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Huckleberry

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  1. After the first snake:

    Huckleberry - 26.94
    HornOnTheBayou - 25.67
    Bartles - 24.52
    Capn81 - 23.24
    Jack Straw - 22.07
    BigOrange1 - 20.75
    Goo Punch - 18.15
    IPoopOnWhoop - 17.87

    For you new guys, this is my ratings system's expected values for teams selected. I also publish the full list after the draft. I don't follow college basketball closely enough to be an expert or anything close to it so I generally just use my system to pick with some minor differences here and there (e.g., I'll pick Oklahoma after hell freezes over, wait, no, I would shoot myself in the face before picking Oklahoma by choice, the only way I'll ever pick them is if I'm last in the draft and they're the only team left). And I don't pretend they're perfect, I haven't won yet although using my system has meant I've been one of the last 2 or 3 alive each season so far I think.

  2. True. I say we give him #16 seeds until he shows up based on giving us bad information. I mean it would be like doing him a favor. There has been at least one 16 seed winner in the first round in 100% of tournaments since 2018.

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  3. 13 hours ago, Bartles said:

    For the new folk - I've only been in once, a couple years ago but... We basically all do our best to make picks promptly on this thread. Like Capn will start by just posting "Abilene Christian" or whatever and then Goo will pick his team, etc.  No. 8 Jack Straw will pick two teams and it snakes back up. The "play-in" games count as one team, you keep whoever wins (so type "Temple/Belmont" for example).

    We try to re-post the draft order at the top of new each page so no one accidentally picks out of order.

    As far as keeping it moving, everyone understands if you have a conference call, walk dog, etc. but it helps if you post here to let us know what time you think you can come back. Like I have a conference call from 9:30-10 am Central, otherwise I can probably be around all morning.

    Any of you veterans feel free to add to that...

     

    8 hours ago, Capn81 said:

    Let’s do it. Give me...

    Texas Tech

    @Capn81 already breaking rules.

  4. you have a team full of players who nobody wanted, a team who a year and half ago was supposed to be one of the worst in major college basketball, and all they've done since then is outperform expectations *literally* more than any program in the country and yet and you and your fans just want to bitch about what's not going right. about losing a tourney final.

    wake up. enjoy what's happening. stop choosing to be miserable when your program is exceeding your own wildest expectations. or is this what you pictured when Barnes was hired? You expected Tennessee to go 55-14 in years 3 and 4 of the Barnes era. Yeah. That's the ticket.

    You make some good points about Barnes but this isn't one of them. Whether he's overachieving with scrubs or underachieving with superstars, the production is all that matters when you're in year 4. The roster is his responsibility at that point so he doesn't get extra credit for the fact he recruited guys the services thought were scrubs.

     

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  5. I appreciate the pilots who are seeing the pilot incompetence in handling these situations, but as an engineer I see the engineering incompetence in the situation existing in the first place.

    The pilots are making it sound like AoA sensors supplying bad information happens way too often. I obviously don't know all the difficulties in designing this piece of instrumentation but y'all are making it sound like it's something every pilot sees in the course of their careers. If aviation is going to get more and more automated, which it will, something as fundamental as the computer getting accurate information on the plane's angle of attack should be nearly errorless.

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  6. He is right about inheriting Stoops at least. If Herman inherited a DC as terrible as Stoops we would have cut him slack until his hire took over. If/when their D sucks next year, then we can fully blame Riley for it. But right now he's been working with his predecessors players and coordinator.
    Yes, he's a great head coach and the evidence is that he's completely not responsible for over half of his team. I yield, the logic is unassailable.
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  7. I judge Orlando on our defensive coaching and Herman on our offensive coaching. Don't see why the same paradigm shouldn't be applied to blOU. Also keep in mind that Riley inherited Mike Stoops, Grinch is the first defensive coordinator he's actually hired.
    So you don't consider the head coach responsible for over half of his team's performance (using your logic the special teams coordinator is the only one judged on special teams performance). Pretty interesting theory you've got going there.
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