Posted by Ken Patton, Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 4/3/99 8:03 AM MST
Here's an idea that could be used by one of the teams that would like to build their website up and generate some traffic. How about a semi-official 'coaches poll' that ranks the teams based on the opinions of one rep (not necessarily a coach) from each of the teams. You could have a deadline date for voting, have a way to make sure the voters are legit, post the votes in public, post the top 20 teams, etc.
This is something that seems to generate a lot of enthusiasm in the sports world. Perhaps it would do the same thing inside and outside the FIRST community.
You could have a pre-season poll, a post regionals poll, and a post-season poll.
If it works well, you could start to use it as a semi-official polling place for questions like the one that was posed to us by Dean at the Great Lakes Regional.
Just an idea - I'm hoping one of you super-motivated webmasters will run with it

). Any volunteers?
Ken