CrimsonCrusade

There's really no reason to defend Ballou. Early in the season, people tried to say "Yes, the team is soft, but look at how healthy the team stays." That take didn't really hold up to scrutiny if you looked at injuries from prior years under Ballou, but it really looks comical this year.

People get taken in by his talk about sports science. You tell people you're an expert and using a cutting edge system and most are unable to question that. But his brand of sports science relies entirely on data derived from a statistical method called magnitude based inference. People like Ballou reach all of their conclusions based on data derived from MBI, but when tested, MBI is fraught with false positives. Here's an article in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise demonstrating that MBI has an error rate up to six times higher than standard null hypothesis testing: LINK

Of course, you don't have to read or understand any of that to see that Ballou's methods aren't working. You can just look at the huge dropoff in development we've seen this decade, the way Alabama is visibly weaker than every power conference team they face, and the lengthy weekly injury reports.

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Check again. I was responding to a post made just now. Someone else bumped this thread

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Alright. Then your post was unbelievably retarded.

Really wasn't a good game. Georgia just spanked us. Our defense played with guts, that's the only part of the team I think deserves your compliment.

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ND has been playing lights out for weeks.

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Notre Dame's schedule had two difficult games, both of which they lost. The rest has been a G5 tier schedule.

No one else on the team has even attempted a field goal. It may just be that the backups are even worse.

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Sorry bud, your boy Milroe ain’t coming back

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You don't understand. If Milroe has half as many interceptions as completions, that's on playcalling, the receivers, the offensive line, really everyone involved in the program except for Milroe. If Simpson is quarterback for a two point loss in a game where Bama missed a chip shot field goal, he bears sole responsibility.

You hear a lot about Spurrier and Saban not working out in the pros. Has there even been a mainly NFL coach to have success in college? Bill Walsh won three Super Bowls, but was only ten games above .500 in college. Lovie Smith was the NFL coach of the year in 2005 and went to a Super Bowl, but in college he went 17-39. We all know about Bill Belichick.

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Okay now find something more present and modern quotes instead of a racist Confederate guy quote.

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:lol:

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USC beating Oregon would cause some chaos and put us in a 3-way battle between two 10-2 teams, and a 10-3 Alabama that, again, had to play an extra game.

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If Oregon loses that game, they should drop out of the top 15. So far they've played one ranked team, and they lost at home in a game that was really never in doubt.

You are a devoted fan to not only be following volleyball, but to be doing that despite the team evidently going 9-40 over the last three years.
:rolltide:

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Sounds like it’s going to be 2005 all over again.

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In 2005, Alabama had the fewest scholarship players in major college football. Auburn was in its golden age because it was picking up tons of players who would have gone to Alabama barring sanctions - they entered the game at #11 and it wouldn't surprise me if they were favored. That era was contingent on a very specific set of circumstances that we're never seeing replicated again, so it's ridiculous to keep trotting it out as a metaphor for the present.

This will be a tough game because Auburn has three weeks to prepare. But while it's often said that Alabama never beats a good Auburn team, when was the last time that Alabama lost to a truly terrible Auburn team like this one? 2003 Auburn went 8-5, which seems to be the worst record they've had in a season where they beat Alabama since at least before Bear Bryant.