Rasor Poll

[Dave in Green]

Rasor has an interesting poll up on the ABJ website that appears to show more interest in Zips basketball than football. It's not scientific, and maybe it's just a case of more Zips basketball fans following Rasor than football fans. But here is where the poll stands as of the time this thread is being started:

What would you rather see happen?

Zips basketball plays in Final Four (29%, 84 Votes)

Zips football plays in BCS game (25%, 72 Votes)

Zips soccer wins NCAA Championship (23%, 66 Votes)

LeBron James stays in Cleveland (23%, 65 Votes)

Total Voters: 287

Link to Rasor Poll

[skip-zip]

Rasor has an interesting poll up on the ABJ website that appears to show more interest in Zips basketball than football. It's not scientific, and maybe it's just a case of more Zips basketball fans following Rasor than football fans. But here is where the poll stands as of the time this thread is being started:

What would you rather see happen?

Zips basketball plays in Final Four (29%, 84 Votes)

Zips football plays in BCS game (25%, 72 Votes)

Zips soccer wins NCAA Championship (23%, 66 Votes)

LeBron James stays in Cleveland (23%, 65 Votes)

Total Voters: 287

Link to Rasor Poll

Is that referring to "any" BCS bowl game? Or the BCS championship game? If it's the championship game, I would vote for that in a heartbeat over just being in a final four. For no other reason than the fact that we'd be one win away from a national title, as opposed to two wins away from a national title. Not to mention the month-long build up that being scheduled to compete in the national championship could bring. In basketball, that build up only lasts two days.

[Dave in Green]

I have to believe that refers to any BCS game. If he meant the BCS championship game, why wouldn't he also specify the NCAA basketball championship game, as well, instead of just the final four?

Either of those achievements would represent a huge step forward, whereas UA winning the soccer championship is literally the only improvement left after having come so close to winning the championship game this past season.

[Z.I.P.]

Rasor has an interesting poll up on the ABJ website that appears to show more interest in Zips basketball than football. It's not scientific, and maybe it's just a case of more Zips basketball fans following Rasor than football fans. But here is where the poll stands as of the time this thread is being started:

What would you rather see happen?

Zips basketball plays in Final Four (29%, 84 Votes)

Zips football plays in BCS game (25%, 72 Votes)

Zips soccer wins NCAA Championship (23%, 66 Votes)

LeBron James stays in Cleveland (23%, 65 Votes)

Total Voters: 287

Link to Rasor Poll

Let's put these in order of likelihood: 3,4,1,2. Now two of them are at least fifty-fifty to occur in the next 6 months. The other two, well...

Sorry, I ain't holdin' my breath.

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I have to believe that refers to any BCS game. If he meant the BCS championship game, why wouldn't he also specify the NCAA basketball championship game, as well, instead of just the final four?

Either of those achievements would represent a huge step forward, whereas UA winning the soccer championship is literally the only improvement left after having come so close to winning the championship game this past season.

True. Not to mention that those football and basketball accomplishments listed here would bring a million times more beneficial publicitiy to the U of A than a soccer title.

[Dr Z]

I'll vote football since it is the most popular and my favorite.

[Dave in Green]

It's really interesting when you consider the possibilities for a school like Akron in soccer, basketball and football. Of course, UA already proved that a school with its athletic budget and priorities can play in and almost win the NCAA D1 soccer championship game.

Ironically, in the very same season, Butler proved that a school similar to UA could do the same in NCAA D1 basketball. It's football that would take a true miracle for this to happen for a school like UA.

In other words, it's realistic to dream of a school like UA winning the national soccer or even basketball championship. Football? Not so much.