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An Elton John song in the background of this posting

Great hospital; have a number of personal connections.

For 2013, only the last 30 entries out of 1511 show a negative 30 year ROI.  There are 1481 with a positive ROI which represents probably 700-1000 schools (since schools are listed twice for in-state and out-of-state tuition).  Even the 2012 data has many more than 150 entries or 150 schools with positive ROI, including my alma mater down below the half-way point in the list.

YMMV, but all these analyses are based on medians.  Be exceptional.  Enjoy life.  And you may end up with returns well beyond these, or benefits that are more than financial.

Kansas City Super Bowl Blackmail Trick. Then let some other city have a Super Bowl without having to cave (outdoors at a northern city)

beat me to it.  The other, other football.  Loved that episode.

And since when did the Rose Bowl host rugby matches?

are not in the Big Ten (yet)

weight.

And they have none with some members of this board, and some with others.  But, no politics, religion, tolerance, intolerance, opinions, real life, on this board, etc. etc.

The B1G East wasn't going to be playing football anymore.

Lenovo and HP laptops at work. With my own money, only Macs. For the OP and either simple or complex video editing a MBP would seem the better choice. Don't forget educational or corporate discounts, if they apply. Haven't paid full price for a Mac in over 20 years (yes my first one was the 2nd model to come out). Highly recommend AppleCare on laptops due to extra abuse they get moving around. Unibody case though will eliminate many previous issues that the plastic cases had. Productively getting 7 years plus out of the Macs. Knowing how much the support desk is called at work for the Windows PCs I use, and the 4 or 5 year refresh, seems like better TCO for the Macs. And I can still open a Unix shell window if I need to.



For consumer cameras, I've had so-so luck with Sony. But I've certainly gotten used to the interface. Make sure to get HD in this day and age.

AL Central!

Rutgers policy on no-shows.

• Students are limited in the number of times per season and the total number of times while enrolled as students that they can be a no-show for games.
• Students who accumulate two (2) no-shows in one football season will be ineligible to claim tickets for the remainder of the season.
• Students who accumulate five (5) total no-shows in football while enrolled as a student will be ineligible to claim tickets for the remainder of their time as students.

Doesn't quite address re-selling seats of late people and maybe relegating them to SRO (found this one while trying to search the web for anyone implementing such a system), but still...you're getting to buy season tix at a discount vs. those a few sections away, just GA now.

How he grew and shrunk from one paragraph to the next. No matter, welcome to a big TE.

What would the Big East have done?

Found an article from a couple years back where Pitino was complaining about the Big East scheduling and proposing 2 divisions once TCU joins the Big East to bring them to 17 basketball schools.  One of his divisions was fairly accurate, albeit split off to an entirely "new" conference:

Eastern Division
Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall, Providence, Notre Dame, and South Florida.

Western Division
Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincinnati, TCU, Rutgers and UConn.

In less than 2 years, they ended up with essentially 2 divisions, except as two conferences they get two automatic qualifiers:

The New Big East (The Catholic 7 plus others):

From the Pitino Eastern Division:
Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall, Providence 
From the A10:
Butler, Xavier
From the Missouri Valley:
Creighton

The AAC () Basketball members, although Pitino's own school and Rutgers leave after the league's first year:

From the Pitino Western Division:
Cincinnati, UConn (Louisville to ACC, Rutgers to B1G in 2014)
From the Pitino Eastern Division:
South Florida
From C-USA:
UCF, SMU, Houston, Memphis, and in 2014: Tulsa, East Carolina, Tulane
From the A10:
Temple

And who scrammed, or will scram, from Pitino's divisions?

Gone From Pitino Western DIvision:
Notre Dame (ACC)
Gone or Going Soon from Pitino Eastern Division:
Syracuse (ACC), Pittsburgh (ACC), Louisville (ACC in 2014), WVU (Big XII), TCU (MWC, never joined Big East and went to Big XII instead), Rutgers (B1G in 2014)

It's all Pitino's fault.

Husky helmet unless it has two perky ears sticking up.

from Cats?

female soccer players kick balls at players' heads.

for a fellow late night stats person

Roll is Spike's favorite? A Pickle Roll?

U of Md bus rolling thru central Ohio last week. On the back it says "Fear the Turtle." Uh sorry, no.

repeats my comment of the other day that the RU president is learning from the E Gordon Gee school of public speaking.  Since he doesn't know how to walk home, he also better watch out where he parks his car.  He needs to go, but I'd be shocked if it happens.

with E Gordon...

down.  First Siskel, now Ebert.

