Stop be contrarian just to be so. He clearly meant a hot desert vs a cold desert. Between AZ and SLC, there's a clear distinction that one is tailored towards winter sports.
What am I missing? It's showing Harbaugh in 3rd at 10,333 votes. FSU's Mike Norvell in first at 45,001 votes. Doesn't seem the gap can be closed in a day.
Pretty sure the ad for Draft Kings is a YOU specific thing. User specific, that is. So not so surprising or ironic. FYI, mine was a donation ad for aid to Ukraine.
As you said, the "blue out" will not pop out. It's been done before. Early to mid 2000's was one time we tried it. It just looked like a normal stadium crowd, just a little darker. The problem is people will wear other articles of clothing too so you end up seeing yellows, reds, and other small things stand out amongst the darker blue. It just looked sloppy IIRC. And don't get me started if it rains or is cold. Not everyone will bring a dark blue rain jacket or extra warm coat b/c they simply don't own one.
Best bet is to try a "blue out" but also hand out blue pom-poms, if you want the desired color.
Although, I think a 'blue out" with maize pom-poms just might be more striking. People can keep them at their laps or feet and on big plays whip out the maize pom-poms and drastically change the color of the stadium. Maybe it's cooler looking in my head, I don't know.
When I try to pull up the compare team tool, it only shows me a pulldown menu of Team 1, not Team 2. Team 2 shows up as two blank white cells. Not sure if others are having that issue. Tried on both Firefox and Chrome on PC.
(edit: yup, as the people above me mentioned; Also, thanks Seth for your hard work and commitment)
Bill Connolly's chart is lacking in a lot of information. Is this 1 game info? 2 games? season? Clearly not season b/c McN hit a 76 yard bomb to Bell vs W Michigan (40 yards in the air).
Well, the comments on the poll only started today on 11W, suggesting it was posted late last night or this morning. So this "rumor" that a UM players cut this graphic out and pasted it onto his locker for motivation seems a bit too quick to believe it's true.
Portland, where I'm at currently, is registering 287 on the Air Quality Index. So we're just shy of Hazardous. Greeeeat. And to think, I didn't think things could get much worse
Seriously, has no one ever seen a pool tarp before? Clearly it's winter/early-spring as there are no leaves on the tree, so thus the pool has been 'winterized'. Typically you drain the pool during the winter below the pipes and add a tarp over it to keep the debris out, which you can clearly see in the picture.
The daily death/day rate in April was also declining. In August our death/day rate is climbing or at best stable. That is not progress. I can source that too. Would you like me to?
Stay at home wasn't extended but banning of more congested areas was...
The state of emergency gives Whitmer the authority to issue executive orders related to coronavirus, such as a stay-at-home order which is in effect until May 15. On Thursday night, Whitmer also signed an executive order keeping bars, gyms, casinos and theaters closed and only allowing restaurants to do delivery or takeout service through May 28.
By the time fall is here, I'm betting most sports teams will have had the plasma of already infected people be used to immunize the athletes. As for the fans though, I'm betting we see some empty stadiums and arenas for at least another year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't we be playing this like an alternate version of Risk; meaning the best places to start are S. American and Australia b/c you can create choke points.
So looking at the map and our position, wouldn't it be best to take all of California, then defend territories of S. Oregon, N. Nevada, S. Nevada, and W. Arizona. Only 4 territories to defend a big chunk of land.
And I'm surprised of the older generation's broad-brush generalization of the "Millennial" generation though. Millennials at the moment comprise of people aged 24-39. They are young professionals and people with young families now. The media wants to depict them as the young generation ignoring social distancing, yet they are clearly talking mostly about GenZ'ers (or college age young adults). Heck, even the OP here completely skipped the 35-39 year olds.
