When you consider former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, you don’t usually consider somebody who was technologically or analytically savvy.
Coughlin was an old-school soccer thoughts who did issues in an old-school soccer manner. That’s, till a chat from his late spouse, Judy, led to the coach exhibiting a bit extra of his private facet.
Because it seems, that wasn’t the one evolution Coughlin made throughout his time with the Giants.
In a model new ebook, Soccer Is a Numbers Sport: Professional Soccer Focus and How a Information-Pushed Strategy Shook Up the Sport, PFF’s Matthew Coller reveals that Coughlin was so enthralled with their analytical knowledge that the corporate needed to rent somebody to deal solely with the Giants.
“The extra they acquired the knowledge, the extra that Tom Coughlin wished to go to (former Giants senior director of soccer info) Jon Berger and say, ‘Hey, are you able to get PFF to provide us this? Can we discover out that?’ (It acquired) to the purpose the place PFF assigned one individual simply to reply Giants questions,” Coller elaborated on the Giants Huddle podcast.
Coughlin and the Giants had been so happy with the assistance offered by the PFF worker that they invited him to Tremendous Bowl XLVI on their behalf.
“Within the Tremendous Bowl, the second time they went to the Tremendous Bowl, they gave that man a ticket to the Tremendous Bowl as a result of they felt he was so invaluable in serving to them out (and) answering no matter Tom Coughlin’s questions had been,” Coller stated.
Clearly, much more than PFF knowledge went into defeating the New England Patriots for the second time in 4 years, however Coughlin, unbeknownst to many, consumed each little bit of it he may. And it clearly paid dividends.
