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If UT is going to be in the…

If UT is going to be in the game, and that means packs are going to be in the game, that's a pretty bad omen on how the game will go honestly.
 

He's already said he's only…

He's already said he's only planning on taking a year sabbatical, so he'll be back somewhere.  But he did vow that he will not coach for an english team (not because he dislikes em, but isn't going to compete against liverpool directly.) 


So i'm holding onto the dream that he'll come coach the USMNT :D  

I am so much more distraught…

I am so much more distraught about Klopp leaving than I was about Harbaugh leaving.  I'm pretty sure that it's just because the Harbaugh change was clearly coming over the years and Klopp is totally out of nowhere but man... this morning was rough.

Xabi come on down!

"p.s. count me in the camp…

"p.s. count me in the camp of being on this guy's side. He did what other programs are clearly doing but was the only one to get burned for it, and in a very public and negative way. "

 

I 100% do not understand this mindset in anyway.   By all accounts he was doing something behind the back of his superiors, was unbelievably sloppy and amateur about it, hurt the players, coaches, and the schools reputation, and will forever give our rivals ammo to talk crap about our NC season (even if it's an attempt for them to cope with reality.)

That's not even getting into the BS he pulled with Blake.

Dude doesn't deserve an ounce of praise or respect, and sure as hell won't be getting a dime from me on Cameo trying to cash in on his pathetic 15 minutes of fame.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/10/business/aaron-rodgers-pat-mcafee-show/index.html

He's apparently done with him for the rest of the season.

While I do not disagree that…

While I do not disagree that Michigan fans have a bias towards JJ.   I don't really understand why you think that Penix is a QB the NFL wants, he's just not that.

 He's old, he has had multiple serious surgeries, his decision making is very inconsistent and down right reckless at times. The one thing most people think he's good at, throwing the deep ball, he's actually not all that good at (he only hit on 50% of his deep balls this year.)  He's average to below average at driving the ball down the middle of the field, he's average on short passes, and has on the regular forced the ball to the fade or go route even when it's double or even triple covered.

He consistently had a clean and large pocket to throw from, in situations where he is under duress he frequently misses open targets, and he also has the benefit of throwing to receivers that are going to be drafted extremely high in the NFL.

JJ is young, healthy, and has a ton of potential that a lot of NFL teams drool over, if he declares for the draft you're going to see people comparing him to a guy like Josh Allen (Who I do not think he is BTW, but there will be teams that view him as having that type of potential.) 

Too much can happen between now and the draft for me to put any guesses on if JJ goes in the first round or not, but I feel very confident that JJ would be picked before Penix at this point in time, who I think, once all the dust settles, will have a similar draft stock to a guy like Hooker last year.

"Most college kickers can…

"Most college kickers can hit a 42 yard kick pretty consistently, but a 52 yard kick totally different story."


I'm not too sure that College Kickers really do kick 42 yard field goals consistently.

For example, using the data here a 40-44 yard field goal is successful only 63% of the time.  (I selected the larger range for more sample size since there is so much variance, but will call out it is 74% for 42 yards exactly)


Game winning pressure kicks are going to be an even lower percentage chance to boot.    So I'm not sure that there really is a need to move things further back to make things harder on the kicker. 

Also let's me honest... nobody wants to lose because their kicker missed a kick in overtime.

Still too early - last year…

Still too early - last year was as step back in recruiting but it was also a transition year and everything that comes with that.   The bar was also set pretty ridiculously high.

Naurato has done a very good job since last year, but I don't see (or expect) them to be putting together a top 3 class we had been seeing, this year.

 

MGoBlue != MGoBlog

 

MGoBlue != MGoBlog

On top of trusting people…

On top of trusting people around her and making great hires - she's also one of the biggest reasons that Barry and Calvin are around so much now too.   I believe Calvin has even singled her out more than once in talking about how she's been active in trying to make things right.

Feels like we finally got an owner that cares about making the fans happy vs what the ROI for the year will be of all the previous Fords running the show.

I could care fewer about…

I could care fewer about this article.

