The new, vastly amazing, complex-beyond-belief-in-its-simplicity, big and yet small, intellectual yet a hard worker, black and yet white and you’re green with envy….MomentumMeter!!!!!!!!!!
Tah Dahhhhhh…
cricket cricket.
Whatever! You see Ty at ND there in the green, Charlie in the Blue, and Ty at UW in the purple. It’s fantabumagoricaliscious!
Okay, so it’s not that exciting nor is it that fancy. But the debut of the MomentumMeter tells the Story of Ty, in the context of the Story of C-Dub so well that I had to put it out there. In the week that was the end of Ty, I figured it’s appropriate.  The chart isn’t all that fancy – you get a point for a win, you lose one for a loss. (I know this doesn’t take into account quality of competition, or how ‘bad’ the loss was, so please don’t point these things out – that’s obvious.) So this is net W’s, but it’s the trend and the momentum that I think is the interesting part. Regardless of how you won or who you won/lost against, the story of this game is W’s baby, and this NEW AND AMAZING new tool shows us how consistently a coach can put things together. And boy, do we see a nasty trend for Ty. For Charlie, it’s clear the jury is still out, but it’s a heck of a lot better than Ty.
Here’s another view that pairs of Ty to C-Dub on a year-to-year basis, starting from their 1st years at ND.
The MomentumMeter rules! Too bad I suck at converting powerpoint charts into pictures. If anyone has recos on that – hit me up.
Anyway, the final chapter on Ty is that he’s not a good coach. And the final chapter on why Charlie got more time than Ty is shown, AMAZINGLY AND BRILLIANTLY CLEARLY, in the MM(TM-don’t mess with my stuff) charts above.  Charlie built up a TON of goodwill in his first 2 seasons, taking his net wins to a level ~double of what Ty ever attained, at ND or UW. DOUBLE.  That, plus his recruiting prowess, is what got Charlie more time at ND. Had nothing to do with his being white, no matter how many times hacks like Zemek show up to make race part of the conversation (but an ND student that represents ALL OF ND sent me that exact quote wah wah wah!). Â
Ty sucked. Charlie doesn’t.  Charlie remains, Ty does not.
End of story.
It’s obvious that Charlie has had a rollercoaster at ND, but even after a total disaster of a season, we saw that Charlie’s Net never really got below Ty’s PEAK once he got above it. Sure, he dipped down below it for a few games toward the end of last year, but it was a quick visit and a quick exit.Â
Love the MM? Hate it?Â
If it’s love, I’m planning to run these numbers for a series of coaches – past ND coaches, RichRod (sucks!), recently bagged coaches, Phil Fulmer, and others. If it’s hate? Suck it, I’ll do it anyway.
Don't take me, yourself, or life so seriously. This is supposed to be fun.
Biscuit co-founded HerLoyalSons in partnership with his ND roommate (Dillon Hall baby!), MQ, in 2006 and has been ranting about ND Football and everything Notre Dame since. He strongly believes in the mission of ND and its football program. Biscuit expects logic and data in arguments and will absolutely crush you if you come to a debate missing one or the other. He despises everything Michigan, and his favorite pastime is mocking Purdue.
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See kids, this is what happens when you give an MBA a football blog.
and a fifth of vodka
How did you fuse the recruiting numbers with the original “wins-only” graph? In other words, what does “plus recruiting” mean?
@BJGator
I don’t think the “+ Recruiting” appears on the physical graph. It’s just there to remind us that while Ty followed up his decent 2003 recruiting class with two terrible ones in 2004 and 2005 (both ranked in the 40s), Weis followed up his decent 2006 recruiting class (much better before all the transfers) with two excellent classes in 2006 and 2007 (top 10 in ’06 and nation’s best in ’07)
See kids, this is what happens when you give a MBA a football blog and a fifth of vodka.
Matt is right. I thought about putting in an index of some sort for the recruiting class in each year, but it just would’ve bumped each year up by X…might’ve added a little, but not all that much, to the story.
A couple beers yes, a fifth? not quite. C’mon this thing is sweet and you know it. I am going to do Joe Paterno’s entire career. It’s gonna take 60 charts!!!
I don’t think they make enough internet for charting Joe’s career.
Or enough formaldehyde