To me, the top play will always be Elvis Grbac throwing to Desmond Howard in the end zone on fourth down against Notre Dame. Most excited I've ever been while in attendance at a game.
FSU has had problems with the ACC long before the CFP screwed them. That just added another example of the ACC's impotence to FSU's pile of grievances.
I dunno, man. If MSU somehow managed to find a way to lose every single game next season, I'm pretty sure I'd find every loss even funnier than the previous one.
Florida is basically fine. If you want a detailed view of how Florida is doing, you can look at Florida Atlantic University's covid tracker. Basically, covid peaked in Florida in mid-to-late July, and has been improving steadily since, despite schools opening statewide near the beginning of September, and businesses (restaurants, etc.) gradually opening up over the same time period.
I can't actually vouch for any of these, but here are some possibilities:
Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series of books consist essentially of a bunch of old photographs with explanatory paragraphs. They have books for just about every city, town, or county in the US old enough to have photographs they can use. They have a bunch for Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county, including the titles "Downtown Ann Arbor", "Electric Trolleys of Washtenaw County", "Lost Ann Arbor", "Ann Arbor in the 19th Century", "Ann Arbor in the 20th Century", "The Ann Arbor Railroad", "Jewish Ann Arbor", and possibly others. Many of these are available for Kindle, and some are even on Kindle Unlimited.
Other books: "A History of Ann Arbor" by Jonathan Marwil; "History of the University of Michigan" by Isaac Newton Demmon; "The Michigan Theater" by Henry B. Aldridge; "Another Ann Arbor (Black America Series)" by Carol Gibson and Lola M. Jones; "Vanishing Ann Arbor" by Patti F. Smith and Britain Woodman; "Historic Ann Arbor: An Architectural Guide" by Susan Wineberg and Patrick McCauley. Again, I haven't actually read any of these, so am not vouching for any in particular.
Also, Betty Smith, who is most famous for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", wrote a novel, "Joy in the Morning", about a woman who marries her boyfriend against their families' wishes, and they move from New York to Ann Arbor so that he can go to law school there. It's set in the 1920s, and there are a lot of contrasts between this "small Midwestern college town in the middle of nowhere" and "the big city". I remember liking it pretty well.
I live in Tallahassee, and get the Big Ten Network through Xfinity with the "More Sports & Entertainment" package. It's not on one of their "levels". You have to specifically get the package add-on.
If you're going to go full capitalist here, that's fine, but you should be clear what you're doing. Football and men's basketball players would get paid then. But pretty much every other college athlete would not, as they don't make the university any money. In fact, the vast majority of them would have to pay the university additional money above tuition to play their sports because, again, almost every sports team other than football and men's basketball loses money. If that's what you're arguing for, then okay. That would be great (really!) for football players and men's basketball players. But it would pretty much suck for everybody else.
I agree that change is pretty much inevitable, and probably for the good, but this pretense that the "right" thing to do is obvious and simple and there are no legitimate reasons to have concerns about it or worry about the details, is obnoxious bullshit.
It is true that it remains a kick until it is possessed by a player. This is one case of it being a loose ball. (Other cases are punts, fumbles, etc.) In all circumstances, it is illegal to kick a loose ball. In NCAA rules, this is a 15 yard penalty and loss of down. (In high school or the NFL, it's not a loss of down.) Since the offense gave the impetus for the ball to enter the end zone, if the defense declines the penalty, the result would be a touchback, first and ten at the 20 for the defense. Also, if the kicker had actually possessed the ball, he could have attempted a drop kick still legally, as the ball had never crossed the line of scrimmage. But he would have actually had to establish possession first.
A nice source is Tropical Tidbits, by a grad student at Florida State. He does an excellent job in his videos explaining some of the science behind the forecasts.
The problem with replay in basketball is that it is interminable. Most of the time, while we've already seen what the obviously correct call is 20 times on tv, the official is still trying to get some guy in some booth somewhere to show him the replay on his little camping tv that somehow dropped in from the 90's at the scorer's table. And then, once he's finally made his decision on the call, it'll be another five minutes while he gets the gameclock correct to the tenth of a second. It's just usually not worth the aggravation.
I live in Tallahassee, and we just got our power back after Hurricane Hermine came through, so I missed the game. I knew that MGoBlog would come through for me!
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Michigan is the only school in NCAA Divison I to have won a national championship in all four of fooball, basketball, baseball, and hockey.
Minnesota is missing basketball, Michigan State is missing baseball, and Ohio State is missing hockey. No other Big Ten team has even three of the four.
