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Popping in to say fuck Saint Louis.

Same.

If Shaka was able to pay kids 10k a semester and Coach K wasn’t able to I guarantee Shaka isn’t going to get any more 5* kids than K. The quality of coach and stage matters a ton. elite prospects get paid because elite schools are competing for them. A kid that gets paid to go to South Carolina isn’t getting his market rate run up by duke or Ku. the shoe companies have done a number on the sport. The coaches and schools and the ncaa have allowed it to happen.

Well it isn’t what you know it’s what you can prove. Unless it’s the ncaa. I haven’t read our response you but the angle that if a shoe company is a booster and the shoe company supplies shoes to AAU players then the players are taking benefits is actually reasonably logical. Especially because the players at the aau level ARE being recruited by schools that are sponsored by the shoe company. Very logical argument, but to see that and agree with that would take a policy change by the ncaa. I don’t see the ncaa changing policy over this in a way that would save our skin.

Beilein is going to end up at wake and Texas is going to miss out.

Every team on lunardis 2 line is dangerous as fuck.

To be fair the general public has no idea what a “cut” is versus a slow in growth. Was at a council meeting once for a development project but they spent the whole time arguing about some other shit. Tax increase or budgets would be cut. Turns out the “cut” was going from a 5% budget increase to a 3.5% budget increase. Politicians and media are so fucking deceptive in how they describe things it’s unreal. Seems like half the reason we are always bitching about education is because the pols purposely keep that funding low because it keeps the sheep dumb enough not to ask the right questions.

Yeah I checked there. Figured they would be up all night to get the latest projections out first but I guess not.

What are the chances of a brokered convention now? Any site a good resource for seeing how each state left will vote? I figured bernie would be ahead at the end of the night but still on pace for a brokered convention. Now I’m not sure Biden doesn’t win it outright.

Shaka will never leave UT.

Warrens votes would be going to bernie most likely. If she would have dropped like Pete and Amy then Bernie might steal a few more delegates and maybe a state or two. It’s all hands on deck to make sure bernie doesn’t get 1 delegate more than he can. Liz is going to get paid.

Warren staying in is fucking Bernie hard. But the outcome tonight is definitely what is best for the party. Biden is going to go to convention with either the delegates or a slight lead and the Bernie bro’s won’t be able to say bernie was screwed. Then it’s just about uncle joe and the don.

I don't understand why this comes up 3-4 times a season. I know RC Buford is his best friend but jesus. He kills this story every year, multiple times. The media just keeps it alive just to try and create news.

It’s almost like people don’t like being berated constantly for opinions that are assumed by the person doing the berating. It’s like that turns them off or something. The “get on board with Bernie and ALL of his policies or you’re a fucking retard and will cost us the election” stance isn’t exactly open arms to run into. It actually has the counter effect and makes people who are turned off by large groupings of people (like basket of deplorable) assume that everyone in favor of the offending candidate/constituents are of the same opinion. There is discourse, disagreement, and differing opinions. The extremes of each party have made it so if you believe in one opinion of one candidate that means you will die on the cross for that candidate and their most ugly characteristics. It’s simply not true and just like that created a whole swath of never trumpers it will create never bernie groups. Stop saying my way or the highway and reach out to find compromise in your own party and trump is easy to beat. If not then don’t be pissed when you start a civil war internally and then lose.

You fool. You’ve killed us all!

