The Mad Scientist Remains
It appears Spence is going to stay at Clemson. To be honest, I could take him or leave him. I guess the best part of this entire situation is two fold. Stability has been created within the program, and it seems Spence has only good things to say about Clemson, his boss and his boss’s boss. I have to look a bit further into this and see that the administration is making the athletic department happy. More signs this program is heading in the right direction. Check out a few more details here.
The following point has been on my mind for a while, although I don’t think I’ve yet bothered to write it anywhere; it isn’t enough that we are moving in the right direction, we must also measure whether we are moving more quickly than our opponents.
On another note, having just finished reading the Black Swan, I have to wonder if football statistics are Gaussian or Mandelbrotian (or at least, non-Gaussian), and whether Spence/Bowden’s statistical analyses properly match. I’d guess that football is non-Gaussian (as a single event (play) can have a huge impact on the average), but that Spence/Bowden treat it as such only occasionally.
uhh………..what?