**Buzz Buzz Buzz** - Nappier's (ahem) Golden Ticket

Analytics are great, AND they are not a substitute for “feel” and experience. BN doesn’t follow analytics, has no feel, and seems incapable of learning from experience.

 

To be fair, Golden uses analytics for our basketball team and he has that thing humming. They have a place but they can't be the sole foundation of how you operate. They don't supplant adaptability and in game strategy.

 

Naps is not even close to being in Golden’s league

 

I mean, well, yeah....

 

USCw might be ready to depart as friends with Lincoln Riley. I like his offense better than Kiffen’s.

 

My ex girlfriend played blackjack by the numbers. We went on a gambling cruise and I walked with $800. She would whisper in my ear like rain man what to do and pull my pile of chips off so I didn’t see how much I was winning. She didn’t check a sheet on her wrist. She played by the numbers and had that shit memorized inside and out.
I would hope that the game of football isn’t so complicated that if you are promoting yourself as “THE” hyper organized system guy that strictly plays by the numbers, that he would need to phone a friend or look at his little cheat sheet. And you should certainly know the rules of the game if you are going to crunch situational numbers into your algorithm.

Total side note, these past three years were supposed to be the investment into building greatness. The fact that he is a failure of an experiment is frustrating, but the feeling that we were ‘eating our vegetables’ in hopes of some pay off today, only to realize we have been staying stagnant AT BEST. And the next guy will need to start over doing what he was supposed to be doing the last three years is infuriating. It’s like paying a high paid consultant to do a job you could have done but wanted to bring in the pros, and they eat up ALL the budget and blow the schedule only to find out they f—ked off the entire time and now you need to do it all in a couple weeks with no available resources.

 

And people get fired for letting shit like that happen

 

I will say it again. If I was AD I would need Napier to go 7-5 this year to give him another year. Nothing less. If he does not go 7-5 then recruiting will continue to suffer and other bad things such as possibly losing Lagway. Napier did some good things with getting uf to spend money but we simply need a proven coach.

 

Does Matt Campbell need to be looked at? Someone said that his success earlier at Iowa st was all Purdy. Seems like he is doing it again. Is there some other reason why he is not talked about as a potential hire?

 

He is in no way an SEC couch. Unless your Miss State

 

We lose to FSU they need to leave him there

 

The AD should still give Lanning à call. It doesn't hurt to ask, does it?

 

I agree but he’s likely in the playoffs so timing won’t work.

 

*UO

 

Even if we end up 7-5 it would be hard to wash the missed opportunities out of my mind. This team has decent talent and muddling to 7-5 against a schedule that is not as hard as predicted should not give false hope. We got smoked by UM and Texas a/m and gave that game away last night. Beating FSU, uk, lsu and ole miss would be great, but bringing him back guarantees losses due to coaching (12 min on a fg?). Amateur hour staff, poor recruiting, and 7 wins after 2 losing seasons, all while often looking incompetent, does not scream more time to me.

However, I think there is zero risk of BN growing a brain. 6 wins is his ceiling this year IMO and, as usual, I think Vegas pegged Napier with 4.5 wins. He is just bad.

 

Charlie was my childhood hero. Nobody can talk bad about him to me.

 

Yeah, which is kind of funny. She wasn’t cheating, just painting by numbers. But they can drain your account and savings and that’s part of the entertainment of the event.
The larger point being , though, she didn’t need a headset she just knew the statistical rules and acted on instinct.
Another thing that didn’t happen in that story, was I didn’t tell everyone I was the king of blackjack and get people to give me $6Million a year because of my incredible analytical skills and my system.

And a third thing would be IF I had done that and sold myself as the king of Blackjack because of my algorithm and my process, I DELEGATED the number crunching to my experts and executed their direction and I was the face of the organization (the seat at the blackjack table) rather than try to play and process at the same time because my pride and ego convinced me that I am truly the only one qualified enough to make those decisions. At which I would have surely failed at both.

 

Teams are still playing. If they go after experienced/proven div. 1 head coaches chances are they will be in the playoffs too.

Lanning, Day, Franklin, Riley, Brohm, Pétrino (I know he's an asst coach at the moment). Long shot Indiana coach, Campbell... Who else?

 

More likely he was listening to play calling suggestions for the next play and taking advantage of the time while the explanation was being given

 

Matt Campbell is a very good solid football coach. Look at that roster, he’s definitely in the done more with less category. It’s not easy to get quality players to go to Ames Iowa. The natives here would be up in arms if he was the choice though, many will just point to his record and say next. He should’ve made the jump somewhere else a few years ago when his iron was hot. He was very loyal to Iowa State though and wanted to stay there. Some believed he would only leave for 2 jobs, ND & pOSU, and both filled their openings with an assistant already on staff. He did interview for the USCw job that went to Riley last cycle. So he would leave now for the right job.