(09-27-2017 08:57 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(09-27-2017 08:53 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(09-27-2017 07:13 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  

(09-26-2017 09:44 AM)EagleTough Wrote:  

(09-25-2017 04:09 PM)EagleSam Wrote:  I've never seen someone with so much envy over practically every MAC team. Better stop hyping Toledo before Keno Davis gets jealous.

Can you imagine how miserable this guy's life must be? His whole purpose in life to troll an EMU sports board in order to try and get a reaction from people.

Sad human.

I love my life! but getting back on topic, here's the difference between EMU football and UT football: Darius Jackson vs Kareem Hunt. We are good, they are great. Not in their league yet, but we're making strides.

Bob, Bob, Bob...

You are falling into a bad trap not indicative of rigorous reasoning.

What should EMU FB be compared to? WMU and their great players last year? Toledo and Kareem Hunt, Michael Roberts? Etc.

What one can do if they are not careful is compare one team, e.g., EMU, to the best of 11 OTHER teams.

One can compare Detroit to say the great beach cities of So. Cal or beauty of No. Cal., all the government jobs in D.C., the financial district and theater district of NYC, NBA championship team from CLE, World Series winning city of Chicago, etc.

In this case I have created a 'mythical city' which has hundreds of thousands of good paying government jobs, robust high paying Wall Street, theater district, beautiful beaches, beautiful forests, sports championships, etc. etc.

However what I described was obtained by cherry picking the best from over a half dozen DIFFERENT cities.

This kind of 'selective comparisons' isn't fair. Today it is Toledo. Last year it was WMU. Or maybe Akron (or another team) in MBB.

Hunt and Roberts were Toledo last year.

Bob W. knows how to selective compare across teams, across leagues, across time periods. (Bob compares EMU MBB in this decade to EMU MBB in the 90s).