Perhaps not quite so negative as you think. He'll certainly accumulate some early pass pro -'s, but the play calling moved to feature his strength, which is his mobility. On the successful Semaj Morgan screen he pulled and blocked downfield. Ditto on one of JJ's runs. So there will be +s to offset the -s. Chop Robinson is quick, with a capital Q, and quite the handful to deal with.
I was canoeing with a friend in Whitefish Bay in a very stiff west wind a couple miles north of the mouth of the Tahquamenon River. We came to a sand bar and he jumped out for a swim; immediately the canoe with 120 pound late teenage me headed for the middle of the lake. I was in the stern of the canoe and could make no headway against the wind. This wasn't working so I decided to jump overboard and swim the canoe back in. When the wind and waves let me know what a stupid decision this was, I got back in the canoe (the only time in the story being 120# was an asset), got in the bow, and dug for shore. Exhausted, I finally made it to dry land. At which time my friend came up and asked "Where did you go?" To this day I feel grateful to be alive. Don't mess with Lake Superior.
Well, an interesting thread, since we are car shopping in the Ann Arbor area at the moment. Have looked at various hybrids, including the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. We were very put off by the Toyota salesman adding $5000 to the MSRP of the RAV4 hybrid price, due to "market pricing," another synonym for corporate greed (we were not notified of this mark-up until quote time). The web site indicated the MSRP and selling price were identical. Oops, not so much.
Since we only drive around 6-7000 miles per year (both retired), that sort of premium makes no economic sense for us. There are various gas models of other brands that come close to the RAV4 hybrid highway mileage. We also realize that automobile transportation is just part of one's carbon footprint. We do not fly; our vacations, once a year these days, are to the U.P. I didn't do any recreational travel for a decade, but the lure of my native U.P. trout streams got me out of that eventually. Our diet is largely vegetarian, which is probably the best thing one can do for the environment. We have opted out of the American desire to consume, consume, consume. Not virtue signaling, just the way we are. Our current main vehicle is a 2004 Saab, purchased used off lease in 2008. My garden car is a 1999 Audi Quattro station wagon hand-me-down from my son-in-law. So we're walking the walk of low consumption.
I am particularly amused by California's ban on gas vehicle sales by 2035. IIRC, many of the fires that have plagued the state were due to the dilapidated state of its electric grid. More fantasy thinking, as is the mineral resource base necessary to transition to all EV. But then fantasy thinking seems to be quite the rage these days, so I'm not surprised. (Dan Villari would have definitely whooped OSU's ass in 2020 in a breakout performance.)
My brother-in-law, a fervid Penguins fan, told me three or four years ago that the Pens made some very good additions to their roster using this strategy--wait for the eligibility to expire and sign the player as a free agent. Can't remember the specific names cited, but he was enthusiastic about the Pen's approach.
It seems to me it's political not in the right/left, Rep/Dem sense of the inside baseball the media love to stoke and track, but political in a more fundamental sense: the well documented erosion of trust in public institutions that recent events have brought forth. That's a challenge to the credibility of the system that is political at its core. But now we are discussing politics, so. . . . Nevertheless, that's one way it could be political.
senior year for me, so much better seats. around the 40 about 30 rows up. I can still see in my mind's eye Cecil Pryor coming off the field after yet another 2nd half stop, arms raised in exultation. The game also has a soft spot for me since one of the stars was Barry Pierson, a fellow yooper (although St. Ignace, his hometown, is more honorary UP than real UP, to me at least).
Been at it since 1965, when I came in as a freshman out of the U.P. I got 6. In order:
#1 1969 OSU 24-12 Set the stage for the ten year war and was just revenge for Woody's "because we couldn't go for three" Will always have an image in my mind of Cecil Pryor coming off the field after one of the second half stops, arms raised in exultation.
#2 2021 OSU 42-27 ya know. . . .
#3 1997 Penn State Such a complete beatdown
#4 UTL 1, with Denard to Roundtree. Talk about a yoyo of emotions. Couldn't get to sleep for hours
If this is the play I think it is, you might want to watch the previous four or five seconds before the call. There was a lot of chippiness going on between the two, and I was not surprised to see Brown get the short end of the whistle there.
