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Ep. 428: Disruptive Innovator with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Importance of Risk Aversion in American Football

Gus Malzahn has a national title as Auburn's offensive coordinator and an SEC title as the Tigers head coach. So why hasn't some college team scooped up Kelly or at least stolen all of his ideas? Unlike the systems that Malzahn and Briles brought from the high school level to college, Kelly's bucks conventional wisdom so much that it seems too radical. As Kelly says, it all comes down to risk aversion. The coaches I've talked to, a lot of them will say, we think you're right. We think we should. But they're afraid of the media or the fans or losing their jobs. Eventually some college coach will try a version of Kelly's

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