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If you can't see the tweet, Aidan Birr is coming back.

Uhhh Clemson has owned us for a decade, not withstanding a blip in 2014 when Watson went down with injury. That defense dominated the option (Jimmys and Joes + good blitzes) and, well it was pretty easy to beat a GC coached team. I will laugh if Dabo’s hubris and inability to adapt to the...

I'd really like to differentiate between called runs and scrambles in the data. I agree if all the runs are scrambles it's not a good sign for our offense and team as a whole. I've been calling for King to be more involved in the run game either in read plays or called runs and you can see why...

Did they lose Castellanos? They have a backup in.

I think we should take this as an opportunity to review the wins we’re talking about over UNC and Pitt last year. This article shows how Key’s interim job outperformed our post game win expectancy by 1.5 games. That’s a really high mark over a fraction of the season. I certainly had fun watching...

You raise a good point. At some point if you do something so fundamentally different than the rest of football what analytics should you follow and which should you ignore? Certainly our best years with the 3O were when we had options to be explosive (often in the passing game). On the other...

While resting the D is a benefit, I wouldn't say the best way to win is to keep their O off the field. If anything, shortening the game and reducing possessions introduces more variation in the result. A single turnover becomes more influential. If you feel you have an advantage on the field you...

They didn’t even play good stadium music. I was enrolled 2010-2016 and they managed to play music that had energy like “all the way turnt up” and “put on” I don’t recall a single “energy” song last Saturday. Seemed like the whole experience was geared towards the least offensive songs that the...

For this particular chart remember success rate is just the % of successful plays (getting x% of needed yards on a given play, eg 100% on 3rd and 4th down). With that you can see how we’d be more successful on an average play as we held them to plenty of 3rd and long which they’d end up...

Which models are fed by ESPN play by play data? Since the Louisville game isn’t in there our rating will be off.

I think it just has to be optioning with King in the run game more. He’s a real threat and we just don’t quite have the ability to win run matchups while down a player.

I thought that the new rules allowed for a player to be cut from roster but remain on scholarship, thus providing less incentive for coaches to risk putting the school in line for retaliation. It appears I was mistaken and this rule only applies in the context of a new coach being hired...

Fyi, that list is by college, not by high school. Probably less relevant to the discussion on recruiting.

Yes they did. Scoring that many on Groh when you have our calls isn’t that impressive.

But we've already discussed that we DO know how much Key has to spend. The pool expanded 30% and we certainly don't need that much to retain the coaches we already have on staff. No one else was going to try and poach most of our staff. We could definitely have a 1MM+ OC and there are absolutely...

I see this as the realistic path forward. Schools like GT will be left behind in the arms race and be better for it. There’s still good entertainment to be had but we won’t have to pretend to compete directly against schools which are on another level of funding.

Coaches can't revoke a scholarship for athletic reasons. Kid can tell the coach to stuff it and just ride the bench out if he wants the degree. Or kid can bring it up to the NCAA and get the coach/school sanctioned.

How? He's making 500k as a running backs coach at Texas. We're fretting over 850k for an OC. We would have to expand his role significantly to get him back (no way we can justify paying above market rate for a RB coach just for a feel good story to get a GT guy back) and quite frankly we need a...

Might be the only thing you and I agree on 👍

Well to be fair the argument was originally recruiting, which should be the whole team. If it's just offensive players you're missing on but clearly still have a potent offense without them, who really cares? The point isn't to win the NFL draft, it's to win college football games. I get to...