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College basketball is here! This is the balance of power in college basketball:

AP Poll

Individual Team in Power: Duke (85% of First Place Votes, 8% of AP Votes)

1. Duke (55) 1613
2. Michigan State (8) 1558
3. Kansas State (2) 1414
4. Ohio State 1368
5. Pittsburgh 1310
6. Villanova 1198
7. Kansas 1172
8. North Carolina 1034
9. Florida 997
10. Syracuse 920
11. Kentucky 917
12. Gonzaga 889
13. Illinois 773
14. Purdue 771
15. Missouri 700
16. Baylor 625
17. Butler 607
18. Washington 572
19. Memphis 551
20. Georgetown 363
21. Virginia Tech 288
22. Temple 265
23. Tennessee 252
24. Brigham Young 198
25. San Diego State 158
26. Wisconsin 126
27. Texas 107
28. Georgia 67
29. West Virginia 65
30. Minnesota 55

31. Florida State 28
31. Wichita State 28
33. UNLV 21
34. Richmond 17
35. Murray State 15
36. Vanderbilt 14
37. North Carolina State 10
38. Arizona 8
38. Connecticut 8
40. Mississippi State 7
40. Colorado 7
42. UCLA 5
43. Ohio 4
43. Miami (FL) 4
43. Utah State 4
43. Xavier 4
47. Dayton 3
48. Old Dominion 2
49. Georgia Tech 1
49. New Mexico 1
49. Wofford 1

Total 21125

Conference in Power: Big Ten (22% of AP Votes)

Big Ten (8) 4651
Big 12 (2) 4025
Big East 3864
ACC (55) 2978
SEC 2254
WCC 889
Horizon 607
PAC-10 585
C-USA 551
MWC 378
A10 289
MVC 28
OVC 15
MAC 4
WAC 4
CAC 2
Southern 1

Total 21125

Illinois's basketball coach, Bruce Weber, is under attack by those attempting to distort him, calling him a "dork". It came from the Kentucky-Memphis scandal created by John Calipari. He was accused of recruiting Derrick Rose, who got his friend to take the SAT for him, when he accused Michael O'Brien and Bruce Weber of a recruiting scandal involving Anthony Davis, who is recruited by Kentucky.

"Doyell believes that Michael O'Brien (whom he says he does not know at all) is "tied to the University of Illinois, " and that, "...if anybody is behind this, [Illinois head coach Bruce] Weber is behind it."  His reasoning?  Weber "...doesn't lose very well, and he unfortunately loses recruits left and right.  Nobody loses more recruits than Bruce Weber.  That oughta be on his Coat of Arms."

Doyel went on to say that he thinks Weber is a bad recruiter "...because frankly, he's a dork."  He thinks that Weber fed something to O'Brien, and O'Brien ate it up."

Source:http://www.aseaofblue.com/2010/9/1/
1662435/kentucky-basketball-greg-do
yell-on

Here are others who are trying to do the same:

uksmithfan

"Weber is also a sore loser.....just sayin......."

KYBLUEWRITER

"Weber is in fact a dork.  I met him a half dozen times when he was at SIUC and dork was my impression. He even laughs wrong--like Mr. Rodgers yanking one off or something.

Doyle seems to think he's also a sore loser who started the Anthony Davis rumor.  Maybe or maybe not. If he did, that's kind of pathetic. 

That aside, he does seem like a decent person and well meaning enough in the rest of his life.  But yeah, kind of dorky."

Josh

"Without a doubt.  Dork cries in the media so much it's embarrassing.  He always plays the 'victim card' too.  He also barely disciplines his players when they commit crimes.

Can you tell I have no respect for the man?"

Source:http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/messag
es/chrono/24284043

If Calipari gets in trouble for recruiting a player who got one of his friends to take the SAT for him, he should get his 38-2 record vacated. However, instead of doing so, he blames Bruce Weber for bribing Anthony Davis to play for Illinois, and he even calls him a "dork"!. What is their plan here? Their plan is to destroy Bruce Weber's reputation by getting him accused by the NCAA for bribery and corruption, so Calipari can go scot-free. This is what they are trying to do here: blame-shifting Weber so that they can clear themselves. So we need to protect Bruce Weber and the Illinois basketball program from those imposters. We need to expose them so we can keep the integrity of the Fighting Illini and keep Weber innocent. We should not let those imposters ruin our basketball program. We must stand up and defend the Fighting Illini to keep them from destroying our basketball program, because if we stand up, then they will be exposed for who they really are.

Last year, the SEC and the Big 12 have dominated college football while the Big Ten had a percieved weakness, causing a imbalance in power. However, the Big Ten is currently getting stronger, but we need to unite as Big Ten fans by creating a Big Ten Coalition. To do this we need to:
Improve weakest teams
Reconcile rivalries
Create alliances
Strenghen our standing COMPLETED (Big Ten improved from 1-6 to 4-3 in bowl games)
Overthrow the SEC and Big 12 football teams when necessary (Penn State defeated LSU in the Capital One Bowl, but there is still much more to do)
Overthrow USC in the Rose Bowl when necessary (USC did not play in the Rose Bowl)
The SEC and the Big 12 will eventually weaken from power struggles, but we as the Big Ten will unite, grow stronger, and stay strong. GO BIG TEN!