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Give it to Chryst.  People expected Wisconsin to win the west, but NOBODY expected them to go undefeated in the process.

Really?  Nobody?
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Really?  Nobody?
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Sure, but let's throw in your Purdue predictions at the same time and see how it averages out.   

I guess OSU coaches are ineligible due to undefeated expectations every year?

This has been covered but yes. 
As for this year, I think Ash should get serious consideration.  The award is basically "Coach whose team most exceeded expectations" I think that is Ash.  

Are we reaaaalllllllly sure that three of the four best teams are in the east?  I mean, according to the transitive property, Purdue is like 50 points better than OSU when comparing their Iowa scores.

(...and before you go there, No, the Rutgers and Nebraska transitive properties are invalid.....because I said so.)

Are we reaaaalllllllly sure that three of the four best teams are in the east?  I mean, according to the transitive property, Purdue is like 50 points better than OSU when comparing their Iowa scores.

(...and before you go there, No, the Rutgers and Nebraska transitive properties are invalid.....because I said so.)

Well, no.  It is entirely possible that the three best teams are in the B1G-E
I'm using Power Rankings votes and I agree with it.  
FWIW:  I've said it before but IMHO the problem with the transitive property isn't that the concept is bad, the problem is lack of data.  Example:
According to scores against Ohio State, Iowa is 76 points better than Michigan State.  But Michigan State beat Iowa H2H by a TD.  The problem here is that Iowa was Ohio State's worst and Michigan State was Ohio State's best game.  If you look at all of Iowa/MSU's common opponents you get a better picture:

• Ohio State:  Iowa is lots better
• Penn State:  MSU is slightly better
• Northwestern:  Equal
• Minnesota:  Iowa is slightly better

Three results suggest that the two teams are about equal and the other is clearly an outlier.  

When does PC start to get recognition as being among the best coaches in NCAA football? I noticed during the game yesterday the announcers fawning over Harbaugh and the TV showing his mug over and over and over again.

PC is a better coach, to anyone paying attention. He built a fantastic staff and that group has built a winner, top to bottom. They graduate their kids. They are humble to a fault. They love where they are.

Chryst is underpraised. His hiring felt underwhelming in a par-for-the-course kind of way; amongst Badger fans I remember hesitation about his 19-19 Pitt record and whether King Barry had taken the easy way out to avoid pursuing higher profile targets.


But name anybody whose done well at Pitt the last 20 years? Walt Harris was fired in the on a BCS Season, Dave W recruited lights out and put together a decent W/L record when his guys were in place and was still shown the door, Graham bolted for ASU after one year, and a sound hire in Narduzzi starts next season at the top of the hot seat rankings.

Chryst's knowledge of the program pre-hire has turned out invaluable. He knows how to recruit over the unpredictable admissions department hurdles and develops talent across the board rather than relying on boom-or-bust recruiting (Sumlin, Sarkisian, etc). And his unassuming beta personality puts him under the shadow of the type-As, which leads me to...

...as far as being the better coach than Harbaugh, Chryst is doing a better job at Wisconsin than Harbaugh is a Michigan, which is slightly more focused than flatly saying either the better coach. Harbaugh's elite knack was proven in 8 years in the Bay Area and it hasn't carried through for him in Ann Arbor. To liberally use a baseball analogy, comparing Chryst and Harbaugh is like comparing two different styles of hitting. Harbaugh is a homerun hitter who's been striking out lately against the power pitchers whereas Chryst is a dependable base hitter with the higher BA. A slugger as opposed to a hard out.

Chryst's knowledge of the program pre-hire has turned out invaluable. He knows how to recruit over the unpredictable admissions department hurdles

What are these hurdles you speak of?

Wisconsin has extremely high admission standards, which includes test scores, core courses taken and GPA. They are generally looking for a B GPA minimum with the 18 required core courses (the latter being the biggest killer for kids they can't get admitted) combined with the test scores. They are much more selective then the minimum NCAA requirements.

It is next to impossible to get a kid from the JuCo ranks who would not have qualified out of HS. The ones they do get are the exception and in those cases (Van Ginkle on this team) only went to JuCo after playing a year at a 4 year school. A late-bloomer, so to speak.

BB understood it too.

The last coach did not get it and, of course, he didn't last. Not being able to get Chris Evans (lost to MSU) and Jordan Stevenson (lost to UNL) admitted were the last straws for him.