2005 MDIA Division B Top 25 Poll Information

[Sonny]

1. The 2005 USL MDIA Division B Top 25 Pre-Season poll was announced the first week of December, 04 on USLIA.com. Check the poll results here:
http://www.uslia.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=3

2. The USL MDIA Top 25 Division B Regular Season poll will be conducted 7 times during the 2005 spring season: 6 regular season polls plus one poll following the national championships. The six Division B Top 25 polls will be announced on USLIA.com on these dates:
Thursday, February 24
Thursday, March 10
Thursday, March 24
Thursday, April 7
Thursday, April 21
Monday, May 2

The final regular season Division B Top 25 poll will be announced on Monday evening, May 2 on USLIA.com at approximately 9:30 pm (Eastern). The complete field for the 2005 USL MDIA Division B National Championship Tournament will be released shortly there after by US Lacrosse.

3. 2005 USL MDIA Division B Poll Voters (in alphabetical order)
Kyle Berggrem, Nicholas Day, Will Gilner, Pete Ginnegar, Rob Graff, Buff Grubb, Kyle Hawkins, Eriberto Lozada, Dan Morris, Sonny Pieper, John Robinette, Gary Robinson, Andy Sharp, Jason Stockton, Billy Tauzin, Mark Todd. (List of voters are subject to change.)

4. Shamrock Lacrosse and Riddell will be the presenting sponsors of this year's Div. A and Div. B Top 25 polls at USLIA.com.

[Andy Sharp]

Here's to educated voters, good luck collecting sufficient info, I know I had a great time.

Nathan Bates - CCLA - Taylor - Coach
Kyle Berggrem - PNCLL - Puget Sound - Coach
Nicholas Day - SELC - Application State - Coach
Pete Ginnegar - WCLL - Claremont - Coach
Rob Graff - UMLL - Minnesota - Div A - Commissioner
Buff Grubb - SELC - Wake Forest - Div A - Commissioner
Kyle Hawkins - GRLC - Missouri - Div A - Commissioner
Eriberto Lozada - SELC - Davidson - Coach
Dan Morris - PCLL - ? - Commissioner
Sonny Pieper - SELC - USLIA.com - Webmaster
John Robinette - RMLC - Fort Lewis - Coach
Gary Robinson - LSA - Texas - Arlington - Coach
Andy Sharp - CCLA - Calvin - Coach
Jason Stockton - PNCLL - Pacific Lutheran - Coach
Billy Tauzin - LSA - Nicholls State - Coach
Mark Todd - WCLL - UC - Irvine - Coach

Send me a PM if I found any old/wrong info.

[Timbalaned]

Both Jason and Kyle are coaches in the pNcll, not the PCLL. Thanks

[defense_wins_championship]

Nicholas Day is the coach at Appilacian State.

[Tim Gray]

Dan Morris is the commishiner of the PCLL

[TheLoo]

Application State? Wow, that's a new one.
CCLA - 9 teams - 2 Voters
GRLC - 16 teams - 1 Voter
LSA - 10 teams - 2 Voters
PCLL - 4 teams - 1 Voter
PNCLL - 12 teams - 2 Voters
RMLC - 9 teams - 1 Voter
SELC - 13 teams - 4 Voters
UMLL - 6 teams- 1 Voter
WCLL - 8 teams- 2 Voters
More coaches in the GRLC should apply to vote, especially since the only voter is a division a coach. The largest conference should have more votes.

[PNWLaxer]

The GRLC is also the newest conference with more established conference around the country it is understandable to me anyway that the GRLC does not have as many representatives.

[bste_lax]

Also, how many Div. B teams in GRLC have an established coach or someone that follows GRLC or USL MDIA for that matter? Most GRLC Div. B teams sort of have a new ex-player still around as coach each year. Nebraska with Randy Howard is the only established Div. B coach I can think of off the top of my head.

[cjwilhelmi]

Creighton has an established coach of some sort

[Gregg Pathiakis]

The GRLC is also the newest conference with more established conference around the country it is understandable to me anyway that the GRLC does not have as many representatives.

I don't agree. I mean, I know it has nothing to do with the number of teams that dictates how many voters the GRLC has, rather it has to do with how many GRLC people applied. But while the GRLC is the newest conference in name, it was originally part of the CCLA and the GRLC Commissioner is the same person who was the CCLA Commissioner before the split. So the GRLC has been around for a while, just not in name.

[John Westfall]

I think the SELC Teams are better then what is in this Poll. App. State should be in the top 25 and Davidson should be in the top 5.

[PNWLaxer]

My post was written in a hurry and I did not have time to fully explain my thinking behind it. I meant to convey the fact their are a number of GRLC B teams that are newer teams in the MDIA. I do agree that there are some teams in the B division that have been around for some time in other conferences. But to expect a person to know the league and where to place teams with little experience playing teams outside of their geographic location is no fair to that person or to the people who do have that experience around the country. I am sure we will never know who applied to become a B division poll voter, maybe a lot of people from the GRLC did apply but were not selected. I think, as well as many others probably feel that because the MDIA is in the infancy of a National Poll for the B teams it is better to go with names that have been around for a while rather than on conference affiliation. I am sure you will see a closer relationship between the voters and the number of teams in specific conferences in the future.