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Yeah, I was writing and just realized it... All I could do was look down at the keyboard and curse profusely. Gone too far
The Hall of Fame Burger at Home Team Grill in Fredericksburg (right off of one, where the Mary Wash bridge goes over the road) is awesome. Sunny side up egg on it, so you can ooze all over your fries.
I have no idea what is going on in that goose gif.... When was that?
Haha, no I'm an engineer. Aoe. Thanks, though.
Haha. Hope you can, because a certain buckeye or two may make an appearance in the near future.
You're not going to get the crispy crust, which is a key element of #teampie... I think you're better off picking a side, although this attempt at compromise was a good one and should be respected.
Thank you. My point, exactly.
I think it just leads to a self-creating star ranking feedback loop based upon schools preconceived recruiting reputations and not any judge of the actual athletes.
"Oh, Bama offered. Bump up his star rating."
So then the kid gets more attention, more offers and more stars. Then the story is "Bama is amazing at recruiting! Look at all the five-stars!" when the way stars are assigned are dependent upon schools like Bama offering. It's not even a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I guess it's decent, because you can assume that these coaches are decent evaluators, but the engineer in me can't help but shudder at the assessment.
see, that's where the star system breaks down... # of offers isn't exclusively impacted by talent. Exposure plays a big role too.
But then the Northern schools lose the yearly game in Florida... Can't help recruiting.
Hahaha. I thought as much. Way better, and surprising that we actually do worse once the rushes get way up there. Your sample size isn't huge, but it looks like "balanced" is the way to go.
So... No comparison between the run vs pass and winning % with Lefty and with the previous regime?
A decent thought, but... you're going to need way more math-ing to get anything conclusive out of this look.
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# | Deadspin: Ohio State's loss to Virginia Tech the worst ever by a National Champion Closer, but still no.
I thought the all-whites looked really slick. Way better than the buckeye's unis with those terrible black numbers on the shoulders
He was on his way to being rookie of the year early, until he got hurt and sort of came back to earth
Well, I couldn't care less about Oregon getting butthurt over it, because frankly, they run up the score plenty. I just think the whole thing reflects poorly on Meyer. That's what I think the argument is about.
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I'm just glad he and Harbaugh are stuck with each other now, because I think they're both uber-competitive super-jerks who will both eschew any form of sportsmanship in the name of making themselves look better. They both deserve one-another, and I'm sure will cause each other much heartache.
You take the knee. Then Oregon has the option to call a timeout or not. If the do, you kick the fieldgoal, pushing it to 3 possessions and the lead to an insurmountable one. If they don't call the timeout (because the lead is already insurmountable), the game ends, and you're not rubbing their noses in it.
If an Oregon lineman takes a cheap shot and takes out the knees during a kneel down, that's on them. You can't force other people to be sportsmen. But taking a knee is way safer for everyone involved than a running play, and I'm not sure that's really disputable.
Oregon getting back into it requires them to call two timeouts, you to miss an extra-point distance field-goal, them to score a TD, get the two point conversion, recover the onside kick and then score another TD in 27 seconds, without a timeout. And then you have to lose overtime. It wasn't happening. Furthermore, you could argue the odds of a stripped football being returned for a TD during the running play were greater than the above. Scoring there was running up the score, plain and simple.
How would Meyer have looked if Elliott tears his ACL on the TD run? Or breaks his leg?
Or some other unpaid athlete gets a concussion?
I'd say that's way more likely than a blocked FG for a TD, followed by a recovered onside kick (and a 2-pt conversion thrown in there for good measure). OSU wasn't losing that game.
"Oregon does it, so that makes it ok to do it to them" <- that's not how sportsmanship works.
I had a problem with it. You're on Oregon's 5 yard line, you're up 15 points. Take three knees to burn the clock and then kick the fieldgoal if Oregon is still using its timeouts. They'd probably let the clock expire, but even if they didn't a FG still makes it a 3-possession game (with less than a minute left), and you don't subject athletes (who aren't getting paid) to more hits than necessary.
It's poor sportsmanship, and Meyer has done it his entire career. I remember Tim Tebow's senior year, when he was still in while Florida was up like 30 in the 4th quarter, passing (it was against some crappy SEC team... Kentucky, maybe?). Tebow got drilled in the ear on a blitz, and got a concussion. Why was he out there running up the score? Because Meyer lacks sportsmanship.
Jimbo Fisher's last 3 qbs - E.J. Manuel, Christian Ponder, JaMarcus Russel
He's really good at masking qbs weaknesses and making 'meh' guys look pro-ready. Winston has 'bust' written all over him
Well, his yds/att didn't really drop so I'm not sure you can really make the case for that. They were always pretty low.
He just seems like a sweater vest kinda guy to me