Nerding out, The Briles Effect, and don't put diesel in your car (ft. David Hale)
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
How much better will Florida State be in 2019?
ESPN's David Hale joins OTB to explain his research on what the analytics say about FSU's potential growth, the Briles Effect, and why he thinks the progress in the win-column will be minimal in Year 2 under Willie Taggart.
Plus Hale shares how he's irritated just about every ACC fan base this offseason, his most embarrassing Sonnone story and FSU seasons in the form of The Simpsons characters.
Intro/Outro comes courtesy of Tallahassee band, The Shower Beers: Early Times and Cheerwine
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| 0:00.0 | The Hey, welcome to Knowles 24-7's On the Bench Podcast, this is Brendan Sonone and another episode with another special guest and a week full |
| 0:25.2 | special guest. We wanted to really rip off a bunch of, I shouldn't say rip off. |
| 0:31.3 | Rip out? |
| 0:34.0 | We wanted to get you guys a bunch of special guests and preview |
| 0:37.0 | FSU season. |
| 0:39.0 | Like I said when we first started this with Joey Knight a couple of days ago, |
| 0:42.0 | looking back, looking forward, looking at the |
| 0:44.0 | president, looking at recruiting, looking at a bunch of different angles on the FSU's football team ahead of the |
| 0:48.9 | 2019 campaign. And who I brought in today is a friend of mine. |
| 0:54.0 | At least I think he's a friend of mine. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm not sure if he's going to say the exact same. |
| 0:57.0 | But he's really, really smart, really informative, |
| 1:00.0 | a bit of an instigator on Twitter, |
| 1:02.0 | although pretty much he uses mostly, mostly not always, but usually |
| 1:06.0 | just statistics and analytics to to enrage the masses and that's ESPNs David Hale. |
| 1:11.6 | He used to cover FSU back in 2012 and 2013. He's an excellent |
| 1:15.6 | writer. I love the way he incorporates numbers into his information and uses those |
| 1:20.8 | to help find trends and I guess define his view of how to predict the upcoming season. |
| 1:28.6 | And specifically on this podcast, we're talking about FSU, its numbers on offense last year, which, news flash, weren't |
| 1:36.1 | very good. But David's going to explain, you guess, what those numbers mean, a few really |
| 1:40.4 | interesting analytics and why maybe that has led him to be a little less |
| 1:45.3 | bullish on FSU than, let's say myself, you know, I'm thinking about eight wins for FSU and not that David is very far off, but there's some anecdotal evidence and that goes |
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