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I feel like the extent to which he has elevated us to a new level is overstated. We had 8-4 regular seasons 3 of 4 years before he arrived, and that is basically the level we are still at (and now we have been below that level for back to back seasons). I still think he has been an upgrade for...

If only we were like the good teams, where players never need to try to make free throws while fans make noise. With hurdles like that, no wonder we are struggling.

If we would have played to those 4 or 5 win expectations, it would have been a pretty awful year (the fact that prognosticators expected us to be bad doesnt mean it is less bad if we are as bad as they expect). Also, the schedule is a lot less daunting if you look at postseason rankings than it...

The B1G would dominate it, and then the SEC apologists would say that you can't make judgments based on a bunch of one-off out of conference games, and you instead need to look at how the SEC teams do against the SEC schedule to prove how strong they are.

It's a new year, and I'm trying to have more empathy, so im not going to judge a coach too harshly for grasping at straws to try to spin the facts to make his second-tier conference appear relevant.

He would have explained that the SEC makes really tasty hypothetical mayo.

I think the winner of the mayor bowl and the pop tarts bowl should play in the gimmick bowl. It could run during the national championship similar to how the puppy bowl airs during the super bowl. Then the announcers could eat pop tarts covered in mayonnaise. I actually appreciate that this...

Great to get another win, and i really enjoyed the play calling on both sides of the ball. Thought it put us in a great position to win. Sorry if this was covered in the in game thread, but I've got a question on the muffed punt fair catch where our guy was blocked into Perich. I'm taking the...

Far be it from me to have faith in Coyles decision making, I think he's get this one right. And if he doesn't, that's a coyle problem, not a Johnson one. Kind of like the scene in the office when Pam said something to the effect of "when a 12 year old crashes a car, you don't blame the kid. You...

I disagree with this take. If we win enough to make the NCAA, they won't be meaningless wins (and, with how bad our resume is so far, we'd have to go on a pretty amazing run). Short of that, no amount on meaningful wins will bring Johnson back. Coyle put the coach and fans on notice that that...

That's always the danger with quirky coaches. Brewster would have quite the following and the "keep your chili hot" tshirts would be worn all over the stadium if he had been good. (I didn't like the Brewster hire because of his lack of experience, really didn't like his results, but I actually...

+1 The way officials avoid deciding the game is by making the correct call, not trying implement some weird value code for when some calls should or shouldn't be made.

Yes it is. I like the way PWR uses RPi. I've always thought one of the elegant things about sports was that when you took the field, all that mattered was whether you won the game or not. Not whether you passed Kirk Herbsteit's eye test or impressed some spreadsheet.

My problem with that system is it still includes human polls. I want (a) no human votes and (b) no margin of victory component. Only thing that should matter is whether you win or lose, not how dominant you look (either to humans or models).

Ziemer got a pair of goals against Germany.

It sounds like he's a good AD as long as he never needs to speak in public, hire a basketball coach, or navigate any changes in college sports.

Intellectually, i know that's the right answer. But then I log in and can't help myself.

So the argument is that if we had preserved last year's roster in a way that no one in the country seems to be doing in the current environment, then keeping the key pieces from a team that went all the way to the NIT second round would have somehow made us a very good team this year?

I prefer giving the top four spots to different conferences. One of the inherent problems in setting a playoff field for college football is the small amount of data points to compare the strength of teams across conferences. If the CFP thinks the top two teams came from the same conference, it...

I'd only want that if it were to accommodate more conference champ autobids. We don't need two more at large bids, the bubble for that is already soft enough.