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05-09-2008, 08:07 AM
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05-09-2008, 09:14 AM
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I'm trying to figure out how the letter writer expected the author to argue with him without using stats. I mean, they're the best quantifiable measure we have for football. Would he prefer the author use interpretive dance to make his point?
Regardless of that fact, unless the author of that letter is a USC fan I guarantee he would rather have Jim Tressel than their current coach. Tressel stacks up to anybody in CFB right now.
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05-09-2008, 07:06 PM
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I'm trying to figure out how the letter writer expected the author to argue with him without using stats. I mean, they're the best quantifiable measure we have for football. Would he prefer the author use interpretive dance to make his point?
Regardless of that fact, unless the author of that letter is a USC fan I guarantee he would rather have Jim Tressel than their current coach. Tressel stacks up to anybody in CFB right now.
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I totally agree. As for Fiu, I've always thought he was one of the best covering the Bucks, although there may be an exception here and there along the way. Great article!
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05-12-2008, 02:31 AM
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An argument could still be made, even after the debacle in the desert, that the 2006 Buckeyes were actually a better team than those jacked up Gators.
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Color me skeptical. Rest of the article is well reasoned. You are getting hammered for overachieving.
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05-12-2008, 09:47 AM
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I'm not sure you couldn't make that argument, gator. Head to head, it's incontrovertible that Florida was better on that night. Based on the body of work from that season, however, I think you could make the argument that OSU would win more than 50% of a hypothetical series with Florida. It's a moot point, however, because it's all hypothetical.
Edit: I should add this, as well. I do not necessarily think that a single head to head game is an indicator of which team is "better" (whatever that means, exactly). In 2002, I thought Miami was a better team than OSU. I still think that. OSU did, however, beat Miami fair and square in one of the greatest games ever played. I don't think that my opinion of Miami (that they were better than OSU) takes anything away from OSU's legitimacy as champion. OSU won in 2002, and they were the champ. Florida won in 2006, and they were the legitimate champ. I just don't happen to think that means they were better than OSU in 2006. Hope that clears it up a little bit.
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I think Greg Schiano is a terrific coach. Rutgers is essentially a team of 3 star recruits. Rutgers is starting to get some elite talent but that is just starting to get rolling. If you watch Rutgers play defense, you just get the impression that every player knows exactly what they are supposed to do and will leave their spleen on the field to get it done, like the 2002 OSU defense through the second half of the season. I was thrilled when Schiano turned down the Michigan job. He is the only coach in the game now that scares me against Tressel.
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05-13-2008, 10:14 AM
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BN$-- Tressel Keeps Upping The Score On Rodriguez
Examination of the head-to-head recruiting battles so far:
JT--6
RR--1
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