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Defining Talent
While watching the NFL Draft, I started reflecting a bit on the ruins of our 2010 season and thinking about the debates that raged as that debacle unfolded with respect to talent, coaching, development and how those things interplay in individual player performance and evaluation. Talent is...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: Sample Size
Steve Mason had a wicked awesome year in 2008-09. We loved him. We bought his jersey. We named our children Steve Mason Wendorf and Mason Steve Wendorf and wrote little stories with matriarchal characters named Ma Steveson (okay, not everybody did that last one, but I know one person who did). ...
Jim Boylen, the future and the perceived process of rebuilding
No one thought this season would be easy for Utah. They lost too much talent to sustain the type of success we saw last year. However, I don't know if you'll find many people who thought it would be this bad. But how did it get to this point? That's not an easy question to answer. I don't think...
Whittingham talks expansion and more with Sporting News' Matt Hayes
Our Dear Leader spoke with Sporting News about a wide variety of topics and it's a good read. On conference expansion, Whittingham had this to say: SN: There has been a lot of conference expansion talk. Where do you sit in that discussion? KW: There are a lot of rumors flying around. The one...
Setting Expectations Has Everything To Do With Success - So What Do You Expect This Season?
A couple of recent articles by other Husker writers have me thinking about expectation management this week. It's something I'm struggling with lately as I prepare to do an email migration for one of my clients. I've done a lot of project management over my years as a network and communication...
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