Sunday, August 28, 2005

The Harris Poll - The Voters

The conflict the voter is best known for is listed first. I performed searches via Google and tried as best as I could, but I realize that this list may have missed something. If something appears current, I'll try to note it as such, but everything else is the voter's former position. If I've incorrectly listed something, please let me know in comments and I'll delete it as soon as possible. This isn't my job, so I don't have the time to phone everyone on this list. Also, I know that lots of these guys have done things I haven't listed, like Terry Bradshaw's 10-10-220 commercials. Since that stuff isn't a direct conflict with one of the schools the poll is monitoring, it doesn't matter. If I've missed something that's a conflict (player, covered, or worked for), let me know in comments and I'll add it.

Bobby Aillet: Louisiana Tech player. Possibly an SEC referee (more likely his son). Stadium at La Tech named for his father.
Bill Battle: HC at Tennessee. Asst. Coach at Army. Assistant and player at Oklahoma. CEO of Collegiate Licensing - has contracts with 180 colleges.
Gene Bartow: AD at UAB. Basketball coach at Memphis, Illinois, and UCLA.
Dick Bestwick: HC at UVA. Asst. at GT. AD at South Carolina. Assoc. AD at UGA, Missouri. Player at UNC.
Joe Biddle: Current columnist for the Tennessean in Nashville.
Blaine Bishop: Ball State player.
Kim Bokamper: San Jose State player. Sportscaster in Miami now.
Terry Bradshaw: Louisiana Tech player.
Wilt Browning: Sportswriter in Greensboro, NC now, Atlanta, Greenville and Charlotte before.
Earle Bruce: HC at Ohio State, Iowa State, Colorado State.
Brentson Buckner: Clemson player.
Bob Casciola: HC at UConn. Broadcaster for predecessor to Big East.
Charlie Cavagnaro: AD at UNLV and Memphis. Basketball focus.
Jake Crouthamel: AD at Syracuse.
Eddie Crowder: HC and AD at Colorado. Oklahoma player.
Peter Dalis: AD at UCLA.
Charles Davis: Player at Tennessee. Announcer for Pac-10/Big XII.
Pete Dawkins: Player at Army.
Bill Dooley: HC at UNC, Va. Tech, Wake Forest.
Boots Donnelly: AD & HC at Middle Tenn. State. Asst. Coach at Vandy.
Kevin Duhe: Player at NE Louisiana (Louisiana-Monroe).
Spike Dykes: HC at Texas Tech. Player at Rice. Asst. Coach at Texas, New Mexico, Miss St.
Bert Emanuel: Player at Rice.
Bump Elliott: HC and Player at Michigan. Assistant Coach at Iowa and Oregon State.
Boomer Esiason: Player at Maryland.
Don Fambrough: HC and Player at Kansas.
Foge Fazio: HC at Pitt. Assistant at Cincinnati.
Bob Frederick: AD at Kansas. Basketball player at Kansas. On faculty at Kansas.
Andy Geiger: AD at Ohio State, Assoc. AD at Syracuse, Stanford, Maryland.
David Glazier: no conflicts known (Detroit Lions and Tigers, Baldwin Wallace College).
Jim Grabowski: Player at Illinois. Commentator for Illinois radio.
Mike Grace: No conflicts known (runs College Football Radio network, which appears to be in Alabama).
Bob Grim: Player at Oregon State. Radio analyst for Oregon State.
Pat Haden: Player at Southern Cal. Broadcaster for NBC (Notre Dame).
Bob Hammel: Retired sportswriter in Bloomington, Indiana. Attended Indiana University.
Dick Harmon: Current Sportswriter in Salt Lake City (Deseret News), covers Utah and BYU.
Tommy Hicks: Current Sportswriter in Mobile.
Clarkston Hines: Player at Duke.
EJ Holub: Player at Texas Tech. Weight room named after him. Works in development for Texas Tech.
David Housel: AD at Auburn. Student and longtime facultymember at Auburn.
Raghib Ismail: Player at Notre Dame.
Fred Jacoby: MAC commissioner, SWC commissioner, Assistant at Wisconsin. Student at Ohio State and Wisconsin.
Charley Johnson: Player and current faculty member at New Mexico State. Only retired number in school history. Assistant to President for Athletic Progress as of Aug. 2004.
Blair Kerkhoff: Current Kansas City Star columnist covering Kansas, Kansas State and the Big XII.
Mike Kern: Current Philadelphia Daily News writer covering Temple and others.
Roy Kramer: SEC Commissioner. AD at Vandy. Coach at Central Michigan. Degree from Michigan.
Larry Lacewell: Longtime Arkansas State HC and AD. Player at Oklahoma. Assistant at Oklahoma , Alabama, Iowa State. Locker room at ASU named for him.
Dave Lapham: Syracuse player.
