Michigan State co-special teams coordinator/rush ends coach Chad Wilt has held a lot of titles over his more than 20-year coaching career. In the early 2000s, Wilt was the defensive line coach/special teams coordinator during his tenures at Central Connecticut State, Liberty and Virginia. In the 2010s, Wilt was the defensive line coach at Richmond, Ball State, Maryland, Army, Cincinnati, and Minnesota. Most recently, Wilt was the co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at Indiana. Through all of these stops and titles, however, Coach Wilt views that his job has always been fundamentally the same. At his core, Wilt views himself as an educator of young men. "Coaches are just teachers nowadays," Wilt said to members of the media this week. "We're just looking for unique ways to teach... Our meeting rooms, they are all just classrooms. Let's teach. Let's be interactive. Let's show things." As Wilt went into more detail about this teaching philosoph
For as long as I can remember, I have loved the NCAA Basketball Tournament. I love the bracket. I love the underdogs. I love One Shining Moment. I even love the CBS theme music. As a kid I filled out hand-drawn brackets and scoured the morning newspaper for results of late night games. As I got older, I started tracking scores using a increasing complex set of spreadsheets. Over time, as my analysis became more sophisticated, I began to notice certain patterns to the Madness I have found that I can use modern analytics and computational tools to gain a better understanding of the tournament itself and perhaps even extract some hints as to how the tournament might play out. Last year, I used this analysis to correctly predict that No. 4 seed UConn win the National Title in addition to other notable upsets. There is no foolproof way to dominate your office pool, but it is possible to spot upsets that are more likely than others and teams that are likely to go on a run or flame out early.