Insane Zealotry will suggest to visitors that the site is heavily biased. I think Brian is level-headed about Michigan sports so I vote no on this proposed change.
Fair enough. I'm coming from a position where I don't keep track of individual posters here, and have heard many stories of people with different standards than I when it comes to violent actions against animals. I agree with you taking active measures to prevent violent dogs from harming anyone on your property. OTOH, I've heard firsthand accounts of neighbors threatening to shoot dogs or actually attacking dogs merely for coming onto their property even when the dog is very gentle and not a threat to anyone.
Chasing can be violent and should be a concern. That comment was in the context of knowing these dogs were violent -- if you tell me that a dog chased someone, I won't go ahead and call the dog violent.
The last dog I had (RIP) was a shih-tzu that would sometimes chase people because he wanted to be played with, not because he wanted to tear their throat out.
There was no evidence in your posts that the dogs were not peaceful. As I said, feel free to go back and look at your first two posts and show me such evidence.
Your righteous indignation is bizarre at best.
ffs, go back and read what you wrote about the dogs prior to this post. Nowhere did you indicate that they terrorized the neighborhood or attacked people. You said you had a bad history with dogs, that these dogs came onto your property after you had told the owners you didn't want them to, and that they have chased people in the past (chasing is not necessarily a violent act)
what false dichotomy? either Rich Rod THINKS the guy is better than the common perception, or he's an idiot that just offered a scrub a scholarship for a tight class with a bunch of WRs already on board. It's not a false dichotomy -- the obvious situation is the former. We can all debate whether or not RR's opinion is correct or not, that's the real issue.
McShay was quoted (in the Detnews I believe) saying Warren in the 2nd round. So 1st round is a respectable prognostication even if one disagrees with it.
Dorsey was tried as an adult by a jury for armed robbery (felony) and found not guilty. That does not happen routinely.
Prosecutors dismissed the charge of burglary of a vacant residence. That is a felony and outright dismissal won't happen often either -- they'll get you to plead down, at least. If they have any evidence whatsoever of guilt.
He makes the claim that people are biased in favor of 16 year old football players when it comes to felony armed robbery, when in fact the only bias regarding football players is his own: Dorsey is a UM commit and was accused of a crime, therefore he is guilty, because it suits his sensationalistic desires. Where is Sharp's evidence, how does he know better than the jury?
Loudmouthed jackass.
Yeah I don't really understand what all we're supposed to be waiting for, Leach has admitted that James' story is substantially true. The facts aren't in dispute. Leach thinks his behavior according to those facts was just fine, James does not think it was okay, we can judge for ourselves given the facts stipulated to by both parties.
heh. Leach's attorney was on ESPN yesterday and said that James was cleared to return to practice. The talking head followed up asking if that meant he was cleared to practice, asked if he was cleared to take contact and the attorney did a No, no, no, of course not! What the attorney meant by cleared to return to practice was 'cleared to stand on the sideline and watch practice'
I'll second this, basically. I can't speak to the new Red Hots though the old one was great; Brown Jug is the best place to drink IMO and additionally has the best combination of drink and food.
Their $3 Long Islands (after 9pm?) are particularly good
I had German with Zoltan and he's a smart guy. Contrast that to Boren, who told me that he was majoring in general studies so that he could avoid the foreign language requirement - lol.
I don't know about start, but I'd like to see Denard get more time. Tate has made a number of errant throws, fumbles, and bad sacks recently. Maybe it's the fault of the o-line. BUT, with Denard you have that constant threat of a huge play and I think the read-option could get many yards in chunks as well.
I think it's fair when you say you don't like him because he was a bad football player and you never heard anything good about him that you were implying that you heard hearsay about him that was bad regarding his personal character. Most people won't have personal animosity towards someone simply because they struggled on the football field.
"1) Wide receivers can't get open. Can't create separation. Lets face it, No Michigan WR is a burner. They are all in the 4.5, 4.6 forty yard dash time. Either that or they are terrible route runners. Maybe that's a coaching problem, or maybe they just aren't that talented."
I think Michigan's WRs are more than fast enough. A number of them are "burners" and the ones that aren't are still plenty fast.
I remember a lot of doubting about Branch around the time he was drafted, too. It was really weird because Branch was easily the most dominant DT (and probably d-lineman) I've ever seen at Michigan and it seemed like his game would translate well to the NFL.
see:
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:vUwZAa3cLoUJ:espn.go.com/sportsnat…
Nick (Bensalem, PA)
If Okoye were gone, would Alan Branch be able to play in Buffalo's Cover 2?
Mel Kiper
(1:53 PM)
First of all, as far as the DT, Alan Branch is a very versatile athlete. You think he's just a space eater, but he's a very athletic kid. He did 33 reps at the combine, ran just over 5.0 at the combine. The only reason he's not a top 10 pick is because of his production. He did not make enough plays to guarantee him a spot in the top 15. He needed to dominate against the run more than he did. The production just wasn't there. You kept waiting for it, but the production never matched the physical ability. His performance put him between 15 and 25.
really? his production wasn't there in college?!
What else did you use, passer efficiency, yards per attempt?
These things are also highly dependent on context: offensive line protection, running game contribution (including Pryor as a threat), the spread offense, quality of competition, ability of WRs, etc. etc.
The idea of the spread offense (which Pryor runs at tOSU) is to create mismatches such that WR/TE/RB are open for easy throws and can then rack up YAC. When I reference dump passes, I'm talking about relatively easy throws to open receivers that break large gains because of the WR's athleticism and ability to operate in space. Your additional stats don't go against the idea that easy throws can inflate Pryor's stats.
Baseball stats work so well because context can be more readily adjusted for than in any other team game, and it's not close. Allusions to Moneyball (Joe Morgan) when comparing college football and baseball stats are misplaced.
Pryor was effective last year but a lot of NCAA QBs are effective without being particularly good at passing. Unless you think every QB coached by Mike Leach or June Jones are amazing talents...
If Pryor were put through a 7-on-7 workout where he could not run for a gain and instead was asked to consistently make NFL throws -- you'll only be able to approach how good he would do in that pure passing situation by watching him play.
I've never understood this Joe Morgan-ish view of "I don't need to look at the numbers, I know a good player when I see one". STATISTICS (at least the good ones) are measures of performance. They aren't an arbitrary number floating in the ether - they reflect the performance of the individual.
Because completing a lot of dump passes doesn't make you a good passer.
Individual rankings of graduate school programs show that the various fields of study in LS&A are all ranked very high; why would this not be a reasonable (albeit imperfect) proxy for rating the undergraduate majors? I think the general sentiment against LS&A stems from a point-of-view that looks down on the subjects taught rather than truly finding flaws in the college itself.
Recent Comments
Thats rather paternalistic and unnecessary.