In an effort to not only increase our chatter about the Cards, but to also increase some reader participation, Edge, RV, and Alan will be doing these roundtables every week. Love the answers? Want to post your own thoughts? Of course you do. And you can do so in the Comments section. Because remember, dear [...]
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You know, sometimes it’s fun to just play with the numbers from last year and try to make comparisons, whether it be between teams or between conferences. You can learn a lot that way… or you can confuse the hell out of yourself and your readers. There’s always a risk to everything, isn’t there? Today, [...]
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Yesterday I mentioned a story about how the Ball State football camp is underway and is drawing some pretty good numbers. Well, our old friend Brady Hoke is in the football camp mode in San Diego. His participants? More than 80… ladies! Look out Leon Phelps, you’ve got competition now! I really can’t joke too [...]
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For the next week, I will be your fearless leader in the wonderful world of OTP. I received a cryptic text message Friday that said “You’re in charge for the next week” from Alan. That’s all it said, and I haven’t been able to reach him. I can only assume one of three things: 1) [...]
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In an effort to not only increase our chatter about the Cards, but to also increase some reader participation, Edge, RV, and Alan will be doing these roundtables every week. Love the answers? Want to post your own thoughts? Of course you do. And you can do so in the Comments section. Because remember, dear [...]
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It’s summer. You know that. You also know that news from the world of college football trickles out of the information spigot exceptionally slow, as we wait for fall practice to kick up and the preseason polls to be released. We’re only a couple months away from all that happening, but until it does, it’s [...]
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So far we’ve looked at quite a few stats in our “By The Numbers” columns. We’ve covered stat rankings, mismatched schedules in terms of rankings, and one cupcake conference. Today I think we’ll discuss some statistics about scoring. It’s no secret that some of the elite teams this year had some pretty high scoring offenses. [...]
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In an effort to not only increase our chatter about the Cards, but to also increase some reader participation, Edge, RV, and Alan will be doing these roundtables every week. Love the answers? Want to post your own thoughts? Of course you do. And you can do so in the Comments section. Because remember, dear [...]
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OverThePylon is proud to present our next installment of catching up with the new recruits for Ball State as they make their way to Muncie to begin their freshman season next fall. Today’s guest is Ethan Buckles, offensive and defensive star from Indianapolis’ Cardinal Ritter High School who was kind enough to answer not only [...]
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Welcome back to the Stat Department at OTP. Last week we discussed 20 teams that were grossly mismatched against all their opponents, whether it be for the better (Boise State) or the worse (Washington). Today, let’s take a step back and look at a larger chunk of teams. I promised that we would let some [...]
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