http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/ballot?event_id=2156

you can vote as many times as you want, and you don't have to vote for four. just vote for david thompson, hit the back button, and vote again. repeat 100x. even sensible tarholes agree that roy williams shouldn't be on that mountain. there are atleast 5 others on that list more deserving than roy.

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 2:25 PM. Reason : ]

5/7/2006 2:23:00 PM

Holy god.

What a....splendid idea?

5/7/2006 2:25:50 PM

people we must skew this poll

5/7/2006 2:37:05 PM

didn't we already skew this poll

5/7/2006 2:46:53 PM

nope that was a different one. Similar, but different.

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 2:50 PM. Reason : or maybe it was this one. I'm retarded today (preparing for exams), so who knows.]

5/7/2006 2:49:09 PM

we need to re-skew this one, it's obvious that UNC is doing the same thing since Dean Smith and Roy Williams are in the top 4. And I don't believe anyone else in the country would vote Roy Williams into the top 4.

5/7/2006 2:56:50 PM

It should just be one solitary statue of The Pistol.

5/7/2006 3:11:16 PM

wow this is incredibly old this has been up for forever

5/7/2006 3:11:36 PM

how do i get the link that gives me the votes i want to put it in the auto-reload page?

5/7/2006 3:23:48 PM

yea, someone give me that reload thing

5/7/2006 3:26:18 PM

that is the reload page... but i need the link to my votes

http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/programs/autoload0-ie.htm?

5/7/2006 3:29:18 PM

no one in the top four is a player. kind of odd. roy williams is good but not one of the 4 best of all time good

5/7/2006 4:12:34 PM

I voted.

5/7/2006 4:33:23 PM

i find it shameful that nc state cant win a poll without skewing it

5/7/2006 4:42:37 PM

how do u know that no other school is skewing it?

i mean roy williams top 4 of all basketball figures ever? no way... not yet at least

5/7/2006 4:44:30 PM

^^It's blatantly obvious that UNC has skewed this poll.

Dean Smith #1? Get real.
Roy Williams top 4? Yeah right.

John Wooden should be up there, Naismith for creating the game, and then Dean Smith could realistically be top 4, but no way Roy Williams should be.

And David Thompson SHOULDN'T need skewing to be up there, even the ESPN analyst drool all over him, it's just that a lot of the younger people don't know who he is because he didn't make it big in the NBA.

5/7/2006 4:58:44 PM

yeah, how do we do this:

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=405343

for this poll?

5/7/2006 5:04:50 PM

^ i don't think we can

i think they fixed it, they use post now instead of get

i think i can get around it one way or another but im not sure how to right now

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 5:14 PM. Reason : ]

5/7/2006 5:13:24 PM

My honest opinion is that the top 4 should be Wooden, Naismith, Dean, and DT. However, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Dean Smith. So I voted for Pistol Pete instead.

5/7/2006 7:19:25 PM

Quote :

"i find it shameful that nc state cant win a poll without skewing it"

yea and its not like we dont do it on every single poll that comes out that happens to mention our names, we are lucky we are on the radar, athletically

remember the pride these wolfwebbers took in skewing their way to a national mascot tournament championship, you queers WERE JUST SO PROUD

5/7/2006 7:23:47 PM

^^Haha, my votes too.

5/7/2006 7:39:37 PM

I think I figured out how to vote for Thompson at least...


http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/polling?event_id=2156&incomming=1&question16248=66457

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 8:18 PM. Reason : use it in the auto reload page]

5/7/2006 8:17:38 PM

Okay, guys, I think something is wrong...

Sometimes, when I vote for David Thompson, the results come back and his name is italicized (because he was the one I voted for, right?).

But other times, when I vote for David Thompson, the results come back and his name isn't italicized--three other people's name are italicized (one time it was Smith, Robinson, and Williams and another time it was Coach K and two other dudes).

What's going on?

5/7/2006 10:20:13 PM

We need to find a 4th person we want in the top 4, that way we can push Dean out. We've moved DT up significantly, but if we could move Dean out of the top 4 that would be ideal, haha.

I've been voting for Pistol Pete, DT, Naismith, and Wooden.

5/7/2006 10:54:37 PM

Quote :

"I've been voting for Pistol Pete, DT, Naismith, and Wooden."

Same four for me

5/7/2006 11:11:47 PM

^I voted that way to begin with, and not to skew.

