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I certainly think it's fair for any team to have the strength of their schedule considered as part of their evaluation. But it drives me up the wall how much talk Indiana's schedule gets when, if a helmet school in a major conference were 7-0 against that same schedule (especially with the same...

It's almost as though there were things that could have been done all along to be successful at this, and not (as some fans seemed to think) that the U was somehow uniquely situated to have little ability to compete on this front.

I'm a little wary of assuming we have hit rock bottom. I thought we were there when Pitino gave us a 36% conference winning percentage with only two NCAA tourneys in 8 years (and four years of not even making the NIT, don't know what would have happened the year they cancelled postseason). Then...

We brought a coach back for a fourth year with a 25.4% conference winning percentage. How bad could the season possibly go to force a move and make the AD think he isn't getting exactly what he signed up for?

Let's take a deep breath. It's a tall order to expect any coach to be able to win games against blue blood powerhouses with huge NIL budgets like.....North Texas.

North Carolina was already the game we dropped that we should win.

If this years out of conference gauntlet and last years dramatic post season run haven't increased season ticket sales, this just proves that there is nothing any coach could do to succeed here. Am I doing this right Pilgrim?

I read an interesting article at one point discussing whether the point of the playoff field should be to capture the 12 best teams, or set a field designed the identify the best 1 team. I think that applies to undefeated champs of soft conferences. Are they better than the last at large team...

Id support all conference champs being in. If one of them is really uncooperative, then a home game against that seed is a pretty nice consolation prize to the 5th seed who missed out on a bye by one spot.

I also like RPI. I think the hockey PWR is good. Agree with you on predictive measures. I think the model should bot be impacted by score differential or any in game stats, other than whether you won or lost, maybe home or away, and opponent.

I always hated the argument that the smaller field (and even the two team BCS championship) made the games matter more. Florida State played 13 games that didn't matter last year.

In my opinion, the "eye test" is antithetical to what's supposed to be good about sports. In pro football, it doesn't matter if people like the way you win, think you play the right way, or think that you got lucky and wouldn't win the same number of games if you played the season over. All...

Where feels most inequitable about the ranking inertia is when ranked teams beat other ranked teams who end up being bad. I feel like, if we had been ranked when we played USC, we would have gotten a big bump for beating a ranked team, and that bump would not have been adjusted back out of our...

I think our record results are consistent with a very middle of the pack big ten team. We are 4-2, but we lost our only game to a B1G team with a winning conference record, we are 1-1 against teams with an even conference record, and 3-0 against B1G teams with a losing conference record. Add in...

Part of this is what makes football fun. Every strategy has risk and reward. I think going for two was a pretty obvious call given the score and game time, even though there were scenarios where we later wish we had had the one point if we miss it (though, has others have noted, us kicking the...

We've already got two quad 5 wins against hamline and bemidji.

They aren't mutually exclusive. The people who criticize the conservative play calling aren't asking for reckless decisions at weird times.

Agreed. That's the kind of thing you do with a lead when you're worried our defense can't stop them. Don't understand why you risk giving them the shortfield when they can't move the ball.

So we ran the clock at the end of the half because potentially giving Illinois the ball with 45 seconds was too risky. But, when Illinois is down a touchdown and our defense is stopping them, we decide to chance it on a 4th and 12 fake punt?

We got to 7-1 the following week beating Purdue. We were favored at home the following week against Northwestern, and in my opinion, the highwater mark of the Brewster era came after we erased a 10-0 lead in that game, got a stop to get the ball back in the fourth quarter, and it seemed like...