Very good. The quality of two point shots has increased, it seems to me, with the mid-range jumper now a no-no with many coaches. So the sample set has changed, a change that will filter through to points per possession efficiency. M basketball this year has amply demonstrated that a highly effective 2 point game centered around post possessions (hello, Hunter Dickinson and Austin Davis and Naz) can yield a very good points per possession statistic. And conversely, but a change that works in the same direction, the new three-happy strategies are often manned by those who shoot less well than Nick Stauskus or Kaitlyn Flaherty.
Very glad I got to see him as well, although it was at Milwaukee County Stadium in the early 60's. My memory is understandably hazy, but I do think I did see him hit a home run. Magnificently quick wrists. Even though I grew up in the U.P, since I was a Milwaukee Sentinel paper boy, the Braves were my team. Warren Spahn, Lou Burdette, Joe Adcock, Eddie Matthews, Johnny Logan--these were my boyhood heroes. One of my greatest memories was listening to the Harvey Haddix perfect game (through twelve) that he eventually lost when Joe Adcock drove in the winning run with a double in the thirteenth. Even then I knew I was listening to history (yes, young'uns, people used to listen to baseball games). RIP, Hammein' Hank.
Yes, there's a reason it's called "puck luck." A puck's deflection off a skate here, a bounce on uneven ice there; the randomness can indeed be frustrating. Throw in the "hot goalie" syndrome, and you've got a real mess on your hands in terms of the predictability of results. What I've resorted to over the years is believing that if a team carries the play and gets the better chances, they have a higher likelihood of winning. But the key word is likelihood. Alas, as we have all experienced too many times.
sorry, I just couldn't let this go. It's November 2020. November 2019 was one year ago. November 2018 was two years ago. November 2017 was three years ago. November 2016 was four years ago. November 2015 was--wait for it--five years ago. See how that goes? Math--it's your friend. You might want to step away from the keyboard for awhile, since you seem a bit overwrought. Nothing like being overwrought and wrong at the same time.
It seems more to the point that the after tax $75K from the G League is in spendable funds, while the $75K from the collegiate scholarship is non-monetary. The latter is a lifelong investment, true, but I would guess most one and dones don't have that perspective, since they see other avenues to success than academic.
yes, while one dollar is generally like another, in government situations fund accounting often makes certain dollars from certain sources ineligible for certain payments. For example, our township kept a water plant officially incomplete but still operational in order to spend construction dollars on operations, a big no no (for which they, meaning we all) got our fingers rapped and our wallets raided. So, no, I would suspect at MSU all dollars are not like each other.
what a quaint notion. more likely the deposit would be serving as collateral for some rehypothication scheme into which the bank has entered, pledging the cash as collateral in a derivatives contract. (sorry for the real world intrusion; now back to football).
and ask why this affected you more than any number of foreign, brown skinned young folks who get blown up on a fairly regular basis (Afghans, Pakistanis, among others). All are horrific events that show the human capacity for evil we all share. The events close to home get a 24/7 media presence; the ones on the other side of the globe get a 24/7 major media blackout. A child dead from a blast is a child dead from a blast, regardless of color or political motivations. All are to be mourned. We care about our own more because we react reflexively (tribally, an anthropolgist might suggest) to the media's tugging at the American heartstring; the others remain offstage and unmourned (by us).
That said, my next move is checking the flight schedules to Bolivia.
would take us to Barry Pierson, whose two long punt returns were instrumental against Ohio in the 1969 24-12 righting of the universe. Of course Barry was from St. Ignace, a town which to us true Yoopers has always rather been an honorary member of the Yooper club. . . .
Insightful comment re: tail events, but might not your view be thrown off a bit by doubling the number of games? One assumes that the teams play each other, so the 6000ish games become 3000ish games, so your statistifcally predicted 40 should be about 20, at which time 14 is not quite the unusual nuber it seems.
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Perhaps not quite so negative as you think. He'll certainly accumulate some early pass pro -'s, but the play calling moved to feature his strength, which is his mobility. On the successful Semaj Morgan screen he pulled and blocked downfield. Ditto on one of JJ's runs. So there will be +s to offset the -s. Chop Robinson is quick, with a capital Q, and quite the handful to deal with.