Discovery Channel's 'Expedition Unknown' with Josh Gates. It's not a documentary series, but I'll direct you to several episodes that are documentary in style:
Season 7 Episode 4, 'Mystery of Dead Mountain' - Braving the sub-zero conditions of Sibera, Josh Gates investigates one of the strangest and most brutal cold cases: the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously. Sixty year later, no one knows how or why. Continued with Episode 5, 'Siberia's Coldest Case'.
I'd also recommend the treasure hunt episodes regarding 'The Secret', which are pretty neat. In fact, only 3 of the 12 treasures have been found, so if you live in NYC, San Franscisco, Milwaukee, Houston, Charleston, etc. you can go look for them right now if you can crack the code.
Season 5, Episode 4 "The Secret" - Josh travels all over the US to find the treasures featured in The Secret, a cryptic book published in the 1980s
Season 7, Episode 9 "Cracking the Secret" - Josh Gates is on a nation-wide treasure hunt to solve a mystery no one has cracked for 40 years: The Secret. Josh travels coast-to-coast and back in time using cutting edge augmented reality and tapping into a network of obsessed Secret detectives.
Season 7, Episode 12 "The Secret Solved" - Breaking news sends Josh Gates racing across the globe. One of the wickedly hard puzzles of The Secret, which Josh has been chasing for years, might have been solved. He's been crisscrossing the US, but this solution is in Josh's hometown.
I trust Johns Hopkins. JH said in late 2019, our Government was more prepared for this than anyone else, PERIOD.
Yeah, and I read that report too. It was how prepared we were based on background factors like wealth, government transparency, etc. So yeah, we WERE prepared. But there's a huge difference in being ABLE AND PREPARED to respond to a pandemic than the ACTUAL RESPONSE to a pandemic. In that case, we failed. Failed hard. Testing was the way to go. Test nearly everyone. We did not do this.
I took a job as a substitute teacher this past year because my family is about to relocate across country and I didn't want anything permanent. If schools start up again in 3 weeks, I will most likely just quit. It's just not worth it. I get sick about every other week just from normal school germs, so with COVID-19 I'm damn sure I'd get it if I went back.
I think you need to see it from a different perspective. The traditional flu kills roughly 0.1% of the people it infects. The coronavirus kills at an approximate rate of 1%. That's a factor of ten, and about the equivalent of the 1918 Spanish Flu.
If the coronavirus infects on average the same number of people worldwide as the flu does (30m-50m), then that's 300k-500k deaths. And that's with developed countries that have vaccinations against the flu in place. We have no protection against the coronavirus yet.
So belittle it now, but this could very well turn into a nightmare.
I'm afraid the misuse of myriad over the years has in fact made it both a noun and adjective. So sayeth Webster's Dictionary. So I'll go ahead and take that high horse from you. Or if you're just pointing out it should be an adj and will only ever ben an adj, then I think the response of 'ok, boomer' or Clint Eastwood's 'get off my lawm' meme is warranted.
Yeah, even ESPN is inconsistent here. From their scores page, line MICH -1, but if you click on their gamecast it lists IL -1.5. <shrug>. Guess we'll just go with toss-up.
2. Scrap divisions and just require every conference to play 10 conference games since they've gotten so big.
You mean pushing everyone to be like the Big 12, but without a conference championship game? So go back to 2016 Big 12, but for everyone. Yeah, no thanks.
Their fans also seem to be talking a lot of crap about us on the message boards. A few of them are worried, but the majority seem to think we're not worthy of our ranking. LINK.
I'm not sure we were reading the same comments. Outside of one or two comments most didn't trash us. Now if you said you saw that was on Twitter, I wouldn't hesitate to agree with you. Twitter is a cesspool.
The multiple calls for a Shea Patterson concussion and hoping Ruiz's injury was a torn ACL are despicable. Wherever you got that list from, those are some of worst people on the planet.
Awkward hearing him mention his players as 'kids' only to quickly correct himself to say 'guys'. I'm really worried it'll be hard to remove the 'college' from Beilein.
