Category: Sports

Here’s my theory on college football head coaching for major programs: Never hire a coach without previous head coaching experience. All National Championship winners since 2002 had a head coaching gig before their current one. Nick Saban – check. Urban Meyer – check. Les Miles – check. Mack Brown –

What would have happened if the PAC-10 expansion had happened in 2010 instead of 2011? My guess is that it would have been a letdown – Oregon vs. a Utah with several additional losses on their record. Let’s examine the hypothetical standings *with newly-added Colorado & Utah’s in-conference records… North

With Nebraska joining the Big 10 in 2011, it made me wonder, what would have happened in 2010 assuming conference re-alignment and Nebraska was a part of the Big 10 and there was a conference championship game? Michigan State and Wisconsin would re-play for the conference Championship Here is the

Living in Husky-land, I’m subjected to 24-7 non-stop Washington Huskies coverage. This past weekends opponent was #1 Oregon, so it was a great chance to scout a potential BCS Championship entrant. All week before and after the game, I listened to experts and analysts talk about Oregon as a 2nd-half

I’ve previously posted about the perils of computer polls in College Football’s BCS system. But the computer algorithms that the BCS has banned can give us tremendous insight into who is under-rated and who is over-rated. If you remember last time, I called out Oregon State and Michigan State as

The Sporting News announced the winners of the 2010 Pitchers of the Year today for the AL and NL. Felix Hernandez of the Mariners and Roy Halladay of the Phillies were the recipients. How does that impact their chances of winning the CY Young? They’re 80% likely to win I

If you’ve visited this blog before, you may know that I’m no fan of Mel Kiper Jr. His bombastic style and galea-like hair make him a regular on ESPN, but his mock drafts suck. And now, with the must-read expose by Josh Luchs, there are allegations that he’s working as

Next week the BCS rankings will come out, which will be used to determine who goes to the national championship game. The formula is a combination of 2 human polls – the USA Today Poll and the Harris Poll – and computer rankings. Being an analyst by nature, I love

As the Randy Moss trade reverberated through Twitter and the Blogosphere, the Fantasy Football owner in me couldn’t have been more excited. Why? Not because Randy Moss will actually put up more points in Minnesota (in fact, he probably won’t) but because he avoided the dreaded “Bye-week.” Minnesota took its