Recent content by kyleslamb

The representation narrative is an old one. At one time I truly believe it had legitimacy but the past several years haven't shown that to be true. I think the NCAA cleaned that stuff up, to be honest.

Fair enough. Philosophically I agree with you on that and think you raise some good points. I think the committee has been progressively getting better in the past five years breaking old trends and thinking outside the box. I truly believe they've become more stat savvy and I dont think they...

I'm a huge numbers guy. I love algorithms. I love power ratings. I swear by them and I've been begging to have them incorporated into the process for years. However, I do not want a process or algorithm where every game is treated as being exactly the same because they're not. A game in...

Technically, in most tests of accuracy retrodictively, Joel Sokol's LRMC ratings fare the best. Pomeroy's ratings do well no doubt, but they arent necessarily the most accurate. I wouldn't want to depend on any single rating system though. I would want at minimum a composite of several points...

They've never released the specific weight because there's never been a specific weight. Its always been up to each committee and each member to decide how they want to consider the criteria. I like what they're doing here. Theure moving to a more analytical approach and are going to use more...

It's an arbitrary cutoff, sure, but it doesn't mean the committee can't or won't take that into consideration. It's not like they're going to say "oh this win on the road against No. 75 is in Tier A and this win at home of another team against No. 26 is in Tier B so we have to give the edge to...

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Chlamydia maybe, but not this.

Ohio State never really had a shot at Sean Miller nor did they think they did. They may have had a shot if timing were better, but this season of all seasons they weren't prying Miller away. They knew that. Never thought otherwise. They made a firm offer to Chris Mack and loose offers to Billy...

He looks like that because of spending the last 10 years on pain pills due to his botched back surgery which caused his drop foot. He has serious medical issues. There have been days he can barely get out of bed or walk.

They basically said in the press conference it was mutually agreed upon that it was time to make a change based on performance. I think his health issues played a role, but it was basically a forced resignation. Ohio State has said they will pay out the last three years of his contract rather...

You're absolutely right it was. The whole season was pretty bad. I think total apathy had set in. That's one of the reasons why a change was made. It has got to the point where the program was in a slow downward decline and the fans had taken notice. It spilled over into the gameday atmosphere...

Despite the football school reputation, Ohio State had been top-15 in national attendance average all but two of Matta's 13 seasons (the first and last seasons being the two exceptions). They had top-10 attendance in seven or eight of 13 years and top-5 in attendance twice. Fan support has...

Mick Cronin will never... ever... ever... EVER be the head coach at Ohio State. There's a lot of history there and OSU would never hire him even if he wanted to be hired (which I doubt). Cronin is forever blackballed at OSU. My understanding is Chris Mack doesn't want any part of OSU. I don't...

I would give Ash a pass because it's easy to look overwhelmed when you flat out have very little talent to work with. But I agree with the other sentiments. In fairness to Rutgers, they're essentially still operating on an AAC budget against the Big Ten. Once they're full members, I'd like to...

That's fair, but man, Rutgers is setting football back 148 years.