SYSTEMIC CHANGES |
End of TV monopoly |
Recruiting coverage |
Early NFL Draft entry |
SYSTEM RULE CHANGES |
Academic ineligibility |
CFP |
Conference championship games |
GAME RULE CHANGES |
OT |
Narrower hashmarks |
Tearaway jerseys banned |
GAME PLAY CHANGES |
Wishbone |
SEC integration |
Read option |
A franchise like the Browns need to crank up the analytics and PUT THEM INTO PRACTICE. The Browns suck, they've sucked for 30 years, and they're likely to continue sucking. Why not try something different? Anything different! Except that everyone is so damned risk-adverse, that they avoid risk even when something is statistically shown to be beneficial.I thought they said they were going to...and then basically didn't.
The big point here is that if a coach fails by doing things the same way as everyone else, he'll just lose his job. If he loses by doing things differently, he'll lose his job and be made fun of.Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. (https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-Nobody-ever-got-fired-for-choosing-IBM-mean)