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I think Shaw haters should agree not to focus on 2020 being a year without a bowl if Shawpologists can agree not to cite a year with a winning record. The fact is that was not a full season, so trying to use it as a major data point for or against Shaw is a stretch. I try to use it only as one data point in a three year span, and the least meaningful at that. It really goes too far to call it a .667 winning percentage in any sort of comparative sense with past years. A 4-2 season is not the same thing as an 8-4 season. The way 2020 played out should make that intuitive - we were tremendously lucky in a few of those games and it is highly plausible (computer algorithms would say likely) that there would have been somewhat of a reversion to the mean the rest of the year as that was not all that good of a team.

Not a Shawpologist here but I actually will give him credit for the 2020 season. It takes leadership to pull the team through the playing/practicing conditions they dealt with. And I give no criticism for not going to a bowl game. They were eligible, but they were exhausted after a month on the road.

If that had been a 4-8 season I'd be calling for him to be fired now. Instead, I think he deserves the opportunity to fix the mess he's made based on the last two full seasons in particular but also the slide down from the 2016 Rose Bowl to that point.

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I think Shaw haters should agree not to focus on 2020 being a year without a bowl if Shawpologists can agree not to cite a year with a winning record. The fact is that was not a full season, so trying to use it as a major data point for or against Shaw is a stretch. I try to use it only as one data point in a three year span, and the least meaningful at that. It really goes too far to call it a .667 winning percentage in any sort of comparative sense with past years. A 4-2 season is not the same thing as an 8-4 season. The way 2020 played out should make that intuitive - we were tremendously lucky in a few of those games and it is highly plausible (computer algorithms would say likely) that there would have been somewhat of a reversion to the mean the rest of the year as that was not all that good of a team.

Not a Shawpologist here but I actually will give him credit for the 2020 season. It takes leadership to pull the team through the playing/practicing conditions they dealt with. And I give no criticism for not going to a bowl game. They were eligible, but they were exhausted after a month on the road.

If that had been a 4-8 season I'd be calling for him to be fired now. Instead, I think he deserves the opportunity to fix the mess he's made based on the last two full seasons in particular but also the slide down from the 2016 Rose Bowl to that point.