I was canoeing with a friend in Whitefish Bay in a very stiff west wind a couple miles north of the mouth of the Tahquamenon River. We came to a sand bar and he jumped out for a swim; immediately the canoe with 120 pound late teenage me headed for the middle of the lake. I was in the stern of the canoe and could make no headway against the wind. This wasn't working so I decided to jump overboard and swim the canoe back in. When the wind and waves let me know what a stupid decision this was, I got back in the canoe (the only time in the story being 120# was an asset), got in the bow, and dug for shore. Exhausted, I finally made it to dry land. At which time my friend came up and asked "Where did you go?" To this day I feel grateful to be alive. Don't mess with Lake Superior.
Well, an interesting thread, since we are car shopping in the Ann Arbor area at the moment. Have looked at various hybrids, including the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. We were very put off by the Toyota salesman adding $5000 to the MSRP of the RAV4 hybrid price, due to "market pricing," another synonym for corporate greed (we were not notified of this mark-up until quote time). The web site indicated the MSRP and selling price were identical. Oops, not so much.
Since we only drive around 6-7000 miles per year (both retired), that sort of premium makes no economic sense for us. There are various gas models of other brands that come close to the RAV4 hybrid highway mileage. We also realize that automobile transportation is just part of one's carbon footprint. We do not fly; our vacations, once a year these days, are to the U.P. I didn't do any recreational travel for a decade, but the lure of my native U.P. trout streams got me out of that eventually. Our diet is largely vegetarian, which is probably the best thing one can do for the environment. We have opted out of the American desire to consume, consume, consume. Not virtue signaling, just the way we are. Our current main vehicle is a 2004 Saab, purchased used off lease in 2008. My garden car is a 1999 Audi Quattro station wagon hand-me-down from my son-in-law. So we're walking the walk of low consumption.
I am particularly amused by California's ban on gas vehicle sales by 2035. IIRC, many of the fires that have plagued the state were due to the dilapidated state of its electric grid. More fantasy thinking, as is the mineral resource base necessary to transition to all EV. But then fantasy thinking seems to be quite the rage these days, so I'm not surprised. (Dan Villari would have definitely whooped OSU's ass in 2020 in a breakout performance.)
My brother-in-law, a fervid Penguins fan, told me three or four years ago that the Pens made some very good additions to their roster using this strategy--wait for the eligibility to expire and sign the player as a free agent. Can't remember the specific names cited, but he was enthusiastic about the Pen's approach.
It seems to me it's political not in the right/left, Rep/Dem sense of the inside baseball the media love to stoke and track, but political in a more fundamental sense: the well documented erosion of trust in public institutions that recent events have brought forth. That's a challenge to the credibility of the system that is political at its core. But now we are discussing politics, so. . . . Nevertheless, that's one way it could be political.
senior year for me, so much better seats. around the 40 about 30 rows up. I can still see in my mind's eye Cecil Pryor coming off the field after yet another 2nd half stop, arms raised in exultation. The game also has a soft spot for me since one of the stars was Barry Pierson, a fellow yooper (although St. Ignace, his hometown, is more honorary UP than real UP, to me at least).
Been at it since 1965, when I came in as a freshman out of the U.P. I got 6. In order:
#1 1969 OSU 24-12 Set the stage for the ten year war and was just revenge for Woody's "because we couldn't go for three" Will always have an image in my mind of Cecil Pryor coming off the field after one of the second half stops, arms raised in exultation.
#2 2021 OSU 42-27 ya know. . . .
#3 1997 Penn State Such a complete beatdown
#4 UTL 1, with Denard to Roundtree. Talk about a yoyo of emotions. Couldn't get to sleep for hours
#5 Touchdown Timmy 313 yards
#6 Braylon Fest
If this is the play I think it is, you might want to watch the previous four or five seconds before the call. There was a lot of chippiness going on between the two, and I was not surprised to see Brown get the short end of the whistle there.
