Warde had all season to 'bear hug' Jim Harbaugh. Even if you wanted to see his performance from the end of the season, it's been 2 months since winning The Game for the third time in a row. 7 weeks since he won a 3rd Big Ten Championship in a row, and 2 weeks since he won your first National Champion in 3 decades. Its not like his contract requests weren't known.
Warde could have made the same offer he made today immediately after the Championship Game. He didn't.
He didn't make any compelling offer until today, and the leak of that offer to the press feels like a desperate attempt to save face in the aftermath of their failure to retain the winningest coach in school history.
You can't say every effort was made, because its pretty clear they didn't really put that much effort in to retain him (and when they did it was as he was walking out the door).
That's all without even discussing the fact that no other AD in the country would have pre-emptively suspended their coach w/ minimal due process in the face of highly contestable allegations from a random 3rd party PI, much less after suspending him 3 games pre-emptively for buying a recruit a hamburger.
Any other AD would have aggressively defended their coach, UM pre-emptively threw him under the bus, and were lucky enough to get a national championship in spite of their management incompetence. All the more reason to retain the Coach and fire the AD - they choose the opposite approach.
Private boosters pay for all of these. If you make hundreds, tens or even just several millions of dollars a year, then donations to your favorite AD are great to way spend cash that would have gone to the tax man anyway.
You get notoriety, free tickets, special perks, meeting with coaches, get wined and dined, maybe an award or two - all for money you wouldn't have been able to keep most of anyway.
A truly impressive class. But one good thing I can see about the G-League starting to throw real cash around to 18 year-olds is that going to UK/Duke or another blue-blood to get paid is probably even less of a motivator (and it's not like a championship, or even playing time, is a lock at some of those schools). Likely will be better for some athletes to invest their time into programs that can build their skills over a year or two and maximize their value in the league.
Dunno. That really looks like most of the republican states are saying that the National Party sets the party line, and the local party enforce it regardless of scientific evidence to the contrary (see massive outbreaks at all schools returning to regular business). Most of our best Hockey players used to come from countries that operated that way.
We do work with Carnival Corp, and this is exactly what they've been doing. Need to steadily decrease outflows while not giving up the ghost on future revenues.
I think he posted this when he realized the SEC had already posted their schedule and there is no way in hell that any of those schools are gonna share TV revenue or risk their schedule to play OSU.
Same with Big 12. As much as UM vs UT/OU would be great (even, or maybe especially, sans OSU), I think there is 0 chance this hapens.
Yep. Although if Nurse and the raps make the finals again, I’d say he probably deserves that honor. Spoelstra’s done a really good job building a good team that’s fun to watch, but I’m not sure they have a championship run in them.
Is it any more repugnant than an 'educational' institution that is willing to put its students/player's lives/livelihoods at risks for an even larger pile of cash?
Much more than just football. Leaving Big Ten means leaving the research consortium (BTAA/CIC), which is also $$$$. The impacts go far beyond just athletics (which are only a small part of the purpose of the university system, even if they are an important/profitable one), and would be a big deal. Don't get me wrong, Athletics are important, but athletics alone don't make a university even at UNL. Think of it this way, would UNL survive without foortball? Yes. Would cornhusker football survive absent the university? No.
Yes, UNL could go back to Big 12, but the academics/research money won't be the same (especially in an organization dominated by UT), and the athletics/TV money definitely would not be. At the end of the day, that's a highly risky decision to achieve benefits for a single year of minimal additional revenue (compared to standard years), which is likely to be an asterisk season, when UNL's football product is not likely to be competitive.
It's basically a question of, 'Should we take a larger share of a smaller pot this year, or take the same, larger share of the normal pot for the foreseeable future.' My guess is the conservative approach wins here. Happy to be proven wrong though.
Maybe? But the moment ‘super flu which kills 10x more people than regular flu’ became a pandemic, lockdown or no the cruise industry and the airline industry were dead for the year. The shutdowns either allowed bailouts (airlines) or recapitalization (carnival) that will allow these industries to survive for a year plus, even with minimal demand. No govt intervention means you get all of the deaths and a very slow painful grind down as demand destruction mounts. (Lockdown or no, how many 50+year olds are cruising this year?)
Suppression via lockdown lets us minimize deaths and return to a managed level of economic normalcy, far above what we’ve had in a massive die off (speaking of which, I’m guess you’re not planning on a vacation or business expansion to Brazil right? I just wrote off our entire forecast that country for the year. Chile (in lockdown now) is still likely to hit 40-50% of target for us this year).
