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YAY for the .9263 rated linebacker.
I want to look at a few things, but one thing off the top of my head is, I would take 2020 out altogether. That season was so effed up from COVID, with tons of players opting out, shortened seasons, players having to sit out games from COVID protocols, etc. (I want to say we had a third string, walk-on linebacker playing for us for two or three games that never would have happened in any other year, as an example). I don't think you can make any judgements on anything that happened that year. 47, 7, 23, 8, 7 looks much better without that 55 in there from 2020.
And of the two you listed as meh, the 47 was his first as sole DC, and, as mentioned, I'd take the 55 out altogether.
Some of the dead weight will be cut, the numbers always work out.
Thanks for your efforts. If there is room I think it'd be nice to have height/weight to see if there is a sizable shift.
I seen where Mario Carini is going to the Reno tournament of champions this weekend. And he is going to complete at 190 pounds
Bright side of having the hardest schedule is viewership potential
I just thought of the simplest, yet probably stupidest solution here.
One game doesn't count. Just like uva/NC State this year, and like the same matchup would have been next year.
I mean, we all know that the ACC would find the most ridiculous situation where all of the possible ties would be between teams who played "non-conference conference games".
FSU
New Mexico, @Alabama, Central Arkansas, Florida
Those SEC games aren't going anywhere, but the other two look extremely easy to back out of.
Clemson
@LSU, Georgia Southern, Charleston Southern, USCe
Same as FSU.
UNC
TCU (Ireland), ETSU, ND, @UConn
If the grumpy cheaters couldn't find a way out of ETSU or UConn, I call shenanigans.
BC
@Cincy, Rutgers, Maine, @ND
The problem here is that ND is conference-mandated, and Cincy and Rutgers are both home-and-home deals for 2026 and 2027.
GT
Colorado, Tennessee, Mercer, @Georgia
Okay, I'll give the bees credit, this one would be tough to get out of. If they get rid of Mercer, then they have 12 P4 games. Dropping Tennessee would also mean dropping the return trip in 2027, but that would leave the Vols without any P4 OOC games in either season, and they probably wouldn't be able to backfill.
I'll give GT the free pass, because there's gotta be at least one team at 8 games.
I could see BC having problems breaking one of those home-and-home deals, so if they're stuck at 8 games, then one of the other three teams has to stay at 8. (Although, if GT drops Tennessee, the Vols could replace them with whichever team that BC drops.)
Clemson already has FSU and UNC both on the schedule, so the easiest solution would be for FSU and UNC to cancel one game each and play each other.
Of if the ACC was willing to tell Notre Dame to pound sand, then they could add FSU/UNC and Clemson/BC to the schedule and skip this transitional schedule BS.
Either way, the ACC could have squeezed at least one more conference game out of this mess. But I can also acknowledge that there could be some external hurdles if the other teams and conferences didn't want to play nice.
I am tempering expectations more for next year seeing the travel schedule we have.
Who I think has the skills do the best job relative to that school's recent success and expectations. Take fit into account a bit too
It's extremely rough math, because the only place that precision matters here is on Tobacco Road where Duke and UNC are only 11 miles apart.
What I learned:
-UNC has the fewest miles travelled.
-VT has the 5th most miles travelled. The only four with more are either in California or playing in another country.
-If uva played NC State at home, they would have the third fewest miles travelled, and NC State would have the 7th fewest.
-VT's shortest trip (300 miles to Clemson) is longer than all but 1 of UNC's trips.
-Not counting the game at Cal (42 miles away), Stanford's shortest one-way trip (2350 miles to Louisville) is longer than all of UNC's round trips put together.
I didn't deep dive quite as deeply as you would like. But I do think it's interesting how his defenses pinballed. In 6 years he had 3 top 8 units. In the other 3 years, 23 (not bad) 47 and 55 (meh).
If he went 55, 47, 23, 8, 7, 7 that would be one thing. The volatility of it concerns me tho. Makes me feel like he might be getting credit that he doesn't deserve.
On the other hand, Franklin trusts him. I believe Franklin really wants to win. I don't think he'd take a gamble on this opportunity. So I hope Pry is as good as some people think he is. I'm just not sold.
She had zero turnovers tonight, so that's a great first step to getting her groove back!
I agree she is basically what she has been on the court during her career. I think she is better than what she has shown in games. She was a highly desired four star. And I assume Coach Duffy sees something in practice because she keeps sending Carleigh out with the first team. I'm just hoping that player starts to show up in games.
I think 20 is the new normal. With the roster number up to 105, and the need to develop OL, I can understand it's disproportionate growth compared to other positions.