Think you missed the point. If he sits out, he can transfer and start next season without sitting a year (b/c he's only played 4 games this year so far).
Doctor is suing for $50k because he was pressured to not say anything and violated his right as a whistleblower? i mean, he could still report it..... and he chose not to.
Not sure why the courts would feel he needed to be awarded damages. If anything, the injured players should be the beneficiaries of the lawsuit, not him.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, he has no TV reception but has satellite internet? So presumably he could have satellite TV as well? What am I missing? Now if it's a cost thing, that's a different thing all together that you didn't mention.
Just want to point out from a patent lawyers viewpoint. They are not trying to trademark the word 'the' as the headlines suggest. They are trying to trademark the entire phrase "the Ohio State University". Completely different things. Even if it doesn't go through, they may try to trademark it with a stylized font or something, which would be more likely to be approved.
Don't forget, they also tried to trademark 'OSU' a few years back. But Oklahoma State took offense and they settled into some kind of agreement where both schools were part of the trademark. Apparently Oregon State University did not care, or were oblivious (likely did not care, b/c Oregon State a few years ago tried to drop the OSU tag and just be OS because they kept getting confused with the other OSUs)
Funny that the 11W response to this is that Harbaugh is a POS for not doing what is in the "best interest of the player". Which I'm assuming is to say or do whatever he can to get the player eligible immediately, even if that includes making something up. Shows you how warped their minds are if they think the right thing to do is to lie to the NCAA as Fickell wanted.
Can't speak for 11W's content myself, but I definitely prefer the MgoBlog's mantra of quality over quantity. I am happy Brian & Co. don't subscribe to the Freep/ESPN/etc. model of publishing a daily (or more) article just for the clicks. I read enough mindless fluff articles, I definitely don't need more.
Besides, it's technically still the off season. Chill. No site garners more detailed analysis during the season than this site. It's unbelievable how much breakdown of the actual games in additional to the other content we get.
Perhaps a bad (unpopular) take on my part, but .... Clemson put 44 on Bama. Purdue put 49 on tOSU. etc. Not putting 40+ points on someone should be considered a poor offensive performance. No excuse to not score in this day and age with the rules as they are favoring offensive possessions.
There's a good article here from CNET about distance and optimization for watching 1080 vs 4k. Essentially, if you have a 65" to 80" TV, you'd need to sit closer than 7-10ft to the TV to see any difference.
The California OT system is inherently flawed. It punishes run-heavy or option teams in favor of pass-heavy vertical teams. Do not like. Games shouldn't punish the Georgia Techs and service academies of college football.
Very underwhelmed by the article linked by the OP. Doesn't even give the researchers names or link their research. So with a little searching, here you go:
Market demand, you were willing to pay it so he charges that price. Stop going and prices will fall. Honestly, it's a premium name (arguably), so you get charged a premium price. I mean, I got standing front row for Modest Mouse at the Fillmore and it was only $50. So seems Phil & company are just catering to the suckers out there.
All of my Spartan fans hang their laurels on the fact that that they WON the Big Ten last year. They didn't care if I brought up Michigan beat them TWICE, won the Big Ten Tournament, and we were runner-ups in the National Title Game. They didn't give a lick about that. Only the Big Ten Title. So yeah, it does kind of matter.
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Stop be contrarian just to be so. He clearly meant a hot desert vs a cold desert. Between AZ and SLC, there's a clear distinction that one is tailored towards winter sports.
What am I missing? It's showing Harbaugh in 3rd at 10,333 votes. FSU's Mike Norvell in first at 45,001 votes. Doesn't seem the gap can be closed in a day.
Pretty sure the ad for Draft Kings is a YOU specific thing. User specific, that is. So not so surprising or ironic. FYI, mine was a donation ad for aid to Ukraine.
