First, defaulting to a handful of teams is nonsense. Glenn had to play the big budget teams. You can't just omit them to fit your narrative. Secondly, I'll get to the record each year when I get time.307bball wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 7:59 am
Teams from both eras:
In 2008:
Wyoming 5.4
Air Force 5.5
New Mexico 6.2
UNLV 6.5
San Diego State 8.2
Colorado State 8.6
In 2020:
New Mexico 10.6
Air Force 10.9
Wyoming 12.4
UNLV 12.9
San Diego State 16.9
Colorado State 26.6
There are a few observations here that surprise me....mostly I'm surprised by UNLV/SDSU having such a high budget back then. Maybe the dollars just don't go as far in those areas? Ultimately I still think differences in program investment of the magnitude listed above are a terrible way to rate programs. The eye-popping amount that CSU spends to get the results that have gotten so far is the other surprise.
I don't feel sorry at all for Glenn not beating the lower half of the conference when he was coach based on these numbers.
SDSU is getting some pretty good bang for thier buck nowadays....what was going on during Glenn's era for them? CSU was bottoming out from the Lubick era highs during Glenn's tenure and they still have been mediocre to bad since then...yet they spend tons. There is just so little correlation between program spending and investment to success. In general you can expect higher spending teams to have more success but it is not very informative for any specific program. If Glenn was a better coach...we would have had better success against that group of teams regardless of the program spending.
However, these numbers in combination with completion of IPF and HAPC show Bohl has had it better than Glenn ever did.
If level of investment listed above doesn't matter, why not reduce budget by 5 million or so? Shouldn't impact anything, right?