[joejoe]

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.

I think 165 coaches voted this year, and you had to get atleast 5 votes to make the coaches HM. Only 13 AP media voted this year. I'm not sure of the amount of the media that gets to vote, but it is more than 13. If someone knows how many people can vote in the AP could you let us know please.