Austin Hatch: One in 11,560,000,000,000,000

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Great Austin Hatch story from mgoblue.com: LINK

"He's like a father figure to me," Hatch said of Beilein. "I've lost that, and he's a lot like my father in terms of the quality man he is and how solid he is in character, goals and integrity. He's a family man who genuinely cares about people. So, it's really been a blessing for me to be involved in a program that's led by a man like him."
"Not only is he a father figure to me and all my brothers. And by 'my brothers,' I'm referring to my teammates. He does everything the right way -- he doesn't ever sacrifice honesty or integrity. The man is truly one of a kind." That comment made Hatch think of his own father, a doctor who always made time for him and loved family deeply, and a question he was asked about his father in an ESPN feature that aired Feb. 8.
"Chris Connelly asked me, 'Were you ever angry at your father?' I said, 'Never, never. My father was the man of the millennium.' In terms of how genuinely caring and solid as Coach Beilein is, Coach Beilein's right there with him. I've been very blessed to have such great men in my life."

Is somebody cutting onions in here?

EDIT: Austin's name now in the title, because LongLiveBo asked so nicely.
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gjking

April 3rd, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^

Interesting that an MIT statistician would forget about the principle of statistical independence.  These events are correlated, you cannot simply multiply the probabilities together.

 

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ndscott50

April 3rd, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^

Starts with the one in 3.5 million number.  Individuals who never fly are being counted there.  General aviation has a very high accident rate relative to other forms of travel.  The odds of someone being in two small plane crashes are still really low but not that low. Google tells us the following:

Car travel has 0.588 fatalities per million hours driven

Airline travel has 1.6 fatalities per million hours flown

General aviation has 11.2 fatalities per million hours flown

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MichiganMAN47

April 3rd, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^

I really hope he decides to write that book. I'd be first in line to read it, and hopefully get it signed. Austin deserves all of the praise and encouragement in the world. Hopefully he can regain his former skills with time and coaching. After what he has been through, and how far he has come, I would not count out Austin to get significant PT by the time he is a 5th year. That is a lot of time to spend with some of the best basketball coaches in the world.  It will be an awesome day when Austin drains a three in Crisler- and I do believe that will happen before he is done. 

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