Pac-12, ACC playoff hopes lead the college football overreactions for Week 11 via EddieTimanus
Should the decision go awry, or sometimes even before the outcome is determined, said booth announcer will add,"Yeah, I’m not a big fan of analytics."
Second-guessing bad coaching decisions from the press box has been part of the industry since time immemorial, but it’s become a lazy announcing trope to use the catch-all term of analytics to critique such decisions without delving into the specifics of a particular situation. It is true that modern computers can comb through a lot more data and provide coaches with general probabilities of success for given conditions. These are useful tools, but they do not in and of themselves make the decisions. Often, like TCU’s fourth-down completion that sealed the win against Texas, come down to knowing one’s personnel and exploiting favorable matchups.
The game will be played, of course, but perhaps the conference should have abandoned divisions this year.You aren’t likely to see many tears shed around the campuses of the schools remaining in the Big 12 over the current plight of the Sooners and Longhorns. Oklahoma sits in ninth place in the 10-team conference after Saturday’s loss at West Virginia, and Texas is squarely in the middle of the pack and on the outside of the championship hunt after coming up short against TCU.
Neither the SEC nor the two incoming programs can change their decisions at this point without a ridiculous number of lawyers getting involved. But none of the parties will elicit much sympathy from the Big 12 offices.
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