It probably wouldn't work for many reasons, but would the University of Toronto be worth considering as an eighth? I don't know how cable works in Canada, but Toronto would be a huge market to get into.
This seems unlikely to me. Is it just based on them backing into the SEC championship game because of a weak east, and then lucking out a win against Alabama or whoever from the west, under the general assumption that any SEC champ is going to the playoffs?
I was at Michigan during his years there. Young and stupid, I didn't realize just how amazing his ability to hit the hole was at the time. One instant he's behind the line, the next he's past the linebackers.
One of the things CAPA is fighting for is better treatment for these sorts of issues
But I don't see specifically what this has to do with athletics. I knew a couple of classmates when I was an undergrad in Ann Arbor who struggled mightily with these sorts of issues, too. What about them?
I think CAPA needs to do a better job of distinguishing athletic issues from more general life issues.
should be buying Lewan dinner every night, doing his laundry, changing the oil in his car, whatever. Can you imagine what this line would look like if he had gone pro?
To eliminate any confusion about how the rankings are determined (to be honest, they used to be arbitrary), team order is determined by multiplying the number of commits by star average.
That is, it's just the total number of stars. Are two three-stars better than one five-star? Perhaps, but it doesn't feel right quite right.
I went to Plantation High back in the early 90s. It's named after the city of Plantation, so they have some excuse for that, but get this: they're actually called the Plantation Colonels, and their mascot is an old guy that looks remarkably like Ole Miss's cartoonish Colonel Reb. Seriously.
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You can change the url from https://www.youtube.com/shorts/"videocode" to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="videocode" and get the standard YouTube user interface. Better yet, set up your browser to automatically do this.
It was a Minimoog synthesizer.
As my grandmother used to say, "Thank God for small favors."
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I'm loving your (and KenPom's) optimism.
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To me, the top play will always be Elvis Grbac throwing to Desmond Howard in the end zone on fourth down against Notre Dame. Most excited I've ever been while in attendance at a game.
FSU has had problems with the ACC long before the CFP screwed them. That just added another example of the ACC's impotence to FSU's pile of grievances.
It's just a shortened form of their full name. If you want to go old school, you can also call them Soo Tech.
Unfortunately, this doesn't count. Drake University apparently wasn't known as the "Bulldogs" until 1908; they were the "Drakes" until then.
I dunno, man. If MSU somehow managed to find a way to lose every single game next season, I'm pretty sure I'd find every loss even funnier than the previous one.
[insert old Lion] has to be Bobby Layne.
Knob Creek bourbon old-fashioned.
Florida is basically fine. If you want a detailed view of how Florida is doing, you can look at Florida Atlantic University's covid tracker. Basically, covid peaked in Florida in mid-to-late July, and has been improving steadily since, despite schools opening statewide near the beginning of September, and businesses (restaurants, etc.) gradually opening up over the same time period.
I can't actually vouch for any of these, but here are some possibilities:
Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series of books consist essentially of a bunch of old photographs with explanatory paragraphs. They have books for just about every city, town, or county in the US old enough to have photographs they can use. They have a bunch for Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county, including the titles "Downtown Ann Arbor", "Electric Trolleys of Washtenaw County", "Lost Ann Arbor", "Ann Arbor in the 19th Century", "Ann Arbor in the 20th Century", "The Ann Arbor Railroad", "Jewish Ann Arbor", and possibly others. Many of these are available for Kindle, and some are even on Kindle Unlimited.
Other books: "A History of Ann Arbor" by Jonathan Marwil; "History of the University of Michigan" by Isaac Newton Demmon; "The Michigan Theater" by Henry B. Aldridge; "Another Ann Arbor (Black America Series)" by Carol Gibson and Lola M. Jones; "Vanishing Ann Arbor" by Patti F. Smith and Britain Woodman; "Historic Ann Arbor: An Architectural Guide" by Susan Wineberg and Patrick McCauley. Again, I haven't actually read any of these, so am not vouching for any in particular.
Also, Betty Smith, who is most famous for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", wrote a novel, "Joy in the Morning", about a woman who marries her boyfriend against their families' wishes, and they move from New York to Ann Arbor so that he can go to law school there. It's set in the 1920s, and there are a lot of contrasts between this "small Midwestern college town in the middle of nowhere" and "the big city". I remember liking it pretty well.
I live in Tallahassee, and get the Big Ten Network through Xfinity with the "More Sports & Entertainment" package. It's not on one of their "levels". You have to specifically get the package add-on.
Party like it's 1962!
Personally, I'd just have ties during the regular season.
During the postseason, I'd play as during regulation, but the first team that manages to have both a lead and possession simultaneously wins.
