AI isn’t very smart when it comes to niche content like college basketball unfortunately. Take it from a guy who would know. Even asking for the 2007 Kentucky Wildcats roster, for example, can lead to some hilarious results.
Lmao yall are killing Pope for using analytics and have been for two damn years. You can gaslight all you want. That’s the truth.
Every single coach on their wishlist is an analytics guy:
He will be the voice of reason in a world full of sanity for Pope during a turbulent April.
No one could have predicted it being this bad.
Does that have anything to do with my point whatsoever?
Yeah in a way it does. People aren’t complaining about pope using analytics, they complain because he seems to rely way too heavily on analytics unlike the coaches you listed.
Posts like this are what I’m talking about. And yes, many people on this site over the past several months have been blaming analytics for our failures. I’m simply pointing out that blaming analytics is not appropriate. Every coach that most of you would beg for LOVE analytics. Most of them, like Oats, use it even more heavily than Pope.Yay analytics
You’re right blaming the person applying the analytics is more appropriate
I think we agree.
Look Morg, you are probably right now…but let me ask you one question…were you saying the same stuff in May of 2024? How about After the Duke win in Nov 2024?
Informing strategy with analytics is great. Building strategy with the type of analytics they chose did not work and led Pope in unfortunate directions this past season. With unfortunate results. He has not really been doing what those more successful coaches have been doing with those types of data. Chasing the kind of hugely context-dependent numbers down rabbit holes now that he seems to be doing instead of going harder after the quality player he’s always known he needed (because he always made them his top priorities, just never landed them by and large) will not serve Pope well now.
We don’t know what he’s doing day to day for the most part. I definitely disagree with the substitution patterns and I don’t know what led him to his conclusions on that.
That's the problem is you couldn't pick and choose who he wanted. He still had to convince them to join him when the players are free to go anywhere they like. We had the right money wrong person trying to convince people to join us.Man, mark pope had this amazing war chest last year, where he could pick and choose who he wanted with regards to pay, and landed with MoD and BG as his starting 4 and 5
I can agree with some of that but I”d put it differently. The data are not at fault for misinterpretations. But analytics is a question of how you arrange the data and plug them into calculations. If you don’t understand all the relevant layers of context correctly you can easily be in a hole before you make what you think are any inferences. Also I think generally analytics in sports is viewed as both crunching the numbers and drawing inferences from your results. But I do think we largely disagree despite semantics. I’m just pissed Pope seems to be working so hard to crack the problem of how to sniff out the best diamonds in the rough when his biggest problem has been bringing home the cut gems he’s so very often correctly identified as what would have most helped his team. And it’s not an uncharitable frustration. I’ve been behind Pope for the most part since he got here and now he’s largely dug himself a hole of his own making. This coming season I want to be cheering for him to climb out of it. I want to do that but, even though you’re right we’re not seeing a whole lot right now——man what little we do see looks a whole lot like the guy is still digging.
Maybe not on April 10, 2024…but who posted after the Duke game, “This was a fluke. Pope will not get it done.”…???
I read that twice and don’t understand the difference between what we are each saying. I can be extremely stupid at times so I’ll chalk it up to that.
You are forgetting something, none of those six knows how to run PG or drive to the hole…
I don’t mind analytics I just question our staffs use of them. Especially first half stats as slow as we always start. Now second half adjustments are usually a strength, but we have got crushed a few times in games we were severely out-coached or manned.
I wish that software would explain to our coach that he shouldn’t run off a guy like Alvin Brooks and keep Cody Fueger on staff. I like Pope but would love to know why he made a move like that. Run off a guy that has a national championship ring and brought in a 5 star player three years in a row for Baylor before he left and then gets run off here. I don’t get it. Major red flag that he couldn’t get those players here under pope too.
Any college will go under if you pay a college player 7,000,000 a year. The alumni and PHD will revolt. It’s the lawyers who are greedy. I bet the agent that got 7,000,000 for som college pl@yer was the first to announce it. Greed to hell with education
