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American Football Coaches Association Executive Director, Grant Teaff announced today that the final regular season ballots of each voter in the AFCA/USA Today Top 25 Coaches’ Poll will remain public.
Last January, the AFCA Board of Trustees asked the Gallup World Poll to conduct an independent study of the Coaches’ Poll and make recommendations as to how the poll could be improved. Gallup, in May, presented the AFCA Board with four recommendations.
One of Gallup’s recommendations was to discontinue the four-year old policy of releasing the final regular season ballots of each voter. The implementation of that recommendation was delayed by the AFCA Board.
Historically, the AFCA has requested head coaches in the each AFCA division make final decisions on issues that directly affect their respective divisions. In a recently concluded survey, the Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches, for the second time in four years, voted in favor of releasing the final regular season ballot of each voter in the Coaches’ Poll.
“The AFCA agreed to be a part of the BCS selection process when we were asked by the commissioners in 1998,” Teaff said. “As with past decisions by the AFCA and the FBS head coaches, we are again acting in what the coaches believe to be the best interest of the game.”
The AFCA was founded in 1922 and currently has more than 11,000 members around the world, ranging from the high school level to the professional ranks. According to its constitution, the AFCA was formed, in part, to “maintain the highest possible standards in football and the coaching profession” and to “provide a forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining to football and coaching.”
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Courtesy: AFCA