With the lockdown, it’s looking like we’ll at least get some level of domestic tourism back this year, and if the US could get its shit together, we might even have a ski season in whistler. Suppression and risk minimization is what gets you there until a vaccine happens.
I think third world countries with incompetent, corrupt, and highly partisan governments are going to experience extremely negative outcomes no matter what. The ‘successful’ outliers in India like Kerala, show that’s it’s not a choice between lockdowns or starvation but in any event, Brazil, India and other third world nations shouldn’t be our comparisons, when we’re the richest/ strongest/ smartest country in the world.
In the past we also would have been considered the best governed nation, but I think this crisis in particular shows how incredibly incompetent we have become as a nation at the federal level, where much of the necessary power resides (think testing at airports, ie international borders, or potential lockdowns between states which only the federal government is capabale of).
The things you mentioned are largely personal choices that affect primarily the individual choosing to do those things, but even then we only lose 88,000 people per year in the US to alcohol related deaths, and that’s with a massive formal and informal management infrastructure built up over decades that includes infringements on your ‘rights’ such as police checkpoints on NYE to prevent drunk driving, not being able to buy a beer after the 7th inning, health insurance covered testing and treatment, employment restrictions, widespread police powers, regulations and civil penalties.
If you die of alcoholism, it’s a tragedy. But if you hurt me or my family via drunk driving you’re subject to massive criminal and civil penalties. We’ve had 80,000 deaths in 8 weeks with this virus, and under your same argument here, we should be applying similar police and civil penalties to people gathering in large groups and endangering others. I actually agree with that, so thanks for making that point.
So I live in BC. We have a great doctor, Dr Bonnie Henry, running our health initiatives, even in America she'll show up in twitter and make headlines because she says things like 'You're probably alright to go for a run, and 'when you walk by other people on the street, give them space, but smile.'
We've also had a strict work from home/lockdown for 90% of people, while still allowing some construction and critical work to happen. I live in a tourist city, and the loss of the cruise lines for the season are going to majorly impact our local economy (our #1 industry is tourism). So none of this good news, but we're extremely lucky. We had a limited outbreak, have largely contained it via compliance with stay-at-home orders, and as a result will be opening up slowly from May 19th. We're not 'sheep' because we complied with the orders, we've been successful and can successfully reopen because of it. Even then, we know our success here is incredibly tenuous. If we open up too quickly and don't maintain social distancing, our projections go from this:
To this:
Listening to experts and not being stupid is how we get out of this successfully. It means we may not have a tourist season this year (and yes we're going to lose a shitload of jobs and tax money as a result), but we will probably be able to have a return to some normality in June and school in a semi-normal way this fall.
Nothing says third world country like 100,000+ dead from a disease that was largely preventable (cf Korea, Australia, Germany, New Zealand for the counterpoint).
Wow. I respect your choice, and if you really believe that I'd highly recommend you think about the people around you and discuss that risk with them as well.
My father and I attended at least one game a year every year until he passed away due to age and advanced Leukemia. While I appreciate every moment i spent with him at those games, if there was a chance that attending one would shorten his life span, I would never have gone with him. And while I'd respect his choice, I'd have been shattered if he'd wanted to risk it.
Great. I'm sure they will never be around anyone over that age, like say coaches, trainers, educators, groundskeepers, administrators, drivers/transportation. Nor will they be at any risk of serious long term health risks or pose any risk to their immediate family or the families of their teammates, coaches, etc.
In reality social distancing will be impossible in the weight room/locker room/on the field/ and there's a good chance we'll likely need to potentially quarantine players from their family/friends/social life to make this work, plus potentially risk of cancelling/forfeiting games if/when someone on a team gets sick. I'm not saying we can't have football, just it's going to be a massive amount of work (and liability concerns) do do so.
Great leadership, and the kind of thing you want your coach/program known for.
The best thing for the students and the athletes.
Combined with the image rights (assuming the NCAA doesn't completely ruin that), I think it may also create more parity among the top programs (although not across D1 or even P5 overall), as:
Great athletes can one-and-done or two-and-done at a variety of schools, and not need to go to a championship factory, and sit bench for two-three years to maximize their earning potential
No-wait transfers allow for talent to move more dynamically (Joe Burrow), so teams can't warehouse good players and limit competition. You'll also get more transfers as good players move elsewhere if they are passed on the depth chart.
You get less 'fake reason' transfers, while stile nominally limiting the total number of transfers. (Realistically 2 in 5 years is the maximum).
Image rights mean well loved but less highly draftable prospects (Denard?), can potentially maximize their earnings by not going pro early. Also applies to 3-4 year players who may wait to go the league rather than try and go early for cash reasons and go for riskier free-agency.
