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If you believe the coaches poll isn't political as well you are one naive puppy. An argument can be made for every kid on the team and I have a very hard time believing that there are any kids at all on the team that do not deserve to be there. There isn't enough room for everyone who had a great year to be on the team. Maybe we should have All State teams for all 6 classes so everyone will have a chance to win. Just like 1 win and 0 win teams can make the playoffs now that we have 6 classes.

The coaches poll is political as well but every head coach gets a vote that means there are over 100 votes being casted which for the kids that make first team second team and third team have usually acquired enough votes that the politics cancel out it's hard to lobby every coach in the state to vote for your kid it's just not possible. But when you only have 17 it's extremely easy for a couple of sportswriters to get together and control the vote to sell a few more newspapers in that area.

You can make second team AP all-state with as little as 5 votes that will not get you a sniff at the third team coaches poll.