WE NEED TO CHANGE THE THREAD TITLE:
DOUG GOTTLIEB: Closet Duke Homer?
Here's the real list
1. UCLA
2. Memphis
3. Duke
4. North Carolina
5. Georgetown
6. Kansas
7. Texas
8. Washington State
9. Texas A&M
10. Marquette
11. Butler
12. Clemson
13. Tennessee
14. Michigan State
15. BYU
16. Vanderbilt
Gottlieb has us ahead of UNC.
A lot of respect here. Kind of surprising seeing how they are above Kansas and Georgetown.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/powerr...on=2008&week=4
lookin at who voted duke where in their personal Power 16... Fran Fraschilla has them at #2!!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3131857
Seems that something has changed. Look at what Gottlieb has Duke at now at this same link (in the quoted text above). #3!
Here's his top 10:1. UCLAGrey Devil
2. Memphis
3. Duke
4. North Carolina
5. Georgetown
6. Kansas
7. Texas
8. Washington State
9. Texas A&M
10. Marquette
When I first posted this thread, the latest ESPN Power 16 had just been released and it looks like it did not have Gottlieb's updated rankings. Do you think he didn't vote originally or that his personal ranking was just not updated?
In the prior weeks of the Power 16 rankings, Gottlieb didn't have Duke ranked, which i found unfounded. So today, Gottlieb goes from not ranking Duke in prior weeks to now #3 - quite a shift. I wonder if someone at ESPN or his fellow rankers said something to him?
Regardless, I am glad Doug has awakened and smelled the coffee!!
If I had to guess, I suspect that he voted originally and then did not do so subsequently. I think this is his first update of his original rankings (which explains the big shift). As was noted in several other posts, he had many anomalies, including other teams that clearly shouldn't have been there as of last week (such as Kentucky. I think the Duke omission was merely a case of Gottlieb not having entered data at all recently, and not an intended slight at Duke. It would not have been unreasonable at all to have Duke outside the "power 16" as of preseason.
Gottlieb is clearly the anti-Christ. He should be hanged by his lips with fishing hooks from the scoreboard in Cameron and flogged with two-by-fours filled with rusty nails.
Everyone had a slightly different list of hoped for improvements for different players coming into the season, not to mention high expectations for Singlar et al. How many seem to have been met? Pretty remarkable, if you ask me. None, by itself, is particularly surprising (except for the changes in the K man his ownself). But all of them? Together?
Who would have thunk it?
well, even ESPN needs a good douche...who cares what he thinks anyway, he's about as useful as binoculars in Cameron
Don't be silly, not everyone knows Doug Gottlieb
Wow. Those chat questions are obnoxious, but Gottleib's answers are even more childish.
Lol.Don't be silly, not everyone knows Doug Gottlieb
Only 54 more posts and I'll be JJ. It's all I ever wanted for Christmas from 2002 to 2005 Maybe this year!
This question nearly made me spew Sprite...
Mike Indiana: How did your mediocre basketball career prepare you for a mediocre broadcasting career?
Awesome.
-EJ
Indeed. What an a&& bag. I've got a friend, by the way, who started off as a Domino's pizza delivery boy, worked his way up, and now owns several stores and is quite successful. Loves his job.
Doug needs to be careful. Statements like that will alert the Karma police to render justice. And you don't want the Karma police to render justice on yo person.
-EJ