Hey remember when they had to fire their coach because he was jerkin' it on a Zoom call and then they lost 49-0 at home and then Michigan also won the National Championship
Correct. Nothing can actually top the 2021 OSU game. The conditions. The fact that it actually happened. They say you always remember your first time. Everything downstream of that has been the river pushing closer to the sea. 2021 OSU was when the tributary broke over the rock; it was all fait accompli, the question was just when it would be realized.
Yeah, this was by far the most bizarre survey. Leading question was essentially "do you want higher ticket prices or in-stadium advertising" and it was downhill from there. Essentially floating several options, including making the stadium no longer the largest in the nation by adding more premium seating (first asked how important being largest was to you, and later suggested reducing capacity by adding premium seating). There was also no free-form section.
Options asked about:
Sell alcohol in premium seating
Sell alcohol to everyone
Sponsor signage in stadium
Sponsor video messages
PA sponsor reads pre-game
PA sponsor reads during game
Decrease capacity via premium seating
Decrease capacity via adding social spaces ("ex. beer garden")
Vegas is not afraid of public money. Nowadays their oddsmakers are incredibly astute, and they are more or less comfortable taking an unlimited amount of public money on the line they set, especially on a marquee matchup like this. They will easily accumulate seven, eight figure liabilities on a side if they are confident in their position. What does scare them are sharps. 100k of a known sharp dropping a side is worth 10mm of public money. On a contrary line move like this, where the line is moving to increase their outstanding liability, it is fair to say that "Vegas knows something".
Afterward, soaking wet from his Gatorade bucket drenching by teammates, Joe sat in the dugout and explained the meaning behind his thick white bandana with a blue block M in the center.
"I had a brother who passed away," said Joe. "When he passed away (in 2015), I was in high school, and all of the surrounding neighborhoods, friends and family in the western suburbs (of Chicago) would tie white bandanas or ribbons around their trees in memory of my brother. So, I'm not a tree, but I wear it every inning of every game.
Real disappointment that PAPN is going away. It certainly filled a niche in my CFB podcast lineup that isn't easily filled. Whatever PAPN 2.0 is, it's not going to be the same, because so much of its content was driven by the S&P+ ratings. Plus, BillC seems to be a legit CFB junkie in the same way I am (e.g., breathlessly watching dumpster tier Mountain West games at 1 am).
Reading between the lines, it seems like Something Ominous is happening at SBNation (and Vox as a whole). Nobody is spilling the beans yet, at least not publicly, but whatever it is probably isn't good.
This is a popular misconception. The Alabama State Constitution actually says that the governor is nominated by the electorate, under the "advice and consent" of Nick Saban.
The confirmation hearings are grueling, and involve grilling on the nominee's understanding of split safety coverages.
Firefox mobile supports plugins, so you can run uBlock Origin on it. Now, having said that, mgoblog is the only site that's explicitly in my whitelist to allow ads
A bit. I have three seats and face was $125 each; got $175 a piece on StubHub, so after fees it was a modest profit -- not that I'd rather just be at the game of course. Like I said, they did sell within 10 minutes, and that was actually last week before the Maryland game and the CGD announcement. Could have just been lucky with someone looking for 3, though.
Came early, went down to the stadium (they let you on the field from 12-5). Having dinner at Fiddler's Hearth right now -- anyone meeting up to watch State lay an egg against Utah State (and the other games)?
My podcast listening regiment. It's enough for wall-to-wall CFB through the season and a healthy amount during the off. Numbers indicated are episodes per week
nitrogensports.eu is by far the best in my opinion. They've been operating a long time, great number of games across all sports (and goofy props), instant deposits and withdrawals, it's all around great.
They floated the smear job and victim blaming last night and enough of their own fan base bought it that they know they won't have an internal riot if he's retained. Now it's just time to play the news cycle game, let things cool off, and reinstate him in time for that TCU road game.
I'm using DisplayFusion on Steam, but it's basically the same thing. I switched from a 3 monitor setup at home to an ultrawide, although I'm still on a 4 (!) monitor setup at work: one main, one to the left, one above, one vertical to the right for documents.
UTL1 or 2 as the backdrop? Not bad. Probably my #1 and #2 experiences as a season ticket holder
I understand what you're saying. But, it seems nowadays that the distinction between "fascists" and "people I disagree with" has become so small as to be negligible. I, in my life, have never actually met a fascist. Yet, by Ace's tweet history you'd believe they are pervasive in our society. The conclusion is that either many people I interact with actually are fascists, or we're operating under different definitions. To me it seems simply a reapplication of Godwin's law; if we can equate our enemies with the worst possible characters (tbh direct Nazi equations are just as common) then we're justified in any sort of action against them.
This sort of discourse seems exactly what's wrong with the political climate today.
