Recent content by Eielson

Holy hell. They hadn't been to an NCAA tourney in almost 30 years when he took over, and had been to exactly one from 1968-2011. But yeah, he was probably just riding the wave of success from the 1960s from a coach that had a losing record in his final 5 seasons.

I get it when you want to exclude one or two wildly successful years based on a generational talent like Blake Griffin, but excluding a four year stretch where they finished first or second in conference each year based on a roster that didn't have a single player get drafted is beyond silly.

Passer rating of 100.7 would place him in the top 7 of QBs over the course of the regular season, which is great for a playoff games against one of thr best defenses. It was not great. It was awful. It's a great example of why this simple algorithm from 50 years needs to be put to pasture.

Correct. I have never argued differently. 3rd and 8 on the 50 yard line Scenario 1: fumble and recover on your 40 yard line. Punt goes 40 yards and the other team takes over on the 20 yard line. Scenario 2: interception thrown 30 yards downfield and the other team takes over on the 20 yard...

He vaulted Loyola into a completely different tier as a program. There is not a person on that campus that wasn't thankful for his time there.

I was too busy watching his father choke his mom in celebration.

It's truly funny that you spent several pages rambling about how helpless unbalanced teams are in the CFP, yet still haven't figured out that Miami was the second most unbalanced team in the field.

Carson Beck underthrowing a ball by five yards into double coverage on first down to blow the national championship! Miami was the closest comp to OU by a mile. But I'm sure we'll here that we could never have competed with them because of their winning QB play.

Neither accounts for the wrong route, though QBR does accounts for drops/tipped passes that turn into interceptions. It also accounts for the fact that an interception 40 yards downfield on 3rd down is basically an arm punt and doesn't drop win probability compared to an incomplete pass. And...

Is your argument that Maye was better because fumbles count for less than interceptions? Because that's a pretty tough position to defend. Typically an interception, if not returned, is actually a much better play based on field position/scoring probability. As for blaming the OL, QBR...

I thought it was a lame call. But probably correct per the rulebook. He basically needed to have performed a football move or have possessed the ball long enough to have done one, which he did not. I don't think any replay officials would have overturned that. May have stood if called a...

His 10 year stay at Loyola was wildly successful. Most successful tenure in school history without question.

No, he's definitely not good enough for this Texans franchise to ever win a playoff game with him as QB1. Even though they did. All three years.

Maye got absolutely manhandled by Will Anderson and the Texans defense. Stroud was terrible, but so was Maye. This perfectly illustrates the inferiority of passer rating. Maye may have been a little better, but 100 vs 20 passer rating is exponentially more egregious. Maye got stripped in the...

It's really easy to predict the success of a coaching stop after it has already happened.