Telekinesis said:

Got it, makes sense.

This is moving away from the topic at hand and just a general observation:

Unfortunately, we haven’t witnessed good results when dealing with situational applications. Day (or whoever we’re pinning it on this week) seems to end up out of character and doesn’t know how to handle that kind of pressure.

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Bill Lucas said:

Please dust off the Chip Kelly playbook from last years run.

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Thump said:

Sunshine-pumpers are going to be stuck with that narrative.

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“It has been so tough,” Cypher said of the decision. “It really was a transition this fall. Last summer, I was 100 percent sure I was going to Georgia. Both schools continued to recruit me hard, and as I took my time, Ohio State started to stand out more. I couldn’t have made a bad decision with Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama or Miami, but Ohio State just felt right at the end.”
“I love the coaching staff at Ohio State. Coach Patricia’s defense is great, and he’s a former NFL coach with Super Bowl rings and so much knowledge. Coach Day is a great head coach — he’s a winner and a great guy. Then, Coach Laurinaitis is one of the best. He played the game, he played at Ohio State, and he knows the game. Playing for a guy like him will help me a lot.”
Laurinaitis, in particular, played a central role in Cypher’s decision.
“I fully trust him. He played in the NFL, he played my position, and I know he can teach, coach, and develop me. He has the best interest in his players and a plan for them. Coach Laurinaitis was a big part of me choosing Ohio State.”

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Jaxbuck said:

It's more like I threw one pitch, right down the middle and the ump called it ball 4, guy walks and we lose.

Don't do the "yeah but you should have never been in that spot" stuff because those were previous events.

On that one event, skill + luck = bad outcome even though your skill was good (what you control).

So obviously in a game that has constraints you can manage to a degree, you don't want to manage in the direction of letting a lesser skilled opponent get more shots at random variance events at your expense.

Back to football, think of June Jones at Hawaii or Mike Leach and those air raid kind of teams. They were built to run as many plays as possible and get random variance to work for them because they knew they were the lesser skilled team.

It's why you never see teams run a hurry up with a lead or why, in the case of those extreme kind of system teams, they are screwed and have to keep doing it even with a lead and can't seem to ever hold those leads.

The best possible outcome for a more skilled team like OSU is a long time consuming drive that ends in a TD. You do that on 5 of your 10 possessions and in the process only let the opponent end up with ~8 possessions and you can see how the boa constrictor chokes out the lesser skilled team and why, back to the point of this conversation, you don't speed up as a general rule. You only do it in situational applications.

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Jaxbuck said:

Biff is smart enough to read the game board and see that if he positions himself as the candidate that will "return" them to their moral high ground he's got a very well paid gig in front of him for the next 5-10 years should he live that long.

Win the usual 9-ish games a year, keep off the tabloid radar and they couldn't fire him for any reason whatsoever.

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Thump said:

Interim Poggi: U-M a malfunctioning organization

Michigan interim coach Biff Poggi described the program as a "malfunctioning organization" after a series of high-profile scandals, one he hopes to "fix" if he becomes the team's permanent coach.

www.espn.com

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Thump said:

Interim Poggi: U-M a malfunctioning organization

Michigan interim coach Biff Poggi described the program as a "malfunctioning organization" after a series of high-profile scandals, one he hopes to "fix" if he becomes the team's permanent coach.

www.espn.com

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Zurp said:

I don’t know all the Texans. But I know a few. And upon meeting you, they take it as an insult if you aren’t a cowboys fan. Or a longhorns fan. Or acknowledge that Texas is better than everywhere else. Or a rangers fan. Or worship dubya. Or wish you were in Texas right now. Or fall asleep thinking of all the words TEXAS can spell. Or wonder why TEXAS is never the Wordle answer. Or wonder why Texas hasn’t seceded and gone to war with the rest of the world.

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Thump said:

Interim Poggi: U-M a malfunctioning organization

Michigan interim coach Biff Poggi described the program as a "malfunctioning organization" after a series of high-profile scandals, one he hopes to "fix" if he becomes the team's permanent coach.

www.espn.com

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Telekinesis said:

I agree, the ref should have called targeting when Marv took the shot to the head.

…but he didn’t, so Ohio State lost.

Hopefully during this playoff run, they leave no doubt and don’t allow it to come down to the luck of (or lack thereof) Fielding hitting the game winner.

Am I doing this right?

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