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94 today on the same course. Short game is in the shit and the range is closed because of all the rain. 31 putts today, if I putt like wednesday then I'm sub 90. My course is weird in that the first 3 holes are some of the easiest on the course and the last 3 are 1, 3, 5, in the handicap. Needless to say, this score isn't going against my index. The tee sheet is full tomorrow but it was also full today and we were the only ones that got out because of light rain. If it opens up tomorrow I'm going to hit the course again before 11am kickoffs. Golf, football, casino. That's going to be my saturday if everything goes right. Also... The golf gods really fucked me today. On hole 16 I somehow ended up hugging the nuts of the back side of a tree from where the tee box is. After a reverse stub to the middle of the fairway I punched down to 100 out, just off the fairway. 52 degree to pin high but was just on the fringe... just on the fringe where a sprinkler head was so I ended up 7 yards off the green where a tree was in my back swing. Try to bump it with a 7 iron over the bermuda and the ball explodes off the face, passed the pin, and down the false front and sloping fairway to 40 yards out. That's some bullshit right there. 7x on that hole.

Had my first mental test yesterday and kind of passed but kind of failed. The test being that I haven’t played in 24 days. No practice either, went out cold. Shot an 86 with 26 putts. If I was inside 12 feet that fucker was going in. Probably one of my 3-5 best putting rounds ever. However I struck the ball like a guy who hadn’t played in over three weeks which is the part that I feel I failed at. Could have easily been a 96. I guess that’s just how it is sometimes though. Trending down to 13.1. Going to get 4 rounds in this weekend.

Looks like the royals are going to be sold.

You might check the bushnell factory outlet. Sometimes they have good stuff. Not sure if they have an online store but I know they have one in KC since that’s where they distribute from. My buddy dropped my rangefinder in a creek so when I’m in KC in a couple of weeks I’ll probably swing in there and get a new one.

You never do.

She’s a fucking boss. There is no way to replace her in my mind. She made programs for the specific goals of the athlete and coaches. Need more weight to bang as a 4. You got it. We’re running 4 out 1 in so we need that same guy to be more mobile? He cut and added agility. Fuck, azibukie is 7’1” 270 and he’s at 8% body fat after coming in at the same size but 26% fat. There are good S&C coaches and then there is hudy. Hopefully for you guys she doesn’t sit back as an administrator and she actually gets into the weeds of the people she is going to manage.

I want a double elimination match play event for the last few weeks. If you want a playoff-like atmosphere then make a playoff. Thats just of we’re being honest. It’s still pointless to have 30 guys out there. I didn’t see one stroke from about half the field on tv yesterday.

Tiger deserves to be a billionaire for what he did for professional golfers just by showing up and dominating. Great to see the sport healthy.

Haven’t seen you around for a while! Dixon mailed it in, especially after the ACC move. Totally sent Pitt spiraling down. 100%. I think capel is an Ok coach, just not great. His problem was he was an ok coach and he got popped for cheating. We all know everyone cheats, but the HC can’t be caught up in that. Now the question is “was he a decent coach because of the infractions or was he just breaking the rules to get over the hump?” hes infinitely better than stallings and I’d probably take a motivated Capel over a burnout Dixon any day. But Pitt has a long way to go and the ncaa is going to be on capels ass because of past transgressions. It’ll be interesting. I wish the old big east was still around. Might not have been the best conference at the top each year but it was the most competitive league we will ever see and that was awesome.

Which is the exact reason you don’t want feast or famine. Unless your definition of feast is 4 titles like UConn. I’d take almost all of their ride except for the obvious issues they are having now. 4 titles outweighs one title, 3 championship game appearances, 5 final fours, 15 conference championships, and 22 tourneys all day every day. The only thing I don’t like about the roller coaster model is that you never know when you are going to be up or for how long you are going to be down. I wouldn’t take Indiana’s situation for anything in the world.

I’d give a lot for another title or two, but the truth is that 99% of the time it isn’t a team that gets hot and wins a championship. You have to be a good offensive team and a good defensive team to be in the best position to win a title. These metrics get you a seat at the table as a player. Then there are a million other things, including dumb luck, that get you through the tourney. But without an efficient team you might not even be in the tourney. Once again, championships are everything, but if you’re in the tournament 22 times in a row you have a lot better chance of getting one than if you’re in it 5 times and get hot and get to the F4 once.

Patterson straight fucked you guys on Shaka. That extension has to be one of the worst contracts in coaching in the last 20 years. Worse than David Beaty getting an extension for 2 wins. Sad when you're basically telling the highest paid guy on your staff to "stay out of the way". I think Yaklich was basically told that he is the de facto coach and that he will be HC once they can afford to dump Shaka.

