Jerry Palm Quotes (35 Quotes)

They are going to need to get higher in the polls than ninth or 10th, however that happens. Either teams ahead of them need to lose, or the pollsters would need to help them out.

They won't get much higher unless Memphis loses. It's hard to move up when you're already high. I don't see them moving past Duke, Connecticut or Villanova. They might have a chance to pass Memphis. It's harder to move at the end of the season.

What it means is that you can't simply trust conference records to be a method of evaluating teams in the same conference. Everybody in that league will get a chance to play some good teams at some point, but not all 8-8's are the same.

Texas played an opponent that is now 4-2. So that's going to help what has been a pretty weak strength of schedule so far.

A win over Rutgers would have been a feather in their cap, but you can't have a loss to a team which you should beat.

If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.

They havent given a bid to a (team that finished) 3-7 in three years.

If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.

Vanderbilt's got two Top-25 RPI wins, over Old Dominion and Western Kentucky. That's more than a lot of teams. But Arkansas is a bad loss. All the teams that have beaten Vanderbilt are pretty good except Arkansas.

LSU has to be ahead of USC in two of those -- and that's extremely likely. I think LSU will be ahead in all three.

There may not be any top 25 teams - but 26 through 40, six of them might be in that group. There's been an opportunity this year because of weaknesses in the major conferences, other than the Big East and Big Ten. It's just one of those things where all these (factors) came together at once.

The trouble with figuring out where New Mexico is going is that the women's selection committee's decisions are really tough to predict, and New Mexico has to fall in line behind BYU and Utah. Those teams have to get higher seeds and favorable draws close to home. New Mexico can't be in the same side of the bracket, so their destiny depends on how the selection committee views BYU and Utah.

The good thing for Pitt is that everyone will be taking on another loss in the last week of the season except for the conference champions.

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

You never want to be stuck in the middle, but I don't see them falling much further than that. They hurt themselves by losing two of their last three games, but their RPI is strong at 30 and they did a lot of great things this season.

The formula is out there. Anyone with a computer and too much time on their hands can do it.

Had things gone really well for LSU we might not even be talking about this. They might have been in control.

In Wolfe, it's a 50-50 shot between LSU and USC. My hunch is that LSU will be ahead. Reason being, LSU got everything to go their way yesterday except Western Illinois a I-AA Tigers opponent that lost to Colgate. If LSU isn't second in Wolfe, it's because of the Western Illinois game.

Votes like that hurt the credibility. Whether it's carelessness or ignorance, you can't have votes for Idaho. It only takes one guy voting for Idaho to ruin it for the rest of the 114.

USC is in the middle of a lull in the schedule. Texas is about to hit a lull.

Albany is a good candidate for that game as well. Also, the committee knows about everyone's injuries and those are a consideration.

Arizona in my bracket is a 10 seed because they haven't done anything against anybody who's worth a darn. Arizona might be a 16 RPI, but their tournament prospects aren't too good. Fortunately for them, their league stinks.

It's a paper-thin margin. It's irrelevant, because Virginia Tech is not going to catch Southern Cal and they have a faint hope of catching Texas. Virginia Tech isn't going to catch Southern Cal before they (the Trojans) catch Texas.

For teams like TCU, there tends to be this glass ceiling in the polls. Teams from behind them can jump them. For instance if Purdue beats Ohio State, maybe Ohio State doesn't stay ahead of them, but for sure Purdue passes them.

I think New Mexico has performed far too well to fall completely out, but the loss bumped them from about a six seed down to the middle of the bracket at eight or nine, where you're lucky to win one game, much less two.

The computers don't care about the name on the front of the jersey or that school's spot in the human polls. They see a 3-2 Ohio State team and a 4-1 Vanderbilt team.

Even if Ohio State is ahead this week, it's no more permanent than Southern Cal being ahead last week.

The battle for number three is a lot closer than the battle for number two right now.

There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.

Part of their credibility problem goes all the way back to the beginning, where they just haven't settled on a formula two years in a row. If you don't have enough faith in the formula to defend it in the face of controversy, then why should you have it

With the schedule set up so that their toughest remaining opponents come to Blacksburg Miami, Boston College, they have to be considered a threat to play not only for the ACC title, but the national title as well.

It worked out pretty well. We're going to get one of the most anticipated games in quite a while.

They have a pretty nice collection of wins and no terrible losses. So if they take care of business, they could still be a No. 2 (seed), even if they don't beat Illinois.

Texas is a clear No. 2 this week -- and the foreseeable future, too -- as long as they maintain their big holds in the polls. They got to keep winning with style.

I've seen they were in the poll and couldn't understand why. They haven't done anything special.