Campbell is so interesting to me. In the modern, but Pre-NIL era (say 2004-2021), we would frequently see these schematic geniuses who were mediocre recruiters, and they always seem to hit some sort of a ceiling. It's going to be fascinating to see if you can pair these "pure ball coaches" with a solid front office and get elite results.
Gut feel and influenced by Bar's write ups.
Well, I thought Napier was a good hire at Florida so maybe don't listen to me (in my defense, I underestimated how much the college football landscape would change in just 1 year).
I also think every school is graded on their own curve/has their own issues. Like, I think Auburn is a great job, and I think Golesh is a great coach, but I think Auburn needs someone who can whip their boosters/admin into shape. The fact that Golesh was forced to keep the DC on staff (and willing to do so) is just a red flag for that situation imo. I think Sumerall is the guy who can do it anywhere. He won at an underfunded G5, and he went to the top G5 and embraced NIL/portal. I just think he's such a chameleon. I have no idea what to think of Chesney. People much smarter than me seem to really like him, but I don't see why he couldn't find a better job than UCLA.
Alas, time will tell.
Poisonous ones at that
Long term her numbers here really aren't that different unfortunately. She is what she is. Her % down a couple points but almost everything else is identical. Works out to about 1 more made baskets every two games last year vs this year. The biggest difference year over year is she is shooting about 1.5 more 3s than last season per game but only making .3 more of those.
Last year she averaged
34.7% shooting (4.2/12.1)
33.6% 3pt (1.5/4.4)
77.8% FT%
14 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.2 stl, 3.7 ast, 3.5 TO
This year
32% shooting (4.1/12.8)
31% 3pt (1.8/5.9)
77.6% FT%
13.8 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.6 stl, 3.6 ast, 3.5 TO
Giving my 30,000 view and I place Lane Kiffin as the best hire. Maybe not the best destination, but he's the best hire.
Franklin is next. VT absolutely Big Dawg'd the coaching hire bananza .
Matt Campbell is #3
I'm not going to give the HC's moving up from G5 to P4 until after next season. Thinking they will go the way of Napier or Cignetti. Out of the guys like Huff, Chesney, Sumrall, etc, I give Huff the best chance to have the highest degree of success transitioning to P4. Gut feel and influenced by Bar's write ups.
Carleigh is not as bad a shooter as she has been showing. Soon, I hope, she is going to break out of this slump and become a better contributor to the offense.
Mackenzie Nelson double-double... 18 points (career high), 12 assist (career high)
Mel Daley double-double... 16 points, 10 rebounds (career high)
Carys Baker 21 points (team high), 9 rebounds (one short of a double-double)
22 assists (that's getting into elite team territory)
only 8 turnovers
FAM!
Double Double by Daley with 35 seconds to go
79-54 Final
This is the type of conversation I like. I had only looked at the defensive rankings while he was there, but he was coordinator for a number of years. I feel like you can luck into having a really good defense if you're a DC for like 2 years, but if you can sustain it, that says something as well. I assume part of a defense's success also has to be the position coaches and how well they are developing the players, in addition to the schemes you run. Some of it is also dependent on your schedule and quality of opponents.
If I was feeling better, I might go dig up a lot of data including year-end rankings for their opponents, whether their opponents ranked in top offenses, I'd look at years from before Pry got there to after he left with all the same data. I'd also look at his defenses from before, but that's a little more complicated because he was listed as co-DC prior to being named sole DC at Penn State and also co-DC at Vanderbilt. Oh, I'd probably also look at what position coaches may have come and gone while he was DC.
Main point though, is that he was DC for 5 years, so I'd think it would be harder to string together, I think it was three non-consecutive top ten defenses and the other two years if I'm remembering correctly were top twenty.
Like you, I'm interested to see what talent level they can recruit at Tech. Some people are good recruiters. Mike London inexplicably was able to recruit two 5-stars to UVA and then promptly did nothing with them. But he did get them to go there. So maybe Franklin and some of his staff are EXCELLENT recruiters and maybe we see better talent levels than we ever have (wouldn't that be something!?). But only time will tell.
I find this terribly distressing. College football is on a steady climb away from what made it so awesome. I'm all for NIL, but pay for play and unlimited eligibility will make CFB nothing more than a minor league for the NFL. It used to be so much more than that IMO. We will never see the likes of Sam MF Rogers again.
2027: "This latest court ruling forces the removal of the word amateur from all college athletics. In response, Phillip Rivers has come out of retirement once again and has given new optimism to the UNC faithful".