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Will he still be on the team…

Will he still be on the team to potentially get a ring next month? Gotta be a tough decision if it means leaving before that.

Maybe for a year or two…

Maybe for a year or two before all other conferences did the same thing.

Wow coaching at Michigan is…

Wow coaching at Michigan is dangerous

FYI, OCs always get by far…

FYI, OCs always get by far the most grief from a fanbase. So, either there is a generations-long epidemic of poor offensive coordination in this country, or the internet pearl-clutchers are basic af and just lashing out at the first thing that comes into their lizard brains.

The official Director's Cup…

The official Director's Cup standings seem to have last been updated Jan 13, so this is out of date, but at that time Michigan was #3 behind BYU and Notre Dame, with Stanford way down at 17 (Wisc & PSU were 4 & 5, respectively).

I think Stanford finally had to drop a few varsity programs during the pandemic, eroding what had been one of their biggest advantages -- having more varsity sports than everyone else.

https://nacda.com/documents/2022/1/12//Jan_13OverallStandings.pdf?id=4504

 

Well it seems he's 100% from…

Well it seems he's 100% from inside the arc in that span...

I haven't found it either…

I haven't found it either. When was it published?

...iction?

...iction?

I teach at a med school and…

I teach at a med school and haven't ever heard the term. The first (and only) google result I get for the term is this thread.

It's really easy to create a

It's really easy to create a ranking algorithm. It makes no sense to draw attention to one of them unless there is any reason to think it has some special utility, particularly at this early stage when even the good ones are completely unreliable.

If it's due to a more general fascination with failed analyses, You'd love the endless blocks of poorly-conceived and buggy-ass code I've accumulated over the years.

Better to envision more of a

Better to envision more of a continuum, where (given similar public interest and player incentives) the activities best facilitated by pure athleticism will tend to have the better athletes. Jumping straight to "therefore baseball players are like chess players" only makes sense if you think those activities have similar athletic requirements.

I don't watch baseball

I don't watch baseball either, but I figured it was common knowledge that it's a skill game. Being able to run fast and jump high obviously doesn't hurt, but pure athleticism doesn't directly translate to hitting a baseball or turning a double play. Therefore, the average athleticism in baseball will tend to be lower than sports in which it does translate more directly.

It's mostly a resizing issue.

It's mostly a resizing issue. Your site displays fine if the browser is sufficiently wide or sufficiently narrow, but there's a decent interval in between that breaks the formatting.

Rudock finishes 249/389,

Rudock finishes 249/389, 3017yds, 20TD, 9INT, 141.5 rating, his best year in college by a significant margin. Glad to have cheered for him.

FYI, using 3D graphs with 2D

FYI, using 3D graphs with 2D data (and often even with 3D data) is a huge no-no in the dataviz world. All it does is make it harder to interpret.

But I appreciate your thoughts. CTE is looking like a big problem, and I think the health of athletes should always be the priority.

Most kids who commit to a

Most kids who commit to a class stay in a class, no matter how early. It's still reason for excitement.

I've seen some BYU folks

I've seen some BYU folks hoping he'll coach at his alma mater for a while as he cleans up. It'd presumably be a good environment for it. I don't know if the admins would allow it though, and they seem pretty set at HC and OC so it'd have to be as qb coach at most.

I don't know if too many teams will be keen on handing him the keys so maybe that's what he will need to do anyway.

I don't really get the Hoke

I don't really get the Hoke clapping thing unless it's a representation of his lack of participation in the play calling or something. in which case why did the clapping meme win out over the headset one?

I mean, Harbaugh claps too.

I thought Wormley might have

I thought Wormley might have gotten held on that play so maybe Harbaugh did too.

Nah that team recorded 4

Nah that team recorded 4 shutouts but not three in a row. That hasn't been done by anyone since 1995.

3 out of the 4 previous teams

3 out of the 4 previous teams to do so won it all, including the 1948 Michigan team.

Seemed pretty much text book

Seemed pretty much text book targeting. Clearly defenseless receiver, clearly hit him helmet to helmet. Doesn't mean there was ill intent, but if that's not targeting there's no such thing.

Exactly

Exactly

That's just the next time

That's just the next time there's a lunar eclipse at perigee (so a few % larger in appearance). Lunar eclipses aren't really that rare.

First link goes to an Mlive

First link goes to an Mlive article. Here's the correct link: http://247sports.com/Player/Brendan-Bailey-71748

The PFF scoring review notes

The PFF scoring review notes that Rudock was pressured on more than a third of his throws, which is very high. He was able to get the ball out quickly a lot, which I think is most of the difference between this game and what we saw last year. It's not clear to me that the OL was that much better in pass protection than in run blocking.

ThatsTheJoke.edu

ThatsTheJoke.edu

The external shell of modern

The external shell of modern helmets does actually give quite a bit, and the soft padding below it is roughly analogous to a car's crumple zones.

I agree that it's counterintuitive, but the research on this subject is clear.

