Is the Football Biased Against Texas?

That 1.2 penalties… is it a 5-yarder, a 15-yarder, or a half-the-distance? More research is needed.

Did you mean to forward this to Huck?

See the outlying dot far to the ride side of the second graph?

I like to imagine it as fat aggy sitting on a teeter-totter wearing surgical gloves.

The dots to the top left are Bo and Carl, who have been suckered into teeter-tottering with fat aggy, and are now flying through the air hollering with rage.

That’s how I read the chart.

you win again fat aggie…

Forward this to Huck? No. That’s bringing a chainsaw to a midget-fight.

Oops, I meant midget-toss.

Sorry if I’ve upset any midgets out there.

Dagga,

Just wanted to see the Huskers get one more ass kicking before they head for the Great White North.

Brilliant piece.

Just goes to show you – there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

So, what you’re saying is that we’re actually a 9-2 team except that the ball has bounced away from us, and toward an opponent, a statistically impossible number of times.

I feel better. I’ve been thinking it was because we didn’t recruit O-linemen for 3 years, Greg Davis is calling the plays, and we had to turn to a player four months out of high school to NOT DROP punts.

Davey – Awww, there’s time to kick their ass a little more. I’m hoping they get a bowl match vs. TCU.

I think this Nebraska fan’s way of saying, “Below the hard deck does not count.”

So who are you, Maverick or Goose?

Good job btw – this is hilarious.

In the first scatter chart, if you relax your eyes long enough I believe you’ll see an image of Pelini kissing Dr. Osborne’s ass. At least that is what I see. When I read that today, I fell asleep about half way through.

Fuck you Brickhorn. This was the missing piece of evidence that Mack needed to keep GD around. If GD stays, I am hodling you and your damn mathematics responsible.

“I think this Nebraska fan’s way of saying, "Below the hard deck does not count."

So who are you, Maverick or Goose?"

Pretty sure everyone in the state of Nebraska looks like Anthony Edwards.

You can make your jokes, but Nebraska’s Opponent’s Opponents are 6.6 worth of Mean. That’s really a lot.

If I were a football, I’d bounce away from this Texas team, too. The other team almost always puts the ball to better use than this year’s Longhorns. Even footballs have pride. I guess.

Pat Forde addressed this today in his Dash article and the Cornhole’s number of penalties this year falls in line with their previous two years under Pelini. I’m thinking the Huskers are Slider – a guy along for the ride who talks a lot of smack to others as long as the guy doing all the work for him is winning. As a Navy pilot let me just say – backseaters are douche bags.

Hey, I’m no statistics genius, no genius at all really, but could it be that Nebraska is just not a very disciplined team?

PTSD imo

Professor, I <3 Community.

Anyway, having an asshole undisciplined coach who draws penalties is correlated with having players who are undisciplined and draw penalties? Shocking! I prefer the hypothesis that all teams are the same and should have the same amount of penalties so it's obviously the refs at fault.

NB: Corn was screwed on some calls, but the above average is pretty understandable.

Anyway, did y’all see Sherm on his player fisting the Corn guy?

“I don’t have time to look at YouTubes and what not, but I heard something about it, I asked the player about it, and he said there was some extracurricular activity on the pile, and I said ’That’s not what we’re about, that’s not what we coached you to do,’ and he agreed,” Sherman said. “He’s really remorseful about it, and I said I don’t want to see it again. The results and the consequences of that are between me and that player. It’s been addressed.”

I also don’t have time to look at those youtubes

Scipio predicted this. If you read the ancient writings (Hornfans circa 2000) there is a passage about ‘more pigskin flying away from me than an Orthodox Rabbi on mescaline’ buried in a description of the 3-4 defense. It was foretold.

More importantly, how did you get an actual picture of fucking Huckleberry (Fuckleberry?) on the lead in/ tagline?

I thought I heard that the officiating crew that did this game, the Texas game, and one other nebraska contest had penalized Nebraska heavily without penalizing their opponents in those games. The number was damning, I can’t remember what it was of course.

I’m pretty sure most of the penalties on nebraska were legit, but the absence of penalties on their opponents is disturbing. And the pass-interference call was a pretty ticky-tack call to suffer such consequences from.

“and we had to turn to a player four months out of high school to NOT DROP punts.”

Don’t worry, he is ONLY four months out of high school, we’ll coach that right out of him by next year.

Canuck,
I figured the conspiracy theories wafting out of Nebraska dovetailed nicely with this past week’s Community – I won’t be using this name again.
 
Cornhole is about to be the most junior member of a conference where most of the programs have a century of history together. I hope Jim Delaney likes whining.

Nebraska just isn’t a dominant team anymore. All Nebraska had to do in each of it’s most important losses for the past couple of seasons is squeeze out 3-8 points. That would’ve won the Big XII, and both losses vs. teams from Texas this year. Screw job calls matter a whole lot less when you can do better than 13, 13, and 6 points. Other losses like Tech and Iowa State last year were also distinctly tied to bad offensive performances. I’d worry about that instead of officiating. You’ll have different officiating crews next year anyway, but you’ll still have mostly the same team and staff. Sounds like you’ve got bigger problems frankly. Texas fans at least have the good sense to worry about that.

Likely or not, I am amused at the idea of Texas going to a Pac-16 and then meeting Nebraska in a Rose Bowl when you thought you’d escaped with the move to the Big 10.

I attended the UT-Okie-State game in ‘02. I was sitting on the east side around the 40 yard line. I remember noticing, on several occasions, an OSU lineman grabbing Cory Redding’s jersey from behind to keep Redding off the QB. What surprised me the most was Redding’s reaction when he didn’t see a flag. He didn’t seem upset at all — business as usual. I inferred that O-linemen are not taught to avoid holding at all costs but, rather, to recognize the conditions under which holding is unlikely to be called.

It seems to me that Pelini has an aggressive stance when it comes to penalties. Play to win and don’t worry too much about infractions. He attempts to compensate for the increased likelihood of flags by working the officials hard. He probably goes beyond just defending his players’ actions. He also points out to the officials what the opponent is concealing and getting away with.

Before the ’09 CCG, the story goes that one or more NU coaches spoke to the officials about our O-linemen getting away with chop blocks in prior games. I believe that our team was penalized for chop blocks on two occasions in the CCG, at rather inopportune times. . A video I saw after game suggested that the called chop blocks were far from flagrant. Thus, one can infer that Pelini had succeeded in working the refs to his advantage — an impressive accomplishment given the ongoing anti-NU, pro-UT conspiracy in the Big 12.

I can imagine the officials getting fed up with Pelini’s efforts to control the officiating. The last thing they want to do is reinforce his efforts.

I am unsure of how to read dots on this site if they don’t move.

Nah, couldn’t be that Korn commits more penalties. No way.

Carefree to run out of methods that obviously function, perception again!