Rawls if he can hang onto it, I'd guesss
Jonadan
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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 6 weeks 1 day ago | As a soccer player... |
...and until my teens only the most casual of football fans, I want to say that this was exceedingly useful to at least one person (me) on this board. I'd picked up most of it over the years, but having it all neatly laid out it great. Thanks! |
| 6 weeks 6 days ago | Wait, hockey? |
The most (only?) confusing thing about this idea is that I think I'm seeing the NHL being held up as a model for managing something sports-related. |
| 8 weeks 21 hours ago | You're going to need a bigger bike |
We're going to need a "tandem bike" tag pretty soon. |
| 9 weeks 17 hours ago | So, um $20K in under eight |
So, um $20K in under eight hours. I be like dang. (Though I admit I haven't contributed myself yet.) |
| 9 weeks 2 days ago | I'm still working on getting |
I'm still working on getting past the, "Hey, we have the same HC, OC, and DC two years in a row!" thing. I guess there just didn't seem to be much info in the presser. |
| 12 weeks 23 hours ago | One Idea |
(And I'm nowhere near voting-eligible, so I get to claim disinterest) I don't like a "hard cap" on admittees, but a (reasonable) cap on nominations, combined with a high voting bar, seems like a good option. For instance: max the nominations people can vote on at, say, 10 or 12, and then require 90%/95% favorable votes from your selection committee (readers with 100+ or 200+ or whatever points). Maybe lower the bar for "older" candidates, maybe not. Waiting period: don't really care. Maybe 3 years? |
| 18 weeks 20 hours ago | You would think so but... |
The only guy I knew in college not on an actual sports team to tear an ACL tore it playing ultimate. True, it was only because the quad had moles and he stepped in a hole, but that's not the point. |
| 18 weeks 6 days ago | Baseball |
I think the closest baseball equivalent would be watching your team load the bases repeatedly and still manage to lose one of those 3-2 games. Or maybe I just watched too much of the Phillies with my grandfather for years before they were good. (Granted, the crowd atmosphere at a baseball game is wildly different than the other major sports so the comparison doesn't really work anyway, but in terms of individual reactions, yeah.) |
| 19 weeks 1 day ago | Much as I think the BCS is a joke... |
Ignoring conferences etc. there was a consensus #1 team in the country – LSU – before the game on Monday. The eventual #2 lost one game, to the then-consensus #1, on the strength (weakness?) of missed FGs. Yeah, they <i>lost</i>... And Alabama won the rematch. Obviously, there are other teams with claims to make that they got screwed – mainly OK State (that never got a shot). Stanford and Boise State also have cases to make. In terms of what actually happened, though, the only team that played LSU close all season came back and dominated. I don't have any complaints about handing 'Bama the title (other than the fact that it's Alabama and Saban); if LSU had won there would be even less room for argument. In fact the only disaster case – Alabama winning a close one – didn't happen. All that said, the BCS process is a sham and makes no sense, what between imbalanced schedules, potentially corrupt voting procedures, broken computer algorithms, and so forth. To say nothing of the Ponzi scheme the bowls are these days. I'm not trying to defend the BCS as such, I just think that this year's <i>result</i> is actually kind of defensible. |
| 20 weeks 21 hours ago | Reality vs Rules |
In a sane universe, I think that has to be ruled a catch – the criteria seem to me like they ought to be, "Does he have it?", "Does anybody else have it?", and "Is he going to lose it?". Coale clearly had the ball, no one else was near him, and no way on earth he loses it. By comparison, the Megatron no-catch from 2010 (which I'm still bitter about) is less clearly a catch because Calvin did actually let go of the ball. He almost certainly thought the "process of the catch" (or whatever the verbiage is) was completed, but by not holding on (which I affirm 110% he could have) he created that doubt. But of course, we don't live in a world where sports rules are framed like that (though soccer rules come close until you start getting into FIFA's reams of interpretations, directives, and points of emphasis), and instead of the fairly simple three-point exercise outlined above we have the rule as written, and by the rule as written (and the normal "did it move when it hit the ground?" test), it's not a catch. So, yeah, VT got robbed a little bit, but by the rulebook, not the referees. Put it this way. If it had stood (and been the deciding factor), I would grouse about it (since it's not a catch by rule, but not very strongly (because it is one by common sense). |