This is true, although again

This is true, although again the mobile shell would still be more effective if made of a hard material. Soft material acts to "catch" the impact of a glancing blow, causing much greater forces on the brain relative to a hard shell that deflects most of the impact energy.

That's the opposite of the

That's the opposite of the truth. Soft padding on the outside would just ensure that all the energy of the hit is transmitted into the helmet/head instead of some of it being redirected.

Helmet design definitely needs a lot of work, but the hard externum is guaranteed to remain.

Protip

neither is saying "protip".

(I still upvoted you)

Allen Gant has at last

Allen Gant has at last reached a plausible weight and will be a senior so presumably will have enough experience to be ok.

Jared Wangler will be in his 3rd year in the program next year and would at least provide a warm body.

If things are sufficiently dire Winovich could always be moved back.

But I agree that LB is a 2016 worry spot.

As a veteran of biological

As a veteran of biological nomenclature battles, I can tell you that the organizational category of a specimen is the least interesting question one can ask unless it reflects something real about its origin. The Pluto debate almost never does this. Whether it has interesting geology or whether its diameter is very slightly larger than Eris' has no bearing on whether Pluto is a planet.

On the other hand, taxonomic nomenclature has been almost completely revamped as biologists have learned more and more about the diversity of extant and extinct life -- it now seeks to describe the phylogeny of life (patterns of evolutionary descent), rather than simple similarity. Astronomical nomenclature could definitely use a similar update so that it reflects something real.

The Pluto-planet debate can't be interesting until the IAU creates a useful definition of a planet. Until then, the whole debate is just emotional baggage on both sides, with one side uncomfortable that their nursery rhymes need updating and the other side uncomfortable at the prospect of having only explored a tiny fraction of the worlds in our solar system and needing to bring all the KBOs like Pluto down a notch.

Dude. Roughly 2/3 of all

Dude. Roughly 2/3 of all humans are lactose intolerant.

You might find it hard to judge which characteristics are unique to America if don't know shit about any place but America.

I'll admit to having a Nike

I'll admit to having a Nike preference for Michigan, but competition is good for the consumer. Ideally, Michigan will switch to Nike but a bunch of other schools will switch to non-Nike brands. At least Under Armor still seems to be gaining market share. A Nike monopoly wouldn't be good for anybody.

I agree it's a good article

I agree it's a good article and that ESPN is crazy for trying to have him lead anybody or for giving him a job at all, but the fact that he supported Hoke never even crossed my mind. I really like Hoke and hope he tears it up wherever he lands, just like RichRod. Does that make me crazy too?

The front page needs to have

The front page needs to have a list of posts in the sidebar just like the forum and diaries do. Until that happens, most of the good discussion will take place in the forum.

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You're better off lamenting

You're better off lamenting that the shuttle was approved in the first place over a continuing Apollo/advanced capsule program. It temporarily sucks that we have to pay the Russians, but shuttle was an engineering failure from day 1 and never made good on any of its promises (i.e., rapid, safe, and inexpensive reusability).

So the Gemini missions were

So the Gemini missions were also for pretend? How about Mercury? I've often wondered where the line is drawn. Is the ISS a fiction? Is GPS a lie? How am I supposed to get home tonight?

The Soyuz still does today,

The Soyuz still does today, mostly because there isn't a convenient ocean to land in for them. A retrorocket fires the instant before landing, which softens the blow a bit. In the beginning, they just landed really hard and hoped not to break anything.

Not to be confused with the

Not to be confused with the first American spacewalk, which occurred about 10 weeks later and was performed by Ed White, a Michigan grad.

It seems like the best

It seems like the best strategy in end of game down by 3 situations is to defend normally unless a player below a certain threshold of FT% gets the ball in his hands. I don't know what that threshold is exactly, but surely someone in the 50-60% range makes it an easy decision -- especially so before the double bonus.

Could be he doesn't want to

Could be he doesn't want to get flamed by internet wastrels until signing day.

This is the guy FootballScoop

This is the guy FootballScoop was calling the prime candidate in mid-December. It seemed crazy, and still kinda does.

Driskel's HS tape is maybe

Driskel's HS tape is maybe the most impressive I've ever seen. He's been bad at Florida, but he's got talent like crazy if somebody can figure out what to do with it.

That article doesn't mention

That article doesn't mention any desire on Hogan's part to transfer, and implies in a couple places that he might be done with college football. Am I missing some subtext here?

Yes, roughly 20% of the time.

Yes, roughly 20% of the time. Rain predictions have gotten really good.

Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise has a cool chapter on that topic.

I know the comments here are

I know the comments here are facetious, but the guy is getting a research center named after him, which is a pretty big deal. I just attended the opening of a similar center at my university and a whole community of people was elated about it.

When a center is founded, it generally involves a large donation because said donation endows the center in perpetuity rather than funding it for a short time.

Chris Clark seems very

Chris Clark seems very likely, judging by his tweet.