I do think you'd see some schools try to emphasize a one-done strategy or a transfer strategy, a la Kentucky Basketball, but thats much harder in football and not been a consistent championship winning formula in Basketball for those schools anyway.
I’d love to believe that, and while I think Americans are going to return to work faster than other places (partly out of optimism/stupidity/partisanship and partly because Unemployment and other benefits will run out), there’s a difference between going for a walk the on the beach and boarding a plane, sitting in a crowded theatre, or going to a jags game. The places globally that didn’t lock down hard like Japan are now having second or continuing outbreaks that are going to hit the economy harder than the first. While i think we can likely operate with much fewer restrictions than now, I actually expect that given the Florida beach issue, we’re probably going to open up too fast, and the rebound spikes will hit America harder than in other places.
For us we pay 30k in rent a month for our office, and I expect due to social distancing we’ll likely need to spread desks etc which means we’ll get maybe half of the staff back in. I expect many will actually switch to working from home full time, but now I’ve got an office for 3 more years that only holds half the capacity it used to for likely another 6+ months. I can negotiate with my landlord, but is he going to cut rent in half? Not likely, and if he did, rents will be deflating across the city, hitting their revenues, hitting their loans/banks etc, and we get a nice deflationary cycle. Breaking a lease also not a fun or risk free option.
I’d also love to say there won’t be workplace health/liability issues, and maybe in Florida or other states there won’t be legal recourse, but i wouldn’t make that call before talking to both the government and my insurance company both in terms of worker’s compensation and medical benefits in addition to general liability.
Over the entire course of the Vietnam war, which spanned roughly 8 years, there were about 58,000 American casualties. We will do that with Covid in about ~4 months, and it wouldn't surprise if we are double that by year end (the 60K number from the IHME study is through August), and that's with only a small percentage of the population infected and significant measures to stop the spread of the virus.
We're experiencing an acute issue right now (and are by almost every measure handling this among the worst of any developed country), but the acute economic pain would be far, far worse without mandated social distancing. Without government intervention, you would still get a large amount of social distancing, but would trade a marginally smaller economic hit from distancing (do you want to go to a sporting event right now with 50,000 people side by side? sit next to a table of 5 at McD's? - all those business would still either shutdown or go out of business), but you would also have larger economic hit from overwhelmed hospitals, people being out sick from work, and economic impacts from greatly increased mortality (most likely only 2-3 % of the US population has been infected at this point, multiply current death/hospitalization numbers by 20-30% to get to herd immunity)
Also and we're going to see this next as we open, the government forcing an opening won't necessarily improve economic outcomes in the short term, especially without testing. Many businesses will still have massive economic impacts and be effectively dormant for a long period (travel, hospitality, restaurants), but the government removing stay-at-home orders also likely removes the protection of Force Majeure on things like leases/rent, while exposing employers to liability for sickness/death resulting from returning to work. I work in IT and we've been able to save jobs by not paying our lease while this is ongoing, that protection disappears when the government order is lifted, and our liabilities resume while our revenues are depressed. Think how much worse that will be for retail/restaurants/etc.
I work in PE with Subscription/SaaS businesses, although none as big/fast growing as the Athletic, but the business model is probably quite attractive.
At 500,000 users paying even $15/year (1/4 of rack), that's $7.5 million in revenue, and they are expecting to reach a million subscribers by end of year (2x)
They'll need to spend a good bit of money to acquire those subscribers (advertising et al, + plus new writers to support new teams etc), hence the funding, but it's likely a viable business without much if any more scale.
The biggest/most attractive factor is renewals, an automatic jump from $1 month to even $5 month is something that will get overlooked by most people on their credit card/bank statement, and $60 isn't much for their market to pay. If they have strong renewal percentages, it's basically money in the bank.
There's currently a glut of great writers who have been laid off from ESPN/newspapers etc who are now quite cheap.
Most of their staff writers are likely contractors/free lancers, who potentially do other gigs and whom they don't pay full salaries or benefits for. 50 contractors at 40K/year is only $2 million, so you can make the staffing numbers work pretty quickly.
I obviously don't know anything about the business itself or what they pay for talent, and if it's VC backed, they could just be juicing the growth numbers to sell it for big $, and planning to let the next owner slash it and burn it back to viability, but back of envelope I don't see why the business model wouldn't work at that level of subscription revenue.
