1st off, No i do not disagree with Dirk. These are statistical facts. Hard to argue with those (tho i could try, it's what I like to do, win or lose). Did I know these numbers before? No. Not exactly. But yes, it's pretty obvious to anyone who pays any sort of substantial attention to Nebraska football over the past few years that turnovers and the margin has been a problem, especially in big games, and that on numerous occasions we can point a finger to that phase alone as a culprit for a loss. My point is that Dirk has always had a negative tone and has a history of gaining negative opinions, and now he writes a nice little statistical piece that uses statistical figures to simply generalize that "TURNOVERS ARE BAD". That's all this is. A bunch of fancy little stats that I could get out of the darn media guide that summarizes "When we lose the turnover battle, we lose more" so he can say "look at me, I wrote a nice little column that didnt say Bo should be fired or Martinez should be benched, Is everyone proud of me?". Well, all I can say to that is duh. It is my biased opinion because I do not like Dirk's writing. I hope i answered your questions.You knew the turnover margin since Bo's arrival was -8? You knew the that of the 25 winningest programs in the past four years, Nebraska ranked 25th in turnover margin? You knew that the Buckeyes were plus 53 in the same timespan? You knew that we are 0-9 against ranked teams under Bo when losing the turnover battle, and 4-0 when winning it?
At least for me, there was some interesting factual information laid out in this article.
Or was it just the name of the author which you disagree with?
Well I agree, as well as with Zoogie. The stats are interesting, and my take on the article would be complete different had it not be Dirk Chatelain. It's like he's trying to make up for all the antagonistic crap he's written this because he must know his ice is getting thin with the program. So he writes a numbers piece with a bunch of fancy stats? And I know that it's not the fact that it happens that is bad but that he points out that it is happening so much more often over the last 4 years, which eludes to my whole point, that anyone with at least one good eye and wears red on saturdays in the fall already knows this. If Sipple writes this I say "interesting, better get that fixed", and that is my biased opinion, basically because Sip doesnt come off as a complete jacka$$.
Dirk questioned Taylor's abilities as a QB. Around here that makes you public enemy number 1 apparently.You knew the turnover margin since Bo's arrival was -8? You knew the that of the 25 winningest programs in the past four years, Nebraska ranked 25th in turnover margin? You knew that the Buckeyes were plus 53 in the same timespan? You knew that we are 0-9 against ranked teams under Bo when losing the turnover battle, and 4-0 when winning it?
At least for me, there was some interesting factual information laid out in this article.
Or was it just the name of the author which you disagree with?
We fumbled 32 times - lost 11. cfbstats.com is best place to go...at least that i've found.
