FRAMe (Central Resource to Refute Cameragate Baloney)

[Real American Hero]

ESPN ran an article this past week on the University of Oregon's playcalling system.
The Oregon Ducks call plays using goofy images on giant placards. Can the code be broken? - ESPN

Now here's a team that is calling attention to themselves with their signal system and ESPN devotes tons of resources to attempting to crack the code only to determine that there's no advantage to doing so. Yet they spent weeks rehashing SpyGate.

In the military, there's a concept called "actionable intelligence" -- that is, information you actually have time to act upon. Suppose you're an Oregon opponent. You somehow crack the code. Now what?

You have to teach your defense what each image means. The ins and outs of every Ducks play and variation. The right defensive calls to stymie each one.

Come game time, your defenders still have to execute.

OK, the placard shows "TREE." Oregon's going to run right. How do we stop that? Play 135. Right. Get in that formation. Get into individual assignments. Everyone remember what to do?

"Don't forget, you have to do all of that in 10 seconds," Kozek said. "Conveniently for Oregon, most teams that play them have less than a week of practice beforehand. And even if you had five or six weeks to prepare your team, it would be very difficult to train them."

In other words: if Auburn or anyone else can figure out the method behind the madness of bald eagles and Corso's well-coiffed head -- and then apply that knowledge to gain an on-field advantage -- its coaches are probably wasting time and brainpower focusing on mere football games.

 

[neuronet]

Where did the website go? That is a resource that should be up for ten years. This site might use some of its donations to keep that site going.

Just sayin'. Huge resource for those of us sick of arguing about it.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

We came to the conclusion that its purpose had gone away, so we took down the site. Given how much has happened since, and given how limited the scope was of what we actually used, plenty more could be done with it, but no matter how good it would be, it would just be fanning the flames. We figured Cameragate had run its "every waking minute" course. Of course there are still periods of interest in it, where every lame Rams, Steelers, or Iggles fan walking the streets blames his team's failure on a camera, but that'll never go away.

If you read through the info-gathering threads we started from, you can see the FRAMe site was a Patsfans collaborative effort. Often I respond when I see it discussed, or now and then Fggsand does, but there was a guy that did the HTML (please weigh in & make yourself known/remembered!), and a site-wide thread or two devoted just to contributing "found items" in the news or from their own reading. Anybody who's dropping in on the FRAMe thread should know that it was an effort that a lot of Patsfans were in on.

So yeah, we here can still grab the content from archives, but as a site devoted to Cameragate? It's just keeping alive a back-and-forth that serves to make people think it's an issue.