As you said, the "blue out" will not pop out. It's been done before. Early to mid 2000's was one time we tried it. It just looked like a normal stadium crowd, just a little darker. The problem is people will wear other articles of clothing too so you end up seeing yellows, reds, and other small things stand out amongst the darker blue. It just looked sloppy IIRC. And don't get me started if it rains or is cold. Not everyone will bring a dark blue rain jacket or extra warm coat b/c they simply don't own one.
Best bet is to try a "blue out" but also hand out blue pom-poms, if you want the desired color.
Although, I think a 'blue out" with maize pom-poms just might be more striking. People can keep them at their laps or feet and on big plays whip out the maize pom-poms and drastically change the color of the stadium. Maybe it's cooler looking in my head, I don't know.
Thought his 1st sack was an intentional grounding on their 2nd drive.
Anyway, looks like it was a run of 1/2 yard, but us Lions fans will take it
My wife, also a registered patent attorney, thought it was more asinine that it wasn't restricted to OSU colors.
When I try to pull up the compare team tool, it only shows me a pulldown menu of Team 1, not Team 2. Team 2 shows up as two blank white cells. Not sure if others are having that issue. Tried on both Firefox and Chrome on PC.
(edit: yup, as the people above me mentioned; Also, thanks Seth for your hard work and commitment)
Notre Dame is likely looking at the portal for QBs. My bet is he ends up there.
Bill Connolly's chart is lacking in a lot of information. Is this 1 game info? 2 games? season? Clearly not season b/c McN hit a 76 yard bomb to Bell vs W Michigan (40 yards in the air).
https://gfycat.com/dimpledeleganteeve-ronnie-bell-slot-fade-2021-wmu
Oh? Well I'm an idiot if that's what it means. Totally misread that. Clearly I need to lay off the morning bloody Mary's
Outrage!! Did anyone else look at the highest/lowest vote?
Michigan's lowest ranking is NR!!!!!
6-0 Michigan is not even in one of the coaches top 25. Same goes for MSU and Kentucky. Clearly coaches out there with an axe to grind.
This poll is totally invalid and explains some of these wanky standings.
Well, the comments on the poll only started today on 11W, suggesting it was posted late last night or this morning. So this "rumor" that a UM players cut this graphic out and pasted it onto his locker for motivation seems a bit too quick to believe it's true.
Portland, where I'm at currently, is registering 287 on the Air Quality Index. So we're just shy of Hazardous. Greeeeat. And to think, I didn't think things could get much worse
Seriously, has no one ever seen a pool tarp before? Clearly it's winter/early-spring as there are no leaves on the tree, so thus the pool has been 'winterized'. Typically you drain the pool during the winter below the pipes and add a tarp over it to keep the debris out, which you can clearly see in the picture.
Findlay Ohio north of Cinci is "Flag City USA". Could have argued that, if not for the long beg-for-forgiveness speech.
The daily death/day rate in April was also declining. In August our death/day rate is climbing or at best stable. That is not progress. I can source that too. Would you like me to?
Stay at home wasn't extended but banning of more congested areas was...
By the time fall is here, I'm betting most sports teams will have had the plasma of already infected people be used to immunize the athletes. As for the fans though, I'm betting we see some empty stadiums and arenas for at least another year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't we be playing this like an alternate version of Risk; meaning the best places to start are S. American and Australia b/c you can create choke points.
So looking at the map and our position, wouldn't it be best to take all of California, then defend territories of S. Oregon, N. Nevada, S. Nevada, and W. Arizona. Only 4 territories to defend a big chunk of land.
And I'm surprised of the older generation's broad-brush generalization of the "Millennial" generation though. Millennials at the moment comprise of people aged 24-39. They are young professionals and people with young families now. The media wants to depict them as the young generation ignoring social distancing, yet they are clearly talking mostly about GenZ'ers (or college age young adults). Heck, even the OP here completely skipped the 35-39 year olds.
