitude... I decided to waste 20 minutes creepily stalking Wilner's polls for last year.Considering that last season we had a top 5 OOC SOS he should have skewed his polls IN our favor last year, right?
... LOL, nope!
For the 3 polls for the preseason, week 1, and week 2... a total of only 24 pollsters (8 avg) ranked Syracuse higher than Wilner did... while a total of 116 (39 avg) pollsters ranked us lower.
For the 15 polls following week 3 ... a total of 581 pollsters (39 avg) ranked SU higher than Wilner, while just a mere total of 49 (3 avg) ranked us lower.
... strange change of heart. What could explain it?
- At week 2 in the season we had only played Manhattan, Albany, and Colgate... the weakest opponents of our OOC schedule... so clearly it wasn't our strength of schedule bothering poor Jon Wilner.
- In fact, Weeks 0-2 are the only weeks in which Wilner voted us above our mean AP ranking. Every week on and after week 3 he voted us below the mean, and significantly below it in almost every case.
- We actually started playing tougher teams in our non-conference schedule in week 3. We won both games in week 3 as well.
... so what happened in week 3? For someone so influenced by SOS, why did he suddenly start ranking us so atypically low immediately after our schedule got tougher and as we had just beaten two of our relatively tougher OOC opponents?
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Wait, where is Wilner from?
San Jose.
... and what team was it we beat in week 3, by coming from behind, spoiling what seemed to be an imminent major upset on national TV in Madison Square Garden?
Stanford.
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Elementary, Watson!
