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Why not. By the way, there's a rehab clinic nearby doing 50% off Thursdays! You can recover!

This is a ton of newness. I expect them to struggle quite a bit in a difficult conference. And don't finish in last place, which I don't think they'll do. If I had to guess, I'd pick 9th or 10th.

8 of 13 is jaw-dropping ,especially considering the max would've been, what, 9 or 10 of 13? This is how you make a statement early. Loud and clear.

oh, there's no such thing. they're all perfectly advised. I figured I'd just slip in a Cleveland joke.

In Cleveland? Well, I suppose if you shifted your perspective enough.....:)

wow, he had ann arbor on virtual autopilot for winning. if the contracts guaranteed, not a bad move, given how much NBA coaches are paid. Job security is so crappy there, though. And he had lots of it at UM. Wish him luck. Helluva coach.

"I must dunk you" he said, to the little orange ball.

well, there's some size. and a dude that speaks french! You know, if you ditch the first syllable of his surname, his name is close to Ivan Drago. Coincidence? Entirely.

I'm actually a stickler for ethics in general, and honestly, I don't see any violations at all other than the leak/publication part. Players aren't infants. They understand now that the sport they love to play is a business at almost every level. Most of them were already practically playing "pro ball" before they even got to college. I think some of this sentimentality is just nostalgia for an era of amateurism, and I share a lot of that, but that's not reality. What's happening now is reality. And every actor in this play is aware of it. I've suspected for some time that Moos saw something in the program's culture that he didn't like--I have no hard proof of that, so it's worth what any other ill-informed opinion is worth--and acted on it when he could. Much of this purge supports that perspective (but it also supports other perspectives as well, just to be clear and fair). But if you're going to hire a new coach to change the trajectory of a program, they have to have the freedom to do that. And Hoiberg's doing what he's literally being paid to do. And there's nothing unethical about that. Ethics isn't a euphemism for "easy landing" or "getting one's way". To me what would be unethical is if he retained these players just to honor their previous commitments and then let them languish on the bench for the remainder of their careers without telling them that this was their fate when he arrived. *That* would be unethical. And that's not going to happen. Even if you don't trust Hoiberg, trust Doc. The dude's moral compass is on pretty tight. He's not going to sit by while a player is abused or mistreated in any way shape or form.

Except that he could stay and finish the degree without playing basketball, on scholarship still. So this isn't an issue with Thor at all. And if he wants to still play basketball, then he gets to choose which is more important, although I suspect most of his credits will transfer to another Div 1 school (it's a lot easier to transfer credits now than it used to be for a variety of reasons). And honestly, a bachelor's from UNL isn't all that. It's average--nothing wrong with that, my BA is from here. But you're not designing your life plans around a degree from Nebraska. Harvard, maybe, but not Nebraska.

I believe the settled on count was 7 tornadoes during that sequence. That's how the event is written up by the NWS. Extremely rare this far north.

I still have pretty high standards for tornado terror. Old enough to remember the 1980 tornado outbreak in GI my last year in high school. that was insane. Not two month later, one would go right over my house in Bellevue, NE. Nutty tornado season that year.

good luck for James! hope he latches onto something that pays reasonably well.

siren went off, i blacked out, and I woke up in this place called Oz. Funny roads they got here.

which is itself an outrage, so.......hmmm......brilliant....;)

That's certainly possible if you don't know the poster, so I'll cop to the plea. My idea of silly fun isn't for everyone. Next time we do poetry slam, I'll try to be more serious and maybe whip out some Yeats or Browning.

Roses are Red Violets are Blue Haikus suck ballz Thank you. Thank you very much. Edit: lol it appears Canucks take their haikus very seriously!

Reminds me of why I supported Doc then and still do. He had that consistency with a bunch of 3 stars in a pretty tough league. The B1G was just hitting its peak, sadly for him, when we joined. I remember his departing press conference when he said he wanted to be the one to get NU its first win in the tourney. He's probably going to achieve that after all, just not exactly how it was drawn up. It's like a Hallmark TV movie!

thor's that energizer bunny every program needs. dude's pure hustle. i hope like hell he's back, and wasn't exactly pleased at the prospect that he might be forced out. he gets any kind of shot at all, preferably a mid-ranger that could compliment his quickness, and he could contribute a few minutes like he did at the end of the season. anyhoo, glad to see our Icelandic brother return.

if this were any other hypothesis, all the scatterplot would tell you is that there wasn't a very good correlation between then hypothesis that recruit rankings cause wins. and I think you wound up hitting the nail on the head with SoS as to one reason why that is. You could try plotting this against a more sophisticated measure--like rpi and then do that over, say, 20 years. Personally, with that much outlay, NU looks more like within an acceptable margin of error for a weak hypothesis where they're at. Not that big of a deal, in other words. I think there is *some* connection, obviously. I think the best way to see it graphically is maybe compare the recruit tankings versus team wins *within* a conference over time, like the B1G or the ACC. I'm sure there would be a much tighter relationship.

I just don't see it mattering one way or another. If he's satisfied with his position and his toolset going into the draft, no reason for him to return. If he feels he's short--or the league does--he'd likely be back regardless of who's going to be on the roster. I just think he's going to go high enough to make this moot.

I still view that as one of the great recoveries ever AND one of the most disappointing seasons ever, probably right behind this one. This year reminded me so much of that one. I still see that as the mark of a generational sea change for players. They were becoming much more assertive of their individual interests than players traditionally had been. And that sense of self-interest---and I'm not using this term pejoratively here--is still a major force in coach-player relationships to this day. Even more so.

Probably me. Short version: it's nowhere near the big deal some folks are making it out to be.

Wonder? No. When I taught at UWashington, we occasionally would have an athlete in a similar situation and there's all sorts of reasonable accommodations that can be made depending on the temperament of the instructor/professor pr department policies. Upperclassmen courses are frequently not as attendance-obsessed as underclassmen ones, especially if you know you're likely to be involved in a lot of travelling, which most athletes do anyway. You can trade papers for attendance, for example (my tool of choice) or trade an incomplete for a summer makeup (which would wind up being papers for attendance anyway). Athletes aren't the only undergraduates who can travel a ton during the course of a year. I debated for Nebraska and we were gone far more than any athlete since our competitive season lasted the entire academic year. We just had dispensation from the Dean's Office to have a crapload of excused absences, but we always had to get the coursework done properly.

Heiman has to get stronger to play at this level. If he does, he'll be able to contribute. He should've redshirted, as most big men should.