Pros: Large, increasingly young metro that’s great for kids and big enough to support a symphony and a few museums and minor league sports. 100 days more sun per year and lower home prices and cost of living than Vancouver. Plus Vancouver Island is basically the Michigan of Canada - incredible local beer/alcohol scene (12+ breweries in a 30 minute drive, several good distilleries) and incredible hiking, beaches and outdoors all within a few hours). Great healthcare especially for pregnancies, young children, and olds. Easy winters with minimal snow.
Also Seaplanes, ferries and being close enough to Seattle that you get American stations on cable/antenna.
Cons: house prices are still high in the core (avg price is 770k CAD and up). Wages are lower than Van, shortage of GPs/family doctors in the area.
I’ve lived a lot of places including Chicago, Miami and Tokyo and while I miss some big city things, this is best place I’ve lived. Plus as an American under NAFTA if you get a job offer from a Canadian company you can basically pick up your work visa at the border with minimal fuss.
I think even with denard in this would have been a tough game, but winnable especially with the defense playing like they have.
This is a combination of issues, but the lack of audibles is getting to the point the of unbelievability.
Not sure if it's borges playcalling, a lack of comprehension or ability on the part of Denard, or just a side effect of the super-super slow offensive style that leaves almost no time on the clock to audible if they wanted to.
But when I know it will be a run play, and when Nebraska's defense knows it is a run play and tells you so, and you still don't even consider changing the play even though they are stuffing you every time - there is something wrong.
After watching Bellomy today, I think even if we win out this year (will depend on Denard coming back and playing well), I have no real hope for a stong season next year. We lose Lewan and our only passing/and or running threat, to be replaced with a talented but untested true freshman.
If your overseas and want the best feed possible, then BTN2GO International is your best bet, 14.95 agame, 19.95 a month or 119.95 a year. Its worth the year package if you live outside of the country and watch both football and basketball, plus you can now stream ESPN games a week after they've aired.
I haven't used it this year but the feed last year was better than ESPN Player.
For other games ESPN Player will be your only official option. Biggest problem with the services (other than the cost) is the lack of commercial/half time. Would much rather have commercials than have the screen go to the espn logo for a few minutes.
that play was long dead before he threw his hands in. Even if he was going for the ball, he threw a punch on dead ball - I don't think his intentions really have anything to do with it.
So how about we make the punch video a nice slow motion animated gif, and throw it up at the top of Mgoblog. Danny Hope can bitch about it later all he wants.
I live overseas and I've watched numerous games on the internet via bigtenticket. Last year i had numerous problems and the quality was very poor, but the one game on BTN this year was about a 100 times better in terms of quality than last years and was comparable to espn's feed, although ESPN's seems to less delay.
It's a small sample size, and as with anything your mileage may vary, but I've found the quality of the BTN feed to be far far better than the free streams. Whether its worth the money is the real question.
The fact that Indiana had the the best passing offense combined with our terrible pass defense was the most important match up in terms of score during saturday's game, and I'm sure thats why so many people got burned on the spread.
The problem is that our defense this year, and this scheme for that matter, hasn't been tested by a strong running team or an offense as balanced as this one. Even with the game at Ann Arbor and the spread at +5, if there was a year where I would bet that Sparty could take this one home - its definately this year.
Really have to hope our defense steps up, our offense continues to play big and get blocks at the second level, and Sparty No!'s a few times this weekend.
Yeah because nothing said 100% mantastic like the e cups on John Madden. The fact that their fat (big john), ugly as sin (lou holtz), or a talentless homer (Tom Hammond) hasn't stopped networks from putting male talent on the air, not sure why it should be different for females.
Only difference is there wont be 10 threads about how ugly looking tom hammond is or how old and stupid lou holtz is. Glad to see sexism is alive and well in Ann Arbor.
I'm a get negbombed for this, but its one thing to criticize pam ward for being a bad announcer, and another for criticizing her for being unattractive.
As much as I like Lewan, he better hope there is video that exonerates him, cause if there isn't i wouldn't be surprised if they sat him against MSU (even if only for a half).
Ya'll are some serious homers. This is hot trash and you all know it. just cause there is a rap song about your team does not mean its a good rap song.
Not to mention this rap never even mentions dilithium or the space time continuum, I mean how am supposed to take this effort seriously if they wont even go through the motions?
isnt epinion actually GBMW too? and also pad levels. anything involving pad levels.
i think WLA and MGoblog should team up for t-shirts saying No Sugar Coat, or Excellent Pad Level, maybe you can throw Coach BT 5% of the proceeds as royalties.
naw, aint that far south, just a bit too far east to get ABC.
So does abc sports live feed their stuff? failing that, im a assume that it being on a major network wil mean i have more options than just justin.tv.
