Who will be named the 2013-14 MVC Player of the Year?

[iSASO]

This is also known as the "which school has more fans registered here poll." It is about as unscientific as it gets but it does tell us which school has more fans registered here .

Are you proposing that one Shocker player will make the team, displaying the bias of this poll?

[Black]

I read the forum rules and it sounded like trolling was frowned upon on this site. Why is this character given such a long leash? Has he even announced who his team is? It takes a person with small kahunas to pile on and hate on schools here without having his own team's convictions to defend. Or it could just be a fan of a former Valley school with nothing going on in their life except to troll this place looking to get off on it.

[Black]

Could have fooled me that Indiana State has the second most fans posting on this site.

Who would your Player of the Year be, TheGuyWhoNeverAnswersMan, or do we have to wait til March before starting those discussions?

[TheAnswerMan]

Could have fooled me that Indiana State has the second most fans posting on this site.

Who would your Player of the Year be, TheGuyWhoNeverAnswersMan, or do we have to wait til March before starting those discussions?

I haven't seen them all. The usual format is that you have to start the year anointed to the first team to have any chance at all. So only five players have a chance. It doesn't matter what anyone else did over the summer to improve their game. Pre-season picks are based on last year's performance. Those who vote for the pre-season top five aren't likely to change their minds, it would be a sign of weakness. Player of the Year will be the best player on the team that wins the regular season championship but only if that player was named to the pre-season top five AND has a chance to be drafted. I don't know who that is quite yet, no MVC games have been played.

Can you think of anyone in the past who leapfrogged from outside of the preseason first five to be Player of the Year?

[DUBulldog]

Could have fooled me that Indiana State has the second most fans posting on this site.

Who would your Player of the Year be, TheGuyWhoNeverAnswersMan, or do we have to wait til March before starting those discussions?

I haven't seen them all. The usual format is that you have to start the year anointed to the first team to have any chance at all. So only five players have a chance. It doesn't matter what anyone else did over the summer to improve their game. Pre-season picks are based on last year's performance. Those who vote for the pre-season top five aren't likely to change their minds, it would be a sign of weakness. Player of the Year will be the best player on the team that wins the regular season championship but only if that player was named to the pre-season top five AND has a chance to be drafted. I don't know who that is quite yet, no MVC games have been played.

Can you think of anyone in the past who leapfrogged from outside of the preseason first five to be Player of the Year?

Adam Emmenecker

[Black]

Adam Emmenecker

This guy may set the record for getting zinged, and doing it all in a 7 day period.

[TheAnswerMan]

Could have fooled me that Indiana State has the second most fans posting on this site.

Who would your Player of the Year be, TheGuyWhoNeverAnswersMan, or do we have to wait til March before starting those discussions?

I haven't seen them all. The usual format is that you have to start the year anointed to the first team to have any chance at all. So only five players have a chance. It doesn't matter what anyone else did over the summer to improve their game. Pre-season picks are based on last year's performance. Those who vote for the pre-season top five aren't likely to change their minds, it would be a sign of weakness. Player of the Year will be the best player on the team that wins the regular season championship but only if that player was named to the pre-season top five AND has a chance to be drafted. I don't know who that is quite yet, no MVC games have been played.

Can you think of anyone in the past who leapfrogged from outside of the preseason first five to be Player of the Year?

Adam Emmenecker

Interesting exception to the rule and one that carries over to the topic of at-large bids. I have said that December 6th is too soon to know with any certainty that the MVC is a one-bid league. The Cinderella season of Drake in 2007-2008 bears that out. Drake was the preseason pick to finish 9th. By December 6, they were 6-1 with wins over D3 Cornell College and D2 California San Diego. Which one of you not from Drake picked them to be good enough for an at-large bid on December 6, 2007? Show of hands?

[Wufan]

Could have fooled me that Indiana State has the second most fans posting on this site.

Who would your Player of the Year be, TheGuyWhoNeverAnswersMan, or do we have to wait til March before starting those discussions?

I haven't seen them all. The usual format is that you have to start the year anointed to the first team to have any chance at all. So only five players have a chance. It doesn't matter what anyone else did over the summer to improve their game. Pre-season picks are based on last year's performance. Those who vote for the pre-season top five aren't likely to change their minds, it would be a sign of weakness. Player of the Year will be the best player on the team that wins the regular season championship but only if that player was named to the pre-season top five AND has a chance to be drafted. I don't know who that is quite yet, no MVC games have been played.

Can you think of anyone in the past who leapfrogged from outside of the preseason first five to be Player of the Year?

Adam Emmenecker

Doug McDermott as a sophomore won POY. I'm not sure if he was preseason top 5 or not, but was not the front runner for POY.

[Wufan]

Also, Paul Miller.

[Remember'70]

No one would have picked Drake to get an at large bid...and they would have been right.

Drake won the tourney, got the auto bid and they were the only team that made the NCAAs in 2008. Sooo...they didn't get an at large bid.

Just. Stop.