It will never happen, but I would love to see the Guess Who inducted because (a) they deserve it, and (b) Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are involved in some nasty litigation against Jim Kale and Garry Peterson over who owns the rights to the band name.
It's also a different situation because of the irreparable harm factor. If an employee is suspended -- even without pay -- and later exonerated, he can largely be made whole by awarding back pay. But if a college athlete is suspended for a substantial chunk of a season and later exonerated, he can never get that season back. The decision makes sense if you look at it through the lens of the federal standard for a TRO, which is exactly how a federal judge is required to look at it.
It would be more meaningful if he had used past perfect tense (had) as opposed to present perfect tense (has), which denotes action that started in the past but is still continuing or action in the past that is likely to happen again.
Reduce the timeouts in basketball to 3 per game and don't let them be called after the player has been handed the ball to inbound after a dead ball. You shouldn't be able to avoid a 5-second call by calling a timeout.
Steve Fisher became the fall guy (rightly or wrongly; I'm not taking a position either way) for the Ed Martin scandal and was fired in 1997. When Fisher got the head coaching job at SDSU in 1999, Dutcher joined him as an assistant. He was by Fisher's side for all those years when SDSU became a pretty solid program, going to the tournament more often than not. When Fisher retired a few years ago, Dutcher took over, That's what he has been doing.
The number of cases is going up only because the number of tests is going way up. The percentage of tests coming back positive is actually going down. Look at all the numbers.
UIC used to have a hockey team that was part of the old CCHA. I watched them get their butts whooped several times at Yost in the early to mid-90s. They used to battle with Kent State (aka "Can't Skate") for the worst team in the league.
Didn't the Chinese basketball league just announce that they were resuming their season? So it must have slowed down in China after a couple of months. So why exactly is there "no chance of this thing slowing down in the US over the next few weeks"? And have "tens to hundreds of thousands" died in China, the country where the outbreak started and has a much higher population, vastly inferior healthcare, and much higher rates of smoking than the US? Last I checked there were just over 3 thousand deaths in China. Is that "tens to hundreds of thousands"? What, exactly, do you gain by being such a panicky fearmonger?
That's probably standard (and prudent) practice for coaches who are breaking or bending the rules. Assign one person to do all the shady stuff, and then if anybody finds out, label him a "rogue employee" and fire him. And then hope and pray he isn't the litigious type. Oops.
Yes, they can, and have always been able to. This is from the official NCAA Basketball case book:
A.R. 209. A1 attempts a try at Team A’s basket after having completed the dribble. The try does not touch the backboard, the ring or the flange or any other player. A1 runs and catches the ball before it strikes the playing court. Is this traveling? RULING: No. When A1 recovered his own try, A1 could either dribble, pass or try again. There is no team control by either team when a try is in flight. However, when the shot clock expires and a try by A1 or a teammate has not struck the ring or the flange, it shall be a violation of the shot-clock rule. (Rule 9-5.2, 4-9.4.c and 9-11.2)
High school rules are substantially identical, although under NBA rules it would be a violation. The officials have to determine whether it was a legitimate shot or a pass to yourself, and if it was a legitimate shot, no violation.
Everything also resets as soon as you release a shot. So even if the defender doesn't even touch it, as long as it was a legitimate shot, the shooter can catch it, land, re-dribble, etc.
Tomorrow also happens to be my birthday, so I will be drinking whatever my wife gets me as a gift. And if she doesn't get me anything drinkable, I will be drinking whatever I tell her to buy on her way home from work.
Every year we watch in the days leading up to Christmas the two best Christmas movies of the last 30 years: "Elf" and "Christmas Vacation." This year we did both of them as a double feature last night. As I write this, I am watching the Hawaii Bowl while my daughter watches "Home Alone" on her iPad, I think for the second time today.
As for songs, you can't go wrong with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Santa Baby," or "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
Extremely fortunate. Don't forget, when RichRod took over in 2008, he oriented Michigan's recruiting away from in-state prospects to heavily recruiting from elsewhere, especially the Southeast. He scrapped Michigan's traditional summer high school camp open to anyone -- mostly from within driving distance -- and switched to a one-day invitation-only "elite" camp. He alienated a lot of local high school coaches who started to point their prospects to State instead.
With Michigan essentially vacating the field, Dantonio was able to do a lot better all of a sudden with in-state and local recruits. Combine that with some luck in turning low-level recuits/walk-ons into viable players and Michigan's well-documented struggles, and Dantonio was able to achieve some fleeting success.
But when Hoke and especially Harbaugh were able to return to something approaching regular order, Dantonio and State were exposed for what they really are in the natural order of things.
