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Cincinnati is joining the Big 12 in the next few seasons. Is VPI a better job than P5 Cincy? It may not even be a better job the current Cincy.

You can't do a contract like that in today's college football. You can never have a coach with less than 3 years left on a contract, or recruiting becomes impossible. If Collins had a 5 year contract, we likely would have had to make a choice on extending him or firing him (with likely a...

Even aside from the death risk, which does appear low, the risk of severe lung injury or other complications is real. There's evidence of even asymptomatic people having severe lung scarring. What happens when a star player with NFL prospects can't run anymore because they've lost half their...

By points, sure, but 76th in S&P+, 58th in FEI. We have smarter stats than raw points or yards, we should use them. Adjusting for pace and opponent, they were mediocre at best on offense.

Which is exactly how you should use a model. A model should not be an end-all-be-all. It should be a quantitative way to get a starting point on every team, based on past experience. From there, you see what the model is saying, and look at why it thinks these things. That can tell you a lot...

Attendence is down across the entire sport. I'm not convinced GT is an outlier here.

Watching college football, I think anyone outside of those top 10 or so recruiting schools has to make a choice: good offense or good defense. It's really rare to find a team not in that upper recruiting echelon that has both. When you're not recruiting to that elite level, you have to choose...

This is one of my big concerns about the offensive staff: it threw out a lot of buzzwords during the off-season, but never seemed to really say much. Striving for balance, I think, is kind of stupid, and I think pro-style offenses are beyond stupid at the college level. We've seen spread...

I'm pretty sure I've seen Big Ben run an option play or 2 in goal line situations. Maybe on a 2-pt play during that playoff run a decade ago?

I don't think you can fault Hall for CT staying in. It was probably a little better than a 50/50 call with CT being favored. It just didn't work out.

I don't think leaving Thomas in was a mistake. He was pitching great before that pitch. Just ****ing luck.

Yeah, important part is the 10. 10 wins is what we need, with at most 4 losses.

Just have to go 10-4 the rest of the way.

He's been stellar today.

This flys in the face of most analytics. You should be attempting significantly more 4th downs, and 4th and 1 or less should be an automatic go for it no matter the field position. Coaches tend to massively overrate field position. Keeping the ball on offense is paramount for an offense.

He's not just looking at Tech, he's making predictions about 130 FBS teams. Of course he's not going to be right on every single one, and some teams don't rate well with his formula. But he's almost always in the ballpark, and his analysis is good. This is a systemic way to look at all 130...

He's not using his gut, he's using a formula that he's developed over a decade, and it tests very well against others. He does not care so much about our history, but he's looking at every single season by ANY FBS team since about 2007 when he started doing this. GT might be special, but we...

It's not just the lack of helmets and pads that makes rugby safer. You don't have to fight for each additional yard in rugby like you do in football. Each individual yard matters less, so you can use a safer, more drawn out form of tackling.

I think they actually got that play right. "Rule 8-7-c states “unless the catcher is in possession of the ball, the catcher cannot block the pathway of the runner as he is attempting to score… Notwithstanding the above, it shall not be considered a violation if the catcher blocks the pathway...

Why was Hughes still pitching? He had zero control in that inning.