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In hindsight, it's pretty intimidating to bring an offense that sensationally inept into games we still expect to win.

So does Oregon get that advantage every game?

Great tidbit on Willis being related to Anderson.

Great comparison. I was shocked how short he looked on film.

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He has a best of 15.94 meters this year. The leader is at 17.76 meters. The qualifying distance to get to the trials is 16.66 meters.

This has been my argument for a while on Motu. It's been a little bit since we've had a starter for more than 3 years at Mike. The last one was Bruce Taylor and even he was injured for half of his Junior year. We aren't used to the growing pains that come with that because our memorable starters came on in their senior year. Recently, Jack Tyler and Chase Williams really skewed what to expect there. We whiffed in recruiting the position and then we had to put in a redshirt Freshman to start when Chase Williams went down.

There isn't a practical way to "tweak" it without losing rivalries.

Tim Settle moved to MLB. Yeah, that's the answer.

I would venture to say that was a theory, as far as i know hurricane genesis still isn't completely understood. However there have been a few equations that include multiple factors that help or hinder tropical cyclone genesis.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI4282.1

that paper is one I looked at a good bit while writing a paper/presentation about El Nino's impacts on genesis. In it theres an equation that includes a lot of factors that looks like this

where eta is your absolute vorticity at the 850 mb level (or hectopascals its the same thing) where vorticity is the rotation of fluid flow

H is the humidity level at about 600 Hectopascals

Vpot is the potential intensity of the system (which is exactly as it sounds, how unstable the atmosphere is)

and Vshear is wind shear

so naturally from this equation you can see you want a couple of things. Lots of humidity, lots of instability, and high amounts of potential vorticity. But interestingly you want the winds to be relatively calm while they're forming. This is because the winds will actually rip apart the cyclone before it can organize into a tropical cyclone. The equation is pretty accurate and definitely picks out the hotspots for tropical cyclone formation. ALSO contrary to popular belief you dont NEED warm water for hurricanes, it actually just intensifies the storm. So theres a direct correlation between tropical cyclone intensity and surface water temperature. However there is no trend to water temperature and genesis. If you want an interesting read though thats totally a tinfoil hat theory, look up hypercanes. Its a theory that after an asteroid impacted the Earth it heated up the water SIGNIFICANTLY in the tropics (where the asteroid hit) and a tropical disturbance flew over head and turned into literally a world ending storm and finished off the dinosaurs by punching a hole in the stratosphere with so much violent upward motion and releasing a ton of water vapor, which then destroyed every ounce of ozone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane

As i mentioned in the post El Nino has many regional impacts. So each region is effected differently. For instance the Gulf of Mexico has an increased wind shear, thus hurricanes get ripped apart before they have a chance to form. However say in the northwestern pacific however has its highest points of vorticity shifted eastward, thus resulting in hurricanes to track that way more

I believe what you might be talking about would have something to do with the Jet stream and maybe the monsoon trough? a lower jet would rip up cyclones, but the monsoon trough basically births most of the tropical cyclone activity in the pacific. I dunno.