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  1. Just finished watching on DVR. What an enjoyable race with three different strategies on the podium, etc. Everything worked together to create an exciting race. Weather changes, Verstappen breakdown in Q1, etc. Wish more races were like this.

  2. On 10/19/2018 at 9:36 AM, Kyle said:

    Yes because:

    1. The person being accosted has no definitive way to accurately ascertain whether her rights were violated (maybe you have a magic way to judge another person's heart or intent -> if so, share as that sounds awesome)

    2. Even if one could fiat #1 above, not the time or place to engage (being disrespectful or rude to a cop or anyone because your judging her or making assumptions is usually not helpful in any relationship)

    (FWIW - I don't hate your or anyone but ousux; I do love the irony you bring to your comments)

    You think knowing an officer's heart or intent is necessary to ascertain that your rights have been violated? The problem appears to be that you simply have no idea what citizens' rights are when dealing with police officers. It doesn't make a single bit of difference what the officer's heart or intent are if the facts of the situation do not support any sort of reasonable suspicion or probable cause to be detained or searched, respectively.

    And as for #2, yes, the moment when your rights are being violated is EXACTLY the time and place to engage. Jesus.

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  3. 3 hours ago, TexasTroll said:

    To be honest

    i don’t really remember much of Jamaal, until he hit the nfl.

    was he overshadowed by another running back??

    ( sorry.   Booze n time...)

    i’ll shut up and listen....

    Username checks out.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

    I'll offer you a few nuggets:

    1. LJ did not name himself

    2. There is a story behind his name if you had bothered to look into it before opining in ignorance

    3. You will be hard-pressed to find any agreement on objective, universally accepted standards for names, but a few very well known ones include (1) names already in use and (2) modifications of names already in use (commonly involving some abbreviation). Do you think It was stupid to shorten Maryam (מִרְיָם) to Mary? Is it stupid to call someone Jack? Are apostrophes stupid, as in D'Artagnon? What about centuries-old compound names, often with spaces, such as Mary Ellen?

    Please pardon the Texas fans on this Texas-centric website should they respond unfavorably to your criticism of a Texas football player's name, a criticism that appears to be unsupported by understanding of his name in particular or of generally accepted practices in naming over the centuries.

    You left out the most important part - his team's head coach has a girl's name. If you're gonna have a girl's name like Dana you have to offset it with a super fucking manly middle name like Xenophon. Then you can just include your badass middle initial X when being addressed.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

    Damn how did I miss that? We played SMU in SA , wait whut, when?

    1993, I was also at that game. I was in high school and my mom and dad took me to make a weekend out of visiting family in the area. Unlike the previous poster, though, I think it's a great place to watch a football game. When I go to a stadium all I care about is sight lines and seeing the action. I don't give a shit about luxury suites and bells and whistles.

    In that respect the Alamodome is a better football stadium than Jerryworld.

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  6.  
    Or maybe when dealing with the police I'm not aggressive or an asshole?
    My wife and her family are dark skinned. None of them ever has had a problem. (absolutes are the hobgoblin of a lazy mind)
    I don't deny many are pulled over for "driving while black," but much of what happens after that largely is driven by how one interacts with police. (this is true in virtually all relationships)
    No cloak room, but sometimes nuance is required. (don't be tempted to jump to the "you love cops, hate all non-whites" straw man,  which of course is not what I'm implying)
    Everyone faces injustice, and it is how one responds to that injustice that often determines the ultimate outcome. (no, responding politely does not excuse or promote said injustice)
    Demanding cops treat citizens with respect and coaching citizens to respect cops are not mutually exclusive. (they're not, now matter what twitter says)
    So people should be respectful to officers who have already violated their rights? That's absurd.

    And if it helps, I don't hate you because of your myopic worldview, I hate you because of how many parenthetical statements you use.
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  7. To follow up on my previous post, I looked at all 2017 games between FBS opponents.

    Teams winning the turnover margin went 483-143 for a .772 winning percentage. 149 games had an equal number of turnovers.

    Teams which had more total passing yards per attempt went 618-157 for a .797 winning percentage.

    I threw out the game where Army had zero passing attempts to keep the populations the same.