No doubt they did. But his hire didn’t happen in a vacuum. He left a job where he had stability to go to a very volatile situation. The horns added a very high profile S&C coach. Shaka was supposed to be the genius behind havoc and now a new coach and system is being brought in (even with Shaka going away from havoc since day 1). My gut says that CDC is telling these coaches that Shaka is either safe or that Shaka is gone and they are being brought in to replace him and his staff regardless of Shaka’s job status. When you add it all up these two scenarios are the only ones that make sense. Unless CDC is satisfied with shitty basketball but I highly doubt that is the case. My money is on that they don’t have the support to fire Shaka last year, this year, and maybe the year after that. So they bring in coaches that can help the team but are also attractive to the next coach or could be the next coach once the buyout is down below $8M.

Well this isn't really a debate about what program is better. It is an article posted about the history of KenPom rankings. If it was all about efficiencies in naming the best teams then we wouldn't have bowl games, CFB playoffs, or the NCAA tourney. Championships isn't the subject here, it is what teams have played well over 22 years. You're getting out of the scope of the conversation when talking about championships.

I feel like that backs up my thought that CDC might be signaling that Shaka isn't going anywhere after this year. Shaka was the defensive mastermind and now he needs a defensive coach to help? That 100% screams that UT is just fucked with Shaka's contract and it'll be a few years before he is fired, unless someone comes in and tosses 8 figures on the dumpster fire.

I think everyone thought that the old scoring system was awful. That doesn't mean that what they have done is much better. @TonyTexas, in the NFL they don't give the team with the best record a 2 touchdown head start. JT is getting a 10 shot lead on anyone outside of the top 10. If it is about getting to the dance then everyone who is in the field next week has done that. The field is 30, down from 125 (I believe). Now everyone should either have an equal chance or they should just cut the field to 10. It's not like they are going to show a single shot from the 29 & 30 pairing. Just save us the time and energy. I think this last 2-3 weeks should be a double elimination match play for the golfers who have earned the points to be present. Maybe you give them a cash payout for making the field and then the big payout to the overall winner. Handicapping a pro against another pro is dumb as shit. JT isn't going to give up a 6 stroke lead on the 6-10 guys and he damn sure isn't going to give up a 10 stroke lead against the #25-30 guys. Basically, the only guys who have a chance to win it are the top 3 which is the exact opposite of how a playoff works. Either dump the fedex cup trophy and just give a huge payout to the player of the year (use fedex point system to determine) or dump the tour championship trophy and just give out the fedex cup trophy/payout. Trying to have both is what created this mess they have to fix.

Arrowhead is awesome.

He is just going off. What is the course record?

If Shaka can’t win with what he is now surrounded with the yeashhhh man. Get out of coaching.

I get that we don’t want the scenarios we had the last two years but you could make it more true to the spirit of the game. . Eliminate the field over 4 weeks. Have the last tourney be 15 guys. Hell, have the season then have the playoffs be double elimination match play with the top 40. Any of that is better than just giving guys strokes in my opinion.

I get what they’re going for with the “playoff” type atmosphere but in the NFL you don’t get a 2 touchdown head start because you finished the regular season ranked higher. Sure there is a bye and home field advantage but not an actual scoring differential. I’m confident the PGA will get it dialed in, but with $15M on the line they need to get it dialed in sooner than later. We can’t spend 3 years tinkering with the system. That’s how you lose fan interest.

Anyone else getting worried about the lack of drama next week? Starting scores are as follows: Leader: -10 Second: -8 #3: -7 #4: -6 #5: -5 #6-10: -4 #11-15: -3 #16-20: -2 #21-25: -1 The remaining field starts at even par. I'm thinking that there is no chance in hell anyone from outside the top 4 has a chance at this unless they go crazy. I know the changes were made to avoid having a different cup champ and tour champ but this is going to take all of the drama out of the final event. I'm not saying that the #30 guy should have a chance to win $15M in one event, but I think that anyone in the top 10 should have a good shot at winning and anyone from 11-15 should have an outside chance with a couple of 65-66 cards. This basically guarantees the money to whoever has played the most consistent all year, which is anti-dramatic. The benefit to playing well all year should be that you are in the fedex cup chase at all. I would probably give the #1 a 3 stroke cushion and then #2-5 get 2 strokes and 6-10 get one stroke. That would put a lot of guys in it while keeping #1 from running away with it. You give a top 2-3 golfer in the world a 2 stroke lead and they aren't giving it back.

We’re either seeing a sign that yaklich and hudy are sticking around regardless of coach (yaklich heir apparent?) or CDC is signaling that there isn’t enough monetary support to get Shaka out after this year regardless of record.

I think it is because she used to answer directly to bill self and now she’s technically an employee if the Kansas health system. Who knows what other changes that might have meant underneath all of it. I wouldn’t read too much into it other than she will be hard to replace. Its a great snag for UT. She is universally loved by fans, admins, coaches, and players always mention her by name on senior night. She’s had her fair share of espn segments during games too. She’s a stud.

Ku went to a new training model where the coaches and training staff answer directly to the doctors at KU Med. center. Apparently she didn’t like that structure. You’ll love her. Our freshmen would gain weight before the season so they could actually hold their own. Body transformations were unreal with her. She is going to be damn hard to replace. We’ll miss her a ton. Great pickup by the horns.