The "Mighty Quinn" Bat Signal coming.

[Grant Green]

For those that don't know where the Mighty Quinn reference comes from....a song from the 60s

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Another one of the many fine tunes penned by Bob Dylan and "borrowed" by someone else.

 

[HazletonLion]

Nordin is the #1 kicker in the nation and still only a 3*. No respect.

He'd be a 5* if it were Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio St. or Michigan.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

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That is a kick ass announcement vid!

 

[Jerademan74]

That forward-thinkingness is something I admired most about O'Brien. I would like to think that going forward JF would utilize more of that type of calculated risk-taking. At Vanderbilt, JF succeeded through taking chances on special teams, and I recall a similar propensity to gain an advantage on fourth down, too. And if he hasn't, his interest in analytics, I'd think, would push him in that direction anyway. My guess is that he didn't feel compelled to take as many risks this year just because we had so little room for error in all areas with the roster the way it was last year. As that normalizes, I think we'll see more risks. It's quite easy for Urban Meyer to take risks knowing that chances are he won't be hurt if he fails - or, in OB's case, there aren't any stakes. I think JF played it safe a bit last year knowing how much a bowl game would mean to the program and how razor thin our margin of error was.

You can do all the statistical analysis you want, but if the OL can't push back the DL on 4th and short, not many 4th down conversions are possible! Hence CJF's decisions to punt, even as poorly as we did, were the proper decisions to make. If our OL is vastly improved this year, then the decision is more favorable to go for it more often!

 

[Option Bob]

Thanks, JimmyW, for the info. I have not read Posnanski's book, and I didn't recall that Joe sent in the punt team only to have the players wave them off.

And you are correct about the man ... he would deflect praise to pass it to others while accepting the criticism himself. Yet somehow so many think he was a fraud. That still bothers me.