Coaches With the Best Starting Point

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BlinghamptonVol

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An interesting chart showing the starting point for coaches taking over a program since 2015. Day is ahead of everyone else, with Orgeron and Helton also born on 3rd base.

Pruitt and Heupel were both higher than I expected. Only a smaller number of coaches had a significantly better situation. Not great but not terrible.

Glad we aren't Kansas.

 
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Yep, Heupel was equivalent to Louisville and Miss St. Definitely a silver spoon as those schools obviously went on to win multiple championships.
 
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Considering Heupel walked into a 💩 show both in terms of a depleted roster and the NCAA sanctions hanging over our head, not sure I’d have him on 1st base. And not to defend cornbread, but considering the national embarrassment it took to get him hired, not sure I’d have him making a run for 2nd base either.
 
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What's ELO?

Also does this compare teams they have to play. Heupel being in the SEC with Bama as a permanent opponents first base isn't the same as coaches in the BigTen West with as equally as talented rosters.
 
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VolInDayton said:
What's ELO?

Also does this compare teams they have to play. Heupel being in the SEC with Bama as a permanent opponents first base isn't the same as coaches in the BigTen West with as equally as talented rosters.
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I think it is a mathematical formula used to compare teams adding and subtracting value based on wins and losses and the opponent's value. Supposedly it gives a more accurate rating between teams. Really, we need an MIT grad to explain it.

From Wikipedia:
American college football used the Elo method as a portion of its Bowl Championship Series rating systems from 1998 to 2013 after which the BCS was replaced by the College Football Playoff. Jeff Sagarin of USA Today publishes team rankings for most American sports, which includes Elo system ratings for college football. The use of rating systems was effectively scrapped with the creation of the College Football Playoff in 2014
 
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BlinghamptonVol said:
An interesting chart showing the starting point for coaches taking over a program since 2015. Day is ahead of everyone else, with Orgeron and Helton also born on 3rd base.

Pruitt and Heupel were both higher than I expected. Only a smaller number of coaches had a significantly better situation. Not great but not terrible.

Glad we aren't Kansas.

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Idk what criteria were used but no way in hell was CJH left with a better roster than Pruitt was. The dedection of talent post the Pruitt firing was crippling. And the number of actual scholarship players was 65ish.

Jones didnt leave the program in great shape, but he did leave it better than Pruitt.
 
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BlinghamptonVol said:
An interesting chart showing the starting point for coaches taking over a program since 2015. Day is ahead of everyone else, with Orgeron and Helton also born on 3rd base.

Pruitt and Heupel were both higher than I expected. Only a smaller number of coaches had a significantly better situation. Not great but not terrible.

Glad we aren't Kansas.

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The top 25...much easier to read..maybe he will post a full list

Apparently i need to work on my linking skills..
 
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VolInDayton said:
What's ELO?
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Enabling Learning Objectives.
j/k
It doesn't stand for anything, it's the name of the fellow who invented the rating system.

"Elo is a dynamic rating system that works to identify player/team strength at a specific time"
 
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This comparison shows how badly Bryan Harsin messed up on the Plains.
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