  8. 9 minutes ago, Snacks said:

    After point differential (obviously), turnover differential is the highest correlated stat to wins/losses.

    That's not true. Other than points stats, the stat most highly correlated to wins/losses over the 12 years I studied (2000-2011) was yards allowed per play. Yards allowed per pass attempt was the most highly correlated component stat. This was based on season ranks, though, not per game values.

    Turnover margin was behind:

    Yards allowed per play
    Yards allowed per pass attempt
    Yards gained per play
    Yards gained per pass attempt
    Yards allowed per carry
    3rd down conversion percentage allowed
    Yards allowed per possession
    Yards allowed per game
    3rd down conversion percentage
    Yards gained per possession

    Then came turnover margin per possession.

  9. 11 hours ago, slorch said:

    There are some who would say the past abuse makes his actions understandable.

    I disagree, that's all.

     

    There's also a significant element in our society who wishes to excuse bad behavior because something bad happened in the past..  I 'strenuously' object.

     

    Break the fucking chain of abuse.

    If you would take 5 seconds to think instead of posting as soon as possible to continue your efforts to seem like a prince you'd realize that understanding Hernandez's abuse as a catalyst for his behavior is actually taking abusers to task for their actions like you claim you want everyone to do. But because you have a name and face for Hernandez in your brain and not for his abusers then you can't even contemplate that they are as guilty as he is. Not just for their abuse of him but also for the cascading effects that resulted in his terrible behavior.

    Everyone is trying to tell you that abuse, and therefore those who commit it, is and are even worse than you realize but you're too busy yelling "LALALA ABUSERS ARE BAD" to figure it out.

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    35 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    He's still learning the nuances of coverage and pattern-matching, but his football instincts allow him to make plays even now.

     

    I do wonder why he and Jones have so much difficulty playing the ball in the air. Although to be fair to Foster it was just that one play I'm thinking of. Boggles the mind that the ball actually got to through cleanly to Morris's hands.

  11. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25015812/g-league-offer-professional-path-elite-prospects-not-wanting-go-one-done-route-ncaa

    Good.

    In a move that could challenge the NCAA's monopoly on elite talent, the NBA's G League is creating a new venture as an alternative to the one-and-done route for the best American basketball prospects, league president Malcolm Turner told ESPN.

    As part of a newly formed "professional path" starting in the summer of 2019, the G League will offer "Select Contracts" worth $125,000 to elite prospects who are at least 18 years old but not yet eligible for the NBA draft. It will target recent or would-be high school graduates who otherwise would have likely spent just one season playing college basketball, enticing them not only with a six-figure salary but also the opportunity to benefit from NBA infrastructure, as well as a bevy of off-court development programs "geared towards facilitating and accelerating their transition to the pro game," Turner said.

    Without the restrictions of the NCAA's amateurism rules, players will also be free to hire agents, profit off their likeness and pursue marketing deals from sneaker companies and the like, which could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in endorsement opportunities to top prospects.

    In April, the Commission on College Basketball recommended that the NCAA and NBA embrace alternative options for one-and-done caliber prospects.

    "Elite high school players with NBA prospects and no interest in a college degree should not be forced to attend college, often for less than a year," commission chair Condoleezza Rice told the Associated Press. "One-and-done has to go, one way or another."

    While changes to the NBA's age limit likely won't be implemented until the 2022 draft, the league considers this a response to such criticism.

    "The broader basketball community has called for the NBA to enhance our G League offerings," Turner told ESPN. "We believe this is an answer to that call. We believe this is a thoughtful and responsive answer."

    Through its unique new partnership with USA Basketball, the NBA will have a captive audience of America's most elite prospects during the NCAA Final Four in April and at the USA Basketball Junior National Team minicamp in October, where the G League will look to introduce this professional path to the many future NBA players in attendance, as well as their families, according to Turner.

    Seven of the top 10 high school players in the 2019 ESPN 100 remain uncommitted to college programs, and the G League landing any of them could have huge ramifications -- for future paths to the draft for star players, the popularity of the NBA's development league and the college basketball talent pool.

    Turner said the league will not pursue those players who have already committed to colleges, but the professional path would be an alternative to those prospects who make a choice on their own to decommit. Turner also said the G League will be selective with the players they look to bring into the program -- with a strong emphasis on character and readiness to join a pro league.