So will the game be on ESPN 360 for those of us overseas? I know some of you hate night games, but im pretty stoked i wont have to stay up until 4am to watch the game this weekend.
That walk-on was pretty spectacular on that last drive yo.
I think there are bad calls made sometimes on the defensive side, like only rushing three on some of state's early third and longs, but then our secondary is terrible. I think we may have a lot of guys who are capable of playing hybrid positions, but arent good enough to run with the thoroughbreds.
I worry that Warren is gone next year, with no one on-deck to replace him. Its also pretty telling when one of the best defensive plays in the secondary was made by Craig Roh.
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100% this.
Warde had all season to 'bear hug' Jim Harbaugh. Even if you wanted to see his performance from the end of the season, it's been 2 months since winning The Game for the third time in a row. 7 weeks since he won a 3rd Big Ten Championship in a row, and 2 weeks since he won your first National Champion in 3 decades. Its not like his contract requests weren't known.
Warde could have made the same offer he made today immediately after the Championship Game. He didn't.
He didn't make any compelling offer until today, and the leak of that offer to the press feels like a desperate attempt to save face in the aftermath of their failure to retain the winningest coach in school history.
You can't say every effort was made, because its pretty clear they didn't really put that much effort in to retain him (and when they did it was as he was walking out the door).
That's all without even discussing the fact that no other AD in the country would have pre-emptively suspended their coach w/ minimal due process in the face of highly contestable allegations from a random 3rd party PI, much less after suspending him 3 games pre-emptively for buying a recruit a hamburger.
Any other AD would have aggressively defended their coach, UM pre-emptively threw him under the bus, and were lucky enough to get a national championship in spite of their management incompetence. All the more reason to retain the Coach and fire the AD - they choose the opposite approach.
Private boosters pay for all of these. If you make hundreds, tens or even just several millions of dollars a year, then donations to your favorite AD are great to way spend cash that would have gone to the tax man anyway.
You get notoriety, free tickets, special perks, meeting with coaches, get wined and dined, maybe an award or two - all for money you wouldn't have been able to keep most of anyway.
This post, celebrating our few successful plays against terrible, terrible teams while referencing Shakespeare, is both
failing to achieve agreed upon results is generally grounds for dismissal with cause. No idea If schools put win/loss results in contacts though:
A truly impressive class. But one good thing I can see about the G-League starting to throw real cash around to 18 year-olds is that going to UK/Duke or another blue-blood to get paid is probably even less of a motivator (and it's not like a championship, or even playing time, is a lock at some of those schools). Likely will be better for some athletes to invest their time into programs that can build their skills over a year or two and maximize their value in the league.
Dunno. That really looks like most of the republican states are saying that the National Party sets the party line, and the local party enforce it regardless of scientific evidence to the contrary (see massive outbreaks at all schools returning to regular business). Most of our best Hockey players used to come from countries that operated that way.
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100% this.
We do work with Carnival Corp, and this is exactly what they've been doing. Need to steadily decrease outflows while not giving up the ghost on future revenues.
Admittedly the wild variance in March Madness is part of the appeal, but this is by far my favorite version of NBA playoffs.
Probably wont keep it because of the $$$$ implications, but damn I wish it was like this every year.
I think he posted this when he realized the SEC had already posted their schedule and there is no way in hell that any of those schools are gonna share TV revenue or risk their schedule to play OSU.
Same with Big 12. As much as UM vs UT/OU would be great (even, or maybe especially, sans OSU), I think there is 0 chance this hapens.
The bubble has actually been great basketball, and this format is a great cap/extension of it.
Yep. Although if Nurse and the raps make the finals again, I’d say he probably deserves that honor. Spoelstra’s done a really good job building a good team that’s fun to watch, but I’m not sure they have a championship run in them.
Is it any more repugnant than an 'educational' institution that is willing to put its students/player's lives/livelihoods at risks for an even larger pile of cash?
I think they deserve each other.
Much more than just football. Leaving Big Ten means leaving the research consortium (BTAA/CIC), which is also $$$$. The impacts go far beyond just athletics (which are only a small part of the purpose of the university system, even if they are an important/profitable one), and would be a big deal. Don't get me wrong, Athletics are important, but athletics alone don't make a university even at UNL. Think of it this way, would UNL survive without foortball? Yes. Would cornhusker football survive absent the university? No.
Yes, UNL could go back to Big 12, but the academics/research money won't be the same (especially in an organization dominated by UT), and the athletics/TV money definitely would not be. At the end of the day, that's a highly risky decision to achieve benefits for a single year of minimal additional revenue (compared to standard years), which is likely to be an asterisk season, when UNL's football product is not likely to be competitive.
