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well, maybe. I posed up thread that the amount of NIL money JU Bacon (I think) referenced in a report of his was far short of what OSU was raising (if reports can be believed, which they probably can't). But while it's easy to dump on Warde, you have to go out and raise that money, you can not just appropriate from within the university (which wouldn't go over well with other powerful constituencies within UM anyway.) The UM contribution base is large but does not have much history with systems for funneling booster money (legal booster money is all that NIL really is) so the AD has to build/coordinate pretty much from scratch. Easy for JH to just say 'do it'. Took JH 6 yrs to beat OSU? If Warde has come up with $7M in the first year of having an NIL program is he doing a bad job or not so much?

That would definitely be funny, but Warde is probably too much a straight arrow to be that creative.

You were lied to for longer than that at old Tiger stadium. The CF fence there was only 420, not 440 as it was marked. CF hadn't been 440 since they moved the fence in front of the flag pole, which was maybe 35 yrs before it closed in 1999.

Well that would be poor. I assumed they would actually lower it structurally. Should have figured they'd do it on the cheap!

Seems likeliest, especially if the report of him pursuing the Panthers is correct. I suppose it could be a full court press for more money from M, but if JU Bacon is to be believed money doesn't mean that much to JH. But of course like everything else about him, what may really have been true on Tuesday is not necessarily true on Thursday.

Correct, there is a LOT of bad science being done here in service of political aims. And you certainly should not have a gas stove without an outside vent above it, which apparently you do see in a fair amount of 'newer' (i.3. <40yr) homes. When we were house shopping in 2009 in MN I was amazed at the number of houses built in the 70-80-90s that did not have externally vented kitchen fans. Sort of bizarre actually that code requires you to have an outside vent in a bathroom for what is basically a nuisance - odor, but not a kitchen where you have actual fire and food decomposition vapor even with an electric stove. Go figure.

Oddly enough, Duren is the only pick they have made who has actually produced any winshares at all. So they aren't any better. We've got guys that *may* do something (Cade obviously and Ivey) but haven't actually done anything yet. We are still wishcasting based on potential.

No surprise to anyone here I would not have done anything, but this is Not Terrible. I actually like lowering the high wall as it gives more opportunity for fielders to take away runs, which is always fun. And jumping in front of the existing 13 ft wall is also a good way to get hurt. Umping in infront of a lower wall where you can use your off hand is less risky.

What Harbaugh 'wants' never seems to achieve more than transitional status.

I wouldn't go too far to correct a value proposition if its relatively small potatoes in the overall scheme because things don't always end up working out they way you hope. Granted it was the old regime, but just as an example of where that kind of 'economy' can get you is that they let Riley Reiff walk in large part because they didn't want to pay him LT money to play RT, then ended up giving giving Wagner LT money to play RT anyway while Reiff continued to be the better player on another team. His medical would concern me more that the money, but you can only assume the Lions have a full picture on that.

so mostly this season they've looked like they play a lot faster than last season, but the Jets still made them look like a very slooooow team by comparison.

Got a little bit of a lift out of Veleno in the 3rd, but otherwise not too much.

ENG Raymond from Larkin. 2 goal lead at 1:15 left

all the weak-ass clearing attempts by the wings are enough to drive you crazy. All end up short of the line.

down to a one goal lead. Seider gets beat on the PP

Rasmussen having a tough night. would still rather see Solderblom instead of Suter.

Harbaugh has been known to go for 4th downs and miss. Sort of like if in the end none of the NFL teams offer and Warde leans back in his chair, smiling and says "Jim, I think your current deal suits you just fine."

I heard somebody, maybe Bacon, say they had $6-7 million in NIL lined up. Supposedly the story was that OSU spent $13 million last season.

The move away from extraction based energy will mostly be a boon for the people that live in oil exporting nations. This would seem ironic because it will make them poorer in the short term, but history is pretty clear that economies heavily dependent on resource extraction breed the most corrupt, least equitable governments.

So the Tigers just weren't accident prone enough under DD? 😉

AAA and AA staff now in place: https://www.milb.com/toledo/news/anthony-iapoce-to-become-next-mud-hens-manager https://www.milb.com/erie/news/seawolves-announce-2023-field-staff

there is still something about the layoffs that seems to affect northern teams more than southern ones. Sure they have all the training facilities indoor so the weather outdoors shouldn't matter, but I almost think there must be some kind of seasonal physiological reaction in the body as winter sets in around you.

Georgia actually could have given up 28 pts in TOs and they'd still be up by 20! If we are/were realistic about UM, on a pure football basis completely apart from Harbaugh considerations, they didn't have the secondary or receiver corp to reach elite status this season. If Harbaugh goes, and the odds seem to be increasing by the day, the hiring process should be as wild as any recent season has been. 🍿🍿🍿 I tend to believe he goes. He was essentially fired in SF, which hadn't happened to him before, and that has stuck in his craw and my guess is he wants to go back before the clock runs out on him and prove to the league that firing him was a mistake.

yeah - if the theory is that relievers are the most unpredictable players, then there is potential profit in trading them for more predictable players at other positions and backfilling with the unknown as some of them will turn out to be unpredictably good. That's the theory anyway. Harris is arranging for us to find out if it holds.

LOL - I'm sure a point a minute blowout was just what ESPN was hoping to broadcast. It's marker for how far UM is from playing in Georgia's league. The may have Ryan Day's number, but their chances of winning out this year were never what the fans wanted to believe they were on Nov 27th. But that's what fandom is about - so it's cool.