bullbugle307
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Got bored, and got started looking at the total percentage of our conference win's that came against AF, CSU, NM, SDSU, and UNLV from 03 to 23.
Learned a few things, but that’s it. Lots of confounding things I would have to think about a lot more to draw any conclusions. Thought it would be simple. It’s not.
The switch from 7 to 8 conference games a year is HUGE in this discussion though. That happened in 2012. That alone makes comparing conference wins across that 20 year time frame more complicated. One could argue Bohl should have won more conference games per year than Glenn since he played in more conference games per year minus the Covid year. One could also argue those other teams had the opportunity to do so also. DC has his tenure split between 7 and 8 game conference seasons.
Starting in 2013, we went from playing those 5 teams every year to generally only 3 times a year.
But we started playing USU, SJSU, Nevada, and Hawaii a lot more. Not historically good teams in the MWC.
I think it’s time to give it up. Too many variables changed to for my simple brain to draw conclusions. Honestly, I’m leaning towards Bohl got more conference wins because he played worse conference opponents. But I wouldn’t stake much on it.
Honestly, I don’t think any of us are applying the data correctly to our arguments, so we should just stop.
Learned a few things, but that’s it. Lots of confounding things I would have to think about a lot more to draw any conclusions. Thought it would be simple. It’s not.
The switch from 7 to 8 conference games a year is HUGE in this discussion though. That happened in 2012. That alone makes comparing conference wins across that 20 year time frame more complicated. One could argue Bohl should have won more conference games per year than Glenn since he played in more conference games per year minus the Covid year. One could also argue those other teams had the opportunity to do so also. DC has his tenure split between 7 and 8 game conference seasons.
Starting in 2013, we went from playing those 5 teams every year to generally only 3 times a year.
But we started playing USU, SJSU, Nevada, and Hawaii a lot more. Not historically good teams in the MWC.
I think it’s time to give it up. Too many variables changed to for my simple brain to draw conclusions. Honestly, I’m leaning towards Bohl got more conference wins because he played worse conference opponents. But I wouldn’t stake much on it.
Honestly, I don’t think any of us are applying the data correctly to our arguments, so we should just stop.