5/7/2006 11:12:09 PM

42.8% Dean Smith (North Carolina)

41.2% John Wooden (UCLA)

40.1% David Thompson (NC State)

39.4% James Naismith (Founder of the game)

36.4% Roy Williams (Kansas, North Carolina)

34.6% Mike Krzyzewski (Army, Duke)

14.3% Adolph Rupp (Kentucky)

13.2% Pete Maravich (LSU)

13.1% Phog Allen (Kansas)

10.3% Larry Bird (Indiana State)

9.4% Bob Knight (Army, Indiana, Texas Tech)

5.5% Christian Laettner (Duke)

5.2% Bobby Hurley (Duke)

5.0% Bill Russell (San Francisco)

4.8% David Robinson (Navy)

4.6% Dick Vitale (Announcer)

4.3% Al McGuire (Marquette)

4.0% Dave Gavitt (Big East)

4.0% Patrick Ewing (Georgetown)


Total Votes: 138,776

5/7/2006 11:16:38 PM

300% ?

5/7/2006 11:26:07 PM

^exactly what i thought

5/7/2006 11:28:55 PM

^, ^^the votes are for groups of four, three, two, or one. I think that's why it doesn't add up.

I dunno.

[Edited on May 7, 2006 at 11:33 PM. Reason : sss]

5/7/2006 11:32:39 PM

thompson moves into second

5/8/2006 12:19:16 AM

coach K > roy

5/8/2006 12:39:08 AM

^For sure. Roy Williams shouldn't even be on the fucking list of potentials. I'm sure there are playground players who never played or coached college or pro that should be on the list over him. Fuck, the more I think about...Case should make the list before Williams. There are dozens of people who should be on the list over him.

By the way, I don't plan to stop voting. I'm going to keep these six auto pages running until David Thompson has six billion percent of the vote.

[Edited on May 8, 2006 at 1:50 AM. Reason : AHA, MAYBE I JUST HATE ROY WILLIAMS IRRATIONALY.]

5/8/2006 1:39:30 AM

Updated: Apr. 28, 2006, 9:11 AM
Vote: College basketball's ultimate Rushmore?

Thank you for voting. See below for the results from across SportsNation.

Your responses in bold text below.





Which four figures would you put on college basketball's ultimate Mount Rushmore? (Vote for FOUR)


42.4% David Thompson (NC State)

41.1% Dean Smith (North Carolina)

39.5% John Wooden (UCLA)

37.7% James Naismith (Founder of the game)

35.0% Roy Williams (Kansas, North Carolina)

33.2% Mike Krzyzewski (Army, Duke)

5/8/2006 3:11:46 AM

46.9% David Thompson (NC State)
36.7% Dean Smith (North Carolina)
36.0% John Wooden (UCLA)
34.4% James Naismith (Founder of the game)
31.4% Mike Krzyzewski (Army, Duke)
31.2% Roy Williams (Kansas, North Carolina)
12.2% Adolph Rupp (Kentucky)
11.3% Pete Maravich (LSU)
11.1% Phog Allen (Kansas)
8.8% Larry Bird (Indiana State)
8.0% Bob Knight (Army, Indiana, Texas Tech)
5.7% Christian Laettner (Duke)
5.3% Bobby Hurley (Duke)
4.4% Bill Russell (San Francisco)
4.1% David Robinson (Navy)
3.9% Dick Vitale (Announcer)
3.8% Al McGuire (Marquette)
3.4% Dave Gavitt (Big East)
3.4% Patrick Ewing (Georgetown)

Total Votes: 165,045

5/8/2006 3:54:05 PM

so who is this david thompson guy anyway?

5/8/2006 3:56:05 PM

^ heh.


hahahaha nice job guys

5/8/2006 4:00:35 PM

its ESPN, ofcourse they suck lith blue caulk

5/8/2006 4:02:47 PM

I'd have DT, coach k, bill russell, and wooden. I almost want to vote for laetner too though

5/8/2006 4:46:00 PM

i seriously dont know who david thompson is(no joking)

[Edited on May 8, 2006 at 4:49 PM. Reason : definitely HEARD the name before so i mean i'm not totally in the dark]

5/8/2006 4:47:13 PM

nobody believes you

5/8/2006 4:54:45 PM

he graduated from ae in 2004. he's in this picture:


he's the guy on the right.

unless of course you're talking about the basketball player.

5/8/2006 5:04:24 PM

^ Huh, I was the TA for that class that year and I never made that connection. Guess that goes to prove something .... not quite sure what it is .... ah, who cares?

5/8/2006 5:49:36 PM

he went by dave normally.

5/8/2006 5:50:16 PM

48.2% still in the lead

5/9/2006 2:25:54 PM

vote for Rupp also so hopefully there wont be any dookies or tarholes on the mountain

5/9/2006 2:29:50 PM

i love tww and its ability to skew national polls

[Edited on May 9, 2006 at 2:59 PM. Reason : ll]

5/9/2006 2:59:21 PM

use this link to vote for coach K until dean is out... then you can vote for whoever to replace him... we just gotta get dean out


http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/polling?event_id=2156&incomming=1&question16248=66448

5/9/2006 3:27:23 PM

they are getting upset about this over at insidecarolina

5/9/2006 3:46:00 PM

those bitches over at UNC

5/9/2006 3:56:06 PM