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It's pretty simple, too many young American men are idiots. We've made them that way. Raised on video games, hovered over by parents who never taught them how to be responsible for themselves by being responsible anything else, and thus never learned how to be fully formed adults, socialized sexually by pervasive porn. What sane woman wants any part of that?

not sure what this means other than nobody walks the ball up the court anymore. Could be a lot of reasons for that, but I would guess one is the disappearance from the game of the Shaquesque 7ft 300 lb center who you had to wait for anyway before you could get to your half court O. 😉

I've also wondered on more than one occasion if the drive toward minimalist mechanics is hurting guys. How much did those big windups maybe help collect, store, and transfer energy for the pitch?

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Yup. We've talked about it before, the fans tend to be very short horizon, what the schools realize that fans don't is that you put together one conference of all the perennial top 20 teams, half of them will start losing half their games, and I don't think that's an appealing future for a Michigan or a Clemson. In the heyday of the Yankees being the Yankees, was when the Senators were being the Senators. Someone has to willing the be the Northwesterns of a new super league and I don't imagine any one is.

It's always been a big point in A^2 that the football program was always cash flow positive back the rest of the U, which I suppose is or should be true in a lot of places, but in any case, you can understand leadership that didn't want to responsible for that changing. Goes to show just because you look doesn't mean you find something useful!

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Del was noting that tempo was down, but I wonder how much of that is just because they are leading a lot in the 4th now and want to slow it down.

I think you can make a case that a taller person (not necessarily a heavy one though) simply has longer levers - both in his stride and his arm length, to achieve velocity at lower stress. But as you note, those longer levers probably also stress connective tissue proportionally more, so maybe in the end it's a wash. Experience seems to argue the big guys aren't holding up any better. But probably they are just more likely to be *able* to throw hard so we continue to see a lot of them.

well, that pretty much confirms it was bad news, doesn't it?

I think you get a certain synergy with Holland out there with Thompson. You get a real speed overload. Without his running mate he doesn't seem quite the same.

and it's also doubly good if your big man can make those late FTs as it's a lot easier to inbound the ball to size against pressure.

Is there any evidence about smaller pitchers being more fragile? In the past regime the Tigers almost had a fixation about not bringing in anything but big pitchers - 6'3" and up and I've wondered if that was their reasoning, but that didn't help Faedo, Skubal, or Fulmer - all on the bigger side and TJ victims anyway.

I think I have to disagree with the premise. The quality of NCAA football has always been miles below that of the NFL, but that never kept schools from filling their stadiums. So the key in college football hasn't been how good the players are, it's the draw of the ties to the schools that people are attached to - either by direct relationship, geography or just general fandom. Back in the Bo/Woody days of the B10, they were clearly playing an inferior brand of football than what was appearing on fields in the South and West, didn't affect the popularity of the product in the midwest at all. No M fan moved his allegiance to UCLA because they had figured out how to pass the ball. The beauty of football is that you get exciting games as long as teams are well matched at whatever level that is. The rest is all in the legacy allegiances. As I argued to Buddha the other day and still believe, if you took all the players in the NCAA and put them in a 'AAA' minor football league, that league with the same players playing the same game would only be worth only a fraction of what they are attached to their Universities.

I've seen some OSU folks complaining in social media (for what that's worth of course....) that the top leadership at OSU right now are political hacks and looking for leadership there is futile. But I'll state I've not personally done nor do I plan to do any research into the quality of the OSU leadership. 🎓

I get the idea, but I think you are being idealistic. If the Dems had it as program plank and then introduced any such thing in a GOP state, the GOP would immediately amend the proposal in to an effective suppression format and the Dems would be left holding the bag politically. I think that is the much more probable political reality. And in any case, the idea that lack of state ID is holding back people from accessing services (other than voting) is a presumption not actually in evidence. I've yet to hear any chorus from county social workers that they are being impeded in their work by lack of client documentation. This is about voting, and I'll stand with the all the arg's above that state ID for voting is a red herring that Dems have no good reason to get behind.

Their GA is good, but part of that is Gibson and there is always the question of whether a goalie will sustain good play over a season. They still don't clear their zone well, but are doing better keeping the other team in safer places in our zone - so less SOG etc. I think the biggest question is how ASP and Danielson do. Are they going to sustain or grow or are they going to hit a rookie wall and have to be sent back to GR. If they don't have to dip back into weak depth to replace those two I'm optimistic. And I'd still rather see Solderblom playing than Rasmussen. At least Elmer makes enough plays you know his is on the team.

but a long standing problem for the Wings is that with this team 'lock down' is never far from becoming 'turtle' mode, meaning the goalie having to save the game single handedly.

there is one thing that could save Sweeney, which is if they think they need Baez in CF - IOW I'm not so sure Meadows is a lock. And even if Meadows doesn't make it, they also have Vierling, so still a long shot for Sweeney.

right. And not borrowing for operational expenses is a pretty good rule of thumb for anybody other than a start-up. And didn't PSU issue LT bonds for the stadium? Have they got weird rules in PA or something?

One not to bright sign about NVidia - their SW people have been screwing up recently. Now I'll state upfront it's a totally insignificant part of the overall business, but I hate to see lack of attention to detail anywhere in an org. The last release of their Linux drivers had to be pulled back for some pretty basic QC misses. Gamers also complain they have fallen behind AMD in the SW implementations of some of the better features of their cards.

32 yr old OF who was already a late bloomer whose contact and OB have been dropping and his K rate rising, whose productivity is only sustained by his increasing HR numbers? Not a profile I find appealing. Maybe Rodriguez' rehab hasn't gone well.....

Congress should have stepped in after the 1st NIL court ruling and decided which genies needed to stay in which bottles, Legislation is probably the only thing that can fix it all now, but without getting political about it in more than the most general way, this is the kind of stuff that can run off the rails for years when the government stops functioning.

And Duren solid at the line at the end

at about the 5 minute mark they were already starting to be back on their heels and the Krakon hadn't even put the extra man out yet and it was looking like another goal would be given up late, but they managed to pick it up. Talbot almost gave away with a sloppy play where he turned his back thinking he was leaving it for ASP behind the net but a Krakon got there first.