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Comment on The 2012 Heisman Trophy Watch List by shaun

shaun — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:02:23 +0000

i agree with this, only i have knile davis winning it all. NICE picks though

Comment on The fastest players in college football, 2012 by judas_priest

judas_priest — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:56:24 +0000

You miss my point. I don’t really have another horse in this race. (The fact that I now live in Oregon and am familiar with De’Anthony Thomas does not make me a dedicated Duck. This is, after all, my 7th state).

You are providing precise measures – it’s just that what you are measuring isn’t what I am interested in learning about and, I suspect, many others also lack this interest. Yes, you should measure what’s measurable, but you run the risk of rendering your results trivial.

I think you are asking, “what can I measure?” than. “what ought I measure, and, if there is no good measure now, is there a way to measure it?” I do think you are right in that there is no way – at least at this point – to measure what most people want to know. (It’s certainly what I want to know) But that doesn’t make your results really meaningful, even if they are accurate. This disagreement between us has much more to do with measurement theory than it does with track or football. And that is where my horse is racing..

(Oh yes. The fact that I have minimal background in sprints does not make me ” broadly unfamiliar with track and field.”)

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by ian

ian — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:19:32 +0000

“Only one problem with this theory. The 2012 season will be the first season in which USC is limited to 75 sholarship players total on their roster. They will be limited to 75 scholarship players for the 2012, 2013, and 2014 football seasons so the idea that that a small roster has aided the development of players such as Woods, Lee, Robey, etc. does not hold much water”

USC beat UO last year with 55 players.

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by trojanron

trojanron — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:02:17 +0000

Suffering through that Stanford 2007 2nd half had many of us screaming for Sanchez to come in. How could a coach in his right mind keep a QB with a broken finger on his throwing hand in the game. If Sanchez had thrown say only 2 int’s instead of Booty’s 4, SC would have won the game. Must have been temporary insanity on PC’s part!!!

BTW, in 2006 Booty sprained his ankle in the ND game and was a sitting duck the next week in the UCLA game. He sprained it just before half time (I was at that end of the field to see it) and came out in the 2nd half and almost let ND back in the game with 2 int’s.

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by Roy Rhino

Roy Rhino — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:55:29 +0000

At this point verbal commits mean nothing. We hope they will honor their word, but until it is in writing, it really means little. Let’s take care of this on the field of glory! There will be no doubt about their decision then.

Comment on Some added notes on the fastest players list by Zach

Zach — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:36:09 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I was not sure what thew NWI meant next to some of the times I saw on the ESPN stat tracker and now I do. Very interesting read!

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by CrazyTrojan

CrazyTrojan — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:52:02 +0000

A cry for help, perhaps?

Who is the real Kiffin – the one who has managed sanctions as you described above, or the man everybody in college football loved to hate when he arrived at SC?

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by Heismanpundit

Heismanpundit — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:05:53 +0000

Sorry, thought you were a different Crazy Trojan.

I do think the move was unwise given the pending sanctions and it probably made the sanctions worse than they would’ve been. However, Kiffin has done a good job handling things during the run up to the sanctions. Call it an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by Heismanpundit

Heismanpundit — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:01:15 +0000

LSU did not run the spread.

But do you really want me to list the number of times the WCO has been shut down in football history? It’s not even close to the spread, which still dominates college football. There’s a reason only a couple teams run it in college–it generally doesn’t work.

The Cleveland Browns and the KC Chiefs averaged 13 points per game last year running the WCO. Think they were shut down more than a few times?

Comment on How the NCAA probation helped USC by HP

HP — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:24:34 +0000

USC knew the reductions were coming before they actually took effect and had to act accordingly, which meant recruiting a certain type of player and making sure to play them early so they’d be experienced when the roster reductions actually hit. After all, a huge chunk of USC’s roster in 2012 will be freshmen or sophomores. Also, because of the sanctions, the roster was immediately affected by free agency and early entries to the NFL and other transfers and so there was less depth than usual at certain positions in 2011.