Discovery Channel's 'Expedition Unknown' with Josh Gates. It's not a documentary series, but I'll direct you to several episodes that are documentary in style:
Season 7 Episode 4, 'Mystery of Dead Mountain' - Braving the sub-zero conditions of Sibera, Josh Gates investigates one of the strangest and most brutal cold cases: the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously. Sixty year later, no one knows how or why. Continued with Episode 5, 'Siberia's Coldest Case'.
I'd also recommend the treasure hunt episodes regarding 'The Secret', which are pretty neat. In fact, only 3 of the 12 treasures have been found, so if you live in NYC, San Franscisco, Milwaukee, Houston, Charleston, etc. you can go look for them right now if you can crack the code.
Season 5, Episode 4 "The Secret" - Josh travels all over the US to find the treasures featured in The Secret, a cryptic book published in the 1980s
Season 7, Episode 9 "Cracking the Secret" - Josh Gates is on a nation-wide treasure hunt to solve a mystery no one has cracked for 40 years: The Secret. Josh travels coast-to-coast and back in time using cutting edge augmented reality and tapping into a network of obsessed Secret detectives.
Season 7, Episode 12 "The Secret Solved" - Breaking news sends Josh Gates racing across the globe. One of the wickedly hard puzzles of The Secret, which Josh has been chasing for years, might have been solved. He's been crisscrossing the US, but this solution is in Josh's hometown.
Yeah, and I read that report too. It was how prepared we were based on background factors like wealth, government transparency, etc. So yeah, we WERE prepared. But there's a huge difference in being ABLE AND PREPARED to respond to a pandemic than the ACTUAL RESPONSE to a pandemic. In that case, we failed. Failed hard. Testing was the way to go. Test nearly everyone. We did not do this.
I took a job as a substitute teacher this past year because my family is about to relocate across country and I didn't want anything permanent. If schools start up again in 3 weeks, I will most likely just quit. It's just not worth it. I get sick about every other week just from normal school germs, so with COVID-19 I'm damn sure I'd get it if I went back.
Buy some BRIO trains and tracks. My 2 year old plays with the constantly. And as a teacher, I'll be sitting out the next month drinking margaritas.
I think you need to see it from a different perspective. The traditional flu kills roughly 0.1% of the people it infects. The coronavirus kills at an approximate rate of 1%. That's a factor of ten, and about the equivalent of the 1918 Spanish Flu.
If the coronavirus infects on average the same number of people worldwide as the flu does (30m-50m), then that's 300k-500k deaths. And that's with developed countries that have vaccinations against the flu in place. We have no protection against the coronavirus yet.
So belittle it now, but this could very well turn into a nightmare.
I'm afraid the misuse of myriad over the years has in fact made it both a noun and adjective. So sayeth Webster's Dictionary. So I'll go ahead and take that high horse from you. Or if you're just pointing out it should be an adj and will only ever ben an adj, then I think the response of 'ok, boomer' or Clint Eastwood's 'get off my lawm' meme is warranted.
Yeah, even ESPN is inconsistent here. From their scores page, line MICH -1, but if you click on their gamecast it lists IL -1.5. <shrug>. Guess we'll just go with toss-up.
Worst idea ever. You don't hire a former coach to be on the staff of a new coach. Coach B made his decision; time to move on.
You mean pushing everyone to be like the Big 12, but without a conference championship game? So go back to 2016 Big 12, but for everyone. Yeah, no thanks.
I'm not sure we were reading the same comments. Outside of one or two comments most didn't trash us. Now if you said you saw that was on Twitter, I wouldn't hesitate to agree with you. Twitter is a cesspool.
It was kind of cringe-worthy to listen to but still nothing compares to the Valenti ND rant
The multiple calls for a Shea Patterson concussion and hoping Ruiz's injury was a torn ACL are despicable. Wherever you got that list from, those are some of worst people on the planet.
