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A positive I took away from this chart is that several of the teams we still have yet to play this season are in the upper left quadrant.

I think it's pointless to try to compare "worst loss" across different coaching regimes or to have a beauty contest between them. All the ones cited are bad losses. I believe the issue that hurts the most from the BG loss is that prior to the game it appeared, finally, that we had some...

Thanks for the explanation. I suspect if those games were included, Haynes' DETMER rating might be a bit higher.

812 total passing yards - The formula must be filtering out some games or plays (?) What am I missing?

Yeah, you can't say our offense had very few chances to get back on the field. We had chances but went 3 and out too much after the first two series. You can't look at ToP in a vacuum and reach solid conclusions. Low ToP with low points can mean that your defense couldn't get off the field...

Was there any insight or speculation in this article that hadn't already been expressed in this thread? I didn't see any.

On this topic, can anyone share any PFF stats for ACC QBs?

Valid point. I'm new to looking at advanced stats - and it does seem like EPA is a useful metric for plays, not so much for players.

The pair of interceptions against BG totaled over 13 points of negative EPA. They were extremely costly from an EPA standpoint. And if you agree with the concept of EPA, those two plays cost us nearly two touchdowns of points differential in a game we lost by 11. Unfortunately, QBR probably...

I don't feel bad for Thacker either since he knew he was on the hot seat anyway. Anyone coaching P5 football at the coordinator or head coach level has two people in their favorite contacts list - their agent and their realtor. Comes with the territory.

Hartman graduated from WF, and is playing for ND as a graduate assistant. We've often struggled to keep graduates here even if they have eligibility left, due to graduate admittance requirements and narrow major choices. The "Covid Year" of extra eligibility is soon to age off the books, but...

More evidence for my tin foil hat theory that Collins was actually a deep-cover “plant” from the Georgia program. Did anyone watch “The Americans”? They were playing the long game…

Although I've never personally been involved in a demotion process, I've seen them work out ok, and I've seen them be temporary diversions while the demotee finds something else, and I've seen them fail. Depends on the individual circumstances. Beyond the initial hires, this is Key's first big...

Based on what happened during the game - our uncharacteristically abysmal performance plus our opponent playing out of their minds, including the highlight catch of the year from their 2-star WR - I actually wondered if we had done something to upset a higher power. We tempted fate with those...

A factor? Certainly. The root cause of our problems? No. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

I'm spitballing again here, but it occurred to me that having two managers with the same title in the same department generally requires their duties to be extremely well-delineated in order to be successful. Otherwise, you run the risk of two managers making conflicting decisions. It also...

This. We give out Director titles like candy.

Got to to hand it to BG’s coaches and scouts. They did a good job of exploiting our weaknesses. 5 games in, our coaching staff must surely be well aware of our strengths and weaknesses, at least from a player performance standpoint. On offense, they may have to scheme around our weaknesses and...

You're not wrong about our DBs as a group. But only two of the five listed 4-star starters on D are transfers, and Sims transferred after a redshirt freshman year. To my knowledge, he did not have a history of injuries (I think). Conversely, both Haynes King and Dom Blalock have performed...

Thanks for this deeper dive. This shows that nearly a third of our starting 22 were ranked 4 stars, which is actually higher than the team aggregate percentage. More of the higher-ranked players would be expected to be starters, so no surprises there. The underperformance on defense, with...