McNeal a Finalist for Senior CLASS Award - Vote Early, Vote Often.Written by: hilltopper91@gmail.com (Kevin Buckley (Hilltopper))(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ud0warTDU10/SYnp0BHvIhI/AAAAAAAABMs/LJsXw8OOhNo/s400/LowesSCA_BasketballSM.gif)
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Quote(Kansas City, MO) â€" A high-achieving group of 20 NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes were identified as finalists for the award that has become the premier honor for senior student-athletes, the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.
This announcement launches a nationwide balloting process to determine the 2009 award winner in both divisions. Lowe’s, an official Corporate Partner of the NCAA will announce and present the men’s basketball winner with the distinctive Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award trophy in front of a national television audience during the CBS telecast of the NCAA Men’s Final Four in Detroit.
Blah, blah, blah, there's 9 other guys and our own Jerel McNeal.
Go vote for him NOW. One vote per day: http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/mens_basketball_2008_09/ (http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/mens_basketball_2008_09/)
http://www.crackedsidewalks.com/2009/02/mcneal-finalist-for-senior-class-award.html
Name Current vote count
Andy Wicke 3%
Terrence Williams 33%
Lester Hudson 16%
Sam Young 4%
A.J. Abrams 4%
Curtis Jerrells 3%
Dionte Christmas 3%
Jimmy Baron 4%
Jerel McNeal 26%
Tyler Hansbrough 5%
UPDATE:Jerel and Williams now tied at 29% each. Keep voting!
Hopefully this has been forwarded to the MU Student Body!
Yeah, we gotta make an effort to vote EVERY day. I'm pretty sure it's by IP address, btw. Tried different browsers, thinking it was cookie based .. nope.
Hmm .. rocky, what do you think about sending out an email blast to Scoop's database?
2,600 email addresses .. not everyone will do it, but .. lots will.
Jerel's currently leading.
Sam Young - Pitt
Classroom
Young maintains an approximate 2.5 GPA.
Really?
1. Vote online and then,
1. Text MB7 to 839863
repeat often!
http://www.seniorclassaward.com/athletes/jerel_mcneal/
Quote from: Fullodds on February 05, 2009, 02:17:56 PM
1. Vote online and then,
1. Text MB7 to 839863
repeat often!
http://www.seniorclassaward.com/athletes/jerel_mcneal/
Good thing Kentucky still uses rotary phones.
bump back to the top.
Quote from: marqptm on February 05, 2009, 02:30:27 PM
Good thing Kentucky still uses rotary phones.
Nice. Seems to be working too, T-Will has the lead.
We are launching an email tonight to 2600 people. I'm thinking that gets Jerel 1,000 votes.
Can you vote multiple times a day through the text messaging vote?
I know voting online following the links above, you can vote once per day per unique pc - so if you vote from work, an dhave a pc at home, you can vote from home too same day.
Maybe pin a link to vote up top?
Need to get the MU students behind this one... I remember we won a fan photo contest a couple of years ago, beating out Moscow. No reason we wouldn't be able to take out UL.
Just received MU Insider email from MU Athletics with info on tonight's game vs. USF.
It also included a blurb on the CLASS Award with a link to Cracked Sidewalks. This may help reach more Jerel fans.
Don't recall ever receiving a Cracked Sidewalks link in an MU communications before. Is this a first?
Quote from: Fullodds on February 05, 2009, 02:17:56 PM
1. Vote online and then,
1. Text MB7 to 839863
repeat often!
http://www.seniorclassaward.com/athletes/jerel_mcneal/
ONLY vote for Jerel! It allows you to vote for 3 Seniors. You aren't helping Jerel unless you "bullet vote" for Jerel and Jerel alone.
Quote from: Marquette Mama on February 06, 2009, 09:56:11 AM
Don't recall ever receiving a Cracked Sidewalks link in an MU communications before. Is this a first?
No, they linked to CS a few times last year. Mostly some boring stats posts. ;)
McNeal is slipping! go vote today!
Yeah, pretty disappointing .. I figured after the MUScoop email went out, McNeal would have rocketed to the top. Either not many responded to the email, or the UK people have trumped our efforts.
Bump
Go vote for him NOW. One vote per day: http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/mens_basketball_2008_09/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 06, 2009, 05:33:49 PM
Yeah, pretty disappointing .. I figured after the MUScoop email went out, McNeal would have rocketed to the top. Either not many responded to the email, or the UK people have trumped our efforts.
UK people?
Do you mean Louisville?
Right, right, sorry. UL.
Hmm .. what do people think about another email blast? Looks like TWill is steady at 34%, which would mean the UL wave of people has perhaps subsided.
Looks like the kid from Seattle has a pretty big lead. Probably in part because he has come up big in almost all of L'villes nationally televised games.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 10, 2009, 10:13:27 AM
Hmm .. what do people think about another email blast? Looks like TWill is steady at 34%, which would mean the UL wave of people has perhaps subsided.
Perhaps. Although it seemed McNeal started losing ground immediately after we sent our first e-mail.
Quote from: Avenue Commons on February 06, 2009, 09:59:39 AM
ONLY vote for Jerel! It allows you to vote for 3 Seniors. You aren't helping Jerel unless you "bullet vote" for Jerel and Jerel alone.
Actually, I think you are helping Jerel more if you vote for him and two of the lowest percentage people as well. I am not a stats guy, but I believe that in the end voting that way will drag down the top player the most, as opposed to just voting for Jerel.
Can someone clarify this so we get the most bang for our vote!
Just ran my own test on it.
Voting for Jerel and two others does nothing to harm Jerel. It doesn't help him either, but it doesn't hurt him. As long as you don't vote for anyone ahead of him.
Fact is, we have to vote for Jerel as much as we can.
Anyone think the results are "stuck"?
We sent out an email blast .. DJ went from 300 votes to 1000 in 2 days. One would imagine people voted for Jerel in similar numbers.
But Jerel has stayed at 20% and TWill at 31% for the past several days.
Highly unlikely that voting for TWill was in the exact same proportions as Jerel.
I'm voting for Jerel a half dozen or more times a day. Use each computer you have and text your vote. I also use CCleaner on my computers to get rid of temporary internet files, cookies, etc. After I use it, I can vote again.
I think the results are stuck too. Hansbrough has stayed at 11% too.
I'd guess there would be some change in at least one of the top 4.
Jerel at 21% now - took a % from Twill. Guess they're not stuck.
Here's the quick and easy way of voting as much as you like.
1. Vote here. http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/mens_basketball_2008_09/
2. Go here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
This will display "flash cookies" .. find "seniorclassawards.com" and click "delete website.
Go back to #1 and refresh that page. You can now vote again.
(And don't bother setting the slider to zero for seniorclass.com .. that does not work.)
Man .. these MUScoop email blasts to vote for McNeal must be a huge flop.
McNeal was steady at 18% for weeks. He actually DROPPED to 17% yesterday, and is tied with another guy.
Well, we tried.
To be honest, with his recent play, it's hard to justify a sweeping movement to vote for him. I just feel wrong doing it, especially since he's not a huge presence in the community, and his major is on the easier end.
I've read the bios of the other finalists, and they are stronger than McNeal. Even as far as gameplay, he's struggling lately.
I'll continue to vote for him once a day, but I am not going to support any bot movements to steal him the award.