Unverified Voracity Wishes It Was Rocky And Arid

Is it possible that the two year break is scheduled in an effort to get Notre Dame as a road game in odd numbered seasons instead of even numbered seasons, which means you would, under the current schedule, pair Ohio State and Penn State, and then you would pair Michigan State and Notre Dame, both offering attractive options for ticket buyers?

Then again, the Penn State conundrum came about because Penn State went off the schedule in cycle 6 of 6 of the Big Ten's rotation and then was slated into the home games in odd years run beginning in 2005, so in 2015, theoretically, we might see a switchback to the old system. That said, this all becomes moot if Big Ten expansion messes with the schedule.

Just as a fr' instance: For 2007-08, Alabama gets over 22% of its income or support from "Other." Michigan gets just over 2% from "Other."

Just to give some meaning to those percentages: Michigan's 2% came to just under $2.6 million.

Alabama's 22% came to over $27 Million.

Just what in the hell is "Other" at Alabama?

Interesting to note Draymond Green at #3. Though I'm not a fan of State, I like this kid. Lucious hit the shot against Maryland, but IIRC, Green hit the clutch jumper on the prior possession, and he was the one who took the ball to the other end with time winding down and hit Lucious for the winner. The big doughy guy with a nice smile can play.

No sign of any other Michigan player in the Top 50. No surprise, I guess. C'mon back, Manny, for a shot cracking the top 5.

Are kind of awesome.

I vote to add them to our tracking over the course of next year to give a bit of a contrast to the KenPom ratings - which are generally very good as well, but seem to be more accurate for team-wide analyses.

Nice find.

Also, DeMarcus Cousins... WOW! They always talk about his "adjusted 40-minute #s" being out of this world - guess this sort of speaks to that.

It appears that the PER doesn't use FGM in any of its calculations. The player gets credit for FGA so this seems like a number calculating how involved a person is in the offense with extra credit for getting rebounds and a penalty for turnovers. I think anyone who watched a Michigan game this year can tell you that pretty much every play ran through Harris and Sims so these calculations are not a surprise except for Gibson being that high.

noone else in the top 50? And we finished 7th in the Big 10 standings. Does that mean that the others (Stu, Zach, DM and LLP) were the ones bringing us down?

to get you in the [subjunctive] mood?

Eastern's numbers make me continue to question the wisdom of those lower tier schools continuing to field D-1A football teams. Maybe it's a pride thing, but I suspect that states are going to get more serious about whether they need to use their increasingly scarce tax revenues to field college football teams at the top levels. It's not like Eastern has ever been a great team or had a large following.

Also, is it safe to assume that the $20 million in conference distributions include the Big 10's TV deals? It seems like the only logical way Michigan only earned $2 million from broadcasting.

now. A loss would further propel a lot of media crap at the team.

...so it would be "...wishes it were rocky and arid," right?

Please don't hate me; I'm currently in John Rubadeau's English 425 class and I'm programmed to do this every Tuesday and Thursday

Does that mean that those four schools do not employ any work-study students? Or do they just interpret the reporting requirement differently?

If it's the latter, it's just one more example (out of 413,782 and counting) that reporting tends to be complex and open to interpretation--and that makes comparing institutions (on almost any metric) more difficult.

totally depends on their QB. The underclassman Endres is pretty good. The ND transfer Frazer is HORRIBLE, but their coach loves him because of seniority.

With the thrill of the unexpected, though, comes the unavoidable tradeoff of a certain kind of justice for obviously superior teams -- such as, say, Kansas, which defeated rival Kansas State three times en route to the Big 12's regular season and tournament championships, only to watch the Wildcats move closer to the national championship because their inexplicable lapse against an inferior opponent came at a more convenient time in the season -- whose otherwise brilliant campaigns can go up in a blink. (The classic football example is the 2007 Patriots, arguably the greatest team in NFL history, whose perfect season was extinguished by a six-loss team that not only lost to New England in the regular season but finished three full games behind the champion of its own division.) For all the BCS' faults, producing an "unworthy" champion has never been one of them, as opposed to the occasional Villanova, N.C. State and Arizona in the basketball tournament; the Series' sins have always been at the opposite end, of leaving obviously worthy contenders out of the mix rather than letting stragglers in.

Seems he's making the same point that I was making after the Kansas loss...that the Tournament as it is situated is as exciting as all get out, but not the fairest way to determine a championship...something any playoff should consider (and though it wasn't the point of the previous topic, one I think Brian's system takes into account).

I'm just glad one of their running backs left. Now we only have to worry about one good running back, not having to face two.