Is there an animated gif of the map somewhere?
If you're going to go full capitalist here, that's fine, but you should be clear what you're doing. Football and men's basketball players would get paid then. But pretty much every other college athlete would not, as they don't make the university any money. In fact, the vast majority of them would have to pay the university additional money above tuition to play their sports because, again, almost every sports team other than football and men's basketball loses money. If that's what you're arguing for, then okay. That would be great (really!) for football players and men's basketball players. But it would pretty much suck for everybody else.
I agree that change is pretty much inevitable, and probably for the good, but this pretense that the "right" thing to do is obvious and simple and there are no legitimate reasons to have concerns about it or worry about the details, is obnoxious bullshit.
Tim Tebow won a Heisman and two national championships on her husband's UF teams. And he caught a lot of flack for kneeling.
It is true that it remains a kick until it is possessed by a player. This is one case of it being a loose ball. (Other cases are punts, fumbles, etc.) In all circumstances, it is illegal to kick a loose ball. In NCAA rules, this is a 15 yard penalty and loss of down. (In high school or the NFL, it's not a loss of down.) Since the offense gave the impetus for the ball to enter the end zone, if the defense declines the penalty, the result would be a touchback, first and ten at the 20 for the defense. Also, if the kicker had actually possessed the ball, he could have attempted a drop kick still legally, as the ball had never crossed the line of scrimmage. But he would have actually had to establish possession first.
A nice source is Tropical Tidbits, by a grad student at Florida State. He does an excellent job in his videos explaining some of the science behind the forecasts.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/
The 3rd base coach out to be mad at himself for sending someone who was so gawdawful slow. He had no chance.
at a cemetery in south Florida during the summers. People used to leave some really strange things at graves.
The problem with replay in basketball is that it is interminable. Most of the time, while we've already seen what the obviously correct call is 20 times on tv, the official is still trying to get some guy in some booth somewhere to show him the replay on his little camping tv that somehow dropped in from the 90's at the scorer's table. And then, once he's finally made his decision on the call, it'll be another five minutes while he gets the gameclock correct to the tenth of a second. It's just usually not worth the aggravation.
rather than X's and O's, So You Think You Know Football by Ben Austro is interesting and surprisingly fun.
But I don't think a little shade thrown on OSU will cause problems almost anywhere.
I started reading it last night. Just got to the beginning of the Dave Brandon years. I foresee dark times a-comin'.
I live in Tallahassee, and we just got our power back after Hurricane Hermine came through, so I missed the game. I knew that MGoBlog would come through for me!
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The NCAA is a joke.
Three to go!
So do Stanford and Cal. Other than those mentioned (MSU, OSU, UMinn, UCLA, Stanford, Cal), nobody else has more than two of the four.
Michigan is the only school in NCAA Divison I to have won a national championship in all four of fooball, basketball, baseball, and hockey.
Minnesota is missing basketball, Michigan State is missing baseball, and Ohio State is missing hockey. No other Big Ten team has even three of the four.
It probably wouldn't work for many reasons, but would the University of Toronto be worth considering as an eighth? I don't know how cable works in Canada, but Toronto would be a huge market to get into.
Michigan shuts out Wisconsin 4-1!
<passes out> *thud*
This seems unlikely to me. Is it just based on them backing into the SEC championship game because of a weak east, and then lucking out a win against Alabama or whoever from the west, under the general assumption that any SEC champ is going to the playoffs?
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But just making the postseason is quite the achievement.
I was at Michigan during his years there. Young and stupid, I didn't realize just how amazing his ability to hit the hole was at the time. One instant he's behind the line, the next he's past the linebackers.
37-10 Michigan wins!
One of the things CAPA is fighting for is better treatment for these sorts of issues
But I don't see specifically what this has to do with athletics. I knew a couple of classmates when I was an undergrad in Ann Arbor who struggled mightily with these sorts of issues, too. What about them?
I think CAPA needs to do a better job of distinguishing athletic issues from more general life issues.
should be buying Lewan dinner every night, doing his laundry, changing the oil in his car, whatever. Can you imagine what this line would look like if he had gone pro?
totally looks like Garth from Wayne's World.
To eliminate any confusion about how the rankings are determined (to be honest, they used to be arbitrary), team order is determined by multiplying the number of commits by star average.
That is, it's just the total number of stars. Are two three-stars better than one five-star? Perhaps, but it doesn't feel right quite right.
I'm not living down there any more, but their football website:
http://plantationhigh.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory…
still says Colonels. I suppose they may no longer use the Colonel Reb-like caricature.