pismonque
Bury me in Orcadian peat
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Really?? Oh boy.Ok then what is your ground truth metric for success? What do you want to measure his performance by outside of wins and losses???
Sure, the final measure of a coach’s success in aggregate will always be wins and losses and championships, but that’s way too broad-brush a measure when looking at a small sample set. Actually, even overall it’s a shallow measure of performance since there are a lot of factors in play beyond the coach’s control but well leave that aside for now.
First of all, that 6-4 is a messy data point because 2020 is such an aberration nearly across the board. In 20 years when we’re looking at yearly W/L records for most teams, 2020 will be a weird spike up or down. The other two years are not significantly different from before so you have to go a little deeper to make a judgment that is translatable to expected outcomes elsewhere.
My original qualms with the Heupel hire were primarily that there wasn’t enough of a track record as HC to really know what to expect. As I’ve looked into him further since then I’m optimistic. But damn, his records of the last 3 seasons doesn’t even come close to a red flag.
Edit: I yield to @CharlestonVol15. He’s faster and smarter than me.