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The published tuition numbers from private schools are sort of a joke. Very few people pay them. They exist like a kind of graduated income tax on 1%er legacies. Yes, it's a silly system, but after a family turns in a FAFSA, even the most nominally expensive schools will support a student down to the same family income contribution level. The net result is the actual tuition requirement may magically end up about the same as that student would be paying at at good out state public university. The hard part at 'good' schools is more admissions than money. When a school gets 5 times as many qualified applicants as it has spots, getting in becomes a lottery perforce. UM gets 80K applications/yr. https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works And this what you can do when you have endowment money, BTW https://goblueguarantee.umich.edu/

yes

It's his bat that needs to embrace it's inner Kirby Puckett!

there is definitely something not right. Look at his penalty minutes. He already has 50% more PIM in 23 games than he had in 56 games last season. That's a player who is either getting behind plays he thought he could make or just isn't concentrating. The goal on him tonight was terrible, He had inside leverage and just didn't deflect the man.

Pistons are the league's worst shooting team by almost every measure. No more players that can't shoot please.

They are scoring 7 less per game so far this season. Cade's scoring isn't adding to last year's offense, it's just replacing it - almost. Instead of being able to bring a top pick into a roster he could immediately make better, the pistons are at ground zero, it's Cade and the dozen dwarfs. Your last top pick, Hayes, should have been the piece that benefited most from bringing in a good player - instead he is exactly where he was last season - which is nowhere. Weaver came in and had to turn over the roster. It would have been nice if he had finished with more than zero left, but not to be.

yeah if comes to ST at that weight he'll be lucky not to get sent to AA.

Paper today said DeKeyser did skate in his normal pairing at Monday's practice but you'd think 15 min TOI max after the time off?

news from the Freep that Paredes is picking kit up in Winter ball. After a bad start he has 18 for his last 40 with 4HR. What interesting is that if you compare the two clips below you can a change in his approach. He has changed the action on his left foot to stay back longer. Maybe a bit more upright as well. No doubt directed at helping him unlock more power. older stance here https://www.mlb.com/video/isaac-paredes-two-run-hr this week here:

Leddy, Hronek and Seider play 28 min?

so how does this work? What advantage does the lock-out give the owners compared to the players being on strike? The lock-out prevents a strike vote, does that mean a proposed settlement doesn't require a vote before the players can come back?

and Brady won a SB with the Bucs. Maybe they are both pretty good?

Your numbers are out of date. 'U' announced enrollment in A^2 hit 50K this term. https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-enrollment-this-fall-tops-50000-for-first-time/

if you add his TO to his assists, Cade had a triple double. Scored 28, no FTs Shooting the 3 way better. Can't complain about that.

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What was the point? Was Jones hurt? It's not like they were running up the score with the run game and couldn't use some more offense.

right on both counts. Heck when Jake Wood and Willie Horton came to Detroit they were playing for a GM who was a holdover from the notoriously racist Briggs organization. It's not like the guys in that generation didn't face a lot of establishment types that were expecting gratitude and subservience "for what they had done for them" instead of demands for "don't call me Richie" levels of respect. So it's not like they didn't have reason for there to be a little anger that probably wasn't too hard to reach.

too bad Ukraine is painfully flat. Not the best terrain for asymmetrical warfare

Tigers probably are not the only team trying to get better defensively and today that also means younger players. I wonder if we will see anything new in training regimes used by middle infielders in particular, to try maintain fielding capability. But guys don't seem to mind if they 'outgrow' playing SS if they are having success hitting the long ball!

No, not the rider, the horse! Not a good year for Bob Baffert https://www.espn.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/32804838/bob-baffert-trained-thoroughbred-medina-spirit-2021-kentucky-derby-winner-dies-collapsing-post-workout

Not sure what you are asking. McCarthy is big and fast, like any 5 star would be. But he doesn't have anything like the 'skill' hype around him Henson had (yet) and Harbaugh has kept his light pretty well shaded beyond his ability to run RPO. He has one big throw completion out of a total career of only 27. OTOH, Henson had played enough to demonstrate the arm talent that had everyone drooling. If he had been able to think the game as well as he could make the throws, he might be vying with Brady for GOAT. In that sense the analogy is sort of unfair to McCarthy. He may read come to read defenses and manage an offense just fine - we don't know yet, he hasn't been given the chance. And the comparison of McNamara to Brady is also off in that Brady never dealt with doubts that he had the physical attributes to be a top pro style QB. In fact he is the prototypical physical specimen, he simply hadn't learned how to be one until he got to NE. So beyond having a possibly gifted guy nipping at this heels, like a lot QBs do (like you hope you have recruited well enough to always have) beyond that the parallel gets a little forced.

Hope DeKeyser had a good skate today.

It's not a terrible analogy, but there are significant differences. JJ is clearly talented, but we've never seen him make one of the impossible Elway-esque throws that Henson and only a few guys that have ever played in the NFL could make. So the draw to Henson was much stronger - physically he really was a freak as a thrower. Of course it wasn't till he played that exposed that he wasn't all that good a QB. For all we know JJ may actually be a good QB. Harbaugh has made sure to never play him enough for that discussion to get serious.

you have it right there. It's not easy to fill 3 hrs everyday when you don't do interviews and your average caller is terrible.

Gonna be a sad day for his cow.