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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 1695334" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>I don’t think anyone on here has suggested the AP Poll is as accurate or meaningful as things like the NET Rankings or KenPom or that your AP rank says anything particularly important about how your team is doing.</p><p></p><p>What we HAVE said - and should be completely agreed upon by 100% of the posters here - is that being “ranked” carries some prestige with casual fans, and it can only be a good thing as far as exposure, program perception, game times that are still TBD, etc. I don’t buy for one second that this group “needs” any alleged “advantage” of not being ranked like not having it go to their heads or putting a chip on their shoulder.</p><p></p><p>So, even if rankings “are meaningless” in some capacity … simply put, it’s better to be ranked than not be ranked. Perfectly reasonable for a fan to care about being ranked, perfectly reasonable for a fan to not put as much stock in it, but it’s absurd to actively not want to be ranked or try to persuade other fans that they should care about it less (both of which I’ve seen here before).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 1695334, member: 590800"] I don’t think anyone on here has suggested the AP Poll is as accurate or meaningful as things like the NET Rankings or KenPom or that your AP rank says anything particularly important about how your team is doing. What we HAVE said - and should be completely agreed upon by 100% of the posters here - is that being “ranked” carries some prestige with casual fans, and it can only be a good thing as far as exposure, program perception, game times that are still TBD, etc. I don’t buy for one second that this group “needs” any alleged “advantage” of not being ranked like not having it go to their heads or putting a chip on their shoulder. So, even if rankings “are meaningless” in some capacity … simply put, it’s better to be ranked than not be ranked. Perfectly reasonable for a fan to care about being ranked, perfectly reasonable for a fan to not put as much stock in it, but it’s absurd to actively not want to be ranked or try to persuade other fans that they should care about it less (both of which I’ve seen here before). [/QUOTE]
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