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Going fishbone on me, huh?

I’ll come back to this when I have more time My argument is that, for a team in the “top 40” of talent (#36) to have an offense ranked somewhere in the 60’s overall, a defense ranked below 85 somewhere (possibly much lower, depending on what ranking) and special teams in the same range, and...

Since 2019, we're 8-14 on the road, for a winning percentage of 36.3% Since 2019, we're 9-21 at home, for a winning percentage of 30% (including "neutral" sites) Duke was our last major home win, on Oct 8 2022 (assuming the listing I have is correct). Before that, to get a FBS win at Bobby...

Haynes leads in rushing. Cooley leads in receiving. I think Haynes is #1 right now. For both of them, my guess is the coaches want a breakaway runner (though it hasn’t happened much yet) Edit: I looked at the rushing yardage leaders (total yards). The yards per carry varied from 4.2 to over 7...

Of course I considered coaching. The justification for the talent composite is the idea that the largest factor in on field performance is talent. If you’re going to say the largest factor is coaching, then that means the recruiting ratings aren’t that important. Also, a coach at a press...

Of the RBs, Haynes is the most productive runner and Cooley is the most productive receiver on a per-play basis. FYI, the clear answer is someone needs to hand the ball off to King. Rush Rush Rush Rush Rece Rece Rece Rece Rk Player G Att Yds Avg TD Rec Yds Avg TD 1 Jamal Haynes 7...

We’ve been losing to those patsies. Bowling Green is one of the 20 weakest teams in FBS. Unless we’re moving to the MAC conference, there’s not a ton Batt can do.

there are only so many theories about why some players don’t get playing time HC is mad at a player and is intentionally sabotaging our games because of it Player isn’t playing as well as the other guys and fell down the depth chart but the coach doesn’t want to throw him under the bus The...

For recruiting, let’s add in potential and grit, so there is talent, potential, grit, and results. Some players go to a school with all the equipment and a program so that almost everyone on your first 22 is better than the other team. It’s easier to look good as a WR when the QB has all day...

While we’re self immolating here, and convinced our coaching staff is a disaster because of our defense, it’s interesting that Colorado is absolutely last in NCAA total defense (bogus stat, but some people like it) Opponent adjusted, their defense is #113, and ours is #85. However, it’s been...

Shared in another thread in the last week, the 5 factors: Explosiveness, efficiency, field position, finishing drives, and turnovers are the five factors to winning football games. If you win the explosiveness battle (using PPP), you win 86 percent of the time. If you win the efficency battle...

Hiring a coach is multiple things at the same time. It’s more like buying a company than hiring an employee—there’s lock in, there’s an amazing amount of due diligence required, plus you have to get all your board members and investors aligned. If he’d been AD for six months, he’d have arranged...

Someone had to do it

FWIW, I did actually say “our strength of schedule pulls us up to 85” and that the other numbers were unadjusted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here are our FEI defense numbers. Rk Team Rec FBS DFEI DDE Rk DPD Rk DAY Rk DPP Rk 85 Georgia Tech 3-4 2-4 -.12 -.26 105 2.70 107 .578 125 6.65 122 Our unadjusted numbers are bottom of FBS. We get moved up to 85 based on strength of schedule DDE = drive...

So many people saying nice things about her

Duke was close; their weak schedule hid some of it. Tulane was worse. JMU was practically nonexistent. Missouri’s biggest asset was being in the SEC.

He hired an OC who knows the Riley offense, has him coach the Dabo Swinney scheme, and keeps all the rest of the coordinators. If I was a USA track coach, and saw that we kept losing 100m sprints to Jamaica, it’d be foolish for me to put Michael Phelps in track because he succeeded in 100m...

If that chart were against FSU, maybe there’s a moral victory to take out of it. This team needs to just win, though. Especially these games ======= Postgame presser I didn’t see the comment about “maybe not everyone is bought in”, so I don’t know where that came from in some other posts I...

We get hyperbole and some hot takes after both wins and losses. We’re about even in wins and losses, so I can say we get more hyperbole after losses. As for something that does raise flags—We had a two back set a few times. The first time, Cooley was coming in and Haynes ran off, and the...