I agree that not all coaches are irrational yellers, but it only takes one. When my younger son played 5th grade football a few years ago, I helped coach the team. The head coach was an angry idiot. He would demonstrate how to do a particular drill, but his demonstration would be clearly wrong, and most of the kids knew it was wrong. He would yell at anyone -- assistant coaches included -- who tried correct him, then during the drill he would yell at half the kids for not doing it the way he demonstrated and the other half for not doing it the right way.
Nearly half the kids on that team did not play the next year, including my son, who now runs cross country.
I think that the nature of coaching has changed in the last few decades or so, but football, especially at the youth/high school level, has lagged behind. When I was growing up, it seemed like coaches in all sports were always angry, always yelling instead of encouraging and explaining. Now, watching my own kids, I rarely see basketball or soccer coaches getting angry and yelling at players, but I see football coaches do it all the time. Kids don't like being yelled at by overweight, angry idiots so they play football for a year at most, and then quit. Hopefully, football coaches will realize that the Bear Bryant/Woody Hayes style doesn't work any more and the numbers will recover.
If someone could invent technology that would allow me to listen to and comprehend two podcasts at the same time, I would kiss that person on the lips.
It's not an urban legend. My wife did a clerkship for the Delaware Court of Chancery after graduating from law school, and she worked on a child custody case where the child in question was actually named Female.
Army won't nearly beat us, they will beat us. That will lead to Harbaugh instantly occupying the hot seat, followed by losses to Iowa, Penn State and Ohio State, and a dispiriting loss to a mediocre SEC team in a bowl game. But Harbaugh keeps his job. Book it.
But they were required to violate everyone's due process rights in order to keep their federal funding thanks to the Obama administration's "Dear Colleague" letter. Every university was in the same boat, including Michigan.
IndyCar qualifying is more intriguing anyway. They are back at Portland for the first time since 2007. Michigan last played Notre Dame much more recently than that.
It's Louisville and Miami. The enrollment figures and number of sports offered match up exactly with those cited in the complaint. The other schools involved with the other complaints appear to be Auburn, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Southern California and Arizona.
I am coaching fifth grade this season for the first time. The most important thing is tell them to go potty before they come to practice so you don't have someone running off the field in a panic every five minutes.
Seriously, the best advice on offense is to install a suite of 6-8 plays that fit together well (base-constraint stuff) and rep them over and over so that they feel confident in their execution. Then compliment them when they do it right in the game. Build from a base of positivity, rather than negativity. Tell them, "You did OK, here's how to do it better," rather than "You screwed up. You need to get better." I think the most important thing at this age is to get them to want to show up next year.
Had a couple of martinis while my ragu alla Bolognese was simmering, then enjoyed it with a glass of Chianti. About to have some smoked provolone with the rest of my Chianti and then maybe a little Austrian chocolate.
I live in Wisconsin, and any time the legislature or any else even raises some reform that might make sense, like, for example, not raising tuition by double digit percentages when UW is sitting on a $648 million hidden slush fund, or having professors work more than 18 hours a week, she bitches to high heaven.
Plus, has anyone ever seen a picture of her. She looks like she missed out on a role in the Hobbit for being "too trolly."
"When you grow up, marry a sexy deaf mute who owns a liquor store. That way you will always have lots of money, and she won't be able to give you any lip."
Even if this is the first and only expulsion, the revised policy is only a few months old. It is possible that there will be a handful every semester going forward, expecially in the number of reported incidents rises. That he is the first does not mean his case was a slam dunk. Or even if the facts were compelling enough to clearly warrant expulsion that they constitute a crime.
Question #1 asks,"Is Gibbons guilty?" But that may not be specific enough of a question. It is entirely possible that he is guilty of behavior bad enough to get him expelled, but not "guilty" of a crime -- either because his conduct did not meet the elements of the crime or because of the difficulty of meeting the burden of proof necessary in criminal cases. Not all bad behavior is a crime. And just because he was expelled does not mean he would have been found guilty of a crime or even charged -- even if the alleged victim had cooperated. It seems to me that this distinction might be important in evaluating the conduct of the athletic department, coaching staff, etc.
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It will never happen, but I would love to see the Guess Who inducted because (a) they deserve it, and (b) Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman are involved in some nasty litigation against Jim Kale and Garry Peterson over who owns the rights to the band name.
When I first saw the post title, my immediate thought was, "Are there really that many fans of the New Zealand rugby team in the Detroit area?"
It's also a different situation because of the irreparable harm factor. If an employee is suspended -- even without pay -- and later exonerated, he can largely be made whole by awarding back pay. But if a college athlete is suspended for a substantial chunk of a season and later exonerated, he can never get that season back. The decision makes sense if you look at it through the lens of the federal standard for a TRO, which is exactly how a federal judge is required to look at it.
