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for crying out loud that needs to be a no call or don't count the layup. To give a double possession on an ordinary lay up is just unconscionable. damn that call pisses me off.

I can't get over the blocking foul on the non shooter, leading to a double possession, and then the no call on the clear block when the Maryland defender jumped the pick. Having those back to back was just so.....UGHHHHH

Some of the athletes have been vaccinated. Having a BMI of 30 is a 1B factor. It doesn't differentiate between those who hit 30 BMI for fat reasons or muscle reasons.

cosign, though for me Boy really sealed Waititi in the category of "will check out regardless". It feels like much of this thread consists of folks tossing out legendary directors. I agree with many of the names tossed out because they are awesome directors with an accomplished body of work. I'm going to focus more on directors who (perhaps) don't fall into that legendary category, or are in the earlier stages of their career, but because of the strength of a particular film make it so I will automatically check out their other work (a status that can be revoked). Damien Chazelle - Whiplash. Loved LaLa Land, thought First Man was disappointing. He is still someone i will automatically check out. Chloe Zhau - The Rider. One of my top 5 films of the decade. She is my new Malick, and I will watch anything she does. I enjoyed Nomadland, though not as much as The Rider. I'm beyond curious to see what she does with a Marvel movie. Jeff Nichols - Mud. Really appreciated the way he wove in the setting as almost a character. It was gratifying to see him do the same thing in earlier films like Take Shelter and Shotgun Stories. Midnight Special was really good, but more scifi. Disappointed in Loving, but more because biopics sucks almost across the board. I'm still on board. Asgar Farhadi - About Elly. His ability to deftly build a story that felt balanced and could go in any number of directions stood out. Led me to A Separation (top 10 all time movie for me) and The Salesman. Farhadi is probably a top 3 favorite director for me. Derek Cianfrance - Blue Valentine. His sharp eye for relational dynamics stood out. Place Beyond the Pines was great and I Know This Much is True was poorly timed coming out during the onset of COVID, when watching super depressing material was especially grueling. David Lowery - Ain't Them Bodies Saints - classic set up with a different feel. It marked him as distinct in my mind and that was validated in his work in the kid movie PEte's Dragon, and then very much so in A Ghost Story. I will definitely see the upcoming Green Knight movie. * Joe Talbot - The Last Black Man in San Francisco. I put the * because I loved LBMSF enough to follow Talbot and am eager to see his future work, but I'm not 100% sure he is in that category. He's only done the one film.

it was Jordyn. She flexed a bit last season to pick up some non recruiting logistics when Tori Tekyl left, but her main gig was working with Carrington/Chang on making sure the recruiting visits went smoothly.

I'm in 78748 and ours came back this AM. Hope it is soon for you.

she's more like the new Jordyn Fields than BC.

assuming you mean the APR score, no, only scholarship players count.

Not to be a debbie downer, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

I agree, and it remains to be seen what effect the Name, Image, and Likeness rules will have on school leverage, as players will be able to be paid in the open now. I suspect the desirability to enter into arrangements where schools have coercive power over you will wane if you could just go the NIL route. But I have no idea. I'm just some guy, and an idiot at that.

he's saying that once the school and the recruit reach a certain point on the bag man stuff, they reach a point of no return where failure to stick to the deal would be catastrophic for both sides. They are locked in because the school doesn't want sanctions and the player doesn't want to be ineligible and lose their shot at the NFL. It is the Mutual in Mutual Assured Destruction. So CTJ is not saying he expect recruiting violations out of College Station. He IS saying that A&M is making moves to get into a mutually assured destruction place with numerous recruits - in essence locking them out of UT's class by making it impossible for a flip. These recruit would, in effect, become immune to UT recruiting efforts. It is a savvy move on A&M's part, as UT's operation has not had a chance to get up and running. If you can take several high value kids out of action, now is the best time to do it. UT is no doubt trying to convince the kids it is in their best interest to wait - competition for your services is a good thing - while A&M is saying now is the best the deal will ever get and if you don't jump in now you will never recoup.

According to the NCAA, only players on scholarship count for the APR score. Getting a fringe P5 guy as a preferred walk on is a no brainer win, but not for APR reasons. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/academic-progress-rate-explained http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/academic-progress-rate-qa#:~:text=The APR came into place,have not been a problem.

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Welcome to the Hermancipation.

What's the soup de jour? It's the soup of the day. Mmm...sounds good, I'll have that.

I have no idea what Sark will do, but Texas Athletics - including football - has embraced and utilized the sports science dimension in strength and conditioning. Matt Van Dyke worked very closely with Yancy until he left last season (I believe he is with the Texans now). Matt Hamm replaced Van Dyke (though he wasn't as embraced as Van Dyke by the football guys). Travis Vlantes heads up the team. He isn't as involved in football, but oversees the rest of the UT sports. You can see a glimpse of it starting at the 40 second mark of this youtube video.

pull over no, it's a cardigan but thanks for noticing. KILLER BOOTS MAN

FWIW Schooler had a deep thigh bruise that cost him all or parts of 3 games.

any guesses who the third string center will be?

Lovo was with Meyer at UF. Meyer took Lovo with him to Ohio St. https://www.thepalmettopanther.com/from-palmetto-panther-to-a-houston-cougar/

that makes sense.

This isn't quite right. I'm a CPS attorney and served many years in drug court. The upside to a hair follicle test isn't so much related to levels. The two main benefits of the hair follicle test are 1) it is 99% accurate (the instant read ones they use in the field are way less accurate) and 2) the hair follicle test can detect use within the prior 90 days. This story enrages me. It is so damaging to so many people. She had to randomly generate positives because if she processed thousands of tests with zero positives, it would be a major red flag. Speaking from personal experience, that lab confirmed positive is a silver bullet in court. People lie about their drug use all the time. Field tests are so unreliable that protests of innocence based on the field test can at least be plausible. A lab confirmed positive? Suddenly that person is treated as a liar and their credibility is undermined. It completely changes the tenor of a proceeding. The hair follicle test with mass spectrometry is 99% accurate. Falsifying that is devastating to the wronged sample giver, to the children, to the judicial and child protective systems, to public trust, and to future cases. I'd have given her the full 99 years.

conference championship game is 12/19.

Hawley all but confirms it in an interview with Vulture (not disagreeing with you, just adding this for context): And is there something of note in that Rabbi shares the same last name as Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine’s KC Mafioso from season two? That season is set a couple decades after the events depicted in season four … “There probably is,” Hawley says, adding that “I don’t think that any anyone’s going to be surprised to discover a connection down the line,” especially since Mike “was such an iconoclastic guy who didn’t fit in either the sort of white crime structure he was involved in or the Black community. Where does a guy like that come from? On some level, this story is that story.” https://www.vulture.com/article/fargo-noah-hawley-season-4-repeating-themes-references.html

I loved it overall and found it incredibly captivating and subtle at times. The last episode, while enjoyable on a superficial level, kinda sucked and was a betrayal of the excellent storytelling from episodes 1-6.