I've been advocating for Four, 16 team regional conferences since this realignment garbage started.
Each Conference is then 4 x 4 team divisions. You play 3 divisional opponents. Two divisions paired up every year for schedule parody. Everybody then schedules 4 non-standing games. If you want to do a protected rivalry in another division, fine, it wont count for final division standings that year. Only the 7 in-division and cross-division games count for final standings. 11 game season.
Each conference has their own 4 team playoff. Winners of each conference go to national final four.
Keep Bowl system as it is right now. Final Four + whatever.
No more comittees of stupidity picking who deserves it most or who will bring in the most ratings dollars for ESPN.
That last drive was borderline pornographic. Only complaints are that the Read Option was there, and we should have passed on 3rd down after Day elected not to call a timeout. Our opponent just ran the clock down for us, the whole playbook should be open.
Just go NFL with itt. 4 Divisions. You play everybody in your division once. Every year you pit two divisions against each other so that there is good schedule parody. Every year you play one team from the two divisions you weren't up against this year.
Everybody plays 9 games that way, you have good schedule balance in the event of tie break decisions. You cycle the division face offs every year so that you can guarantee that every team plays each other at least once every 3 seasons.
Then... you become the first league to have a 4 team playoff. Each division winner. First round is on site, ranked accoring to CFB playoff rankings. Championship game in Indy.
Then you go out and add Stanford, Oregon, Washington to get a true B1G West division. Give Notre Dame one last chance to get in as team #20.
You have the best league in CFB and none of this stupid scheduling crap that was clearly cooked up by some horrible overpaid consulting firm.
Such a tragic story of a p.o.s. parent ruining a kid's opportunity to achieve greatness. Half the talent of Dramond with twice the drama. An NBA franchise would be insane to take a chance on him.
Listen, I'm all for hating on Gene Smith, but the MDEN straight up has "NIL" items that are blatantly "Buy this and we distribute the funds to the team."
This is the new college football. It'll be absolute insanity until it's treated like a professional sport with collective bargaining, profit sharing, and caps.
This highly infectious strain is in the community these kids live in. It can lie dormant for many days. The person who brought it here tested negative for a week after returning from the UK (https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2021/01/19/7-covid-19-cases-tied-washtenaw-county-woman-who-has-uk-variant/4211879001/)
These are kids who live in muli-person settings. Share kitchens and bathrooms, etc. Every day they engage in some of the worst activities you can engage in when there's a pandemic. Sweating, breathing, coughing on/near each other. They come into contact with hundreds of support staff on a weekly basis. Support staff who have to, maybe, touch the player's to deliver care; or perhaps launder their clothes; clean the dishes they eat on; etc.
There's a lot more at play here than your ability to watch a few basketball games. Everybody has the potential to be a ticking timebomb, and you have to treat them as such. The only communities who have successfully dealt with COVID did exactly that.
Nothing will cure those stress and anxiety issues more than being the highest paid coach in the NFL, with zero pro experience, and being tasked with turning around a bottom dwelling team!
There's a strong chance that at least one young man will end up with a life altering heart condition. I don't think he'll think he was on the "right side of history."
Is it within the realm of possibilities that Henry Ford discovered something the others failed to discover? Sure. Is it likely? Given that we're talking about administering or not administering an oral medication.... No. It isn't likely.
That headline is very irresponsible. People are going to take it and run around proclaiming that the Orange Comrade was correct all along.
Henry Ford confirmed that many of the deceased had underlying conditions. We need to know more about how they set up their control group and their cohort. If they didn't stratify for underlying conditions then we most definitely have a Correlation Does Not Equal Causation situation going on here. I.E. if the Hydro group had fewer patients with underlying conditions that introduces bias.
When multiple organizations find no benefit, and even find it to be more harmful, and one finds a benefit, that should raise many concerns about how the one outlier found benefit. Also I see no statistics backing up the claims other than %age of survival in each group. What other predictors were used? What was the significance of the other predictors? Etc. Etc.