Very good. The quality of two point shots has increased, it seems to me, with the mid-range jumper now a no-no with many coaches. So the sample set has changed, a change that will filter through to points per possession efficiency. M basketball this year has amply demonstrated that a highly effective 2 point game centered around post possessions (hello, Hunter Dickinson and Austin Davis and Naz) can yield a very good points per possession statistic. And conversely, but a change that works in the same direction, the new three-happy strategies are often manned by those who shoot less well than Nick Stauskus or Kaitlyn Flaherty.
Very glad I got to see him as well, although it was at Milwaukee County Stadium in the early 60's. My memory is understandably hazy, but I do think I did see him hit a home run. Magnificently quick wrists. Even though I grew up in the U.P, since I was a Milwaukee Sentinel paper boy, the Braves were my team. Warren Spahn, Lou Burdette, Joe Adcock, Eddie Matthews, Johnny Logan--these were my boyhood heroes. One of my greatest memories was listening to the Harvey Haddix perfect game (through twelve) that he eventually lost when Joe Adcock drove in the winning run with a double in the thirteenth. Even then I knew I was listening to history (yes, young'uns, people used to listen to baseball games). RIP, Hammein' Hank.
Yes, there's a reason it's called "puck luck." A puck's deflection off a skate here, a bounce on uneven ice there; the randomness can indeed be frustrating. Throw in the "hot goalie" syndrome, and you've got a real mess on your hands in terms of the predictability of results. What I've resorted to over the years is believing that if a team carries the play and gets the better chances, they have a higher likelihood of winning. But the key word is likelihood. Alas, as we have all experienced too many times.
sorry, I just couldn't let this go. It's November 2020. November 2019 was one year ago. November 2018 was two years ago. November 2017 was three years ago. November 2016 was four years ago. November 2015 was--wait for it--five years ago. See how that goes? Math--it's your friend. You might want to step away from the keyboard for awhile, since you seem a bit overwrought. Nothing like being overwrought and wrong at the same time.
It seems more to the point that the after tax $75K from the G League is in spendable funds, while the $75K from the collegiate scholarship is non-monetary. The latter is a lifelong investment, true, but I would guess most one and dones don't have that perspective, since they see other avenues to success than academic.
yes, while one dollar is generally like another, in government situations fund accounting often makes certain dollars from certain sources ineligible for certain payments. For example, our township kept a water plant officially incomplete but still operational in order to spend construction dollars on operations, a big no no (for which they, meaning we all) got our fingers rapped and our wallets raided. So, no, I would suspect at MSU all dollars are not like each other.
. . . truer words have never been spoken. I have a laundry list of issues which immediately spring to mind which will remain unarticulated here,
math: it's a thing.
10 FG X 3 = 30
twenty extra points? that's some offense we have
the best player on the field in a defensive struggle was, unfortunately for us, Jack Lambert.
but I think you'll find the armistice was signed ending the war on November 11, 1918. Fortunately, you seem to be better at football than history.
what a quaint notion. more likely the deposit would be serving as collateral for some rehypothication scheme into which the bank has entered, pledging the cash as collateral in a derivatives contract. (sorry for the real world intrusion; now back to football).
and ask why this affected you more than any number of foreign, brown skinned young folks who get blown up on a fairly regular basis (Afghans, Pakistanis, among others). All are horrific events that show the human capacity for evil we all share. The events close to home get a 24/7 media presence; the ones on the other side of the globe get a 24/7 major media blackout. A child dead from a blast is a child dead from a blast, regardless of color or political motivations. All are to be mourned. We care about our own more because we react reflexively (tribally, an anthropolgist might suggest) to the media's tugging at the American heartstring; the others remain offstage and unmourned (by us).
That said, my next move is checking the flight schedules to Bolivia.
would take us to Barry Pierson, whose two long punt returns were instrumental against Ohio in the 1969 24-12 righting of the universe. Of course Barry was from St. Ignace, a town which to us true Yoopers has always rather been an honorary member of the Yooper club. . . .
Insightful comment re: tail events, but might not your view be thrown off a bit by doubling the number of games? One assumes that the teams play each other, so the 6000ish games become 3000ish games, so your statistifcally predicted 40 should be about 20, at which time 14 is not quite the unusual nuber it seems.