The unofficial online home for fans of the Kent State University Golden Flashes. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

I agree that all ratings and polls are just flawed attempts at trying to quantify the unquantifiable. As is the NCAA tourney, for that matter. Many may agree that the winner is the best team in college basketball that year, but it's not necessarily so--they did win the tourney, but we'll have a hard time getting knowledgeable people to agree, for example, that NC State and Villanova were truely the best teams in college basketball the years they won the NCAA. They won their last 6 games. That you can say for sure.

As to the Flashes, we seem to be talking apples and oranges--you were expressing your opinion of their talent and I was expressing my problems with a rating system that is less accurate than it will be as more numbers are thrown into the mix and last year's numbers--which Sagarin is still using to some degree--thrown OUT of the mix. If those numbers were out now, KSU rating would be lower, hence it's not a great measure of this year's performance so far.
I agree with what you say about them. One caveat though: I want to see them play better opposition to see how the mix holds up under greater pressure than they have seen so far. Like I said before, if they get through the next 3 games, no doubt will they deserve to be top 25 by ANY measure.