🏈 Nick Saban recalls hilarious story of Derrick Henry’s steep learning curve to college football - Saturday Down South

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[alabama mike]

And boy did he run the ball in high school.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I left this crappy article up, just to point out that a steep learning curve is a good thing. An easy thing. It's not just in the realm of athletics that this is used bass ackwards, but it's popular there. A learning curve is how much you learn over time. The more you learn in a shorter period of time, the steeper the curve. If it takes you longer to learn something, the curve is flatter. If the curve is flat, you don't learn jack. And if it's a downward sloping curve (Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!) it means, over time, you're forgetting sh!t.

There, that's my logic geek of the day. It's my feeble effort to keep something so wrong from being added to the sports lexicon that makes "physicality" seem insightful.

 

[Crtuneman]

I never really thought about it before. I guess I always interpreted the phrase steep learning curve as meaning you had such a limited knowledge base at the beginning that you had a steep curve of knowledge to consume, whereas someone with a stronger beginning knowledge base had less to learn, thus creating a flatter curve. Does that make sense? I guess that may be a more symbolic concept than an actual one.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I never really thought about it before. I guess I always interpreted the phrase steep learning curve as meaning you had such a limited knowledge base at the beginning that you had a steep curve of knowledge to consume, whereas someone with a stronger beginning knowledge base had less to learn, thus creating a flatter curve. Does that make sense? I guess that may be a more symbolic concept than an actual one.

I get it, it gets used incorrectly so often that it just flows on by. You're right, if you know nothing about something and someone else knows much, there is far more to learn to reach a level of competency or catch up.

I think it's the physical perception of "steep" as something that must be physically climbed, pedaled up or summitted that contributes to its misuse, too.