Lindenwood University sure to make the poll

[Kyle Berggren]

and you can't blame any team for not wanting to schedule somebody... Next year, assuming they keep winning, will be much easier for them to get the games they want. A team like CSU shouldn't schedule Puget Sound if they don't want to.

[Chris Larson]

In addition, a lot of the upper echelon teams have reciprocal playing agreements that extend a few years out making it difficult to add (particularly away) games without a full clendar year's notice.

[LaxGuru]

The best route with the current system in place, I believe as someone else stated, is to eliminate a pre-season poll (or create one,don't release it but give it to selected pollsters to use as a guidline) for 1.) a team that gets a high ranking but can't play up to it won't be difficult to drop in further polls 2.) pollsters can look at say the first 2-3 weeks of action then vote and release that as the leagues first poll. That would eliminate teams that are supposed to be good that are not up to standard (key personnel losses, injuries, unforseen bad play etc.) & also give teams starting strong that don't usually get notice the credit they deserve. Just a suggestion.