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Letting the players vote for captains..........Clearly ANOTHER stupid decision by Garrett.
"If you're not careful, voting for captains is a popularity contest," Penn State coach James Franklin said. "And the players vote for who the best player is. It's not who makes the people around them better."
If a coach decides to have a vote for team captain, one method for limiting the effect of popularity is to have players share their opinion before the season begins. University of Arkansas coach Bret Bielema tries to have his players vote two weeks before the start of the season. While decreasing the chances of friends voting for each other, it also allows him some new insights through the choices made by his freshman.
"To me, sometimes new eyes are the best eyes. They literally can tell who really, truly, does lead, who kind of has a voice and not necessarily going with the most popular. As you get older, I think it's easy to start voting for your buddy," Bielema said.
This is painful to read, thinking you thought it made yet another embarrassing gaffe a little less embarrassing. It didn't.