NCAAF In-Game Thread

This is going pretty much as I expected. I read somewhere that the average age of IU’s team is just over 23 years old. For reference, the avg age of the Green Bay Packers is 25 years old. Just like basketball, teams that can field a team full of grown men will be able to overcome their talent disadvantage. You want your team to be better? Get older
 
IU goal for the 2nd half. Just don't get anybody hurt. They could be in real good shape health wise vs a banged up Miami secondary.
 
McAfee is certainly not for everyone but he's hilarious if you're in that zone

Getting the back judge to flex during the review was incredible
 
gps_3 said:
You want your team to be better? Get older
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same thing malcolm gladwell said about youth hockey players who barely miss the age cutoff. they're the ones who start off bigger and stronger the next year, and that a huge majority of pros fit that model
 
austinhous said:
same thing malcolm gladwell said about youth hockey players who barely miss the age cutoff. they're the ones who start off bigger and stronger the next year, and that a huge majority of pros fit that model
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I read a great article that said the reason that the US women’s national soccer team had fallen of was because American girls grew up gaming the system by having youth teams that were always at the high end of the age limit and could just out physical younger opponents and they never learned the skills necessary once everyone else caught up physically
 
gps_3 said:
This is going pretty much as I expected. I read somewhere that the average age of IU’s team is just over 23 years old. For reference, the avg age of the Green Bay Packers is 25 years old. Just like basketball, teams that can field a team full of grown men will be able to overcome their talent disadvantage. You want your team to be better? Get older
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If that was the case then BYU would have won multiple national titles over the last 10 years. It's still an also-ran program.

This is all about mid-range talent being coached up to the highest level. We've never seen anything like it. Saban was and is the king. Except he did it with 4 and 5 stars. IU is a lot of discards that is humiliating the glitter and shine of Oregon on a big stage.

It's embarrassing. Except if you're on IU. Happy to be in line there.
 
austinhous said:
same thing malcolm gladwell said about youth hockey players who barely miss the age cutoff. they're the ones who start off bigger and stronger the next year, and that a huge majority of pros fit that model
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I read that book what was title… 25 years ago?
 
Frank Costanza said:
If that was the case then BYU would have won multiple national titles over the last 10 years. It's still an also-ran program.

This is all about mid-range talent being coached up to the highest level. We've never seen anything like it. Saban was and is the king. Except he did it with 4 and 5 stars. IU is a lot of discards that is humiliating the glitter and shine of Oregon on a big stage.

It's embarrassing. Except if you're on IU. Happy to be in line there.
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The BYU olds also take 2 years off from playing and training though. And Indiana has some nfl talent.

Oregon might have been the biggest fraud in the playoffs though. Lost against the only good team they played in the regular season, but nobody really questioned them
 
gps_3 said:
The BYU olds also take 2 years off from playing and training though. And Indiana has some nfl talent.

Oregon might have been the biggest fraud in the playoffs though. Lost against the only good team they played in the regular season, but nobody really questioned them
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Fair points.
 
gps_3 said:
Saban vs Kelly in 2012 and Saban vs Day in 2020 also come to mind. I think Day is a decent coach now, but they were so outclassed in that game
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But Day was amazing against Clemson in 2019. He scripted 20 or so plays, and it was absolute genius. They went up 16-0 early in the 2Q.
 
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