Way too many people who have never run major health outcomes studies or published in major journals pretending to be experts on this stuff because of politics. I wish more people understood that, but they want to be quick to post links and look smarter than they really are.
TLDR: Wait until the research is actually published, in a well respected, peer reviewed journal, and replicated at additional institutions.
I contend that only a person who has no idea how to analyze data but still thinks they're smarter than experts would share your views.
Plenty of examples of countries that did it right, and plenty of example of countries that did it wrong. The former being countries that listened to infectious disease experts.
Surgeries being put on hold has really slowed down the cash flow for just about every hospital. The majority of cash for any major health system comes through the surgical suite.
By that logic you should never prepare for anything and just wing it all the time. You plan to do everything you can within your control.
Every department at MMed is taking this very seriously. Even units that are "offsite" and not on hospital grounds are piloting what life will look like when we inevitably are all working from home for a month. Been asking employees to self-quarantine after international travel for about a month now. Domestic travel will be coming soon, I suspect.
This is why the public "outcry" for people to be as responsible as possible is important. No health system in the country will be able to handle the situation of all the Maga idiots running around intentionally spreading the disease because the president told them to go to work with a fever. We need it to spread as slowly as possible.
Antenna + Tablo for DVR/sending OTA to all tvs in house via network
Sling
PS Vue
DirecTV Now
YoutubeTV
Of all those options, YoutubeTV on either a Roku or an Apple TV is by far the best for watching TV including sports. PS Vue and DirecTV Now always seemed to have horrible pixelation and lag issues when watching popular events. Almost like their CDN couldn't handle that many people watching the streams. YoutubeTV does not have that issue because they're backed by the Google Money fountain. Very rarely does the picture quality drop significantly enough to look "bad" on a 65" 4k display.
YoutubeTV is so good that I've manged to convince my extremely non-technical mother to switch to it, as well as my semi-technical father-in-law.
Highly recommend having at least 40-50 mbps down to handle multiple streams + routine internet usage + all the other 8,000 devices that are IOT enabled in homes these days.
It's also nice that I can log in to it at work when there are day games to check in on. I mean, I've never done that.
BIGGEST WORD OF CAUTION: The YoutubeTV streams are about 30 seconds behind. You will have things spoiled if you're constantly refreshing Twitter during a game.
One awesome cordcutting thing: ESPN app on AppleTV can show 4 games at once in a 2x2 grid.
Anybody else seeing some similarities between Rudock '15 and Patterson '18? Both late transfers, having to pick up the whole system in 1 summer. Some early struggles. Etc.
If it continues, Shea will be turning it on in the next game or two.
Man, these idiots sure like to take apples and compare them to oranges. Call me when a player ends up in the hospital because his team didn't know the other team's 2-deep.
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I've been advocating for Four, 16 team regional conferences since this realignment garbage started.
Each Conference is then 4 x 4 team divisions. You play 3 divisional opponents. Two divisions paired up every year for schedule parody. Everybody then schedules 4 non-standing games. If you want to do a protected rivalry in another division, fine, it wont count for final division standings that year. Only the 7 in-division and cross-division games count for final standings. 11 game season.
Each conference has their own 4 team playoff. Winners of each conference go to national final four.
Keep Bowl system as it is right now. Final Four + whatever.
No more comittees of stupidity picking who deserves it most or who will bring in the most ratings dollars for ESPN.
Correlation something something causation.
That last drive was borderline pornographic. Only complaints are that the Read Option was there, and we should have passed on 3rd down after Day elected not to call a timeout. Our opponent just ran the clock down for us, the whole playbook should be open.
It'd be great to get that Black Friday Nebraska v Colorado game going again.
Just go NFL with itt. 4 Divisions. You play everybody in your division once. Every year you pit two divisions against each other so that there is good schedule parody. Every year you play one team from the two divisions you weren't up against this year.
Everybody plays 9 games that way, you have good schedule balance in the event of tie break decisions. You cycle the division face offs every year so that you can guarantee that every team plays each other at least once every 3 seasons.
