[Hoot Gibson]

FWIW, I did not vote this week. Had obligations all weekend and was covered at work Monday.

Had I voted this would have been my ballot:
1A
1. Beechwood
2. Paintsville
3. Pikeville
4. Raceland
5. Russellville
6. Paris
7. Csmpbellsville
8. Hazard
9. Fairview
10. Bishop Brossart

2A
1. Mayfield
2. CAL
3. Owensboro Catholic
4. DeSales
5. Murray
6. Danville
7. NewCath
8. Lloyd Memorial
9. Leslie Co
10. Shelby Valley

3A
1. Boyle Co
2. Central
3. Belfry
4. Caldwell Co
5. Etown
6. LexCath
7. Tilghman
8. Bell Co
9. Corbin
10. Adair Co

4A
1. Johnson Central
2. South Warren
3. Ashland
4. Spencer Co
5. Scott
6. Shelby Co
7. Hopkinsville
8. Collins
9. Franklin Co
10. John Hardin

5A
1. Bowling Green
2. Pulaski Co
3. Owensboro
4. Fern Creek
5. Christian Co
6. Southwestern
7. North Laurel
8. CovCath
9. South Oldham
10. Highlands

6A
1. Male
2. Trinity
3. Scott County
4. Simon Kenton
5. St. Xavier
6. Manual
7. Lafayette
8. Bryan Station
9. McCracken Co
10. Cooper

Very solid rankings, IMO. You obviously put some time and thought into these.

I mean no disrespect to any of the individual voters on the panel, but I did not volunteer to be on the panel because I don't think that submitting ballots and ranking teams democratically yields very good results. Once you get more than five or six people on any committee, about half the people put out most of the effort.

IMO, BGR should have named about a half dozen people to a rankings committee, which would have one person to chair the committee, who would have veto authority in cases where the committee failed to reach a consensus. Everybody would have a chance to make their cases but somebody would have the authority to make sure that the committee did not embarrass the web site. Ranking a 5-2 team that has just pitched a 16-0 shutout below the losing 5-2 team is the reason that somebody should be empowered to impose a sanity check on the panelists.

More voters is not the key to better rankings. The problem is the system. It is very similar to the one that AP uses.