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As long as hurricane season brings some good surf, it's all good. And it would be nice for it to show up early for a good ECSC

As a native Californian, most of our weather seems to come from El Nino years. For example, this was the first time in about 3 years that it actually rained while I was home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. People get pretty worked up about it, probably because it's the only time anything, y'know, happens there.

Thanks leeanderthal. I remember several games where color commentators were effusive in their praise of Stiney and Leftey for their play calling prowess and looking at plays that ended like train wrecks where in the post game reviews, it was revealed that but for one missed assignment, the plays would have broken for big gains or TDs. As a mech engineer who has designed many complex systems, I have come to appreciate the difficulty of getting multi-component systems to operate in perfect synchrony. That is essentially what is going on with the offenses for both Stiney and Leftey. It seems the KISS principle is more the case for HCF. His complexity is built into the nuance of applying the same look with multi options that boil down to the QB making the call on which option. I am really looking forward to see this new scheme in application.

Since the US isn't playing I usually spend the Euro rooting for a random underdog. I picked Iceland pre-tournament, this just keeps getting more fun.

I have to agree with you. Special uniforms are often worn for big OOC games, which is often when you see the overrated SEC team get upset pretty big. They are not worn very often either, so few games could make a large swing. Small sample size with a few outliers can really skew numbers.

Aslo not apples to apples - look at the sample they took:

Throughout the past year he worked with three Samford undergrads, Courtney Allen, Dylan Jedlovec and Caleb Punt, to collect six years of data on all Southeastern Conference (SEC) football games and home games of non-SEC Top 25 teams.

Bad statistics.

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