He didn't say that he doesn…

He didn't say that he doesn't believe that the air pressure would have been impacted.  It's that he doesn't believe it would account for percentage it actually dropped.

Which... the science certainly agrees with.  It wasn't a cold new england winter day that day, it was 50 degrees out.    A 20-25F drop in temp would not drop the pressure in the ball from 12.5 to 10.5


We know how much the pressure in the ball is suppose to decrease based on temp changes using the Ideal Gas Law.

Let's use 70F, which is 294K

And lets use 50F, which is 283K


That's about a 3% difference in K, which means we would expect to see a roughly 3% reduction in absolute pressure in the ball.     Which is not what we see here.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com…

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-take-another-stab-at-unpacking-the-rising-strikeout-rate/

A pretty interesting article on strike-out rates that you may be interested in.  TLDR: Players don't appear to be striking out more because they're going for the Big Hit, they're striking out more because the pitching is better and more aggressive.

Yea - I think a lot of…

Yea - I think a lot of people in this topic are rather confused about what a VPN actually does and does not do.   The only thing a VPN really does is:
 

1.) encrypt your data  - for the vast majority of internet traffic in 2023 this is already happening.  Modern web browsers default to going to https:// on websites, practically every single public email provider utilizes SMTPS etc etc.   That does not mean there isn't actual benefit to using VPN, but it's not giving the majority of people using it a massive increase in network security they likely think it is.   It's kind of like wrapping an already wrapped present.  

2.) It masks your IP address.  I don't think this is as valuable as many people think it is, but it can be a very big plus for some users and is typically one of the big reasons people want it, to appear they are coming from somewhere else to the site they are interacting with.   There have been ways to figure out your actual IP address even when using a VPN (WebRTC hello) but I don't believe those methods work on VPN clients discussed here.


That's it - people talking about using a VPN to protect your private data because websites make money selling that info... they're not getting that info via unsecure network transmissions, they get that information because you enter it into a website when you register for it.   A VPN isn't going to somehow stop them from getting that data.   A VPN doesn't protect your cookies or movements or anything like that.

A website itself can also be insecure - you may be terminating HTTPS to their content delivery network, but then the connection back to the website's origin - which will flow over the public internet - is over HTTP.   A VPN isn't going to protect you from that at all either.

A VPN can have it's uses, and I don't think there is anything wrong or bad with using one, it's still pretty much just giving you good things at a very afffordable cost.   But some of the claims as to what it actually does are just not accurate, and I think the vast majority of people actually using these services don't really need to use them.


My biggest recommendation, using a VPN or not, don't expect anything you put on the internet to actually be secure and private.

(20+ years in IT security and networking)

When a DB is doing their job…

When a DB is doing their job perfect, nobody throws their way for them to rack up stats.  

Personally, I think stats like "Detroit did not throw towards Gardners side of the field a single time the entire game" are the biggest stats a DB can have.   He wasn't targeted often, and when his player was they didn't catch it often.  Dude's a beast and it's OK to say it.

A friendly disclaimer:…

A friendly disclaimer:

Michael Spath doesn't know jack shit and has no current connections to the program.   I'd take anything he says with an extremely high level of skepticism. 

I don't think agreeing with…

I don't think agreeing with Harbaugh on having a "Mulligan Rule" is close at all to accepting the L on this situation.

Even moreso if he starts out with false claims about it.

 

I'm honestly not…

 

I'm honestly not following where the damage to his reputation is there.

I 10000% agree with…

I 10000% agree with everything you said, except I would like to make a point about #2.

You are correct that rarely is the money 50/50, and oddsmakers don't set the line initially trying to get money 50/50 on each side - because it will get hammered if it's a bad line.

That said, the only distinction I would make is that it is a large goal of casinos and sportsbooks to get money evenly split between the teams, as it introduces the least amount of risk for them.  (which is something you're not even disagreeing with in your response really, heh.) 

Chris Shelton after the…

Chris Shelton after the first week of the '06 season.   Think he was hitting like .650 or .700, 5 home runs, ridiculous OPS etc etc.

Then the rest of the season happened.

You can sue for pretty much…

You can sue for pretty much anything and everything. 

