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His smarmy mensa persona was a turn off.

Edited:: Also, it (the binder) under performed his 4th down decision-making outcomes
 
mchammer said:
Because the binder can’t read a room nor a ballgame.
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I will say this; if Coach Royal had relied on a binder to make that 4th and 3 call in the 1969 "Big Shootout" at Arkansas we would be minus one national championship trophy in the Horn's trophy room. And this from the best coach in Longhorn history, and IMHO the best college football coach in his day who generally eschewed the pass.

As a side note, I would likely never have become a Horn fan because that was the first Longhorn game I ever watched. That game instantly won me over as a Longhorn faithful, and helped me to make the decision to attend UT and I've never regretted it. "Binder"? ...forget that.

Hook'em

:bevo:
 
I will say this; if Coach Royal had relied on a binder to make that 4th and 3 call in the 1969 "Big Shootout" at Arkansas we would be minus one national championship trophy in the Horn's trophy room.
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Can't believe that idiot went for it on 4th down and threw way past the marker instead of just trying to get the first down! Oh wait, we caught the ball, never mind....
 
bystander said:
Now we know what OU stands for:

Lincoln Riley opposes intraconference transfers and opened up why OU stands firm against it.

“This particular situation for us is about something that we believe in,” Riley said. “Myself, the leadership here at OU, we think it's unhealthy for college football to encourage intraconference transfers.
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My belief is players should be allowed to transfer wherever provided they sit out a year. Covid has temporarily changed that but the premise remains.
 
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ou can block a vote by themselves? Put it to a vote and whichever side gets 6 votes wins. Coaches can move anywhere they like and the players should be able to do the same.
 
ViperHorn said:
ou can block a vote by themselves? Put it to a vote and whichever side gets 6 votes wins. Coaches can move anywhere they like and the players should be able to do the same.
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I think Riley is right. IMO, If a player wants to transfer in conference then they should have to sit out a season otherwise they are eligible immediately in another conference.
 
Is there a huge difference in what Riley is doing and the time-honored, "we will release you but only to a school not on our schedule during your eligibility"?
 
As long as Spencer Rattler is around Chandler Morris has no hope of being the #1 QB at ou. Also, he poses no threat to ou (or any other Big XII school) as the starting QB for TCU. Would it be ok with Riley if Morris wanted to transfer to say, Clemson where he could be the QB that beats ou (again) in a playoff game?

Reverse the deal - Morris to ou because Rattler will miss a season or more. Riley would be screaming if TCU said not without sitting a year.
 
beijinghorn1 said:
I always wondered... why did the binder comment rub so many of us the wrong way including myself? I guess a not so subtle way to shift responsibility to a bunch of papers rather than himself.
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I agree with the other binder comments above. I think there is a sense among many sports fans that analytics has taken over and shoved much of the human element out. If it was all just stats and analytics, a computer would be the best coach.

Analytics are helpful, but you can't ignore the human factor, and intangibles like momentum and emotion, to say nothing of making spot decisions based on what is happening in this particular game at this particular moment against this particular opponent
 
Chop said:
Analytics are helpful, but you can't ignore the human factor, and intangibles like momentum and emotion, to say nothing of making spot decisions based on what is happening in this particular game at this particular moment against this particular opponent
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In my opinion, stat-driven decisions are better in baseball because the set-ups and game situations are more consistent across games or even seasons even if different teams and players are involved.
 
mchammer said:
In my opinion, stat-driven decisions are better in baseball because the set-ups and game situations are more consistent across games or even seasons even if different teams and players are involved.
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Thinking about it even more, I think if it were not the binder comment, it would have been some other basically non-offensive comment-that everyone latched ahold of. He comes off as such an unlikable person, that he has to win 10 or more games per year or else he will face the wrath of fans and media.
 
Chop said:
I agree with the other binder comments above. I think there is a sense among many sports fans that analytics has taken over and shoved much of the human element out. If it was all just stats and analytics, a computer would be the best coach.

Analytics are helpful, but you can't ignore the human factor, and intangibles like momentum and emotion, to say nothing of making spot decisions based on what is happening in this particular game at this particular moment against this particular opponent
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And analytics are much more useful in normative circumstances.
See Dallas last year for a case of how effective they are when extraordinary circumstances arise....and they and their reverberations are hard to quantify for calculation.
 
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