Exactly -- Ace regularly singles out people on Twitter all the time. If you don't believe X, you are a trash human being. For example, Ace saying "it's okay to be terrible and assault people you disagree with": https://twitter.com/AceAnbender/status/1011369565274693632
Listened to the first part on my way home and was not wowed. His answers about Flint were super flimsy. Brian tried to press him on it but to no avail. On one hand it's our moral imperative to use the state's rainy day fund to replace every inch of lead pipe in Flint; but not two breaths later he says that pipes don't even cause lead poisoning (which is true). Why then would we spending hundreds of millions of state dollars on a symbolic gesture? His attack on the DEQ's report that the water was safe was just a hand-wave away too simply because it didn't fit into his "moral imperative" narrative.
My impression was that he's very good at weaving appeals-to-emotion together with just enough policy to make it seem plausible.
It was funny watching the Mexico fans go crazy in the stands when South Korea scored in the other game, which just so happened to coincide with the final whistle blowing in their game, finishing a 3-0 thrashing they took.
It takes three clicks to get to the board on mobile, and you can see about two comments per page before you have to scroll. I just can't, can't understand why everyone's vision of beautiful design is a 95-5 empty-space-to-content ratio. For example, just the OP takes up the entire page on a 1920x1080 screen. You cannot see even a single response.
I'm landing at SFO two hours before the game for a weekend Napa trip with the wife before a convention in San Jose -- anyone know of any gatherings in the Bay Area?
The real reason is because the UNC case showed the best strategy against the NCAA is one of absolute denial and obstruction. Any program that is transparent gets taken to the cleaners (e.g. Michigan stretchgate)
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Hey remember when they had to fire their coach because he was jerkin' it on a Zoom call and then they lost 49-0 at home and then Michigan also won the National Championship
Correct. Nothing can actually top the 2021 OSU game. The conditions. The fact that it actually happened. They say you always remember your first time. Everything downstream of that has been the river pushing closer to the sea. 2021 OSU was when the tributary broke over the rock; it was all fait accompli, the question was just when it would be realized.
Yeah, this was by far the most bizarre survey. Leading question was essentially "do you want higher ticket prices or in-stadium advertising" and it was downhill from there. Essentially floating several options, including making the stadium no longer the largest in the nation by adding more premium seating (first asked how important being largest was to you, and later suggested reducing capacity by adding premium seating). There was also no free-form section.
Options asked about:
It's in Indy -- same place as the B1G Championship ?
Another thing to remember is that these NFL stadiums typically only seat like 50K nowadays with the club levels, etc
You are an MFing saint
Hopefully whoever did the 4K cap of some of the previous games gets this one up
Vegas is not afraid of public money. Nowadays their oddsmakers are incredibly astute, and they are more or less comfortable taking an unlimited amount of public money on the line they set, especially on a marquee matchup like this. They will easily accumulate seven, eight figure liabilities on a side if they are confident in their position. What does scare them are sharps. 100k of a known sharp dropping a side is worth 10mm of public money. On a contrary line move like this, where the line is moving to increase their outstanding liability, it is fair to say that "Vegas knows something".
I for one welcome British comedy legend Alan Bowman.
I have an airbnb booked in Seattle if that answers your question
Hopefully MGoArchive comes in with the 1080p torrent (pretty please)
Yeah, I can't seem to find any seeds for TNF torrent
It looks like it might be something custom he had made: https://mgoblue.com/news/2019/5/12/baseball-kornacki-charlie-donovan-remembered-on-a-very-touching-senior-day.aspx
Real disappointment that PAPN is going away. It certainly filled a niche in my CFB podcast lineup that isn't easily filled. Whatever PAPN 2.0 is, it's not going to be the same, because so much of its content was driven by the S&P+ ratings. Plus, BillC seems to be a legit CFB junkie in the same way I am (e.g., breathlessly watching dumpster tier Mountain West games at 1 am).
Reading between the lines, it seems like Something Ominous is happening at SBNation (and Vox as a whole). Nobody is spilling the beans yet, at least not publicly, but whatever it is probably isn't good.
The Athletic is to ESPN/Yahoo Sports what the Wall Street Journal is to CNN/Fox News/MSNBC
This is a popular misconception. The Alabama State Constitution actually says that the governor is nominated by the electorate, under the "advice and consent" of Nick Saban.
The confirmation hearings are grueling, and involve grilling on the nominee's understanding of split safety coverages.
Firefox mobile supports plugins, so you can run uBlock Origin on it. Now, having said that, mgoblog is the only site that's explicitly in my whitelist to allow ads
Lewerke…
LJ can't drive
Lewerke likes Nickelback
Mork enables them
A bit. I have three seats and face was $125 each; got $175 a piece on StubHub, so after fees it was a modest profit -- not that I'd rather just be at the game of course. Like I said, they did sell within 10 minutes, and that was actually last week before the Maryland game and the CGD announcement. Could have just been lucky with someone looking for 3, though.
