A lot of people graduate from college and aren't sure what they want to do with their lives.

Not Kendall Rogers. He knew. He started a college baseball poll.

Rogers apparently believed that if the Bowl Championship Series, USA Today, Associated Press and others can have their own polls, then why not a 23-year-old sports business graduate of Texas A&M with a passion for college baseball? So, Rogers created the 2-year old Rosenblatt Report, where you'll find the University of Hawai'i at No. 25 this week.

Welcome to college baseball, a sport that doesn't have the visibility of college football or the following of college basketball, but as we are learning, doesn't lack for a wide variety of opinions, either.

Indeed, it is no longer enough to say that the 37-12 (14-6 Western Athletic Conference) Rainbows are nationally ranked this week. These days, with five polls, you have to be a lot more specific. Offered a vacuum by the absence of an all-powerful AP or BCS, and empowered by the Internet, there is a smorgasbord of polls. And, if you don't like one of them, chances are you'll find one you can agree with.

In addition to the Rosenblatt Report (named after Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., where the College World Series is held annually), there is, in order of ascending seniority: the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, USA Today Top 25 Coaches poll (where UH is 25th), Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball (UH is 29th).

Talk about polls apart, among them is an assortment of formulas, involving coaches, sportswriters, broadcasters, sports information directors and others or a mixture thereof, for calculating the upper crust of the 293 schools that play the sport on a Division I level. And that's not counting Boyd's World self-described "pseudo Ratings Percentage Index," where UH is listed 40th.

When Lou Pavlovich Sr. began the Collegiate Baseball poll during the 1957 season, a monopoly that endured for decades, chances are he never imagined such a crowded field. His son, Lou Jr., who has been involved in the newspaper's poll since the 1970s, said that isn't bad. "I think the wide range is good. It shows the popularity of the sport. The more the merrier."

UH coach Mike Trapasso, who receives a ballot from Collegiate Baseball, but has rarely voted because of time zone problems, said there is a surprisingly high standard overall with or without regional biases. Of the Rosenblatt Report, in particular, Trapasso said, "they are new but they've been very aggressive in their research."

Indeed, when reached by cell phone yesterday, Rogers was able to spout, off the top of his head, not only UH's record, but its road mark, season-long ups and downs and upcoming schedule. Information that, by experience, we've learned not all football or basketball voters can do.

Trapasso's one knock on the various polls: "None of them get a vote when the (NCAA selection committee) meets in the room. When I was working for Gene McArtor at Missouri while he was the head of the selection committee, he said it was rare for them to even bring up the polls. But, I'm sure, if you're in the polls, it at least enters their minds."

Even if people aren't always sure which ones they are.

Reach Ferd Lewis at flewis@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8044.