Nah. When people say "stats are for losers", it's because they may have seen or played in crazy-ass stats games and know just how true that saying is. The only thing that matters is the win...the stats are for losers.
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Nah. When people say "stats are for losers", it's because they may have seen or played in crazy-ass stats games and know just how true that saying is. The only thing that matters is the win...the stats are for losers.
Ok, use that line in your argument for climate change. Also, you never addressed the hypothetical extreme where NU wins every game 2-0. Who needs an offense?
Yes! Not us. Who cares about stats? We won!
Their offense gave up a safety! Ours didn't!
I'd encourage you to call Fitz ignorant to his face.
Not that he'd bother to smack you; I simply think he'd get a kick out of your explaining how you know more about the game than he does.
I agree with you that I want the coaches to do what gives the team the best chance to win.
I think it’s fair to raise questions about how they’ve handled the QBs if they need to extend the battle into the regular season, given that no one has provided an example of another program that deliberately split reps between two guys with relatively similar skillsets in Week 1.
There have been many over the years. Just off the top of my head I thought of the Tom Brady vs. Drew Henson platoon. I don’t pay as much attention to college football outside of the Big Ten but I am sure there are several others that can be cited. That being said, I am sure the staff would prefer if one guy had seized the job. Apparently it hasn’t happened, yet!
Yep, agree with you there. It is what it is. If what you predict comes to pass, I can only hope that Hunter balls out and earns the starting spot against UNLV.
Nice extrapolation! At no point did I say I know more than Fitz about football (hint: I don’t). But if you want to die on the stats are for losers “ hill, by all means. Staticitical analysis is probably the number one factor businesses lol at when making a decision (think Netflix and Amazon). But they must be losers....
No extrapolation, cur. You flatly said that statement reveals ignorance. Nobody I know uses that more phrase more than Fitz.
I must be ignorant. I've never even heard of staticitical analysis.
Everything is in service of winning over losing. There are a lot of paths to get there. All of the STATISTICAL measures of the intermediate steps that can together contribute toward the overarching goal have some value. Fitz knows that all of them are nevertheless individually subordinate to the final score. What would you call a team that wins every conference game despite a mediocre offense: a rarity, fortunate, probably, but also you would call them conference champions.
Sorry but the coaches are paid handsomely to identify, recruit, sign and develop the players. There is no GM like other sports. They live and die by their choices. Next.
Archives are your friends. Prove Mac. I don’t recall a litany of posters. Find me three.
Oh, and the only board experts are gcg and Corbi. Think I’m wrong? Just ask them.
So, what your saying is that the coaches don’t track, review, studying any stats? No advanced metrics? Say that to Fitz and I bet he falls overnight laughing.
Someone remind Alan why QB2 is holding a clipboard, what the staff in the press box are
doing, what half the undergrad and grad staff are doing on game day.
How pedantic, focus on a spelling mistake. Here is a trial balloon for you, go into your next meeting and when someone starts going over the numbers say “stats are for losers”. I’ll bet you will be promoted on the spot....
I would call that team extremely fortunate and possibly/probably unsustainable.
LOL. Lucky and unsustainable for 36 wins over a four year period of time? Fitz should just go to Vegas and gamble because with that type of luck he should become a billionaire within a week’s time.
No, just enjoying him owning you, and he didn't even have to take your screenname away to do it!
No odds that I could find. And they even offered odds on Illinois starting QB...
It seems to me that might be a reflection of the amount of betting interest in NU sports more so than anything else. I'm not sure I ever recall seeing a custom prop bet created for NU sports. It might have happened at some point, but it's quite rare.
For me the analysis comes down to this-can Green take us to a (insert your threshold for a successful season)?
If yes, then you play the player best equipped to help the team.
If no (my speculation), then you play Johnson no matter what. Johnson has the highest upside/physics tools and there is no long term benefit to playing a 5th year senior who can’t accomplish your goals. There are potential benefits to playing a sophomore who can’t accomplish your goals but may be able to in the future.
If yes, then you play the player best equipped to help the team.
If no (my speculation), then you play Johnson no matter what. Johnson has the highest upside/physics tools and there is no long term benefit to playing a 5th year senior who can’t accomplish your goals. There are potential benefits to playing a sophomore who can’t accomplish your goals but may be able to in the future.
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