    Many important details are still yet to be decided, including the way in which elite prospects are identified, pursued and then assigned to G League teams. How many players will the G League look to include in its first iteration of this venture? Who will determine which prospects are good enough to make the cut? Will this venture be open to international players as well, including Canadians or Australians who often matriculate to the NBA via American high schools or college basketball? What about Europeans?

    These are questions that Turner says will be answered in the near future with the help of a soon-to-be-hired dedicated program manager who will oversee the G League professional path, as well as a working committee that will tackle many of these tasks.

    While full logistics still need to be worked out, the G League intends to offer prospects on its professional path access to NBA facilities, player development coaches and training staffs well in advance of training camps in late October. That is important considering the long layoff between the end of a player's high school career in the spring and the start of the season in November.

    The G League will look to supplement the basketball aspect of this venture with a significant off-court component as well, borrowing from its existing slate of development and educational tools that include life skills, post-career planning and academic scholarship opportunities through partnerships with universities.

    Athletes will be restricted to playing only one season on a G League Select Contract, after which point they will become automatically eligible for that year's NBA draft. Article X of the NBA collective bargaining agreement already covers this for all draft-eligible American prospects: If a player renders services under contract for any non-NBA professional team prior to Jan. 1, he is automatically placed in the next draft.

    The program also will only be available to players who are at least 18 years old (on Sept. 15, prior to the start of the season), eligible for the following NBA draft (turning 19 in the calendar year of that draft and a year removed from their high school graduating class) and not enrolled in college.

    The program does come with some potential concerns for draft prospects, the G League and NBA teams:

    • Even if the venture attracts top talent, will these 18- and 19-year olds make an impact at the G League level, where the average age of players not under NBA contract was 25 at the start of last season?

    Given the significant difference in physical maturity and experience, G League Select prospects could be risking their draft stock while their peers face NCAA competition. It will take some time for a baseline to be established for what prospects can be expected to produce against this level of competition.

    • Will there be any conflict between Select prospects and other G League players, many of whom will be making significantly less money? Regular G League players $35,000 as a base salary for a five-month season, with bonuses, NBA call-ups, two-way deals and Exhibit 10 contracts providing paths to earning more.

    • NBA teams will likely want to attract potential first-round prospects to their G League affiliates in order to gather as much information as possible prior to the draft, but will G League coaching staffs be as heavily invested in the development of players who might not be as equipped to help them win games?

    G League officials are still considering how to address these concerns, with room for flexibility both before the program officially launches and once it is running. It will be fascinating to see how the college basketball world reacts to competition for its biggest stars and most marketable athletes, especially as the sport is engulfed in an ongoing corruption trial.

    The NBA is expected to lower its age limit in time for the 2022 draft and allow high school players who have graduated to go straight to the NBA without spending a year in college or the G League, but league sources say a venture of this nature may end up being a model that is explored as a potential compromise, depending on how things play out over the next three years.

  12. 4 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Someone refresh my memory, who would we have played if USC had dropped to Fresno St? They were down 14 a couple times in that game. 

    Hell I think we were in a dogfight for awhile with Aggy the last game of the regular season. Stephen McGee's rookie year I think?

    Penn State, assuming that Southern Cal fell behind them. There's a chance that the Trojans would have stayed ahead of them.

    We would have done unholy and borderline illegal things to Penn State.

  13. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    What seemed like the few reasonable auburn posters didn't like losing Hand and had reasons for the high sack total, including Stidham having zero internal passing clock and the design of the offense risking sacks to go vertical frequently, and they appear to be vindicated 

    Yes, Auburn's adjusted allowed sack rate last year was 98th and it was a valid reason to have some reservations about Hand.

    This year with Hand gone it has actually gotten worse and stands at 106th right now. Sometimes the reasons for optimism regarding position coaching hires in terms of the talent they're working with and the overall scheme they've been forced to work within actually work out in our benefit. It's not often, so it's nice when it seems to be happening.

    On the flip side the Texas rank has gone from 80th last year to 31st so far this year. QB improvement has a lot to do with it but the point remains, sometimes position coaches can be significantly affected by things outside their control.

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