George Lapides: Radio personality in Memphis. Links to Memphis, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Miss. State on his website.
Steve Largent: Tulsa player.
Robert Lawless: University President at Tulsa and Texas Tech. On faculty at Houston and Texas A&M.
Jack Lengyel: AD at Navy, Fresno State & Missouri. Interim AD at Colorado, Temple. Assoc. AD at Louisville. Coach at Marshall.
Jim Lessig: MAC and Sun Belt commissioner. AD at Kansas and Bowling Green. Assistant Coach at Minnesota.
Ferd Lewis: Current sportswriter for Honolulu Advertiser. Covers Hawaii. Fresno State grad.
Ted Lewis: Current sportswriter for New Orleans Times Picayune. Covers Tulane, LSU.
Mike Lucas: Current sportswriter for Capital Times in Madison, WI. Covers Wisconsin and Big Ten.
Mike Lude: Colorado State coach. AD at Kent, Washington and Auburn.
Tom Luicci: Current sportswriter for Newark Star Ledger. Covers Rutgers.
John Mackovic: HC at Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Wake Forest.
Don Maynard: UTEP player.
Don McCauley: UNC player.
Joe McConnell: Current Purdue play-by-play announcer. Assistant SID at Purdue. Play-by-play for Northwestern, Notre Dame, Illinois.
Mike McGee: South Carolina, Southern Cal, Cincinnati AD. HC at Duke and East Carolina, assistant at Wisconsin, Minnesota. Player at Duke.
Lance McIlhenny: SMU player.
Ray Melick: Current sportswriter for Birmingham Post-Herald, MSNBC. Radio personality in Birmingham. Covers Alabama, Auburn. See his "favorite" and "Hated" teams.
Ted Miller: Current sportswriter for Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Covers Washington and Pac-10. Darrell Moody: Coach at NC State, UNC, Clemson, LSU, Southern Miss, Tulane. Player at NC State.
Jim Morse: Player at Notre Dame. Radio personality for ND. "Major benefactor"
Craig Morton: Player at California.
Jack Moss: Sportswriter at Kalamazoo Gazette. Western Michigan alum and covers WMU.
Anthony Munoz: Player at USC. Camera magnet last 4 years at Tennessee.
Chuck Neinas: Big 8 commissioner. Heads Coach/AD Search consulting firm with dozens of clients (ND, TX, Okla, UGA, A&M, et al).
Tim Neverett: Play-by-play for UNLV. Broadcasting personality in Denver area.
Dave Newhouse: Current writer for Oakland Tribune. San Jose St. grad.
George Perles: Michigan State HC
Ed Podolak: Iowa player.
John Pont: HC at Indiana, Northwestern, Miami. AD at Northwestern.
Steve Preece: Oregon State player. TV announcer for Oregon State.
Homer Rice: AD at GT, Rice, UNC. Coach at Kentucky, Oklahoma, Cincinnati, Rice.
Pat Richter: AD at Wisconsin. Player at Wisconsin.
Paul Roach: Wyoming HC and AD.
Kenny Roda: Cleveland radio personality. Website links to Ohio State (NSFW in places).
Harvey Schiller: SEC commisioner.
Terry R. Schmidt: Ball State player.
Dick Schultz: UVA AD, Iowa coach.
Ken Shipp: Middle Tennessee St. player.
Irwin Smallwood: Current sportswriter (mostly golf) in Greensboro, NC. UNC grad. Daily Tar Heel publishes columns.
Jim Ray Smith: Baylor player. President of Baylor letterman club.
Larry Smith: HC at USC, Missouri, Tulane, Arizona. Asst. Coach at Miami OH, Michigan. Bowling Green player.
Gary Spani: Kansas State player.
Lou St. Amant: Radio announcer, and Assistant coach at Louisiana Monroe. Current President of "L Club". Baseball coach at ULM.
Ron Stephenson: Assistant AD at Boise State.
Nelson Stokley: Louisiana-Lafayette HC and AD. LSU player.
Jim Sweeney: HC at Fresno State (Field named for him) and Washington State. Current fundraiser for Fresno St.
Rick Taylor: AD at Cincinnati, Northwestern.
Whit Taylor: Vanderbilt player.
Jack Thompson: Washington St. player. Father of current player at WSU. Number retired by WSU (1 of only 2). Has awesome nickname - The "Throwin' Samoan".
John Toner: UConn HC and AD.
Steve Townsend: LSU SID. Assoc. AD at Alabama. Author of 2 books on Alabama.
Glen Tuckett: BYU AD and Baseball coach. Alabama AD.
Max Urick: AD at Kansas State and Iowa State.
Roger Valdiserri: Notre Dame SID for several decades. Assoc. AD at ND.
Bob Wagner: HC at Hawaii. Assistant Coach at Arizona.
Frank Weedon: Assoc. AD, SID at NC State. Maryland grad. Current NC State consultant.
Frank Windegger: TCU AD (and baseball player and coach).
Bill Yeoman: HC at Houston for 25 years.
Hugh Yoshida: AD at Hawaii.

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