My seats -- the ten yard line about 30 rows back -- sold above face in like 10 minutes on StubHub.
MFing fall weddings.
The only currency he cares about is clicks/view/shares/listens; don't feed the trolls, as they say
tenyardtracker.com has every Michigan game, and most NCAA games. The Western game is up
Someone with the capability please get a raw 4K rip of the game -- this would be great for future hype videos
Came early, went down to the stadium (they let you on the field from 12-5). Having dinner at Fiddler's Hearth right now -- anyone meeting up to watch State lay an egg against Utah State (and the other games)?
Here is a site where you can make one for any team, fit to any device: https://cfb.themacks.me/
Made the mistake of scrolling down to the comments. Don't make the same choices as me, my friends.
My podcast listening regiment. It's enough for wall-to-wall CFB through the season and a healthy amount during the off. Numbers indicated are episodes per week
If you want a good spot you'll need to be there early, 7am-ish for the 9am start. But yes, no tickets or anything, just show up!
nitrogensports.eu is by far the best in my opinion. They've been operating a long time, great number of games across all sports (and goofy props), instant deposits and withdrawals, it's all around great.
Wimbush's passing is sketchier than Zach Smith's Amazon history
I am going to the game, but please feel free anyone to make this :)
They floated the smear job and victim blaming last night and enough of their own fan base bought it that they know they won't have an internal riot if he's retained. Now it's just time to play the news cycle game, let things cool off, and reinstate him in time for that TCU road game.
I'm using…
Nice.
I'm using DisplayFusion on Steam, but it's basically the same thing. I switched from a 3 monitor setup at home to an ultrawide, although I'm still on a 4 (!) monitor setup at work: one main, one to the left, one above, one vertical to the right for documents.
UTL1 or 2 as the backdrop? Not bad. Probably my #1 and #2 experiences as a season ticket holder
I'm on the ultrawide master race as well -- I wish we could GoFundMe to get http://www.theartthearttheart.com/ back
I understand what you're saying. But, it seems nowadays that the distinction between "fascists" and "people I disagree with" has become so small as to be negligible. I, in my life, have never actually met a fascist. Yet, by Ace's tweet history you'd believe they are pervasive in our society. The conclusion is that either many people I interact with actually are fascists, or we're operating under different definitions. To me it seems simply a reapplication of Godwin's law; if we can equate our enemies with the worst possible characters (tbh direct Nazi equations are just as common) then we're justified in any sort of action against them.
This sort of discourse seems exactly what's wrong with the political climate today.
Exactly -- Ace regularly singles out people on Twitter all the time. If you don't believe X, you are a trash human being. For example, Ace saying "it's okay to be terrible and assault people you disagree with": https://twitter.com/AceAnbender/status/1011369565274693632
Listened to the first part on my way home and was not wowed. His answers about Flint were super flimsy. Brian tried to press him on it but to no avail. On one hand it's our moral imperative to use the state's rainy day fund to replace every inch of lead pipe in Flint; but not two breaths later he says that pipes don't even cause lead poisoning (which is true). Why then would we spending hundreds of millions of state dollars on a symbolic gesture? His attack on the DEQ's report that the water was safe was just a hand-wave away too simply because it didn't fit into his "moral imperative" narrative.
My impression was that he's very good at weaving appeals-to-emotion together with just enough policy to make it seem plausible.
It was funny watching the Mexico fans go crazy in the stands when South Korea scored in the other game, which just so happened to coincide with the final whistle blowing in their game, finishing a 3-0 thrashing they took.
It takes three clicks to get to the board on mobile, and you can see about two comments per page before you have to scroll. I just can't, can't understand why everyone's vision of beautiful design is a 95-5 empty-space-to-content ratio. For example, just the OP takes up the entire page on a 1920x1080 screen. You cannot see even a single response.
Mobile site needs WAY less padding, especially on the board. On my Pixel 2 XL I can see about two comments before I have to scroll again.
Also, TLS please :)
Strong 2nd place for best is Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
Best: Bud Light Real Men of Genius
Worst: I dunno, anything Apple does
Excellent! BTW, I still have this gem in my collection should anyone want it
I tool the Loyola ML as a hedge against a loss. Will be happy to lose the money.
I'm landing at SFO two hours before the game for a weekend Napa trip with the wife before a convention in San Jose -- anyone know of any gatherings in the Bay Area?
To quote Kevin from The Office, "If someone gives you 10,000 to 1 on anything, you take it"
As the OP's older brother, I sympathize with our burden
The real reason is because the UNC case showed the best strategy against the NCAA is one of absolute denial and obstruction. Any program that is transparent gets taken to the cleaners (e.g. Michigan stretchgate)