[Husker] Today's WSJ on ex-pro coaches in college

[George Rapp]

On 9/23/05, Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> I don't subscribe and so cannot view the article, but I note that
> the number of games used to compute the winning percentage decreases
> each year.  One reason that there are fewer games figured in year
> 4 than year 1 might be that unsuccessful coaches did not last to
> year 4.  If that is the case, it would seem that ascribing the
> increasing winning percentage with each successive year to
> improvements made by the incoming coaches may be an incorrect
> conconclusion.  It might be that the records didn't improve, but
> the less successful coaches did not continue while the successful
> coaches did continue.

I noticed that also.  The author explains that it is due to the fact
that his analysis starts in 2001, so only pro coaches hired that year
or thereafter are included.  (Surely there were pro coaches in the
college ranks before then?  None come immediately to mind, though.)

George
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