The odds of actually winning a case like this is pretty much nill.

I can't even count the…

I can't even count the number of times Michigan, and fellow fans, have talked about Ford being a center on Michigan.

That said, the comment wasn't a straw man at all.   It wasn't trying to invalidate anything you said, just wondered who wrote something that contained such a false statement.

Uhh

Uhh there is a sslliigghhttt difference between being sponsered by a brand, and playing for and graduating from U of M.

 

But you do you man...

You sure?

I mean yea, he is satrizing stupid opinions and stupid fans.  But the core of his character is a misoginistic, racist, sexist and rather stupid sports fan.   Barstool has a lot of fans that are straight up his character - just unironically.  And some of the content that Barstool produces is really undeniably misognistic and sexist.



When he was writing for KSK/SBNation you didn't have the same obvious conflict of chracter vs content that was being produced alongside him.   You don't get that at Barstool, and that's where I find the Stephen Colbert analogy pretty apt.



I love the guy though, think he's hilarious, and don't plan on stopping consuming his content.   But my eyebrows raised when he went to Barstool, and I don't really see any issues with people who have such an issue about it they straight up call him out or stop listening to him.  

Old Rumor

It was an old rumor that she was sleeping with that teammate.  That wasn't even happening, he thought they were when they weren't.

Edited

The "He needs help" line was not there when I initally went to reply, assuming he edited it (though I may have just missed it.)  That said doesn't change much.   Hearing about this situation and getting worried about how haters may respond is such a weird ass response to me.

You need to

You need to take a step back and re-evaluate your priorities mate. 

Woah now

I'm not saying there was a single victim or a single incident.  I said that there was a single REPORTED incident.  Vs 8 women REPORTING incidents for MSU.

 

I apologize for not making that more clear.  But I'm not ignorant about what happened at PSU.

Worse

This is worse than Penn State.

 

PSU was a fucked up situation, but - for the most part - we had a single reported incident that wasn't appropriately followed-up on or reported to authorities, and then a revelation of abuse from a former employee.
 
In this situation we have 8 different women coming forward about abuse of a current employee over a 20 year period (!!!) and 14 staff members knowing about the allegations - including the president - and them doing nothing about it, other than a weak review in 2014. Amazingly fucked up.
Lolz

Sure thing slugger.  I mean, it's not like I quoted you saying that's what many people seem to believe.    That definitely didn't happen.  :)   You do you though, it's strong.  Idiotic and illogical, but strong.

Yes and No



You are correct that Comcast increased the rate because people using Netflix was eating up a lot of the bandwidth that Comcast actually sold to their customers.   ISPs have played the game of greatly overselling their bandwidth to customers for years.   It made a lot of business sense, the majority of their users didn't come close to using up the bandwidth they purchased, so they can oversell it and only during peak times is it an issue.   





Netflix then came along, and now there was a reason for the majority of ISPs customers to start using up the bandwidth that they purchased from their ISP.    





This is why you see absolutely idiotic and ignorant takes from Telcom employees - like we've seen in this topic - that Netflix somehow owes them money because they aren't able to continue the same jig of greatly overselling bandwidth as people are actually using it now.  So it cuts into their profits, and causes them to spend a lot more money upgrading their equipment to handle faster speeds.    100% of this is the ISPs fault for overselling their bandwidth.   

"That's what many people seem to believe."

"That's what many people seem to believe. For those people, the proposed changes are bad, regardless of the reality of the current service delivery and pricing."

 

I have not seen a single person that believes that's what NN is.   Not a single one.   Hell of a strawman though.

Why

"Please post a link that divulges what Netflicks pays ISPs to carry their content. I can't find that info."

 

They don't, and they shouldn't.  That's the entire point of net neutrality!    Netflix pays for their internet service to their ISP to serve all the content they do.   That's the only money they owe for other ISPs to "Carry their content" (a.k.a. provide access to any and all websites on the internet..) 



Netflix doesn't need to "pay their fair share."  ISPs need to live up to the agreements they're making with their customers.   The previous method of overselling your internet was a business staple, but since users are actually using that service now doesn't in-turn mean the sites they're going to owe the ISPs that oversold their service  more money.   That's idiotic and illogical, and a staple view that i've heard from telcom workers.

