Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images Last week, Bill Connelly did some tinkering on a method of rating head coaches using SP+. Connelly uses the raw SP+ numbers from the coach’s tenure, and also utilizes a baseline: For each year someone is a head coach, we could compare his team’s SP+ rating for that season to the school’s average from the 20 previous years. Based on … [Read more...] about Dave Doeren checks in at No. 28 in Bill Connelly’s head coach rankings
ACC makes injury reports mandatory
Zachary Taft-Imagn Images Finally. ACC commissioner Jim Phillips announced this morning that injury reports for league games are going to be mandatory for football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball. This is partly in response to degenerate gamblers being degenerate gamblers, unsurprisingly. Phillips announces ACC is mandating player-participation reports … [Read more...] about ACC makes injury reports mandatory
Team Challenge ALS’ second-round game will be on TV
Photo by Nicholas Faulkner/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images They couldn’t keep DJ Burns off television for long. Who could? It’s round two: Team Challenge ALS vs. The Aftershocks Tip time: 9 p.m. ET TV: FS1 … [Read more...] about Team Challenge ALS’ second-round game will be on TV
Is it okay for your football coach to be good at golf?
Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images A unique aspect of college football is that it often feels like there is no offseason, thanks to recruiting. And this country’s sports culture in general reinforces the idea that if you aren’t working all of the time, you’re falling behind. So there are always people within any given fanbase that are outraged to discover that their … [Read more...] about Is it okay for your football coach to be good at golf?
DJ Burns and DJ Horne get underway in TBT on Friday night
Tim Heitman-Imagn Images A quick reminder that DJ Burns, DJ Horne, and the rest of Team Challenge ALS play tonight at 7 p.m. ET in the first round of The Basketball Tournament (which is a basketball tournament). Their game is not on TV but you can stream it live on YouTube here. Should be fun watching those guys together again. You might say that they ... have an Aura … [Read more...] about DJ Burns and DJ Horne get underway in TBT on Friday night