Interview with Brett Favre on Fox News

Ohio State @1 in Poll Averages

Ohio State Buckeyes: Surprising #1 in Poll Averages Bleacher Report - Menlo Park,CA,USA by Dan Alexandre (Scribe)

For all you Ohio State and Big Ten haters rolling your eyes at that headline, just hold on a second.

The top 25 poll I'm about to reveal is not my opinion, nor is it the opinion of any one source. It's a collection of eight fairly respectable preseason polls averaged together to create one top 25 ranking.

Just a few technical things about how I did this:

If you're voted number one in a poll you get 25 points. If you're voted number number twenty-five in a poll then you get 1 point. I think you can fill in the gaps. Basically the most amount of points you can have with 8 polls would be 200. Also, in case of a tie, the tiebreaker goes to whoever is ranked the highest in any individual poll. I'm not saying this is correct, I just thought it would be interesting.

My sources were Athlon, ESPN, Sportingnews, Lindy's, Sportsprojections, USA Today, Bankroll, and the semi-god of college football preseason rankings, Phil Steele. So here we go.

Ranking. Team- Total Points (Average Points per Poll)

1. Ohio State- 189 (23.625)

2. Georgia- 185 (23.125)

3. USC- 183 (22.875)

4. Oklahoma- 180 (22.5)

5. Florida- 172 (21.5)

6. Missouri- 157 (19.625)

7. Clemson- 144 (18)

8. West Virginia- 138 (17.25)

9. Texas- 122 (15.25)

10. LSU- 119 (14.875)


Close but no cigar: Utah (12), Virginia (12), Alabama (9), Boise State (8), Notre Dame (8), California (6), Colorado (6), Michigan State (5), Arkansas (4), Rutgers (4), Miami (3), Oklahoma State (3), Florida State (2), North Carolina (2)

A few interesting facts:--Georgia was voted No. 1 five times and yet, thanks to three Bulldog haters, we have them sitting at number two.

-- Ohio State did not receive any No. 1 votes but, due to consistently being No. 2 or 3 throughout the polls, grabs the number one spot.

--Florida had two No. 1 votes but inconsistency throughout dropped them to No. 5.

-- The SEC has six teams, Big 12 has five, Big East has three, BigTen has four, Pac-10 has three, and the ACC has three. The WAC and Mountain West also have one each.

-- I created the tiebreak before I realized PSU and Tennessee would be deadlocked, so there was no bias in that. PSU's highest ranking was 10th, Tenn's was 14th.

OSU in another National Championship?? Not if USC has anything to say about it.

The Importance of Backing up Your Files

You know how important it is the have one or more backup players for each of your starters. No team would be without a backup quarterback should your starter get hurt. You need to have a backup of your drawings, playbook and script files should your computer get hurt. If your computer is damaged or stolen and you don't have a backup all of you important files like emails, documents, spreadsheets and Coach's Office databases files then you'll be starting over. You can always reinstall the programs on another computer but you files are lost forever.

In what way can your computer be damaged?

1. The hard drive crashes. This is where all your programs and files are stored.
2. Your computer gets a fatal virus that wipes out everything on you hard drive.
3. Someone accidentally deletes or copy's our over an important file.

There are three database files that you should backup; Formation.mdb, Playbook.mdb and Script.mdb. Thet are located in the C:Program Files/CoachsOffice folder for Windows XP and the C:CoachsOffice folder on Windows Vista.

This files can also be placed on your network drive but we'll talk about that in another Post.

How often should you backup your files?

Any time you make changes in the Chalkboard, Playbook and/or Script you should back up those files before you shutdown the computer at the end of the day.

Ckick on this link below to view a video on the different methods you can use to backup youe Coach's Office files. There is a backup utility in Coach's Office that makes it easy to do a backup.

http://www.coachsoffice.com/VideoTutorials/Copy/Copy.html

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Coach's Office Video Tutorials for All Modules

Wristband Layout Templates - Posted August 6, 2008

Requires version 8.01 and higher
Coach's Office version 8 has a new Show Formations dropdown list feature for adding playnames to a table. It was developed to make creating wristbands a snap. This playbook has three popular wristband layouts included.

Download the wristband playbook.
Save to the desktop or other folder.
Run the install program .

A wristband folder with the playbook.mdb file is saved in the "coachsoffice" folder.
Windows XP: Local Drive C\Program Files\coachsoffice\wristband\playbook.mdb
Windows Vista: Local Drive C\coachsoffice\wristband\playbook.mdb
For instructions on how to use the templates or create your own, view the video tutorial.


Video Tutorials - Posted July 20th, 2006

We have video tutorials for all of the Coach's Office modules on our website to help you learn how to use the programs quickly. Click on the link below to view the tutorial.
http://www.coachsoffice.com/co_videotutorials.html

Let us know what you think and other information you'd like to see to help you us all the Coach's Office modules.