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My guess? If Houston gets him back it will be by offering a ridiculous AAV. They seem pretty intent on not going anywhere near 10 yrs.

I'm not holding my breath expecting any great hitting breakthroughs from a 29yr old. But if he makes even marginal improvements it's all icing on the cake. He's the SS after all. Catch the ball and give me 800 OPS and I'm a happy camper.

I don't like that nobody this class gets high marks for throwing accuracy. They may score on accuracy drills at the combine and maybe raise their stock but that kind of accuracy is pretty meaningless.

Ah - that makes a lot more sense - for Cabrera in NM as well. Survivalists in MT probably just finding out Babe Ruth's been passed.

well, maybe Ridder will drive Cinci to the Championship and there will be a QB to take at 1/1

Have BoSox fans soured on Bogearts? Wasn't he once the next big thing? He's not all that outstanding in any area but he's a pretty nice player overall.

IDK. Maybe. But, it's a message board. Brevity may be many things but the soul of nuance is not one of them. There is often years of subtext implicit in posts that any given reader may or may not be processing. When conversation swings into topics of sweeping impersonal forces I don't expect people to append their personal ethics disclaimers on each post for my clarity.

Giselle is international.

did any of the those other guys play 14 yr in the league? Harbaugh 'knew' pro football a lot better than some of those guys so that was a natural advantage for him. But I think the way SF ended is probably one of the reasons he's going to stay in college. There really isn't anyone looking over his shoulder or 'meddling' in his program at UM. Sure he reports to someone in the form of the AD, but a major college coach has much more autonomy than the average pro coach not named Belichek. Of course *if* a guy like Harbaugh starts feeling college football evolving down a road that feels more like pro football maybe his mind changes?

To look like Tom Selleck and play down and out would be a tour de force.

Filmed in 1965. Jason Robards and a teenage Barry Gordon. A quintessential 60's story.

The long term question to me is whether NIL fundraising will eventually eat academic fundraising. College football doesn't make that much money for most schools - but just breaking even on the athletic dept budget is considered good enough because the good will generated by a national sports presence is thought to prime alumni giving across the board. But depending on where the NIL arms race goes/is allowed to go, at what point are you having to divert so much of your total development dollars into NIL that you can no longer make the argument that FB is supporting a net positive in the overall giving to the rest of the institution? For scale, UM is budgeting for ~$150M in donor contributions for FY '22. Just to pick a number out of thin air, let's say you can argue that a third of that is supported by sports goodwill That means if NIL costs get near $50M/yr people may start asking why you are operating a football team. Could it get there? Who knows at this point? Since M is one of the richest sports programs and also has one of the biggest total donor bases, you have to think those numbers are relatively smaller most other places. Sure, the Alabama's, Notre Dames and Michigans are not really very likely to be driven to the mat by this, but you have to have other teams to play! If schools at the bottom who can't compete financially start dropping out of conferences, the formation of new super conferences may be actually be fine from the fans perspective and the net result will be more non-revenue football being played in more places. Maybe not such a bad end - who knows?

I see what you did there.

This is in vitro work, which is valuable as preliminary data, but how any particular in vitro will translate into in vivo is always a question. This is moving so fast that we will probably have epid survey data a lot faster than we'd like to.

yeah that was interesting, and probably too high. Supposedly he is not going back to Vanderbilt so I don't know what he thinks he's going to do with himself to maintain his marketability going into the '22 draft. And if he would not submit to a medical for the last draft, is he going to for the '22 draft? And if he doesn't, I would guess no team will touch him in any early round next year either. And if he does do a medical, what was the point in refusing last year? Situation doesn't make much sense. Plenty of whistling past the graveyard talk from Boras, but I have to wonder if he is regretting taking Rocker on as a client.

The police have gone though an interesting transition my lifetime. Rationally, they know that nothing makes their jobs harder or more dangerous than the ubiquity of guns, and PDs in the main used to support gun control. But what has happened in this generation is that the membership of PDs have become radicalized toward RW philosophies, and so have become guns advocates even in contradiction to their own daily best interests.

NLRB has cleared the way for a union to form and some people at UMinn are already trying to get one off the ground, so that possibility is being pursued. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31896889/new-players-association-aims-represent-college-football-players-amid-changing-ncaa-landscape The hockey model ties a player to a pro team, so in a system like that the NFL and the NCAA/conferences could work out deals on player placement, but I think it would still end up looking different because the current hockey system maintains amateur status for college hockey players and that is just what has gone away. Or maybe I should day maintained? I feel like all terms have to be used past tense! But one place I wouldn't look for constructive solutions would be the NFL. To them, the beauty of NIL is that it is not their money. I don't see them being in a hurry to offer suggestions for a system that looks like a minor league and makes them responsible for salary payments into a minor league/college system.

Shad Khan wants to modify the situation; Bigly: " I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate change is imperative for everyone.

Urban Meyer Jan 2021 -> Dec 2021.. Ridin' high in April...Shot down in May...

MI cases seem to have started back down on what is a 4th surge but Omicron is just getting started so who knows what next month will look like.

I will boldly predict (again) that the end game will be a HS draft into the NCAA.

I don't think Harbaugh wants to go anywhere else. I think he likes working with College players. But we'll see.

right - WCF didn't mind spending money, but he would only spend it on flash - like a great running back or an occasional splashy FA signing (things that put fannies in the seats was the phrase IIFC), but good scouting and (keeping) good assistants and deep rosters in the trenches didn't float his boat, so the Lions didn't have them.

That may be harsh. I think the issue is competence. Martha had no more clue than the man in the moon how an NFL franchise should be run regardless of where she wanted to take it. And WCF was actually anti-competent. He cared about the wrong things so his team produced the wrong outcomes. All we can hope is that Sheila has been doing her homework.

yes - the state labs have been doing sequencing to track the new strains - first detection of Omicron in MI was 12/9 https://www.wilx.com/2021/11/30/michigan-state-health-officials-testing-omicron-variant/ https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2021/12/09/omicron-covid-variant-first-michigan-case-detected-kent-county/8889733002/ UM also does sequencing in it's surveillance which is where B117 (now known as alpha) was detected.