You criticize so many others when they dodge direct questions. Kind of funny how you gloss over a pretty straight-forward question I asked. What did you major in, and then the question to be read between the lines, how does your college major make you more qualified as a football analyst than someone who majored in ecology...I think it's a fair question since there have been probably 10 times in this thread that you discredited him due to what he studied when he was 20 y.o.
I've never been to PFF, don't really pay much attention to them either. I just find your justifications for discrediting them as a reputable source curious, especially when you seem to regard the Uffda eye ball test as more reputable when it would appear your resume isn't quite as strong as what they've done. By resume, I'm not just referring to what street they were born on, or what they studied 25 years ago...I'm referring to their body of work.
Originally Posted by: musccy
Elementary Ed and Broadcasting
You guys just don't want to get it... the MAIN analyst (Stockwell) majored in ecology and went to work right out o college in the UK. It wasn't like he spent 5 years after college studying the NFL on an internship here in America. He went to school in the UK and went directly to work for PFF who is a UK based site. What was Stockwell's training to be an NFL rater? He studied ecology and lives abroad so please tell me?
So, tell me macbob... do you think PFF knows what they're talking about? Here's another main cog over at PFF... does he sound like he knows football to you?
...luckily this is where Ian Perks came in. Caring for football not one iota and learning Access as he went (and cursing it every step of the way), he produced the proverbial silk purse out of my sow’s ear and this became the application which all of the analysts now use.I guess for you there has to be some pedestal quality to people who put together a website. For me there isn't. Again, I'm sorry if you find it arrogant, or whatever, I trust me more than I trust the ecology major from the UK.
Would you trust some stat geek from MIT to tell you how football works? Perhaps, you would. There are smarts and football smarts. The stat geek is not football smart...he's stat smart. You have a stat guy ecology major marriage at PFF and that somehow is held in high regard by you? I trust a group of guys I worked with to sit down and do the exact same thing save for doing it better. I would endeavor to be taught the game by people who actually played it.
Feel free to hail PFF as some wonderful tool...when doing so keep in mind the main cog was a fresh out of college ecology major in the UK. That just screams credibility doesn't it?
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