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Was listening to former BYU/UVa head coach Bronco Mendenhall's new podcast (which is well worth your time if you've ever wanted to go deep on how head coaches set up programs - as a side note, Bronco would be the kind of guy I'd hope Stanford would hire should Shaw ever part), and he talks in the most recent episode about tapping into data science students at UVa to help coaches identify tendencies and probabilities in opponent teams. Anyone know if Shaw and his staff are doing something similar? Would seem like a no-brainer given the quality of talent they could pull from on campus. Then again, I've never once heard or seen Shaw talk about analytics or data science informing anything with the program.

 

As a lifelong UVA fan who now attends Stanford, I can pretty much say you don't want Bronco as your next head coach if we somehow get rid of Shaw in the next year. Don't get me wrong he's a great guy who runs a stand up program, but talk about a coach who makes football not fun anymore for his players. People on the board (myself included) get mad at Shaw for never having fired an assistant, Mendenhall literally "retired" and left UVA because the AD told him to fire his defensive coordinator who had played for him at BYU and Bronco refused out of loyalty so he quit.

[VB Card]

Was listening to former BYU/UVa head coach Bronco Mendenhall's new podcast (which is well worth your time if you've ever wanted to go deep on how head coaches set up programs - as a side note, Bronco would be the kind of guy I'd hope Stanford would hire should Shaw ever part), and he talks in the most recent episode about tapping into data science students at UVa to help coaches identify tendencies and probabilities in opponent teams. Anyone know if Shaw and his staff are doing something similar? Would seem like a no-brainer given the quality of talent they could pull from on campus. Then again, I've never once heard or seen Shaw talk about analytics or data science informing anything with the program.

 

As a lifelong UVA fan who now attends Stanford, I can pretty much say you don't want Bronco as your next head coach if we somehow get rid of Shaw in the next year. Don't get me wrong he's a great guy who runs a stand up program, but talk about a coach who makes football not fun anymore for his players. People on the board (myself included) get mad at Shaw for never having fired an assistant, Mendenhall literally "retired" and left UVA because the AD told him to fire his defensive coordinator who had played for him at BYU and Bronco refused out of loyalty so he quit.