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1 week 2 days ago	He's a piece of schist.	He's a piece of schist.
2 weeks 2 days ago	Rutgers	Rutgers University (The Cancer Institute of New Jersey becomes part of Rutgers on July 1) Whoa, I had no idea that, on July 1st, Rutgers will absorb most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Rutgers adds a med school, dental school, school of public health, and more). Wikipedia says UMDNJ is 71st in research expenditures, so this is like Rutgers absorbing Michigan State or Iowa or something. Could put them top 25 nationally in total research expenditures.
2 weeks 2 days ago	No, he gets that from being a	No, he gets that from being a part-time middle school football coach and full-time fatass.
5 weeks 2 days ago	Not enough roster spots.	Not enough roster spots. Taking both would be too shady.
6 weeks 3 days ago	Ok, maybe it's just a	Ok, maybe it's just a semantics thing.  I meant canned in its definitional sense of "prepared in advance" not in some inauthentic, half-assed kind of way.
6 weeks 3 days ago	Right, that seems to be the	Right, that seems to be the conventional wisdom. It's just been my experience that it doesn't really correlate, and my sample size is fairly significant.  I admit that I'm in the minority (and in a particular field), so if you're trying to land a job, it's probably best to play the odds and stick to the traditional script. Especially in situations like yours which requires the splitting of split hairs to find the "best" candidate.  Also, age may have something to do with my non-traditional stance (I'm early 30s). If I was Herm's age, I probably see phone use as a blatant disrespect to nonagenarians everywhere.
6 weeks 3 days ago	I believe the last one still	I believe the last one still matters. It's a formulaic response to a formulaic interview process (i.e behaviorial/STAR), so showing up unprepared for these questions is like showing up in a t-shirt.  It's ritualistic, and if you don't do it, you get bounced.
6 weeks 3 days ago	Agreed, most people can't do	Agreed, most people can't do it, and we don't really prioritize/value it.  But if I'm choosing from a few candidates, I'm taking the most productive one, phone-checker or not.  And besides, everyone checks their phone on the job, so faking like you won't during a one hour interview isn't that impressive.
6 weeks 3 days ago	I don’t doubt that on the	I don’t doubt that on the whole, hiring managers choose the candidates who dress up, stay off their phones, and have canned answers ready to go.  So if you want a job, you do those things.  If you work in a field where your craft is gab – and there are several – it probably matters that a candidate can quickly whip up some tale about leading a team through some perilous journey in Uganda or something. (And make sure you throw in somewhere that you delivered the team ahead of schedule, as this is a critical piece of nonsense.)   But in my experience in the transportation sector, we have been just as successful hiring quirky types and candidates who are willing to say “I don’t know” in an interview.  The correlation between good interview and good worker has been nearly non-existent for us, so lately we’ve just been over-hiring and then booting the people we don’t like over the ensuing weeks and months.  Anyway, we wouldn’t much care if candidates/employees were on their phones.  If they can do that and still be listening/productive, then good for them. That’s multitasking, I guess.
8 weeks 5 days ago	Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm	Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm firmly in the "bring it on" camp.  It's just that I think many people were willing to take an unbalanced tradeoff (presuming the divisions are actually unbalanced) to get OSU and M, and to a lesser extent MSU, in the same division.  Will people be willing to accept further lopsidedness in the future when there's no proportionate benefit to Michigan?
8 weeks 5 days ago	Lopsided Future?	What happens if, as expected, the B1G expands toward the mid-atlantic?  The natural response would be to put Indiana in the West, right?  Depending on who is added, the East could become even more top heavy.
9 weeks 2 days ago	Good to see Norfleet hasn't	Good to see Norfleet hasn't lost his Trogdor arm.
12 weeks 1 day ago	what is his profession?	AHOO AHOO AHOO
12 weeks 2 days ago	Butterfield	What will you do with all your bracket pool winnings?
12 weeks 4 days ago	The Wooden Award might be	The Wooden Award might be riding on Trey's performance today. Should be a fun game.
13 weeks 16 hours ago	If you don't love it, leave	If you don't love it, leave it! U of M, #1!
13 weeks 18 hours ago	Too many teachers get into	Too many teachers get into the profession for moral reasons, and as such, they are wiling to accept far less to work. This grossly distorts teachers' market value.  The good news is, the push to "run schools like a business" should help to get rid of some of the bleeding hearts, as many still strongly believe that cut-throat competition doesn't really belong in K-12 education.  The incoming crop of business-like teachers will certainly bring something different to the table, but they will also likely demand higher wages for the job they do.  Anyway, it'll be interesting to watch it all play out.
13 weeks 1 day ago	It would be crazy, if it were	It would be crazy, if it were true. CMU's AD makes, at most, $220k a year (his base salary is $164k).  Not insignificant, but certainly not an outrageous salary for a $24 million dollar/year operation.
13 weeks 1 day ago	This is why people root for	This is why people root for mid-majors.
13 weeks 2 days ago	I saw LTT this morning.  The	I saw LTT this morning.  The weight loss is legit.
13 weeks 3 days ago	I want to know how many of	I want to know how many of those bunnies Morgan hit.
13 weeks 4 days ago	My sense is that McGary will	My sense is that McGary will probably be a turnover/foul/airball machine if he roams too far from the basket.  Also, without Stauskas on the floor, it's going to be brick city from three.  But yeah, Robinson just seems lost out there at PF.  Beilein needs to try something, I guess. Maybe it's time for "Burke and Hardaway shoot, everyone else just rebound" and hope for the best.
13 weeks 4 days ago	Michigan doesn't have a	Michigan doesn't have a skilled big. Sadly, we're relying on players that no one else wanted (Horford, Morgan) or a true freshman.  Michigan is generally doomed once the ball goes into Zeller, Payne, Berggren etc; They can either help out and leave Hulls, Harris or Brust open for three, or sit back and watch those big dudes repeatedly make bunnies.  Needless to say, when M throws the ball in to Morgan, Horford or McGary, Stauskas won't be left open for the kick out. Obviously, there are other problems, but this one seems like the most glaring.
13 weeks 5 days ago	If Mattison can get extended,	If Mattison can get extended, why can't we?
15 weeks 1 day ago	Well, as long as we're being	Well, as long as we're being scientific, I don't think we can assume these two events are independent.
15 weeks 2 days ago	Hoke uber alles	Hoke uber alles
15 weeks 5 days ago	Leverage	These things are always political, and it's a good play by the military. 1) They get people to "feel" the budget cuts and hate it, and 2) It's a nice response to the "flyovers are a blatant waste of taxpayer money" crowd. Cutting any other 90 seconds of flight time, or simply doing fewer flyovers, would be seriously underplaying their political hand. /end politics
17 weeks 2 hours ago	Jackie Shipp, OU's former	Jackie Shipp, OU's former defensive line coach who had been there since Stoops arrived in 1999, was paid 270k last year.  Montgomery made 212k. Hopefully Brandon just writes him a check for the difference and sends him back out on the recruiting trail.
17 weeks 7 hours ago	Oh. So that's what an oxford	Oh. So that's what an oxford comma is.
17 weeks 14 hours ago	I was standing next to him at	I was standing next to him at the AATA stop the other day.  He waits for the bus in the same way he waits for the opening kickoff. Dude's a one-man dance party.

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