I think the best course of action is for Michigan and Coach Harbaugh to finalize a massive and lengthy contract extension this week.
It would be more meaningful if he had used past perfect tense (had) as opposed to present perfect tense (has), which denotes action that started in the past but is still continuing or action in the past that is likely to happen again.
Definitely one of the best titles I can remember.
Reduce the timeouts in basketball to 3 per game and don't let them be called after the player has been handed the ball to inbound after a dead ball. You shouldn't be able to avoid a 5-second call by calling a timeout.
Q: What's the last thing a redneck says before he dies?
A: "Watch this."
Steve Fisher became the fall guy (rightly or wrongly; I'm not taking a position either way) for the Ed Martin scandal and was fired in 1997. When Fisher got the head coaching job at SDSU in 1999, Dutcher joined him as an assistant. He was by Fisher's side for all those years when SDSU became a pretty solid program, going to the tournament more often than not. When Fisher retired a few years ago, Dutcher took over, That's what he has been doing.
Georgia Southern football
The old "toddler ate my homework" excuse. Nicely played.
Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run. Whistling Straits is the better course. Blackwolf Run has a bit of a gimmicky feel on a few holes.
The number of cases is going up only because the number of tests is going way up. The percentage of tests coming back positive is actually going down. Look at all the numbers.
UIC used to have a hockey team that was part of the old CCHA. I watched them get their butts whooped several times at Yost in the early to mid-90s. They used to battle with Kent State (aka "Can't Skate") for the worst team in the league.
Didn't the Chinese basketball league just announce that they were resuming their season? So it must have slowed down in China after a couple of months. So why exactly is there "no chance of this thing slowing down in the US over the next few weeks"? And have "tens to hundreds of thousands" died in China, the country where the outbreak started and has a much higher population, vastly inferior healthcare, and much higher rates of smoking than the US? Last I checked there were just over 3 thousand deaths in China. Is that "tens to hundreds of thousands"? What, exactly, do you gain by being such a panicky fearmonger?
That's probably standard (and prudent) practice for coaches who are breaking or bending the rules. Assign one person to do all the shady stuff, and then if anybody finds out, label him a "rogue employee" and fire him. And then hope and pray he isn't the litigious type. Oops.
Yes, they can, and have always been able to. This is from the official NCAA Basketball case book:
High school rules are substantially identical, although under NBA rules it would be a violation. The officials have to determine whether it was a legitimate shot or a pass to yourself, and if it was a legitimate shot, no violation.
Everything also resets as soon as you release a shot. So even if the defender doesn't even touch it, as long as it was a legitimate shot, the shooter can catch it, land, re-dribble, etc.
Tomorrow also happens to be my birthday, so I will be drinking whatever my wife gets me as a gift. And if she doesn't get me anything drinkable, I will be drinking whatever I tell her to buy on her way home from work.
No, his age.
Even more amazing is that their leading scorer is in his mid-40s.
A Winston Churchill bobblehead.
I agree. The list of Christmas songs I hate is significantly longer that the list of Christmas songs I love.
Every year we watch in the days leading up to Christmas the two best Christmas movies of the last 30 years: "Elf" and "Christmas Vacation." This year we did both of them as a double feature last night. As I write this, I am watching the Hawaii Bowl while my daughter watches "Home Alone" on her iPad, I think for the second time today.
As for songs, you can't go wrong with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Santa Baby," or "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
What's wrong with slapping the floor? How else do you kill the mosquitos hanging out down there?
Extremely fortunate. Don't forget, when RichRod took over in 2008, he oriented Michigan's recruiting away from in-state prospects to heavily recruiting from elsewhere, especially the Southeast. He scrapped Michigan's traditional summer high school camp open to anyone -- mostly from within driving distance -- and switched to a one-day invitation-only "elite" camp. He alienated a lot of local high school coaches who started to point their prospects to State instead.
With Michigan essentially vacating the field, Dantonio was able to do a lot better all of a sudden with in-state and local recruits. Combine that with some luck in turning low-level recuits/walk-ons into viable players and Michigan's well-documented struggles, and Dantonio was able to achieve some fleeting success.
But when Hoke and especially Harbaugh were able to return to something approaching regular order, Dantonio and State were exposed for what they really are in the natural order of things.
I think you mean "get to" do geometry.
Diagonal.
I agree that not all coaches are irrational yellers, but it only takes one. When my younger son played 5th grade football a few years ago, I helped coach the team. The head coach was an angry idiot. He would demonstrate how to do a particular drill, but his demonstration would be clearly wrong, and most of the kids knew it was wrong. He would yell at anyone -- assistant coaches included -- who tried correct him, then during the drill he would yell at half the kids for not doing it the way he demonstrated and the other half for not doing it the right way.
