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If they can get Parker configured at the plate so he can handle the bottom of the zone, I see hope, because the other aspects of his outcomes weren't so bad. But he couldn't cover the zone with the approach he had last season. And of course if he can stay on the field.

great goalies are what make for hockey dynasties. If you have one, even if it's still a big maybe so far, I don't think you can risk letting that get away for a single season result. I don't see a problem with them carrying three goalies. Talbot should not be playing a lot anyway. When #1 and #2 are 32 and 39 I don't see a problem giving #3 30-50% of the PT.

You had to go there, didn't you? 😉

Yeah - I don't imagine a typical B10 school exactly covets students that decide where to apply based on the football team. The other thing to keep in mind about those 'list' prices is how few people actually pay them. OTOH, everything that can't go on forever will end. Schools like UM have been stealing admissions from the 2nd tier schools all around the state. Eventually those places are going to find a way to make themselves more attractive again or they will be out of business.

At this point the best chance comes back to Ivey. His 3pt% is hovering around 40% and he has the best non-big man eFG on the team after Robinson. The Question is whether he can bring the rest of his game to where he can get the minutes to make a difference.

IDK, but the more time he spends on interior decorating the less he has for screwing up the rest of the country so I'm all in on him doing a complete White House reno.

On a flight from Sydney to Darwin we stopped at tiny airport at GOVE (8,000 ft runway though), which looked like it was only there for the military. Unclear what the stop was for. Maybe something in the cargo hold (triple 7 IIRC)..... The attention span of the US media is so short it hard to know if Xi has let the temperature come down a little over Taiwan (as might be the recent perception) or if it's just fallen off our American media radar.

Or he's just enough of a mensch that he doesn't feel the need to justify himself in public for what he did do in private during a period which is best put in the rear-view mirror. We have no idea either way.

I suppose with academicians the easiest myth to sell is 'you are in the top of your class', i.e. you can join the lucky few schools that actually do make money even if you never have before. Live the dream, be Indiana!

No, they really are not once you include the fundraising you have to do to get to even as as starting point. And even that is only at a minority of schools (as you note). Basketball maybe - way lower overhead to run roundball.

True. My father and Uncle both served in the PTO so I'd heard all the names of the places, but until my trip to Australia I never had any sense of how close WWII came to 'down under'. I'd always known separately about both the Battle of the Coral Sea, and that the Great Barrier Reef was the best place in the world to dive, but never understood they were basically the same place!

aw, shucks!

I would guess the 'agnostic' designation includes a lot of folks who grew in some religious doctrinal system, reached a point (for a wide variety of reasons) where they no longer accept any of the received doctrine, but still have the sense that they don't understand existence at any fundamental level and are left in a state of irresolution. I think that's quite a bit different from a person who has come to a positively objectivist view that nothing they can't see can exist. I think the big shift in the works is that as attendance at Churhes fall, fewer people are getting that doctrinal education in the first place and their agnosticism is even more ...diffuse (for lack of better word). 🕉️

Hear, hear!

The thing I don't get is how the people running the programs in college football resolve the basic contradiction. If you have go out and raise a ton of outside money to be competitive, what makes anyone think the enterprise is ever going to be profitable for the institution? They are all in an arms race where the income never catches up to the outgo. The only answer I've come up with is that the schools are being had. They are spending their own, their alum's and their student's money plus everyone else's they can fund raise from so that a bunch of other people - athletes (to whom the designation 'student' has never applied less), media, PE guys, coaches, can get rich. OK - I know it's not happening but I've never wished more my school would wake up and get off the treadmill that's only benefiting all the leeches out there.

No surprise the Finns understand their situation all too well, but Erdogan apparently doing quite the job of keeping the Turks riled up.

I think there is probably a difference in the intellectual stance taken towards the deist world. For instance I would expect that your average agnostic probably doesn't care much about public displays of Christian culture in the surroundings, where someone who has come down definitively on the atheist side is more likely to be irritated, insulted and possibly litigious.

these people clearly haven't been paying any attention to Trump. Greenland is going to be the 1st target when the Donald decides it's time to rumble.

Missed 6-7, completely, which is just so 6-7.

mustard gas residues persistent in the environment?

all of which are fair and good ideas but as per history in college football, programs will find ways to cheat like crazy - the money will just go back under the table. Again, if history is any guide enforcement will be both feeble and arbitrary.

Will a hot but old goalie bring back a decent 3rd pairing Dman?

FWIW, you are not alone there. The problem with a 100yr old uniform is that it looks like a 100 yr old uniform.

I loved the way Matthews ended up a spectator on the play.

I Whittingham is the straight arrow he's being billed as, we'll find out how long a clean program that loses is viable.