Sorry. We couldn’t help ourselves. We wanted to make point about the “power” of preseason prognostications.
The “experts” write it before a single game is played.
Therefore, it must be true.
The public – and fans – read what is written and start committing it to their conscious as something that is generally accepted to be true.
The rest of the media then takes what is written and expounds upon it as if it were true.
Therefore, the media ends up creating ‘realities’ that are NOT reality.
Luckily for everyone involved, the game is played on the field and not on paper.
Take, for example, Sports Illustrated’s fearless preseason football predictions BEFORE the season where SI proclaimed that NC State would finish the season 3-9 overall and 1-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. (The Sporting News followed SI’s predictions by selecting the Pack 5th in the Atlantic Division)
These preseason predictions were then taken to heart by many fans and most media outlets and before you know it one of the most successful coaches in the history of NC State football is excessively scrutinized in the public and put on the proverbial ‘hot seat’ by the media.
We ask that you check out our perspective of some of this BEFORE the season began by clicking here.
All it took was less than five weeks of football to validate OUR preseason perspectives (not just about NC State, but about UNC-CH) and ruin predictions of the likes of Sports Illustrated.