Awkward hearing him mention his players as 'kids' only to quickly correct himself to say 'guys'. I'm really worried it'll be hard to remove the 'college' from Beilein.
Think you missed the point. If he sits out, he can transfer and start next season without sitting a year (b/c he's only played 4 games this year so far).
Doctor is suing for $50k because he was pressured to not say anything and violated his right as a whistleblower? i mean, he could still report it..... and he chose not to.
Not sure why the courts would feel he needed to be awarded damages. If anything, the injured players should be the beneficiaries of the lawsuit, not him.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, he has no TV reception but has satellite internet? So presumably he could have satellite TV as well? What am I missing? Now if it's a cost thing, that's a different thing all together that you didn't mention.
Not only that, but to have that crappy of an offense and still have that good of defensive numbers is pretty tough to keep. They were legit.
Just want to point out from a patent lawyers viewpoint. They are not trying to trademark the word 'the' as the headlines suggest. They are trying to trademark the entire phrase "the Ohio State University". Completely different things. Even if it doesn't go through, they may try to trademark it with a stylized font or something, which would be more likely to be approved.
Don't forget, they also tried to trademark 'OSU' a few years back. But Oklahoma State took offense and they settled into some kind of agreement where both schools were part of the trademark. Apparently Oregon State University did not care, or were oblivious (likely did not care, b/c Oregon State a few years ago tried to drop the OSU tag and just be OS because they kept getting confused with the other OSUs)
Funny that the 11W response to this is that Harbaugh is a POS for not doing what is in the "best interest of the player". Which I'm assuming is to say or do whatever he can to get the player eligible immediately, even if that includes making something up. Shows you how warped their minds are if they think the right thing to do is to lie to the NCAA as Fickell wanted.
Can't speak for 11W's content myself, but I definitely prefer the MgoBlog's mantra of quality over quantity. I am happy Brian & Co. don't subscribe to the Freep/ESPN/etc. model of publishing a daily (or more) article just for the clicks. I read enough mindless fluff articles, I definitely don't need more.
Besides, it's technically still the off season. Chill. No site garners more detailed analysis during the season than this site. It's unbelievable how much breakdown of the actual games in additional to the other content we get.
Hate to break it to you but milk has a ton of sugar in it.
And not sure if the article addresses it because some people, like the OP, feel the need to link to articles behind subscriptions
Perhaps a bad (unpopular) take on my part, but .... Clemson put 44 on Bama. Purdue put 49 on tOSU. etc. Not putting 40+ points on someone should be considered a poor offensive performance. No excuse to not score in this day and age with the rules as they are favoring offensive possessions.
There's a good article here from CNET about distance and optimization for watching 1080 vs 4k. Essentially, if you have a 65" to 80" TV, you'd need to sit closer than 7-10ft to the TV to see any difference.
The California OT system is inherently flawed. It punishes run-heavy or option teams in favor of pass-heavy vertical teams. Do not like. Games shouldn't punish the Georgia Techs and service academies of college football.
Very underwhelmed by the article linked by the OP. Doesn't even give the researchers names or link their research. So with a little searching, here you go:
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwz043/5420749
She's a person doing her job. Absolutely no need to sexualize it.
Market demand, you were willing to pay it so he charges that price. Stop going and prices will fall. Honestly, it's a premium name (arguably), so you get charged a premium price. I mean, I got standing front row for Modest Mouse at the Fillmore and it was only $50. So seems Phil & company are just catering to the suckers out there.
All of my Spartan fans hang their laurels on the fact that that they WON the Big Ten last year. They didn't care if I brought up Michigan beat them TWICE, won the Big Ten Tournament, and we were runner-ups in the National Title Game. They didn't give a lick about that. Only the Big Ten Title. So yeah, it does kind of matter.
There is no such thing as airborne hpv (unless you count spread by vaporizing lasers in surgery). You know what, username checks out.
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The inconsistent use of designating a HOME game is killing my inner OCD. Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!