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Feels kind of weird to have a perennial naysayer rooting for your team.  There's gotta be an angle here...

If somebody picks a team, it does not mean they are rooting for the team.
If somebody picks against a team, it does not mean they are rooting against the team.

The only angles here would appear to be 1) Pollack thinks Stanford has a chance to be top notch (which is true, if certainly no lock), and 2) Pollack apparently wants to pick a team that doesn't simply match what everybody else is doing (which seems reasonable as long as one doesn't go too far for the cause).

[CTcard]

Feels kind of weird to have a perennial naysayer rooting for your team.  There's gotta be an angle here...

If somebody picks a team, it does not mean they are rooting for the team.
If somebody picks against a team, it does not mean they are rooting against the team.

The only angles here would appear to be 1) Pollack thinks Stanford has a chance to be top notch (which is true, if certainly no lock), and 2) Pollack apparently wants to pick a team that doesn't simply match what everybody else is doing (which seems reasonable as long as one doesn't go too far for the cause).