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  1. Another example - FBS needs to restructure

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    40 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

    Now who's revisionist history? 

    I assume you mean "whose revisionist history"?  The sentence (phrase) still doesn't make sense.

    Yes, Florida State already had its eyes on the exit, which already says something about the recent desirability of the conference.  But the 3 best athletic schools in the conference voted against adding the 3 new schools, because they see the additions as downgrading their conference even further.  And now they clearly want out more than ever.

    Again, all 3 schools wanted into the Big 12 before they ever turned toward the ACC.  Now you want to brag up the ACC because that's where you are headed; that's understandable.  But you know that if the Big 12 had been willing to take SMU, you never would have bothered writing your last paragraph above.

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  2. Another example - FBS needs to restructure

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    3 hours ago, SMU2006 said:

    No, Stanford/CAL wanted to be associated with schools that had students who can read above the fourth grade level which eliminates virtually all the schools in the Truck Stop 12.

    Revisionist history.  Obviously, their first choice was the Big 10, but after they got an unequivocal "Get lost" from them, the next option they tried was the Big 12.  Who also told them no.  Trying the ACC came after the other options failed.

    And now the entrance of those 3 bottom feeder schools is causing the better ACC schools to try to find any loophole they can they might get them out of that conference.

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  8. Breaking: North Texas lands a Commitment From Iowa State/Ole Miss Safety

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    1 minute ago, 97and03 said:

    So we are taking fliers on low character guys now? Great. 

    In fairness, if we are going to take a flier on a low character guy, this is the low character guy* we want to take a flier on.  He could be the most elite defensive player who has taken the field for us since Booger Kennedy.

    * I'm not saying he is low character.  He's done some clearly bad things in times past, and it's certainly possible he's changed his course.

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  10. Grading 1st Year College Football Head Coaches

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    2 minutes ago, VideoEagle said:

    Not sure where or how you got the bizarre idea I thought Morris did a better job than Deion. 

    The post to which I was responding literally said, "Compare [Morris's] record to [Sanders']." 

     

    5 minutes ago, VideoEagle said:

    I just pointed out that historically, coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve on the total wins in their first year. Coaches taking over teams with six or more wins only improve on the previous year's record a little less than 1/3 of the time. Expecting Morris to improve our record in his first year is the same as expecting a 3 to come up more often in craps than a 6 - it is possible but not likely. 

    Of course coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve.  It's hard to do much worse, right?  But do they overwhelmingly improve by 3 wins?  If not, then your attempted refutation of my point fails.

    And again, my point was not just that Morris didn't improve on our record; he also made it 2 wins worse.

    So again, my point that Deion did a better coaching job than Morris last year stands.  I hope that changes next year.

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  11. Grading 1st Year College Football Head Coaches

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    3 minutes ago, VideoEagle said:

    Yes, coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve on their predecessor's record in their first year. Coaches taking over 6+ win teams only improve about 1 out of 3 times. The better the record of the team you take over, the less likely you will improve in your first year. 

    Do coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly add 3 wins to that total their first year?

    Do coaches taking over teams with 6+ wins overwhelmingly subtract 2 wins from that total their first year?

    To insinuate that our coach did a better job than Deion did because he won one more game is absurd.

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  12. Grading 1st Year College Football Head Coaches

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    3 minutes ago, wardly said:

    List all the 1st year coaches and compare his record to theirs. While there are some coaches that have winning seasons after their predecessor has been fired they are in the minority.For example the Northwestern coach did, the Colorado coach didn't.

    The Colorado coach won 4 games his first year, while taking over a team that only won one game the previous year.

    Deion clearly wins that battle over our coach.

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  13. Grading 1st Year College Football Head Coaches

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    24 minutes ago, GoGreenBeans said:

    we can't compare 1st year Morris to last year Littrell. Seth had built something here, while Morris is still building up

    This doesn't make much sense.  You have to judge a coaching job based on what he stepped into.  Littrell only won 5 games his first year; but considering he inherited a 1-win team and installed polar opposite offensive and defensive systems, that was a solid B+ coaching job.

    When Mosely hired Morris, the assumption was that he would be able to pick right up where Littrell left off and improve on it, considering they come from basically the same school of coaching.

    EDIT: Looks like @MeanGreenTexan was already typing the same thing when I started typing.

     

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  14. Grading 1st Year College Football Head Coaches

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    34 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

    A for Offense = 4.0
    F for Defence = 0.0
    B for S Teams = 3.0

    So overall, 2.33 (C- sounds about right)

    Fair enough.  But personally, if I'm the professor, I'm weighing wins and losses a whole lot more heavily than stats.  So taking a 7-win team--a record deemed unacceptable--down to a 5-win team has to get a bad grade.

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  17. QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU

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    5 minutes ago, TreeFiddy said:

    We don't exactly have the best track with P5 QB transfers named Morris.  Let's hope this one fares a little better.

    I assume you're talking about Alec Morris?  It's not like he was a bust.  It's just that Mason Fine exploded on the scene.

    And if the same thing happens with next fall's P5 transfer and new freshman on the scene, I'll be just fine with it.

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