Absolutely not. Aaron is still chatting every Monday, usually at 3:30 p.m. ET. Here’s this week’s link: http://www.baseballamerica.com/chat/?1361813737

We have preseason rankings for a reason—they attract attention, they get people talking about college baseball. We put a lot of work and study into them, and then to abandon them two weeks in would be foolish. I think Coach Schlossnagle got swept by both teams, so he wouldn’t care how we ranked the teams; he’d just want his team to figure out how to win a game.

  
You sounded a bit defensive, John.  And you didnt really answere the question.
N CAA Division I Baseball Strength of Schedule for 2013:  
  
  http://www.boydsworld.com/base.....s2013.html  
 

Well using that logic, shouldn’t Fullerton be ranked No. 1 right now, or close to it? We’re just not going to blow up our rankings on a week-to-week basis — it’s a long season, and there are too many fluctuations. It is baseball, folks! Teams get hot and teams get cold, and over the course of the season, the cream rises to the top. Two weeks still a very small sample size, and we’re certainly not going to move teams down when they have taken care of business, even if other teams behind them have made more noise early. All that said, I am sold on Fullerton — they have answered the few questions I had about their team (on the mound) coming into the year, and I expect they will finish the season in the Top 10. That doesn’t mean they need to be there in Week Two. We have a methodology, and we have been very consistent with that methodology for three decades now. If you don’t like it, that’s fine — you are welcome to express your disagreement, and I hope I have at least helped you understand how we do things and why, whether you agree or not.

Great vlog, guys. My biased ears obviously loved what you guys were saying. It's been a while since Fullerton's been blazing out of the gates. But they always have one of the toughest SoS in the nation year in, year out – this year their intended nc SoS is #2 via Boyd.  But I have NO qualms about where they are ranked now, yet I've long felt that preseason rankings are over-weighted, and have too much artificial stamina… especially when it comes to teams playing weak SoS non-conference games early on. It far over-rewards weak scheduling… for three decades now!  ;-)  Taking care of business doesn't and shouldn't hold much weight against weak schedules like that vs team demonstrating it on the field of play against noteworthy comp, IMHO.  I just think more give and take should be awarded & demoted in the early parts of the season.  Make some very TOUGH decisions on who should be demoted early on even if they were taking care of business… against weak comp. Questions will ALWAYS arrise SOMEWHERE.  There should be more noteworthy leap frogging early-on inside the published Top 25 like was done with some of the teams that leap frogged over Texas, Miami and ASU, outside, to get into the recognized realm this weak.  In your talk on Fullerton, in this example case, it would be guttsy to back up your early rankings to say that you still stick to your guns and expect Oregon to come in and take two against Fullerton this weekend (which should be a special and fun series, given the coaching histories). Reconcile the week ahead expectations with the talk of the past week. That's walking the talk. ;-)
Which you're both more than capable of doing, btw.
Aaron made an interesting observation about a good example team: Fullerton. Aaron had a couple key question marks about the CSF squad. He believes they've already been resolved in positive fashion via demonstration. If those question marks had not been there… where would Fullerton have been ranked in preseason??? It's not meant to be the biased question that it is, it could be about ANY stellar playing out-of-the-gate team.  I'm willing to bet markedly higher? And teams playing weak schedules will have lingering questions and uncertainty till they meet up with good comp.  Uncertainty should equate to lower rankings… as Fullerton had.  But now are stuck with via the ranking, basically. 
Great vlog, guys! And the new RPI rules seem to provide "lopsided" motivations. The road teams now have almost playoff style motivation and the home teams have practically LESS than just another game to play. It will be an interesting season. Keep up the GREAT work guys.  This is what makes the talks so very interesting.

Thanks for the thoughtful responses, guys. I do get where you’re coming from.