Why the Early Speculations?

One of the common things you will see during college basketball's postseason is all of the analysts who are already speculating who will be the top teams next season In the past two weeks alone, ESPN has featured two editions of Andy Katz's Top 25, Eammon Brennan's snubs from this pretend Top 25, Dick Vitale's Top 40, and even a full Bracketology, featuring 68 teams, from Joe Lunardi. Am I the only one who thinks that this is all insane? Honestly, it's near impossible to pick who will be the 10 best teams in a given NFL football season in March, much less trying to pick the top 25 teams out of 340+ possibilities. Half the fun of college basketball is having no idea who will be good and who will not. Particularly in college, where things are in such flux. Last year, George Mason was a consensus Top 25 pick in all of these "way to early" polls. The offseason saw transfers and coaching changes, and what do you know, George Mason was barely getting votes, much less in the Top 25. I get it, these guys need to write about something, but please, can we stop pretending like their word actually means something? In 2010, UConn was not even in the official Preseason Top 25. You may remember that they ended up winning the Big East and NCAA Tournament that year. This season, Pittsburgh was slated #11 in the Preseason Top 25. They made the CBI Tournament Those are just a couple of a million examples that I could have picked from, and it goes to show that nobody knows what's going to happen next season. To me, it is just silly to speculate on things that you cannot and have no possibility of knowing. But hey, I end up reading all of them anyway, so I guess they're at least getting views out of em.