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Date	Title	Body
1 week 6 days ago	The point is that	they don't have to sign a NLI to get a scholarship.
3 weeks 4 days ago	That Brian Phillips CL Preview	is beyond amazing.  Everyone should read.
4 weeks 1 day ago	Really?	John Beilein has it for basketball.
4 weeks 1 day ago	All of the QBs you mention	have one thing in common: they're not pro-style QBs.  The Elite 11 is probably a pretty terrible judge of dual-threat QBs, but Speight's a pure pro-style guy, and there's no particular reason to think Dilfer's evaluation is way off, especially when it's backed up by most of the rankings.  Honestly, a lot of the complaints about Dilfer seem to boil down to nothing more than the fact that he didn't love a guy committed to Michigan (even though he didn't overly bash him either).
10 weeks 3 days ago	It was a block	but gets called a charge more than half the time.
10 weeks 6 days ago	The "benefit of the doubt" point	is where we disagree.  I have too much faith in the power of variance to think that two hires says much about anything.  You're ascribing the success of the hires to VCU's institutional advantages or Teague's process.  I think an equally valid explanation is "random luck."   I hope the hire works out for Minnesota, since I like their program and their fans.  But from here, it looks like a super-risky move.
10 weeks 6 days ago	Even if you're not throwing darts	the level of uncertainty in hiring a young, generally unproven guy is much higher than in hiring someone with a track record.  Maybe he's got unique insights, maybe he doesn't.  But two hires isn't a basis to draw a real conclusion.
10 weeks 6 days ago	The list of young coaches	with no real track record who became as good as Shaka Smart is much shorter than the list of young coaches with no real track record who did not.
10 weeks 6 days ago	I'm sorry	but "two" is not a sample size that is worth betting on.  It's just not.
11 weeks 1 day ago	People might be reading	just a tad too much into two NCAA tournament games.  Historically, hiring coaches based on one Sweet 16 run has not been a successful strategy.
12 weeks 6 days ago	Noel, Poythress, Goodwin, and Cauley-Stein	are all projected first rounders, and Calipari usually advises players to leave if they'll be taken high.
13 weeks 13 hours ago	Yeah	There's basically no dispute that female participation in athletics at all levels went through the roof after the passage of Title IX.
13 weeks 15 hours ago	Ok, well I have an answer to yours	We care about female athletes having equal access to athletics because, before Title IX, they were systematically shut out and discriminated against.  Now what's the answer to mine?
13 weeks 15 hours ago	No	the question is "does the state have an overriding interest in addressing pervasive sex discrimination?"  Title IX is not limited to college sports.  And I don't get your point.  I don't have an objection to "philosophical questions."  I just want a good answer to mine.  Why do we care if Denard gets paid more than Joey Burzynsky?
13 weeks 15 hours ago	Title IX	addresses pervasive sex discrimination, a consideration that's completely absent when talking about whether players on the same team should get equal pay.  What's the overriding state interest in ensuring that Denard and Joey Burzynsky get paid the same?
13 weeks 15 hours ago	I meant philosophically	And the last thing I'd want to do is dump Title IX.
13 weeks 16 hours ago	There are two big assumptions here	1. that the people being hired are capable. 2. that the salaries being paid are "market" in the sense that capable people wouldn't work for less. I'm not definitively saying either assumption is false, but you're definitely assuming they're true without showing your work.
13 weeks 16 hours ago	Serious question	What's wrong with Denard getting paid more than Burzynsky?
13 weeks 1 day ago	If you're looking for excuses	to knock one off of MSU's list, Dwaun Anderson never made it to campus at MSU.
14 weeks 13 hours ago	The last time	rape accusations were discussed here, there were several rape jokes.  And a number of people uprating those jokes.
14 weeks 13 hours ago	Let's hope two things	1. It isn't true 2. if it is true, the perpetrators are brought to justice and the victim gets the best counseling/treatment available.
14 weeks 5 days ago	Our band	could be your life.
16 weeks 1 day ago	I'm pretty sure	Dakich's power rankings are literally "who has been playing the best in the past week," which is why he frequently has screwy things like Illinois over Michigan.  Obviously, that's dumb for entirely different reasons, but would explain why he doesn't care that Illinois got crushed by Michigan at home earlier in the year.
16 weeks 1 day ago	Really?	I've heard lots of people saying February would have gone differently for Michigan if Morgan had been healthy.
16 weeks 1 day ago	Durand Scott was out	for Florida Gulf Coast, and Reggie Johnson was out for Arizona and Indiana State.  The Wake loss was obviously bad.
16 weeks 1 day ago	More likely	a game to determine whether Indiana gets the title outright or shares it.  And even that requires them losing to Minnesota.
16 weeks 1 day ago	Win out and there's no real conversation	Michigan will be a #1 seed.
17 weeks 4 days ago	We have wins over 3 of Kenpom's top 15	despite only getting 1 highly-ranked team at home so far.
17 weeks 4 days ago	RPI is dumb	news at 11.  Kenpom has our SOS at 8.
17 weeks 5 days ago	I'm not saying it's a dumb change	just that it doesn't seem like a minor one.

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