Then... you become the first league to have a 4 team playoff. Each division winner. First round is on site, ranked accoring to CFB playoff rankings. Championship game in Indy.
Then you go out and add Stanford, Oregon, Washington to get a true B1G West division. Give Notre Dame one last chance to get in as team #20.
You have the best league in CFB and none of this stupid scheduling crap that was clearly cooked up by some horrible overpaid consulting firm.
Such a tragic story of a p.o.s. parent ruining a kid's opportunity to achieve greatness. Half the talent of Dramond with twice the drama. An NBA franchise would be insane to take a chance on him.
That and, as everybody knows, CJK5H
Listen, I'm all for hating on Gene Smith, but the MDEN straight up has "NIL" items that are blatantly "Buy this and we distribute the funds to the team."
This is the new college football. It'll be absolute insanity until it's treated like a professional sport with collective bargaining, profit sharing, and caps.
They're just projeting because all their defensive payers flame out in the NFL once they lose access to steroids.
You've heard of the West Coast offense? We run the Western Union offense. Everything is telegraphed.
I don't think it is reasonable to claim that you outplayed anybody when you allow a single player to score 5 TDs.
You woulda been popular in the 19th century.
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How narrow minded of you.
This highly infectious strain is in the community these kids live in. It can lie dormant for many days. The person who brought it here tested negative for a week after returning from the UK (https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2021/01/19/7-covid-19-cases-tied-washtenaw-county-woman-who-has-uk-variant/4211879001/)
These are kids who live in muli-person settings. Share kitchens and bathrooms, etc. Every day they engage in some of the worst activities you can engage in when there's a pandemic. Sweating, breathing, coughing on/near each other. They come into contact with hundreds of support staff on a weekly basis. Support staff who have to, maybe, touch the player's to deliver care; or perhaps launder their clothes; clean the dishes they eat on; etc.
There's a lot more at play here than your ability to watch a few basketball games. Everybody has the potential to be a ticking timebomb, and you have to treat them as such. The only communities who have successfully dealt with COVID did exactly that.
Clearly he knows about the hidden rule that the team with the most intact knee caps at the end of the match, wins.
I'm sure the handful of overly agro "manball" types will love it. Can't wait for his eventual firing in 3 seasons.
Why that's as many wins as MSU has, total.
Nothing will cure those stress and anxiety issues more than being the highest paid coach in the NFL, with zero pro experience, and being tasked with turning around a bottom dwelling team!
What a surprise that a bunch of people who were born billionaires have no idea how to succeed at something.
Any guesses on what the "10 Commandments of the BroBible" contains?
There's a strong chance that at least one young man will end up with a life altering heart condition. I don't think he'll think he was on the "right side of history."
It'd be nice if you learned about math before you spoke.
This is what happens when half the country thinks they're smarter than experts.
Makes me so happy to see how tilted AOC makes insecure wanna-be alpha bros get.
NEJM, NIH, Oxford University, Jama. Just a few. Mix of observational and controlled:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-halts-clinical-trial-hydroxychloroquine
https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-investigators-of-the-randomised-evaluation-of-covid-19-therapy-recovery-trial-on-hydroxychloroquine-5-june-2020-no-clinical-benefit-from-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-hospitalised-patients-with-covid-19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766117
Is it within the realm of possibilities that Henry Ford discovered something the others failed to discover? Sure. Is it likely? Given that we're talking about administering or not administering an oral medication.... No. It isn't likely.
That headline is very irresponsible. People are going to take it and run around proclaiming that the Orange Comrade was correct all along.
Henry Ford confirmed that many of the deceased had underlying conditions. We need to know more about how they set up their control group and their cohort. If they didn't stratify for underlying conditions then we most definitely have a Correlation Does Not Equal Causation situation going on here. I.E. if the Hydro group had fewer patients with underlying conditions that introduces bias.
