🏈 Alabama tops USA Today / National Fastpitch Coaches Association Poll

[bamagirlinBR]

https://nfca.org/index.php/front-pa...-usa-todaynfca-division-i-top-25-poll-of-2012

Are you freaking kidding me!!

Two gutless coaches vote OU #1!!

 

[TerryP]

https://nfca.org/index.php/front-pa...-usa-todaynfca-division-i-top-25-poll-of-2012

Are you freaking kidding me!!

Two gutless coaches vote OU #1!!

I see you around the net on different Bama sites. If you have the time, do you think you can find out who votes in this poll?

 

[bamagirlinBR]

I just happened upon this article via Tommy Dees twitter, not sure how to go about getting who voted how.

 

[planomateo]

interesting write up about next season http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2012-06-09/expect-more-same-2013:

Will Alabama repeat now that it has finally won a title?
With Jackie Traina having two more years of eligibility in front of her, it’s certainly a possibility despite the fact that Alabama loses six seniors off its title team, including WCWS starters Kendall Dawson (C), Jennifer Fenton (CF), Amanda Locke (DP), Jazlyn Lunceford (RF) and Cassie Reilly-Boccia (1B). However, Arizona was the last team to repeat (2006-07) and only four of the eight teams from the 2011 WCWS managed to get back to Oklahoma City in 2012. So it is hard to call any team a front-runner for the 2013 title. Keep in mind, Alabama has been to four of the last five WCWS, a feat matched only by Arizona State. The Crimson Tide also made it to seven of the last 10 WCWS, matched only by Arizona. Clearly, coach Patrick Murphy’s program knows the way to OKC. Now that it knows how to win the title, a repeat is not out of the question.

 

[UAgrad93]

I imagine that those 2 votes came from the Big 12. Only ones that I would think would go along with the whining of Gasso.

 

[planomateo]

They don't release how the voters voted, gotta love transparency.

 

[TerryP]

interesting write up about next season http://www.ncaa.com/news/softball/article/2012-06-09/expect-more-same-2013:

Will Alabama repeat now that it has finally won a title?
With Jackie Traina having two more years of eligibility in front of her, it’s certainly a possibility despite the fact that Alabama loses six seniors off its title team, including WCWS starters Kendall Dawson (C), Jennifer Fenton (CF), Amanda Locke (DP), Jazlyn Lunceford (RF) and Cassie Reilly-Boccia (1B). However, Arizona was the last team to repeat (2006-07) and only four of the eight teams from the 2011 WCWS managed to get back to Oklahoma City in 2012. So it is hard to call any team a front-runner for the 2013 title. Keep in mind, Alabama has been to four of the last five WCWS, a feat matched only by Arizona State. The Crimson Tide also made it to seven of the last 10 WCWS, matched only by Arizona. Clearly, coach Patrick Murphy’s program knows the way to OKC. Now that it knows how to win the title, a repeat is not out of the question.

The biggest key to our return to OKC is replacing Kendall. Her position is probably the most valuable one on the team especially when you get to the WCWS and pitching is at its all time premium.

 

[planomateo]

Tommy Deas speaks to this > http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1374889

There are 30 conferences?

"We have 30 voters in our poll, one from each conference, who are able to vote for anyone they choose," said Parker Griffin, director of media relations for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. "We do not know why they chose to vote for Oklahoma instead of Alabama as the No. 1 team in the final poll."

The NFCA does not make ballots public, so the identity of the two coaches who voted Oklahoma above Alabama remain unknown. Neither Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso nor Alabama coach Patrick Murphy has a vote in the poll.