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Yeah.  That survey reeks of

Yeah.  That survey reeks of people telling McDonalds they would eat there if they only had salads.

Start small and eliminate the

Start small and eliminate the ability for a team to call a timeout after they make a basket.  I would love to see a stat for how many of the under a minute timeouts are called by the team that just made a basket.  

minor quibble

The primary focos of the business is not relevant.  If it was, then non-profits wouldn't have employees.  I think the more accurate quote is "football players are employees because the work they perform is unrelated to their educational pursuits."  That is the rational the regional director (Ohr) used to get around NLRB precedent in the Brown University case for graduate students.  I also believe that the full Board will use the Northwestern case to overturn the Brown Univeristy decision on graduate students as that is what the NLRB is prone to do as they go from Reagan/Bush Boards to Clinton Boards to Bush Boards to Obama Boards and so on.

Walton

I thought Walton played his best game and am hopeful things are starting to click for him.  He handled the Minnesota pressure better than any other guard tonight and had some nice penetration and dishes.  Most of all I thought he displayed great effort on the boards.  On a couple occassions he just said eff it I'm getting this rebound.  In the first half he used an extra gear to chase a rebound down in the corner and then led the fast break to find a wide open Stauskas in the corner.  In the second half he damn near jumped out of the gym to grab a rebound.  Both those were on plays where Michigan couldn't get the rebound to save their life and you expected it to eventually fall into a Minnesota player's hands for an easy layup.

Divsions and scheduling One way to circumvent the division imbalance and scheduling is to use an SEC model. I couldn't find an official link, but I am 99% sure that each SEC school has one "rival" from the other division that they play every year. Examples are Auburn/Georiga, Tennessee/Alabama. They then rotate the other 5 teams over the years with the 2 remaining games on their schedule. This could facilitate a North/South Big Ten arrangement. Big Ten North could have Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State and Northwestern. The South would be Penn State, Ohio State, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana and Pitt. Northwestern and Pitt (or whoever the 12th team is). In a perfect world ND would be the 12th team and replace Northwestern in the North. The one obvious drawback to this would be unbalanced scheduling as always having to play Ohio State instead of Indiana would be much tougher.
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I'd be concerned about the I'd be concerned about the rich millionaires from the hated rival going tit for tat with their own PI.  Are you that confident in your own squeaky clean program to push the button.  It seems a doctrine of mutually assured destruction is appropriate in this case.