When multiple organizations find no benefit, and even find it to be more harmful, and one finds a benefit, that should raise many concerns about how the one outlier found benefit. Also I see no statistics backing up the claims other than %age of survival in each group. What other predictors were used? What was the significance of the other predictors? Etc. Etc.
Way too many people who have never run major health outcomes studies or published in major journals pretending to be experts on this stuff because of politics. I wish more people understood that, but they want to be quick to post links and look smarter than they really are.
TLDR: Wait until the research is actually published, in a well respected, peer reviewed journal, and replicated at additional institutions.
It's almost like listening to public health experts results in better public health outcomes.
$10 says the NCAA shuts down that apparel brand.
I contend that only a person who has no idea how to analyze data but still thinks they're smarter than experts would share your views.
Plenty of examples of countries that did it right, and plenty of example of countries that did it wrong. The former being countries that listened to infectious disease experts.
Surgeries being put on hold has really slowed down the cash flow for just about every hospital. The majority of cash for any major health system comes through the surgical suite.
A business with hundreds of employees and no warchest to weather short term losses is not a very well run business. But sure, blame everybody else.
Because there's no Farm Stone.
Can I be like you when I grow stupid?
By that logic you should never prepare for anything and just wing it all the time. You plan to do everything you can within your control.
Every department at MMed is taking this very seriously. Even units that are "offsite" and not on hospital grounds are piloting what life will look like when we inevitably are all working from home for a month. Been asking employees to self-quarantine after international travel for about a month now. Domestic travel will be coming soon, I suspect.
This is why the public "outcry" for people to be as responsible as possible is important. No health system in the country will be able to handle the situation of all the Maga idiots running around intentionally spreading the disease because the president told them to go to work with a fever. We need it to spread as slowly as possible.
Well this reeks of an 80 year old donor "suggesting" a hire.
Will always remember this commercial:
Cut cord in 2014. Have tried several things:
Of all those options, YoutubeTV on either a Roku or an Apple TV is by far the best for watching TV including sports. PS Vue and DirecTV Now always seemed to have horrible pixelation and lag issues when watching popular events. Almost like their CDN couldn't handle that many people watching the streams. YoutubeTV does not have that issue because they're backed by the Google Money fountain. Very rarely does the picture quality drop significantly enough to look "bad" on a 65" 4k display.
YoutubeTV is so good that I've manged to convince my extremely non-technical mother to switch to it, as well as my semi-technical father-in-law.
Highly recommend having at least 40-50 mbps down to handle multiple streams + routine internet usage + all the other 8,000 devices that are IOT enabled in homes these days.
It's also nice that I can log in to it at work when there are day games to check in on. I mean, I've never done that.
BIGGEST WORD OF CAUTION: The YoutubeTV streams are about 30 seconds behind. You will have things spoiled if you're constantly refreshing Twitter during a game.
One awesome cordcutting thing: ESPN app on AppleTV can show 4 games at once in a 2x2 grid.
Sliders is a sci-fi show that I'm kind of surprised hasn't been attempted to be reincarnated on Netflix. The first couple seasons of that were great.
Also, Netflix, bring back the Highlander. It is time.
Throw all the moneys at Mark Few.
I bet I can guess at least one hat that you own.
This offensive game plan rivals the 2011 MSU Lizard Brain Trash Tornado for worst I've ever seen in a rivalry game.
The Mel Pearson route.
Anybody else seeing some similarities between Rudock '15 and Patterson '18? Both late transfers, having to pick up the whole system in 1 summer. Some early struggles. Etc.
If it continues, Shea will be turning it on in the next game or two.
My Kingdom for some UM branded Jordan 6's.
My Kingdom for some UMich Jordan 6's.
Man, these idiots sure like to take apples and compare them to oranges. Call me when a player ends up in the hospital because his team didn't know the other team's 2-deep.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Odds are there's got to be at least one who isn't a batshit crazy high maintenance drama queen.
We block out on that FT Oreb, and we probably win. :( Tough to swallow.