Polls, again.

Alright. Polls. Too many of them.
The standard in most college sports is two polls. Men's basketball, for instance, has the AP poll as well as the USA Today coaches poll. That's about it. Same goes for football and women's basketball.
Rowing's a different breed, however. There are 10 polls split between the two genders in collegiate crew. They just made a new one. The IRA poll. It looks strikingly similar to the US Rowing poll minus any club teams. Pretty stupid.
With too many polls, it trivializes the significance of them. Groups shouldn't be so compelled to create new rowing polls when there are already so many available.
The problem with rowing is that someone, somewhere, wants to get involved in a way that's unneeded. They have to know, deep down, that creating more polls doesn't benefit the world of rowing in any way. But they do it anyway. Rowing organizers and coaches are a lot like PTO moms. They'd have a bake sale if they thought someone would give them credit for it. The result is a convoluted mess that collegiate rowers have to be entangled in. Even dumber is that some of the coaches who are voting on this, vote in multiple polls. Just pointless.