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I think scouting/drafting is still hampered by two things: football is more of a team game, there’s less repeatable, well-understood and observable 1-on-1 interactions like an at bat; and you don’t have the minors vs majors roster distinction to stash a bunch of prospects to develop with regular...

Another big issue in college sports is also that you don’t have the same level of roster control. No draft, no long team-friendly entry contracts (especially now), no trades. If you find a star you can’t flip them for future picks to help constantly rebuild.

This took a weird turn, but it’s worth remembering that outliers make the news much more than non-outliers because of the surprise factor. Putting my old man hat on, though, on topic, parents being irrational about safety based on high profile well covered incidents instead of the bigger...

It’s not derailed, we’re just using the Dodgers to represent Alabama, the Yankees to represent Auburn, and debating which of those programs to try to model ourselves after. Yep. Definitely that. The whole time.

Andrew Friedman was in Tampa and then was told “keep up all the smart work, but now have a giant bag of cash to play with”. Whether or not you want to say analytics + smarts stops being “moneyball” if you add in money, or if it’s the “smart” part that makes it moneyball, eh, I don’t care that...

Another way of looking at that list of World Series results is: only 4 out of 11 years didn’t have at least one of the top 5 spenders make it that far. Only one of those years didn’t have at least one top 10 spender. And only 3 out of 22 spots were taking by 20th-or-lower payroll teams. Of...

I wouldn’t really call it a moneyball thing since the big programs seem to be doing it already but more about breadth vs depth (in terms of how much you rely on a single coach), as it were. GT had a good run of at-least-decent coaching, and then fell into a ditch disastrously with a bad one. How...

Hiring from well-run programs is interesting as a strategy. It’s a big change from the sort of “great man” theory of coaching that we had under Johnson and Collins (not saying we hired Johnson using that thought process exactly, but a lot of the support for him has been “we need a genius like...

That doesn’t have any “expectation compensation” though, does it? Was it both a low-end schedule and a low-end roster? What did conference mates do?

Maybe Geoff can apply what he learned here at Navy…

Honestly the players wouldn’t want that either because without the (ever-stretched) college affiliation, minor league sports just don’t bring in that much money or pay that well. Maybe you keep a lot of it if you spin it out from today’s programs, but I think you’d quickly lose a lot of the...

I’m not trying to hire any of y’all, just trying to talk about how GT could get more fans to get more resources, neither “Tech man” nor “alum” should come into it at all. I’m happy that people are proud of their degrees, but that’s just between you and whoever you may or may not be working for...

Seems like an even better reason for Tech to focus its marketing and outreach on non-alum, then. 😉 (Gotta lose less too, of course.). Feels like more like 10:1 in the past few years when I’ve visited (whoops, I’m part of the problem on the west coast!), we have been losing the battle to get...

UGA having twice as many living alumni is way fewer than I’d expect based on fans and merch around Atlanta. That’s the problem! Is it trivial to grow GT’s non-alumni fanbase? No. But I think it’s going to be necessary.

I always thought it was Star Trek The Next Generation 🤷🏻‍♂️

Why should Tech fans be ok with UGA being more attractive to "couldn't make it into the school academically" fans than GT is? That's a big competitive disadvantage. I don't want to be proud about admissions standards on Saturdays, I want to win.

Moneyball as done by the A’s was all about doing things differently more than “better in an absolute sense.” What skills are undervalued so you can get them more easily and on a lower budget with more constraints? But once everyone else starts copying you, you need to find a new set of skills...

Heck, there are other schools and places where that practicality is itself seen as reason to look down on places like GT. ;) It's unproductive snobbery either way. Wish I still had my old North Avenue Trade School shirt from the bookstore...

Not a ton. Georgia State reported between 12-20k per home game this year, which isn't nothing, though. Georgia Southern seems to be more like 18-20 consistently. KSU is quite a bit smaller. But GT shouldn't be afraid of any of those programs - they aren't competing at the same level and "dual...

KSU, GS, etc pulling from the prospective GT fanbase instead of from UGA’s is a failure of the Athletic Association both on and off the field. But the ability of those programs to grow at all is a testament to potential that a less-incompetent GT could tap into…