JTrain

"Picking up the argument"? There was no argument there to pick up. There was a conclusion. "Our problems don't lie in the staff" is about as sophomoric a statement as I have seen. Certainly there are problems that lie in the staff. That seems quite obvious. All you have to do is observe the consistently sloppy product on the field to be quite confident of that. Now, if there are other problems (ex. the administration), you haven't explained them (or even listed them) here. I'm open to your knowledge. Please do share it.

Haven't seen that type of vague authoritarian one-liner since EZ left town.

Fighting over whether God Almighty intended uniforms to be enjoyed from the stands or on the field. #offseason #process

Surprised it wasn't ALL SEC guys! This guy got fired I bet...

You're an alcoholic. Can I come along?

Arny Palmy alert

OK I'll try it again with more pizzazz. Nick Monroe, currently Secondary Coach at Bowling Green Youngstown, Ohio has a "special place in [his] heart". Seems like a bit of a D-bag and/or tool but he might fit well on our defensive staff. Actually I kinda of imagine this how Pap acts. He is also "on the Facebook deal" so that's a plus with the youngsters I would think. Also seems to own Take Care which I guess is good. But on to the important stuff: 2012 BGSU stats Pass Defense: 13th nationally, 1st in the MAC Pass Eff. Defense: 18th nationally, 2nd in the MAC 2013 BGSU stats Pass Defense: 6th nationally, 2nd in the MAC Pass Eff. Defense: 9th nationally, 1st in the MAC

Please, I'd earned that position and put it in my sig before that guy even joined. I see Foppa is viewing this thread and I'm sure he can offer his standard critique of me that will confirm my throne and my accompanying titles of most pathetic, biggest attention w***e and worst troll. The trifecta of hate. Also in the running for the '13-14 Peoples' Banishment Choice award...at least three posters have called for it in just the past month. Hedley who?

http://www.bgsufalcons.com/coaches.aspx?rc=263&path=football

I think you're mixing up two different topics. In my original post, the only reference to recruiting was in the fact that 2011 was the first year that the defense was composed primarily of Bo recruits. There was no statistical analysis of recruiting rankings or anything with that. Later in the thread we were discussing an old blog post from an anthropologist about the 2011 regular season performances compared to the recruiting rankings of previous years.

Let me pick up this mess of mutilated straw men, then perhaps I'll get back to you (or perhaps not).

define drastic?.....somewhat improved, drastic?......not even close. and shame on Bo for being a defensive minded coach and not recruiting big name defensive players.....that's on him. It's apparent that you don't pay attention to recruiting and/or the games very closely.

Not true. You need 12 or more teams. The Big 12 is trying to challenge this, which shows how much conference championships are motivated by money, not fairness. The Big 12 has the best system right now (10 teams, 9 conference games, each team plays each other once).

Hasn't anyone been tracking flights or something? Surely someone's at least interviewed by this point.

No, I don't claim it is an exact analogy, just a valid one. Certainly I am not against a four-team playoff, because historically you will find a large number of #3 teams and a decent number of #4 teams that had truly national championship caliber seasons. If you go beyond that you start to run into more and more two-loss teams. And if you allow all five or six conference champions as automatic qualifiers, you run into major potential issues. One being that, in certain years, those conferences just suck. The other major one being, you will get some strategically-minded head coach with depth issues who rests his players during the non-conference. Why risk a season-changing injury to your star QB if all you need to do is win your average conference to have a chance? So you get valuable backup experience but go 1-3 in non-conference, then go 7-2 in your conference and take the title. Maybe everyone is fresh enough and you get just the right team chemistry at the right time (along with few good bounces of the ball) and you win the playoffs! 11-5 national champions. You may think it's absurd, but it's a perfectly logical approach within that system, and head coaches can be logical creatures once in a while.

A bigger playoff absolutely does not tell you who the "best" or most accomplished team of that season was. It simply tells you which team was capable of getting hot at the right time and winning a small series of games in the postseason. This is particularly true in a single-game elimination format. The notion that a playoffs is more fair is simply nonsense. We can see countless examples of inferior teams winning championships in systems that use a postseason tournament format. College football has, since the Bowl Alliance, used a one game tiebreaker of sorts between the two teams who were judged to have championship seasons. Sometimes there was a #3 or #4 team that had a legitimate gripe. But I can not think of a #5 or #6 team that did. Were the 2011 Giants the most accomplished team of the 2011 season? Not even close. They were the most accomplished team of the postseason. And that's what large postseason tournaments get you: postseason champions. College football is unique (in a good way, in my opinion) in that their are no 4 or 5 loss champions that were able to get hot for a few games at the end. To be a season national champion, you truly have to have had the greatest season, from early September to early January.

Two things: 1. You misunderstood the blog post you linked, and are now skirting around the point. 2. It's my thread and I'll troll it if I like!

devnet, Can you show me where the post "concludes that Nebraska is an anomaly which has consistently had better production from lower ranked recruits"? Again, it analyzed ONE SEASON of actual on-the-field results. That's what you meant by production, right? Not the recruiting rankings production, but the actual wins and losses.