I think it depends on how he wins. I think joe is the guy who can beat trump, but he probably needs to find space in his admin for beto, Pete, warren, and then some other young people. If he is passing the baton to a younger generation and maybe some more progressive ideas then You’ll probably see pelosi and some other statemen pass things along as well. This probably builds the party as long as the next generation doesn’t go crazy left extremely fast. With Bernie you’re going crazy left real fast and that will lose a lot of 50-75 year old voters. If Bernie loses at convention then its a war. BT says he’ll support any dem but his tone says he’s going to be a sore loser if Bernie doesn’t win. If Bernie loses because of superdelegates I guarantee Biden won’t get his vote. If that is the tone for 20% of bernies supporters then Biden can’t win. Which is why he needs the likes of warren in his campaign to hopefully soften the blow to the bro’s. On the other side, 20% or so of Dems say they don’t support a socialist candidate. That’s an immediate loser for Bernie in the general. That prolongs the party revolution another 4 years which might put 2024 in doubt and various congressional swings in doubt. i supported trump early in the primary process because I knew he would destroy what was left of the Republican Party. That was my one and only goal. Everyone can bitch about the fallout That they like or don’t like but I was tired of shit like McCain claiming to know what was right and wrong. I wanted someone who hadn’t been in office for 30 years before to give me an opinion. Bernie will bern the party to the ground. If that’s what you want then vote for him but don’t expect him to win (I didn’t expect trump to win the general). Biden is certainly a gamble with progress. I think he does well if he starts unrolling his cabinet next week when warren drops out.

I can see Biden/warren being hilarious. Imagine they win... warren shows up the first day with boxes of binders of her plans... joe asks “what is all that?” Warren retorts “all of my ideas. We have a lot of work to do. Let’s start with breaking up the flexible tape monopoly.” Joe jumps in the air while simultaneously contorting his body parallel to the floor and landing roughly on the couch. He pulls his aviators from his oxford pocket and as he slides them on cooly says “not now babe. We just got ourselves a corner lot on easy street.” Warren storms out. Complains the next 4 years. Primaries uncle joe when he is too old to even stand.

Maybe they’re just tired of carrying Shaka’s sorry ass.

I figured their SOS has to be off the charts and it is. #1 overall and 78 noncon. That’s the only way they are that high. Surprised they have the #1 overall with that noncon. This is according to kenpom.

I’m not trying to imply I know the answer. I also haven’t looked at their resume closely. NET is based off quadrant wins, SOS, game locations, scoring margin (capped at 10 ppg), and then the net offensive and defensive efficiencies. Feels just showed that Minny is much better in the efficiency category. I haven’t looked at the rest of the resumes but the math had got to be somewhat reasonable I would assume. Keep in mind, minny isn’t making the tourney even if they are ranked better than teams who make it. At some point you have to win games.

I’m pretty sure that Q3 and Q4 aren’t counted in tournament resume unless they are losses. It also serves as a SOS measure. The committee has shown that they would rather a 17 win team challenge itself than a 19 win team that played a 300+ SOS (Georgetown usually). When you’re on the bubble though you’ve got to win games that matter. So 2-2 against Q2 is always going to look better than 1-4. Especially if conference strength is similar.

I need to keep stats better this year. I’m trying to make lesson summaries and draw pics of how I should be hitting shots. Just feel like I need to immerse myself to get to the next level.

Going to all depend on OOC and who you lost to and who the other teams lost to that are on the bubble. Really, this is the year the NET ratings were made for. 20 bubble teams from big time conferences as well as mid majors and the eye test will have little to do with it because the NET ratings are an established formula. The magic for the bubble is that CBB is weak as a whole this year. Bid stealing could be very real and thus eliminate 3-6 bubble bids. The 55th ranked NET team could miss out because the 60th ranked team beat the 20th in a conference tourney. This is going to be a very interesting march (of course it will be chalk now that i have said this).

And yet some double digit percentage of dems say they won't support bernie in the general. That is a losing formula and thus a weak candidate when the enthusiasm on the right is going to be very high. But is it bullshit? His nomination was basically stolen from him last time. His supporters were convinced of it last time. This time he is saying the rules should change because they are unfair. His supporters believe this to be true. If he loses at a contested convention then do you think it is the orange man that is going to be setting the narrative that the dems stole the nomination from him or the rhetoric that the process is unfair and the fact that the process set in place for the DNC is what it is? No amount of the don setting a cheating narrative changes the rules on how the dems do things. If they go to a contested convention it isn't donald that will make bernie lose the nomination. It is the dem powers that be.

FYI, this is a great site for NET rankings. Updates at least daily. UT at 59 now, up from last sunday. You guys are going to get in with 1 more win. Stuck with Shaka again. http://bracketologists.com/