It's basically a question of, 'Should we take a larger share of a smaller pot this year, or take the same, larger share of the normal pot for the foreseeable future.' My guess is the conservative approach wins here. Happy to be proven wrong though.
Maybe? But the moment ‘super flu which kills 10x more people than regular flu’ became a pandemic, lockdown or no the cruise industry and the airline industry were dead for the year. The shutdowns either allowed bailouts (airlines) or recapitalization (carnival) that will allow these industries to survive for a year plus, even with minimal demand. No govt intervention means you get all of the deaths and a very slow painful grind down as demand destruction mounts. (Lockdown or no, how many 50+year olds are cruising this year?)
Suppression via lockdown lets us minimize deaths and return to a managed level of economic normalcy, far above what we’ve had in a massive die off (speaking of which, I’m guess you’re not planning on a vacation or business expansion to Brazil right? I just wrote off our entire forecast that country for the year. Chile (in lockdown now) is still likely to hit 40-50% of target for us this year).
With the lockdown, it’s looking like we’ll at least get some level of domestic tourism back this year, and if the US could get its shit together, we might even have a ski season in whistler. Suppression and risk minimization is what gets you there until a vaccine happens.
I think third world countries with incompetent, corrupt, and highly partisan governments are going to experience extremely negative outcomes no matter what. The ‘successful’ outliers in India like Kerala, show that’s it’s not a choice between lockdowns or starvation but in any event, Brazil, India and other third world nations shouldn’t be our comparisons, when we’re the richest/ strongest/ smartest country in the world.
In the past we also would have been considered the best governed nation, but I think this crisis in particular shows how incredibly incompetent we have become as a nation at the federal level, where much of the necessary power resides (think testing at airports, ie international borders, or potential lockdowns between states which only the federal government is capabale of).
The things you mentioned are largely personal choices that affect primarily the individual choosing to do those things, but even then we only lose 88,000 people per year in the US to alcohol related deaths, and that’s with a massive formal and informal management infrastructure built up over decades that includes infringements on your ‘rights’ such as police checkpoints on NYE to prevent drunk driving, not being able to buy a beer after the 7th inning, health insurance covered testing and treatment, employment restrictions, widespread police powers, regulations and civil penalties.
If you die of alcoholism, it’s a tragedy. But if you hurt me or my family via drunk driving you’re subject to massive criminal and civil penalties. We’ve had 80,000 deaths in 8 weeks with this virus, and under your same argument here, we should be applying similar police and civil penalties to people gathering in large groups and endangering others. I actually agree with that, so thanks for making that point.
So I live in BC. We have a great doctor, Dr Bonnie Henry, running our health initiatives, even in America she'll show up in twitter and make headlines because she says things like 'You're probably alright to go for a run, and 'when you walk by other people on the street, give them space, but smile.'
We've also had a strict work from home/lockdown for 90% of people, while still allowing some construction and critical work to happen. I live in a tourist city, and the loss of the cruise lines for the season are going to majorly impact our local economy (our #1 industry is tourism). So none of this good news, but we're extremely lucky. We had a limited outbreak, have largely contained it via compliance with stay-at-home orders, and as a result will be opening up slowly from May 19th. We're not 'sheep' because we complied with the orders, we've been successful and can successfully reopen because of it. Even then, we know our success here is incredibly tenuous. If we open up too quickly and don't maintain social distancing, our projections go from this:
To this:
Listening to experts and not being stupid is how we get out of this successfully. It means we may not have a tourist season this year (and yes we're going to lose a shitload of jobs and tax money as a result), but we will probably be able to have a return to some normality in June and school in a semi-normal way this fall.
That's what winning looks like.
Nothing says third world country like 100,000+ dead from a disease that was largely preventable (cf Korea, Australia, Germany, New Zealand for the counterpoint).
Wow. I respect your choice, and if you really believe that I'd highly recommend you think about the people around you and discuss that risk with them as well.
My father and I attended at least one game a year every year until he passed away due to age and advanced Leukemia. While I appreciate every moment i spent with him at those games, if there was a chance that attending one would shorten his life span, I would never have gone with him. And while I'd respect his choice, I'd have been shattered if he'd wanted to risk it.
Great. I'm sure they will never be around anyone over that age, like say coaches, trainers, educators, groundskeepers, administrators, drivers/transportation. Nor will they be at any risk of serious long term health risks or pose any risk to their immediate family or the families of their teammates, coaches, etc.
