Pojoaque vanishes

Here's the funny thing about polls. They really are the highest form of human error, because they reflect opinions. Sometimes, those opinions ring true. Sometimes ... You scratch your head and wonder, "What the ... ???"
And so after yesterday's football poll, I have but one question for the fine football coaches who voted in the Class AAA prep football poll. Where's the love for Pojoaque? And, yes, Elks head coach Quevin Redding (Coach Q, to most people), I include you.
I went back comparing the voting list of head coaches from last week, when the Elks received 16 points to finish just outside the Top 10, and the list revealed the absence of two coaches in this week's poll.
So much to my shock - and yes, I will say dismay - the Elks went from 16 to a big fat ZERO in the poll. How is that possible? To go from the 11th most popular team to not even being on the list? I can understand Redding not voting for his team (although I would think he would want to celebrate his team's success), because there are a few coaches out ther who refuse to do that.
But how can a team beat a AAAA team (albeit a bad Taos team) 31-8 and yet get the shaft in the poll?
Of course, we are talking about prep polls that once had Bernalillo's and Santa Fe High girls basketball team earning votes despite having losing records. So it goes to figure that human beings are fallible.
Or forgettable.

Prep soccer poll 09/21-26

Here it is again, for your eyes, the nmsoccer.com prep poll for this week. Click on the hypelink if you want to see more of what's going on in the soccer scene. First-place votes are in parenthesis:

Boys
Class AAAAA
1. Alb. La Cueva (5) 66
2. Alb. Sandia (1) 55
3. Alb. Eldorado 38
4. Rio Rancho 35
5. Las Cruces 33
6. L.C. Mayfield 32
7. Gadsden (1) 25
8. L.C. Oñate 17
9. Alb. Highland 16
10. Alb. Cibola 14
Class AAAA
1. Alb. Academy (3) 39
2. Alb. St. Pius X (1) 36
3. Roswell 27
4. Los Alamos 26
5. Farmington 25
6. Capital 20
7. Piedra Vista 17
8. Grants 12
9. Belen 11
10. Roswell Goddard 4
Class A-AAA
1. Alb. Sandia Prep (1) 73
2. Bosque School (7) 70
3. Ruidoso 63
4. St. Michael's 49
5. Alb. Hope Christian 48
6. Bloomfield 33
7. Rehoboth 32
8. Santa Fe Prep 23
9. Socorro 21
10. Las Vegas Robertson 11
Girls
1. Alb. Sandia (7) 70
2. Alb. La Cueva 59
3. Alb. Eldorado 44
4. Alb. Cibola 43
5. Rio Rancho Cleveland 40
6. Las Cruces 35
7. Rio Rancho 30
8. Carlsbad 24
9. L.C. Mayfield 17
10. Albuquerque High 9
Class AAAA
1. Los Alamos (2) 41
2. Alb. Academy (1) 36
3. Volcano Vista 35
4. Alb. St. Pius X 33
5. Alb. Del Norte 25
6. Piedra Vista 19
7. Farmington 17
8. Kirtland Central 10
9. Aztec 9
10. Taos 6
Class A-AAA
1. Alb. Sandia Prep 60
2. Bosque School 53
3. St. Michael's 49
4. Socorro 39
5. Alb. Hope Christian 36
6. Rehoboth 25
7. Portales 23
8. Miyamura 14
9. East Mountain 10
10. Santa Fe Prep 8