{"id":80027,"date":"2017-08-28T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/rcntv\/?p=80027"},"modified":"2023-04-13T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:14:11","slug":"football-polls-2017-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/football-polls-2017-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Polls 2017 \u201cPlus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the season premiere of the &#8220;SportsTalk&#8221; high school football poll\u2026with an added twist this year!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MxBj0nOtkQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFirst, some insights about our high school football poll featuring teams in the RCN-TV footprint in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike polls that consist of a couple representatives within the same organization, our poll is much more varied with input from many different people over a wider scope.\u00a0 Our voting panel consists of local media members from different outlets, along with local coaches and athletic directors from across the entire district.\u00a0 The voters are not identified (unless they appear on our \u201cSportsTalk\u201d TV show and podcast and chose to reveal themselves) so they can give their honest impressions without any worry of outside pressures or \u201cbulletin board\u201d material, and we rotate different pollsters from different schools each year, including guests from our biggest to our smallest schools.<\/p>\n<p>This year we feature a &#8220;Super Seven&#8221; of pollsters for big school poll\u00a0and seven for our small school poll, featuring a mix of media members (both from inside and outside of RCN) and local head coaches in each grouping&#8211;from different corners of the District XI region.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the change in the PIAA classification, our poll remains with the standard, tried-and-true format that we have utilized for many seasons.\u00a0 We will take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI\/RCN footprint.\u00a0 All schools above that number qualify as \u201cbig schools\u201d in our poll. 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