re: TAMU - I heard your coach on SECN sometime recently discussing the run game...

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And the chart shows that lumping the statistics in obscures game to game trends that matter when evaluating the argument. As TOP increases, Defenses metrics become more impressive. When you plot the individual data points, you see that in games where his offenses were more productive, so was he. You guys want to fight this, but it is a stupid hill to die on. TOP and defensive production are correlated. Denying it makes you look stupid.

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We aren't dying on the hill because we aren't even ON the hill. Literally no one has said that TOP and defensive success aren't correlated. But the LSU mantra has been that not only is there correlation, but there is also causation, in which the causal factor is how the offense performs it's job of "running the clock".

And not only that, but that CHAVIS specifically owes his success to the help his defenses get from his teams' offenses. For all you know, Chavis might be the one DC who is LEAST dependent upon having a good TOP. We'd never know, because he's almost never had a good, much less elite, TOP.


Being unable to comprehend the arguments others are actually making makes you look stupid. Or trollish, perhaps, if the misunderstanding is willful.