I’ve spent a significant portion of the last few weeks trying to go through data to help explain the differences between KU’s offense under Kotelnicki and Grimes. I know that’s something people have been talking about and trying to understand for months.
I have realized that there’s no way to put everything in one thread without making people confused…there’s just too much data. I love this stuff and it took me a long time just to understand what I was seeing. What I’m going to do instead is focus on one specific piece or group of pieces at a time in a thread and then create a new thread for different data.
Before I jump in, there are some things to get out of the way first.
1) Based on everything I can see, contrary to popular Slant belief, Kotelnicki and Grimes did run the same basic playbook. There were some things added/removed and some things were emphasized/deemphasized…but it appears to be the same. There are just too many random data points that are the same/comparable for it to not be.
I compared Grimes data at Baylor to see if there were similarities or comparable elements and there just weren’t. Conversely, I looked at Penn St’s data and it’s more similar to KU 2022 and 2023 than PSU 2022 or 2023…which stands to reason.
2). Once again, contrary to Slant belief, Grimes wasn’t bad. I don’t think he was as good of a fit as Leipold had hoped he would’ve been and I’m not sad that he’s going to be at Wisconsin. I do think that there was a lot of good in the offense in 2024, I just don’t think he ever really got a good feel on how to run KU’s offense as effectively as it could be run. I actually think he will do reasonably well in Wisconsin.
I will post below this one just to keep it clean. I will present the data, what it means, and the impact the difference had. Some of these threads will build off of each other so I will link previous threads as I go.
I have realized that there’s no way to put everything in one thread without making people confused…there’s just too much data. I love this stuff and it took me a long time just to understand what I was seeing. What I’m going to do instead is focus on one specific piece or group of pieces at a time in a thread and then create a new thread for different data.
Before I jump in, there are some things to get out of the way first.
1) Based on everything I can see, contrary to popular Slant belief, Kotelnicki and Grimes did run the same basic playbook. There were some things added/removed and some things were emphasized/deemphasized…but it appears to be the same. There are just too many random data points that are the same/comparable for it to not be.
I compared Grimes data at Baylor to see if there were similarities or comparable elements and there just weren’t. Conversely, I looked at Penn St’s data and it’s more similar to KU 2022 and 2023 than PSU 2022 or 2023…which stands to reason.
2). Once again, contrary to Slant belief, Grimes wasn’t bad. I don’t think he was as good of a fit as Leipold had hoped he would’ve been and I’m not sad that he’s going to be at Wisconsin. I do think that there was a lot of good in the offense in 2024, I just don’t think he ever really got a good feel on how to run KU’s offense as effectively as it could be run. I actually think he will do reasonably well in Wisconsin.
I will post below this one just to keep it clean. I will present the data, what it means, and the impact the difference had. Some of these threads will build off of each other so I will link previous threads as I go.
