AP Voter Gets Designated for Assignment

by user LastRow

This year for Bob Stoops and his players at Oklahoma have been one to remember…Just too bad it’s one to remember for all the wrong reasons. Heading into the dog days of summer high expectations surrounded the campus in Norman, that was until Rhett Bomar “mistakenly forgot” to punch out from work. With that time card, he took with him everything and flushed it down the shitter…And from there on, it has been a continuous counter clockwise flush down the shitter!

How much shit can one program go through over a course of a season…I bet Bob Stoops asks himself that every night before he has all his reoccurring nightmares. You know the ones where his Sooners get it stuck up their ole tailpipe in Eugene by the replay officials…Who incidentally LastRowSports.com has learned that it was Phil Knight who was in the booth at that particular time. To getting mutilated O.J. style by the Texas Longhorns in the “RedRiver Shootout”…Although, unlike like some people, the Sooners would live to see another day! If that wasn’t enough for Bob, all everything running back Adrian Peterson ends his season by breaking his collarbone on what was going to be his last series for the game. What a great way to celebrate pops getting released from the slammer, huh?

Still, in spite of all this, Oklahoma has managed to rally the troops. However, it won’t be easy after coming off another loss last Saturday to Texas Tech. Yes, the OU bunch dropped another…Hey, wait a minute! I’m getting conflicting reports! Did Oklahoma beat Texas Tech last Saturday or did Texas Tech win? I’m getting conflicting reports here! Apparently, I’m not alone here. Let’s all give a warm welcome to Jim Kleinpeter of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans! I bet you’re asking, who the hell is Jim Kleinpeter…Fair question I suppose. He’s none other than a voter for The Associated Press college football poll who was removed from the poll board Wednesday because he mistakenly thought Oklahoma had lost to Texas Tech and voted the Sooners lower in this week's rankings. And we wonder what’s wrong with the polls in college football! Because he believed the Sooners had lost, Kleinpeter said he dropped Oklahoma from 15th to 24th on his ballot.

We are working to find out if some how Mr. Kleinpeter is related to Rhett Bomar in anyway. Filling out ballot & time cards wrong are almost one in the same…After all, it did affect the same team here. The reason for this little mistake, Jim explains… He tried to find the score of the Oklahoma game, but was unable to do so. WTF? Jimbo, you’re a sports writer…Isn’t that your job to know, or at least find out? It’s not like you don’t have the resources! Um, ever heard of a computer there chief? "It was my fault. I probably had other avenues I could have gone to get the score, but I usually rely on the morning paper here in Baton Rouge. And for some reason, they didn't have the score. I looked all through it," he said. Gee, you think it was your fault…I mean, other than your who else’s fault could it possiblly be? The paperboys?

So, we have an AP voter, (excuse me, “former voter) who casts(ed) his weekly ballots skimming through the paper for scores…Wow, I didn’t know they still make you! I bet you still don’t have a DVD either, (Hi Mom & Dad) still relying on the trusty VCR to get you by, isn’t that right? Since you do work for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, I’m just guessing you still do your work by typewriter? You must, because relying on a newspaper for scores instead of logging onto the one of the hundreds websites on the Internet to get a score is just dumbfounding to me! None of your Sports Scuttlebutt writing colleagues could help you out either, right? What, did you use your “Phone a Friend” lifeline last week or wasn’t that person home…Line was busy, (gosh, don’t you hate people with out calling waiting)? What was it that you had to resort to your “50/50” one? "It's as simple as that. It was a mistake," he said. "I usually never have a problem with accuracy. It's the most important thing for me."

Simple huh, not when we have a bullshit system in place to crown a National Championship…I hope you don’t vote for the Heisman! Here’s a hint, it’s down to two people…Troy Smith, he plays for Ohio State & Brady Quinn, he plays for Notre Dame. It’s like heads or tails, but please don’t tell me that’s how you decide your Heisman vote, if you do have one…Because some coins can be double sided!

This is just another perfect instance of why dumb people should not breed first off, but more importantly how flawed the voting/poll system is in college football. Hell, this isn’t some All-Star voting campaign where dumb people stuff the voting box for an injured Grant Hill who has played 10 games or less in the first half of the year…Nonetheless is the top voter getting! And Charlie Weis wonders why a team home eating cheeseburgers can jump his Irish. Unfortunately, no matter how right or wrong it is, this is exactly why style points go a long way to determining the National Championship game in college football! It’s because of blockheads such as Jim Kleinpeter who fills out his ballot according to his Sunday morning paper. Or in the case of coaches, they just relegate this honor to their Sports Information Directors. I wonder if some use the “Christmas Tree” method? It was always a favorite of mine!

Surprisingly, despite this cluster fukc, after Sooners rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Texas Tech 34-24, they did move up one spot in the polls. You hear that Jimmy Boy….OKALHOMA OVERCAME A 14-POINT DEFICIT TO WIN 34-24! Bob Stoops just can’t get any love this year…After all, he is still fighting for a return trip to the Holiday Bowl…Indeed a festive occasion!! To think, Kleinpeter almost screwed that up…Havsn’t Bob been through enough? Oh, and this just in to LastRowSports.com…Good ole Jimmy Boy was one of the thousands who phoned in last night on “Dancing With the Stars” the countless amount of times to vote for Emmitt…Never mind he didn’t watch a single episode of it! Who said it was rigged like college football? Isn’t that great, college football is no different than “Dancing with the Stars”!

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