Close the balcony.

Titanic...

The American Athletic Conference will be the third Division I conference with a variation of America or American in its name. The others: America East and Mid-American. There's also Conference USA, which, ironically, is the league where nine of the 12 teams in the American Athletic Conference came from.

Not sure I'd call it irony.  More like sad.  Since Louisville has one year in AAC before going to ACC, it's actually 7 of initial 10 are f-CUSA, 9 of the 11 in 2014, 9 of 12 in 2015, and 10 of the 14 "all-time" AAC members will be former C-USA members.

From the schools that founded C-USA in 1995, only 2 are staying on (Southern Miss and UAB) and 1 is coming back (Charlotte).  From the 12 in C-USA in 2012, 7 will end up in AAC.  And, as you note, to make up for that gaping hole, 5 Sun Belt schools move to C-USA over the next couple years.  As WAC football evaporates, those schools scramble to Sub Belt, C-USA, and MWC.  Add in FBS schools moving up like Old Dominion, and it's such a lovely picture of quality.

like I grew up watching in Iowa.

includes

• Is average household broadband penetration greater than 70% in your community?
• Do 40% or more of your residents have a graduate, undergraduate, community college or technical school degree?
• Is the average student-to-PC ratio in elementary and secondary schools less than 4-to-1 (e.g., 3-to-1)?
• Is there a community college, undergraduate or graduate institution in your community or within commuting distance for residents?
• Does your municipal Web site offer interactive and transactional capabilities?
• Is the Internet - at any speed - available to at least 80% of households in your community?
• Does your community offer free training in digital skills to adults?
• Does your community have a documented strategy for economic & social development involving information and communications technology?

Sad Gata can be the constant reminder of Michigan succeeding where osu double failed in 2007.  Came up today chatting at the office.  Need to pair Sad Gata with Sad Tebow.

sibs...

Iron County!

Per a company press release, the same company made the reusable floors used in the first, second, and third rounds (the NCAA stores them away each year and has the ends updated with the host school name)

Capital One talking back to her on the twitterz...with a commercial

and then stupid fouls.  They need half time to get their heads back on.

34th in the country, 46%.  So, they're shooting half their normal clip tonight.  Awful.

Caris Lavert should have done the same thing in the Wisconsin game.  As long as you don't get a flagrant foul, you exchange 2 free throws for a possible 3 point shot (if you foul before he shoots).

New excel plugin on the iPhone app. So not a complete success.

heading for the exits.  See ya Crean.

And the Attack of the Blue Daleks...

never saw a game...(ok, was a grad student and a commuter, but still). 

Quit messing up the nice beaches, though.

/s

kinda like the WKU game for Kansas

Kansas was really looking off in their first game against WKU, so if that continues they could be beatable.

at neutral sites and counting...

who gets out of state tuition to Michigan, plus room and board, (do they get money for books??), it's pushing nearly a quarter of a million dollars, especially if the student athlete gets a redshirt year.  This does not include the value of any of the intangible benefits of coaching, TV exposure, strength and conditioning, training table, preparation for NFL, Pro Days, etc. 

Those are each possibilities, but not the only possibilities, due to the possible results of other games.

Win out, share the BTT and either a 2, 3, or 4 seed.

Lose one of the remaining, and get a 3, 4, or 5 seed.

Lose both, get a 5 seed.

couldn't have scripted it better.

was actually established by King Gustav of Sweden in the Swedish Empire

/svenskanerd

Only one avoiding taxes by following this thread. At least it's not the combo of the two inevitables you're dealing with...

Common Man and Company. Big homer Tbone is the "company"

should look at the MWC for division naming sense. Go to 20 teams and have a Big Division and a Ten Division!



/s

Canes sauce.



And watch out for those @ZipsBallaPlayas - longest winning streak in Div I!

Alou-ing.

and from the logo on his shirt, I see that Zach can start right away as they've also got a lawncare division.

79-71. Zeller back to his chilly ways.

an early bloomer or a late bloomer.

Ads for fertilizer and soybeans, the Purdue radio crew were saying that Michigan ended with just enough to beat the Vegas 14.5 line. I also enjoyed their recap of the three keys of the game and noting how Purdue failed at them - the one I remember was they needed to keep Michigan and especially Trey out of the paint where he can dish out assists.