In reality social distancing will be impossible in the weight room/locker room/on the field/ and there's a good chance we'll likely need to potentially quarantine players from their family/friends/social life to make this work, plus potentially risk of cancelling/forfeiting games if/when someone on a team gets sick. I'm not saying we can't have football, just it's going to be a massive amount of work (and liability concerns) do do so.
Great…
I think this is:
Combined with the image rights (assuming the NCAA doesn't completely ruin that), I think it may also create more parity among the top programs (although not across D1 or even P5 overall), as:
I’d love to believe that, and while I think Americans are going to return to work faster than other places (partly out of optimism/stupidity/partisanship and partly because Unemployment and other benefits will run out), there’s a difference between going for a walk the on the beach and boarding a plane, sitting in a crowded theatre, or going to a jags game. The places globally that didn’t lock down hard like Japan are now having second or continuing outbreaks that are going to hit the economy harder than the first. While i think we can likely operate with much fewer restrictions than now, I actually expect that given the Florida beach issue, we’re probably going to open up too fast, and the rebound spikes will hit America harder than in other places.
For us we pay 30k in rent a month for our office, and I expect due to social distancing we’ll likely need to spread desks etc which means we’ll get maybe half of the staff back in. I expect many will actually switch to working from home full time, but now I’ve got an office for 3 more years that only holds half the capacity it used to for likely another 6+ months. I can negotiate with my landlord, but is he going to cut rent in half? Not likely, and if he did, rents will be deflating across the city, hitting their revenues, hitting their loans/banks etc, and we get a nice deflationary cycle. Breaking a lease also not a fun or risk free option.
I’d also love to say there won’t be workplace health/liability issues, and maybe in Florida or other states there won’t be legal recourse, but i wouldn’t make that call before talking to both the government and my insurance company both in terms of worker’s compensation and medical benefits in addition to general liability.
Over the entire course of the Vietnam war, which spanned roughly 8 years, there were about 58,000 American casualties. We will do that with Covid in about ~4 months, and it wouldn't surprise if we are double that by year end (the 60K number from the IHME study is through August), and that's with only a small percentage of the population infected and significant measures to stop the spread of the virus.
We're experiencing an acute issue right now (and are by almost every measure handling this among the worst of any developed country), but the acute economic pain would be far, far worse without mandated social distancing. Without government intervention, you would still get a large amount of social distancing, but would trade a marginally smaller economic hit from distancing (do you want to go to a sporting event right now with 50,000 people side by side? sit next to a table of 5 at McD's? - all those business would still either shutdown or go out of business), but you would also have larger economic hit from overwhelmed hospitals, people being out sick from work, and economic impacts from greatly increased mortality (most likely only 2-3 % of the US population has been infected at this point, multiply current death/hospitalization numbers by 20-30% to get to herd immunity)
Also and we're going to see this next as we open, the government forcing an opening won't necessarily improve economic outcomes in the short term, especially without testing. Many businesses will still have massive economic impacts and be effectively dormant for a long period (travel, hospitality, restaurants), but the government removing stay-at-home orders also likely removes the protection of Force Majeure on things like leases/rent, while exposing employers to liability for sickness/death resulting from returning to work. I work in IT and we've been able to save jobs by not paying our lease while this is ongoing, that protection disappears when the government order is lifted, and our liabilities resume while our revenues are depressed. Think how much worse that will be for retail/restaurants/etc.
I work in PE with Subscription/SaaS businesses, although none as big/fast growing as the Athletic, but the business model is probably quite attractive.
I obviously don't know anything about the business itself or what they pay for talent, and if it's VC backed, they could just be juicing the growth numbers to sell it for big $, and planning to let the next owner slash it and burn it back to viability, but back of envelope I don't see why the business model wouldn't work at that level of subscription revenue.
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Victoria, British Columbia
Pros: Large, increasingly young metro that’s great for kids and big enough to support a symphony and a few museums and minor league sports. 100 days more sun per year and lower home prices and cost of living than Vancouver. Plus Vancouver Island is basically the Michigan of Canada - incredible local beer/alcohol scene (12+ breweries in a 30 minute drive, several good distilleries) and incredible hiking, beaches and outdoors all within a few hours). Great healthcare especially for pregnancies, young children, and olds. Easy winters with minimal snow.
Also Seaplanes, ferries and being close enough to Seattle that you get American stations on cable/antenna.
Cons: house prices are still high in the core (avg price is 770k CAD and up). Wages are lower than Van, shortage of GPs/family doctors in the area.
I’ve lived a lot of places including Chicago, Miami and Tokyo and while I miss some big city things, this is best place I’ve lived. Plus as an American under NAFTA if you get a job offer from a Canadian company you can basically pick up your work visa at the border with minimal fuss.