Nearly half the kids on that team did not play the next year, including my son, who now runs cross country.
I think that the nature of coaching has changed in the last few decades or so, but football, especially at the youth/high school level, has lagged behind. When I was growing up, it seemed like coaches in all sports were always angry, always yelling instead of encouraging and explaining. Now, watching my own kids, I rarely see basketball or soccer coaches getting angry and yelling at players, but I see football coaches do it all the time. Kids don't like being yelled at by overweight, angry idiots so they play football for a year at most, and then quit. Hopefully, football coaches will realize that the Bear Bryant/Woody Hayes style doesn't work any more and the numbers will recover.
If someone could invent technology that would allow me to listen to and comprehend two podcasts at the same time, I would kiss that person on the lips.
It's not an urban legend. My wife did a clerkship for the Delaware Court of Chancery after graduating from law school, and she worked on a child custody case where the child in question was actually named Female.
Lots of cheeses too.
So that's where my wife went. Thanks for the heads up.
Army won't nearly beat us, they will beat us. That will lead to Harbaugh instantly occupying the hot seat, followed by losses to Iowa, Penn State and Ohio State, and a dispiriting loss to a mediocre SEC team in a bowl game. But Harbaugh keeps his job. Book it.
I don't agree with David French on much, but this seems pretty straightforward:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/how-the-obama-administration-harmed-survivors-of-campus-sexual-assault/
But they were required to violate everyone's due process rights in order to keep their federal funding thanks to the Obama administration's "Dear Colleague" letter. Every university was in the same boat, including Michigan.
Technically, it is a game and a half lead since they have one fewer loss and two more wins than the second place teams.
IndyCar qualifying is more intriguing anyway. They are back at Portland for the first time since 2007. Michigan last played Notre Dame much more recently than that.
I propose a new conference that takes academics (and integrity) seriously:
East Division
Michigan, Notre Dame, Boston College, Pitt, Vanderbilt, Northwestern
West Division
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota
It's Louisville and Miami. The enrollment figures and number of sports offered match up exactly with those cited in the complaint. The other schools involved with the other complaints appear to be Auburn, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Southern California and Arizona.
I am coaching fifth grade this season for the first time. The most important thing is tell them to go potty before they come to practice so you don't have someone running off the field in a panic every five minutes.
Seriously, the best advice on offense is to install a suite of 6-8 plays that fit together well (base-constraint stuff) and rep them over and over so that they feel confident in their execution. Then compliment them when they do it right in the game. Build from a base of positivity, rather than negativity. Tell them, "You did OK, here's how to do it better," rather than "You screwed up. You need to get better." I think the most important thing at this age is to get them to want to show up next year.
I love duck, but my wife doesn't so I'm never allowed to make it.
Had a couple of martinis while my ragu alla Bolognese was simmering, then enjoyed it with a glass of Chianti. About to have some smoked provolone with the rest of my Chianti and then maybe a little Austrian chocolate.
These are actual, objective facts. See here:
http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2014/10/uw-slush-fund-controversy-we-can-account-for-every-dollar-says-ray-cross/
and here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/scott_walker_to_uw_work_more_than_14_hours_a_week_.html
The fact that she looks like a troll does not make me wrong.
I live in Wisconsin, and any time the legislature or any else even raises some reform that might make sense, like, for example, not raising tuition by double digit percentages when UW is sitting on a $648 million hidden slush fund, or having professors work more than 18 hours a week, she bitches to high heaven.
Plus, has anyone ever seen a picture of her. She looks like she missed out on a role in the Hobbit for being "too trolly."
"When you grow up, marry a sexy deaf mute who owns a liquor store. That way you will always have lots of money, and she won't be able to give you any lip."
Even if this is the first and only expulsion, the revised policy is only a few months old. It is possible that there will be a handful every semester going forward, expecially in the number of reported incidents rises. That he is the first does not mean his case was a slam dunk. Or even if the facts were compelling enough to clearly warrant expulsion that they constitute a crime.
Question #1 asks,"Is Gibbons guilty?" But that may not be specific enough of a question. It is entirely possible that he is guilty of behavior bad enough to get him expelled, but not "guilty" of a crime -- either because his conduct did not meet the elements of the crime or because of the difficulty of meeting the burden of proof necessary in criminal cases. Not all bad behavior is a crime. And just because he was expelled does not mean he would have been found guilty of a crime or even charged -- even if the alleged victim had cooperated. It seems to me that this distinction might be important in evaluating the conduct of the athletic department, coaching staff, etc.
I'm starting to enjoy Gus Johnson doing these games. He has gotten a lot better than when he started.