turnover-margin Stories - And The Valley Shook
Is the Football Biased Against Texas?
So I received an e-mail today from a certain blog operator whom you might have heard of. Does the handle "Sailor Ripley" ring a bell? Yeah, that's right. We exchange e-mails occasionally. Impressive, right? Anyhoo... good old Sailor sends me a link to a post on Corn Nation in which some...
Are the Georgia Bulldogs Due for More Lost Fumbles in 2011?
Our old friend kleph has taken a look a turnover margin in the SEC, and his charts vividly confirm the maddening reality reported a month ago by Senator Blutarsky, who noted that, of "the ten teams which improved their turnover margins the most from 2009 to 2010," the only one "which didn’t win...
Turnover Margin and Fumble Recovery in the SEC
While he was head coach at Auburn, John Heisman stressed the need to avoid turnovers. "Gentlemen," he told his Tiger team, "It is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football." More than a century has passed since he felt the need to admonish his squad but the importance of...
Arkansas Razorbacks 31, Georgia Bulldogs 24: The Evening After the Afternoon Before
To a large extent, this postgame writeup is superfluous, as most of the points contained herein were covered (mostly by others, but, to a minimal degree, by me) in the game day open comment thread, the Todd Grantham points allowed countdown, and MaconDawg’s postgame rundown, but, hey, I spent the...
Mark Richt Drops Willie Martinez, Jon Fabris, and John Jancek From Georgia Bulldogs Staff: A Good Man Does the Right Thing
The sight is dismal; And our affairs from England come too late. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing To tell him his commandment is fulfilled, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Where should we have our thanks? Hamlet, Act V, Scene II I apologize if that was a bit...
Hold on to the Rock
In today's Times-Picayune, Jim Kleinpeter told an interesting tale about how Les Miles is preaching ball. When defensive tackle senior Al Woods came out for media interviews Monday, he was carrying a football given to him by Miles at the 8:30 p.m. team meeting Saturday. Miles randomly picks a...
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