I think even with denard in this would have been a tough game, but winnable especially with the defense playing like they have.
This is a combination of issues, but the lack of audibles is getting to the point the of unbelievability.
Not sure if it's borges playcalling, a lack of comprehension or ability on the part of Denard, or just a side effect of the super-super slow offensive style that leaves almost no time on the clock to audible if they wanted to.
But when I know it will be a run play, and when Nebraska's defense knows it is a run play and tells you so, and you still don't even consider changing the play even though they are stuffing you every time - there is something wrong.
After watching Bellomy today, I think even if we win out this year (will depend on Denard coming back and playing well), I have no real hope for a stong season next year. We lose Lewan and our only passing/and or running threat, to be replaced with a talented but untested true freshman.
If your overseas and want the best feed possible, then BTN2GO International is your best bet, 14.95 agame, 19.95 a month or 119.95 a year. Its worth the year package if you live outside of the country and watch both football and basketball, plus you can now stream ESPN games a week after they've aired.
I haven't used it this year but the feed last year was better than ESPN Player.
For other games ESPN Player will be your only official option. Biggest problem with the services (other than the cost) is the lack of commercial/half time. Would much rather have commercials than have the screen go to the espn logo for a few minutes.
bigtenticket.com feed, probably could have gotten one more of the punch landing, but I'm just pressing the play and stop buttons on the console.
Mouton sat for a game for after that. If Mouton sat, then #3 should sit.
lets go to the zapruder.
This is where the whistle blows. Note the position of #3.
Now. lets see what happens next. He ends up on top of denard.
The arm goes up.
There's no way that's not a punch after the whistle.
that play was long dead before he threw his hands in. Even if he was going for the ball, he threw a punch on dead ball - I don't think his intentions really have anything to do with it.
So how about we make the punch video a nice slow motion animated gif, and throw it up at the top of Mgoblog. Danny Hope can bitch about it later all he wants.
I live overseas and I've watched numerous games on the internet via bigtenticket. Last year i had numerous problems and the quality was very poor, but the one game on BTN this year was about a 100 times better in terms of quality than last years and was comparable to espn's feed, although ESPN's seems to less delay.
It's a small sample size, and as with anything your mileage may vary, but I've found the quality of the BTN feed to be far far better than the free streams. Whether its worth the money is the real question.
This the shot you were thinking of? I think everyone was pretty understandably emotional. What a huge win.
we dropped at least three kick returns in this game. Even in 1997 they couldn't hold on to the damn ball.
I think it would be easy to UFR this game. Half of the running plays are "run up the middle, gets tripped up in the wash".
Is it just me, or does the Game just look so much less complex in 1997 than it does now?
come now, I was only speculating....
Yes, lets.
see what i did there?
but snagging either of those two would be a victory, and even if it was HaHa i would be well pleased.
The fact that Indiana
This.
The fact that Indiana had the the best passing offense combined with our terrible pass defense was the most important match up in terms of score during saturday's game, and I'm sure thats why so many people got burned on the spread.
The problem is that our defense this year, and this scheme for that matter, hasn't been tested by a strong running team or an offense as balanced as this one. Even with the game at Ann Arbor and the spread at +5, if there was a year where I would bet that Sparty could take this one home - its definately this year.
Really have to hope our defense steps up, our offense continues to play big and get blocks at the second level, and Sparty No!'s a few times this weekend.
Yeah because nothing said 100% mantastic like the e cups on John Madden. The fact that their fat (big john), ugly as sin (lou holtz), or a talentless homer (Tom Hammond) hasn't stopped networks from putting male talent on the air, not sure why it should be different for females.
Only difference is there wont be 10 threads about how ugly looking tom hammond is or how old and stupid lou holtz is. Glad to see sexism is alive and well in Ann Arbor.
As much as I like Lewan, he better hope there is video that exonerates him, cause if there isn't i wouldn't be surprised if they sat him against MSU (even if only for a half).
Cause I figured out how Darryl Stonum can top this weeks style performance. Fast forward to 30 seconds in and behold:
Electric blue sequined neck tie/shirt combo > nerd glasses
Right, so not 12 gauge, Kilo Ali. I'm on it.
Also available in totally hype detroit soul train booty bounce version:
ANN ARBOR! DONKEY KONG!
Ya'll are some serious homers. This is hot trash and you all know it. just cause there is a rap song about your team does not mean its a good rap song.
Not to mention this rap never even mentions dilithium or the space time continuum, I mean how am supposed to take this effort seriously if they wont even go through the motions?
but then Brian may not have grown up in North Florida/Atlanta like I did....