I'm not the brightest bulb in the string but it seems like post game win expectancy has to be either 0% or 100% depending on what actually happened in the game that you are now post. Apparently hindsight needs glasses.
I think post game expectancy is taking the differences in yardage, turnovers, etc and say if you replayed the exact same game 100 times, how many would you win?
Well, if you replayed the exact same game...
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I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out that we're getting more competitive in games than we've previously been. In Lovie's first 3 seasons we lost a lot of games in total blowout fashion. We've only had 1 multiple possession loss to a conference opponent this year. In Lovie's first few years we had at least 3 a season. We're starting to actually be in almost all of our games. Maybe as Bielma implements his new system and gets his guys in there we start turning close losses into wins and make some bowl games.
Seems like the line for a number of our games this season have moved in the direction of the OPPONENT in the days leading up to the game. Rutgers, UVA and PSU all come to mind.
So I have a question on the glove color thing. I get, and think it's brilliant, that the team was directed to wear blue gloves to match Penn State's blue jerseys. But is there any rule on the color of gloves that a team can wear? If not, would we wear red gloves when playing at Wisconsin, Ohio State Indiana, Rutgers, crimson gloves at Minnesota, purple gloves when at Northwestern, etc. Is a team limited to only wearing their team colors (orange, blue, white in our case) or can we wear any color gloves we choose?
This. Especially a positive after five years of the no emotion, "say nothing" style of our last head coach.
Who doesn’t wish they had the time to invest in some games of Strat-O-Magic?!
I know it's popular to pile on the last guy, but I really liked Lovie and wanted him to succeed. I really respected that a high-profile coach was willing to come in and try to rescue a dumpster fire program. I respect players that have been willing to come in, believing that they could resurrect this program. I wasn't a fan of BB dumping on Lovie, either. Just do your job. Coaches don't typically come into good situations (except in cases of retirement or maybe a coach moving up to another program because of their success), that's why there was a job opening. I want BB to do well, hasn't been a single coach here that I wanted to fail. But, BB needs to know he hasn't turned the program around yet and the odds aren't necessarily in his favor.
I actually thought part of the reason it took Brandon a long time to see Casey was because the PSU unis looked similar to the refs and there was a ref in Casey’s vicinity.
Agree. While I first and foremost simply want SUCCESS (i.e. a consistent, winning program), I do tend to lean much more toward PJ Fleck than Lovie Smith. Give me some enthusiasm and emotion! Talk to us. Tell us what you're seeing and thinking.
I think most liked the hire of Lovie and wanted him to succeed until he proved that it wasn’t going to work. Then it was time to make the break. I understand how some took BB’s comments as dumping on the last staff. I don’t think that was his intent, but that’s just my opinion and nothing he said wasn’t factually correct. I’m not sure how much of his comments about the direction of the program changing already is directed toward a positive recruiting image and how much is trying to get his team to believe it. Either way, I think it’s the narrative that has to be used. I don’t think he says much that isn’t planned and with a purpose. The o-line comments do seem like an exception to that.
This is where I am as well. Ask a dozen people, and I guarantee there won't be consensus on what constitutes "dumping on the last staff" vs. "evaluating where we are currently as a program and what needs to happen next."
The "Scarlet Knights."
I think it was strat-o-matic, not magic. Loved that game back in the day!
Lovie didn't play OSU either, might be why he's second lowest.
Yeah, that stat also makes Lovie's tenure look better than it was, when really Lovie just got the full benefit of Big Ten divisions and specifically being in the very weak Big Ten West.