The most known example

Here is the most known example.  Comcast dropping the speeds of netflix for all of their users until netflix paid them more money.  There are plenty of other examples of similar behavor of other ISPs.    As has been pointed out numerous times in this topic, capitalism is not setup to handle this issue, since many people don't have choices when it comes to their ISP.   We also have plenty of capitalism examples of companies doing whatever they can to make more of a profit.



Mayweather

Mayweather is going to win pretty easily, but man would I ever love to see McGregor catch him with something and lay him out.   I have zero respect for Mayweather... any man who would beat up the mother of his child infront of the child, is disgusting to me.

Might

Might want to blur those addresses in the images.

Good Idea

I actually think this is a really good idea and should be some fun.

 It's super easy/quick to setup a server.  I think it'll probably be better if someone with the site creates it rather than myself but, if nobody ends up doing anything official, I can spin something up.

 

Did you actually read the article?



You seem to be implying that the relationship was mutual at the start and that it was just a bad idea to get into a relationship with your coach or athlete... that's not at all what the article says happened... what actually happened was rape.

 

38.7%

 

Did you also know that 38.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot?  

Poor Russillo



Think of how crappy it must be for Russillo, going from your co-host being fucking Scott Van Pelt  to.... Danny Kanell.   I truly don't know how he did it.

You're doing exactly what he wants

By creating this topic, linking to his tweets, and talking about him you're doing exactly what he wants.  Kanell is a hot take artist who has tried to walk the same shoes as Bayless and similar....  who cares, he's wrong.. move on.



I get it though, the majority of fans for any team are all this guy:

Dusty

Sure got dusty in this office all of a sudden. 

Cloudflare

I don't believe their running on their own servers in a DC somwehre.  They utilize cloudflare and an online hosting providers last I remember

Nope

Nope, it's about jackass head coach who has a team that isn't very good, and then becomes very good once he convinces the best player to finally play for the team. That's the core story of the movie, and is why it sucks.

 

Everything else is just fluff.

 

 

Hoosiers

Hoosiers is one of the worst sports movie ever.

 

The takeaway from Hoosiers: You can be a terrible coach with a shit attitude, but if you finally get the best player in the state to come out and play for your team, than your team wins.    

Little misleading.

This is a bit misleading.

Vegas doesn't predict the outcome of games at all.  They're predicting betting patterns on the game... there is a huge difference there.   (And while their spread can nail the actual outcome of the game at times, they're also nowhere close at all many other times.)



A -16 spread doesn't mean they think that PSU is equally as dangerous to Michigan as Colorado.  It just means they think that the public is going to view PSU as a little bit better of a bet against Michigan than Colorado was.  It's all about getting bets as even as possible for both teams.  That's the nice safe spot that vegas is always targeting.



So, I wouldn't really use betting lines as evidence as to how good/bad a team really is.



 

T-Mobile

T-Mobile unlimited data plan for me, aww yeahh.



Of course, if I travel I hate my life.  But outside of that, it's outstanding.

Yes

" Does an official have to declare something in order for it to be?"



Yes, the official has to declare the game over for it to be over.



The game SHOULD have been declared over, but it wasn't.  So the game was not over.

I doubt it

I doubt it, pretty much every strength and conditioning coach preaches naps like crazy.  Get in your work and get in your rest whenever you can.

 

Evidence

I'm gonna go with the Evidence rather than Lochte or the Brazilian police force.



The evidence that has come out today is pretty damning for Lochte's story.  Legitmently all the evidence from security cameras, interviews and timing that has come out has done nothing but gone against the Lochte's original story.



Now, I don't get why they would lie... legit that's the one part that I haven't been able to make any sense out of.  But it sure as hell seems pretty clear that they've lied.





But I'm sure it's possible that he was robbed, they let him keep his 2K shoes and expensive watch, and that he picked up a new wallet from the time he was robbed and went back to the Olympic Village (which was 3 hours later than he claimed), and that everyone in the group got over the trama of the robbery in that time too.