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I'm really hoping they do. I'm really happy for CJ who sounds like he may have gotten screwed. I'm just pissed that WVU might get to capitalize on a player like this who should go down as a great Hokie.
I enjoy walking along somewhere out of state in a piece of OSU gear and having someone walking by throw out a casual O _ H. I try to reply in like tone & volume with an I - O!
I expect him to end up at an SEC school. He will get much bigger offers than the Neers before he has to decide.
It's just an offer - and I am sure he is going to get many more offers before signing day 2016.
Thats good natured fun right there.
I listened to some the my local sports radio stations (living in new england), sound off on the fines. Probably the longest these guys have ever spent talking about cfb. They ran through each fine, no mention of the immediate cancellation by Whit.
The media will go where they like with it, not a good look on the Hokies :(
I remember not being very impressed when Beamer was hired in 1987. I kept thinking that we should have opened up the pocketbook more and gone after a coach w/D-I experience, not settled for someone who had coached Murray State. I hadn't changed my thought process very much in 1992. Those indeed were dark days in Hokieland. I'm very glad that I was wrong.
blessed?
Clearly, he's never meet an 'Eer before
Not sure when we are scheduled to play WVA
About that...
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20140715aaa.html
Oh no. Let's please not deviate to another conversation about our OC.
This is not the subthread you are looking for.
The obligatory: It was a catch
Unless we're talking about roundball I don't ever want to read these words again:
The Hokies upset of Duke [...]
Thanksfor continuing an interesting discussion! First, I need to comment that since the project was essentially a capstone exercise for my Master's degree, I was much more concerned with the mathematics and less concerned with the history of the BCS utilization of the methodologies. The four distinct methods I considered all centrally tried to reduce the problem of competitive pairwise rankings to as simple a procedure as possible, so as to make the results mathematically obvious and also so as to limit the variability of results based on parametric inputs that take a lot of work to refine (how much is home-field advantage worth, anyway?)
I think you've identified the central problem with what the BCS tried to do, which was essentially justify additional credibility from the human polls by showing that computers could/would come up with the same answer. The developers of the models, by the way, tend to use a comparison of their method's results to previous seasons' human polls to determine whether they've got a good method or not. The obvious circularity is a problem when coming up with an evaluation methodology, because there isn't an objective standard by which to judge which team is "best" and which is worst.
Remember, too, that each of these methods were originally developed as an ex post facto look at season results - meaning that they are intended to be used at the end of the season to see, in hindsight and based on some simple input data, which teams were the best ones (some of the methods lose stability in the "middle" of the pack). As predictive tools, they aren't necessarily useful because you have to know the results of previous games. I tried to do a simple extension with NCAA basketball to see if I could diving some kind of "momentum" calculation by assuming that more recent games are more important indicators of immediate success - my conclusion was that "it can be done" but the question of what the relationship ought to be (linear? quadratic? exponential? logrithmic? and what about the parameters?) is still "to be evaluated" and is quite honestly a lot more work than I intended to do for a Master's presentation.
I think that it's ultimately folly to try to engineer a computer system to provide near-identical results to human polls for a few reasons. One is that computers are not "impressed" by wide-margin wins - nor are they particularly impressed with last-second upsets. I approached the problem by considering what might happen if we considered, say, a final score margin of -3 to +3 to be effectively a tie...never got to execute the methodology on that, but I think it'd be interesting to do. Another is that human pollsters, I think, tend to be implicitly biased towards their original ranking until conclusive evidence is offered to them that they were wrong. It'd be interesting to do some analysis on, say, the tendency of preseason-ranked teams to remain ranked when compared with other "similar record" teams that started the season unranked, or ranked lower. I suspect that we'd find that the pre-season #1 tends to receive more of the benefit of the doubt than the pre-season #50...but that's just a guess on my part.
At any rate, the point of all this is that ranking methodologies are an interesting question that I continue to talk about in my "free" time. If you have a few minutes, I'd recommend reading through a method developed by Peter Mucha (he's in the mathematics department at UNC, I think) that essentially uses a system of linear ODEs to emulate automated voting behavior - it's a different perspective that I hadn't really though of until I read his paper. I can try to dig up the link if you want.
It's perfectly fine to hate on mcchicken, especially since that damned harbaugh will probably have them back in contention sooner rather than later!
On my mobile device there's this nice little empty space to the right of the header, I wonder if you couldn't just put a button that works as the "n" button right there for when you're browsing threads on mobile. May be simpler to implement.
This offseason just won't die soon enough! I can't take much more of this shit, I'm out!
I'll never forget this quote:
"The U might be back, but we never left."
Rashad Carmichael
Not gonna lie, I was was/am a bit worried about this whole fining thing. I thought that headline was going to precede an article about how Frank Beamer got fired, and my heart fell. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised that it was instead an play on words... Whew!
Can we offer him? Does the university have a way for students who were kicked out to reapply?
Don't forget Michigan as well. Well really, I suppose, I don't hate Michigan. Just Pac-12 referees.
Mutual hatred for Miami, the tie that binds Hokie and Buckeye fans.
That's the way I remember it also. Frank brought his pals in with him, and Braine put the pressure on him to redo the staff. Frank's loyalty is famous, it may not have gone well if Braine didn't insist on the changes. I do, however, think Braine did have confidence in Frank, though. Still, to say it was "basically one last chance to prove himself" was also true. Braine had a good football mind and I think he saw where the problems were and overrode Frank's natural tendency toward loyalty for the obvious betterment of the program.