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this is the Achille's heel. Russia cannot afford its weapons splurge except by third party sales. But as the US could tell them, sell enough arms in enough places and sooner or later it's your troops looking down the barrels of the guns you made.

Blash says Betuzzi was - as suspected in the booth - cut on the wrist by a skate but that he is OK. No word on Larkin other a report he appeared to have hurt his hand....

Zadina is useles - almost painful to watch him play. They need Vrana badly - if for no other reason than to get one of the deadwood forwards out of the lineup. Of course if either Larkin or Bertuzzi are out long it won't really matter.

Stahl with a couple of giveaways in one shift - Ana ties the game after wings dominate the period

Larkin out - upper body. Not coming back in this one. Wings score on PP for the 1st time in 19 tries - a 5 on 3. 1 apiece in the 2nd.

LOL - who knew the thread hadn't moved in a week - ME! It was still a funny juxtaposition though....

I think Ukrainian neutrality is fine, the question is would Putin leave it at that or constantly be meddling in Ukrainian governance and just restarting this over and over. Then again, I suppose if that is his stance, there is no way out until he is gone from the scene and there will be continual tension until then. I've noted before that the Russians have been willing to leave the Finns alone - also directly on their border and with lots of strategic relevance in terms of being able to interrupt Russian access through the arctic sea. But Putin clearly has more of a hard on for Ukraine than a couple of generations of Russian leaders ever did for Scandinavia

well, they should be well rested after not having played last night......

mgoblue blog would pretty much be the sports equivalent of cable news wouldn't it? 🙄

Looks like he's hardly played any competitive minutes since high school. Some G league time I guess?

All they have to do is double their wins next year and the year after.....🔮

well, you could just punt on 1st down each time you got past the 50. 🤔

It's kinda fun to think that next year could be kinda fun.

Well, nature does abhor a vacuum.

I don't think it's a myth at all because I don't think anyone at the U or anywhere else thinks that. We are well aware our incoming classes are mostly from very well-off backgrounds. We don't attract that much 1%er aristocracy like the Ivies but only the minority of our students (at least in Engin) are from families that ever pinched their pennies.

you mean we aren't replacing Decker?

this is right answer

yeah - the right's idea that you can reduce the role of government is basically a chimera. Work on making it work better, stop with the fantasy that's it's the enemy or that it's going to go away - it's a counter-productive waste of energy. If the government is the enemy in a democracy that means the people are the enemy - it just makes no sense as political theory.

Hilarious

it's never been a secret there are legacy points in the admissions scoring. The big problem for all colleges is the other end. Unlike in the immediate post WWII US, the quality of publics schools has become much more tightly correlated to the wealth of the local district. This probably has less to do with anything the colleges have done as much as with the dissolution of structured family life across working class America. So college preparedness has become another have vs have not economic issue. Colleges can and do take on students that need remediation but it's a big effort and will not likely ever be a big % of a student body. To fix the problem look less to the end of the chain and more to the base. We need to improve working class public ed in the US not only for that but for all the other equity issues involved.

right. What's the problem? Other than (all) that , he did fine.

If they want to prevent tension with academics, then just hire the athletes as staff. If they are being paid they are pros, so that's were this is all going anyway. At some point the duck rule needs to be applied.

If I am parsing the dates correctly, Campbell was hired on Jan 20th, Lynn Jan 27th, do we really even think Lynn was Campbell's hire or did they give him a list of guys they have already vetted and have him pick one that sounded good? I find it hard to believe Lynn was a hire Campbell was all that invested in after a one week's involvement in the decision process. And even if he was, you'd certainly prefer a guy that knows how to move on to a guy that goes down with a crew of under performers like Mike Dantonio did!

still, the comment by Fisher is apples and oranges. A middle class kid looking for an education to get ahead is not comparable in any academic sense to an athlete that simply wants to use the U as step toward a professional athletic career that has little to nothing to do with his academic experience per se. The former comes to the U with the objective of pulling himself up to the academic standard, does the latter? I can easily see admissions not being swayed by such an argument.