By a jealous former equipment manager.

And it did have an effect. And he has a weird affect.

San Antonio would be great.

But Prague would be amazing (except for the small detail of the weather).  And talk about a Big House!

Who don't say "to be" - "The floor needs swept." Argh..

Cbus sports talk guys were ranking osu's opponents next year.  They had Michigan #2 and SDSU #1.  Wonder what they think now?  They do have quite the creampuff schedule, sad really (non-conf: Buffalo, SDSU, at Cal, Florida A&M, which BTW is on probation from an accrediting agency; Legends: at Michigan, at Northwestern, Iowa).

For suggestions of what to do to the couch.

on CBS?

/firstgibbsslap

When he actually might lose a game, get over stressed, and break his contract with his family? Serenity Now!

And three years out

For making all the good jokes.



Hey Sacramento, give Rochester no scratch that give Cincy back the Royals name no wait you don't have that name give Omaha back the Kings name no wait give KC back aw never mind. What a trail of futility (signed an aggravated KC-Omaha fan).

Experience it in person. Jake Butt had huge catch to keep final drive going. Team was crushed that the wildcat play didn't work at the end. Ticket takers thought I was at the wrong gate with family's maize/blue and block M gear. Losing 26-21 twice in a day...argh

Today. Crazy wind from the west. Trash tornado as I drive around town. Could be interesting if it lasts until tomorrow.

No religion!

also working with the Maroons to get up from Division III and bring the Monsters of the Midway back?  They have a stadium with a capacity of 1650.

Indiana plays Missouri

and look like famous people.

Red and chrome stripes like the Stillers.

in name at least, San Diego State will be in a BCS conference next year (in the Big East along with Boise State, Houston, Memphis, UCF, and SMU).

holding the sharp plywood corners right next to her (lucky)...while he probably got an epic shot of her taking the hit.

and I cannot rapidly edit the rabid posting

And for the program. Here's hoping for another title run.

Mutual of Omaha's *Wild Kingdom* - just need Marlin Perkins narrating it as the words appear...

I would suggest no fasting - leave that to the Coach.

Sets up rematch with Jake Butt's Pick North team in first round of Div. I playoffs, this time at North (Sat. night).

No sails...love the commentary

an alter ego league - it would be an ego league

42-21 Michigan

256 rushing yards

42-24 Michigan

Why??....http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Butz#section_4

The replay and we should've got 11 seconds back on the clock for the stop for a first down.

miss it miss it miss it miss it miss it miss it

to last week's barely-win, if osu loses this week with yet another turrible defensive performance, added to a mediocre offensive performance, there should be some good TWIS fodder.

Michigan 33, Staee 6

getting back at Gee for their elimination?  But then, what did Northwestern do to Vandy, other than beating them by 10 earlier this season ESSSS EEEEE SEEEEE!!!

256 yards rushing

on the cbssports site - right above the 4 schools in the Penalty box is the worst team in FBS, UMass.  We've lost to #1 and #5, but our wins are over #66, #84, #94, and #120.

In game. Pardon me ma'am.

Keep up the good work.

Herbie and Spielman when they both put on their Scarlet colored glasses here on cbus sports radio, they see Michigan as about the third best team in the division. This prediction is no surprise.

with Hoke at the game; quite the personable guy. He spent the first half with Montgomery in front of the Pick North Marching Band at south end of field.

mural of Cats? I must've missed that.

Jim Tressel told me my Big House hat at least had the right colors last week...

ND 17 . yes .

Akron, right?



Oops sorry wrong thread.

UM 38 AF 17

UM 59 UMass 3

here

At Michigan ... three-year varsity letterman ... appeared in 38 career games; made 27 starts, 26 at quarterback and one at running back ...

I'd give the article a 5 out of 10 - some good points and some lesser ones.

Northwestern; I had told Ace to watch out for Godwin a year ago.  He had another blowout game in the opener Friday night (wasn't there, but think he had some of the top rushing stats for central Ohio - 4 TDs, 260 yards rushing, plus 40 yards receiving in the 50-22 win).  Before the game, nice article and picture of Jake and Godwin here.

In related Picktown recruit news, the local "This Week" paper had a big article in their season preview insert on "Michigan Taking a Bite of Central Ohio Talent" and featured Taco (and teammate) on the cover: