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VolenteHawk

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  1. 3 hours ago, Iceman said:

    This line...WTF does it mean?  The NCAA runs roughshod over its members, almost arbitrarily enforcing rules and regulations. They are inconsistent as hell, and additionally spineless in the face of real transgressions.

    Who’s been running train on the NCAA?

    We just watched Missouri get pounded for cooperating and going about the process the way the NCAA wants you to. That as much as anything prompted KU’s general attitude of “fuck off”.

    If this were a court of law, KU would cruise, given what’s in the FBI case. It’s not a court of law, so we’ll see.

  2. 2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Since Texas is reopening 

    What is everyone's comfort level of participation?

    Level 1 - Still Grocery/Curbside/Booze Only - w/Mask

    Level 2 - Retail/Restaurant- w/Mask

    Level 3 - Retail/Restaurant/Gym/Hair - w/Mask

    Level 4 - I do what I want bitch - No Mask

    I guess I'm a 3.5...I'm not keg standing at a football tailgate but since Austin "reopened" I've had a meal/beer with a buddy (no mask) while generally being far apart and paying more attention to hygiene than I would have in January.

  3. I'm sure variations of this have happened in the last month for a bunch of you, but Saturday night the Chiefs/Texans playoff game was re-airing and was on the living room TV.  I was in and out with shit on the grill, not paying much attention but wife and son were watching.  I walk by with the Chiefs down 24-0 with the ball.

    Me: We're gonna need Patrick Mahomes to be Superman here

    Son: Yeah, need some points to get back in the game

    Wife: Is this a replay?

     

  4. 16 hours ago, Bartles said:

    Anyone know or educated guess if Masters future bets (made in January) will still be in action when the tourney is played in November?

    You will probably be refunded, that's what most places I'm aware of have in their rules, but you'll have to check the specifics of the book you used.

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

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    Deaths are based on actual cases, not confirmed cases. There's no reason that higher testing should lead to higher deaths. What higher testing should do is lower the known death rate as we increase the denominator.

    Right, but we’re testing more ANd the virus is spreading, so it’s hard to say how much the contribution is from each. We’re still not an incubation period away from when we got serious about doing something. I don’t think the death rate lowers for another week or two, and it could still accelerate in the meantime as the problem has gotten more widespread.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    Obviously the 18,477 cases is not accurate due to lack of testing but am I correct in assuming the 64 serious or critical cases is likely close to accurate?  Surely there aren’t many that are hospitalized in critical condition and not tested. 
     

    If so that number seems very positive, even more so when you consider how many cases there really are. 

    Sick people or deaths is probably a lagging indicator, but if the explosion of positives due to higher testing doesn't manifest in a higher body count oner the next week - 10 days, that's probably very positive.

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  7. On 3/11/2020 at 10:25 AM, ztejas said:

    I put $400 on Golden State repeating in 2018 in February for something like -170. 

    The Rockets series got interesting. 

    I had them also...think I laid like -200. Jumped in relatively late in the season.

    If the NBA doesn’t play 82 games it’s going to cost me money. I have the Jazz over at -105 that was looking dicey, even before all their players were dying...but I also have a Nets under at +150 that is solid. Shortened season would have both refunded.

     

  8. 47 minutes ago, Bartles said:

    The sports sites should start posting blank brackets from past years to see how good everyone's memory is. Obviously no money on it because cheating would be pretty easy. I'd probably still have a ton of red ink, even in the later rounds.

    I could probably bat a pretty high percentage on final fours and work backward, and I’d imagine I’d remember a good chunk of the big upsets...but yeah, I’d still miss a ton of games. If they don’t make the 2nd weekend, who remembers 8/9 and 7/10 winners, for example.

  9. On 2/26/2020 at 7:23 PM, Godzillatron said:


    I grew up with Braum’s - as a kid and even into college it was a good, inexpensive burger, fries and shake. Visiting family years later tried it and now it’s outright trash. Not sure if my standards went up or they went downhill, likely a little of both.

     

    Braum’s was my first job, and I’d still eat it when I went back after I moved away. It fell off a cliff in the early 00s. I’m assuming they had to slash costs at some point...it’s nowhere near what it was.

  10. 12 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    And to further illustrate how wrong that take was, DeMarre Carroll was the only NBA guy on that Missouri team, so they actually beat a lot of teams that had more talent and better athletes.  That includes beating a good Kansas team with a bunch of pros, OU the year Blake Griffin won national player of the year, Calipari’s Memphis team with Tyreke Evans and the best recruits Worldwide Wes could buy in the Sweet 16, Marquette with Jimmy Butler, Wes Matthews and a couple of other pros in the 2nd round, etc.  

    Jhawk’s memory is too harsh, but the answer is somewhere in the middle. He built a good team the year of the E8 but in other seasons he generally had mediocre teams that struggled against the top half of the conference, including 1-9 against KU (only pros to speak of were freshmen). Mizzou fans were getting really anxious and his seat was getting warm, so he jumped at getting out of there. What Haith did with the leftovers in his first year didn’t help the view of Anderson in hindsight.

    On the old board, I was one of the guys saying Shaka shouldn’t run havoc at Texas if the goal is being better than Barnes was, and I used Anderson’s top/bottom conference record splits to explain my reasoning...teams with decent guards had mostly figured it out.

     

  11. 1 hour ago, Jhawk said:

    either either way, our defense is the elite of the elite. Baylor has a great defense, ours is borderline generationally great. 

    I would wait for the season to play out.  Texas Tech's DE rating improved during their tournament run by more than KU's current edge on Baylor.

    There is a lot of basketball left before we start bestowing historical greatness on anybody.

     

  12. On 2/16/2020 at 11:56 AM, longhornmatt said:

    Was the strength and conditioning lady getting fired by KU and that’s how we hired her?  If not, WTF was she thinking leaving KU for Shaka?

    KU switched the structural philosophy, so she went from reporting to Bill Self to reporting to somebody in the medical school.

    The football guy left, too.

     

  13. On 2/17/2020 at 9:10 PM, Jhawk said:

    You do realize we are the best defense efficiency team in the kenpom era right?

    To be technical, you can’t compare the raw number across seasons, because it’s a strength of schedule adjusted number. The proper metric would be the difference between national efficiency average and a team’s number...and by that method Tech last year is better. That might be splitting hairs a little, but people all over the Phog are making the same mistake.

    As of this morning, the Big 12 is 1,2,3 in KenPom’s DE.

     

  14. On 2/12/2020 at 3:23 PM, Angry Gorilla said:

    We have a 9 month girl and at her latest doctor's appt the doctor recommended introducing more real food.

     

    Her:  I made scrambled eggs for her, but I found a list online and it said eggs are dangerous to give babies until it's determined they aren't allergic.  Should we give her some?
    Me:  No, you just said it's dangerous.  
    Her:  But what will she eat for breakfast?
     

    In her mind, the baby who has had nothing but formula and baby food is going to throw a fit if she isn't served traditional breakfast food in the morning.

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  15. 6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    With the way the teams have been playing it certainly feels like it's KU's to lose. BU still has WVU, @ WVU, Tech, & KU  while KU just has @ BU & @ TTU.

    The game in Waco is a virtual coin flip, is a huge game, and obviously skews the numbers a ton...but I do think KenPom having KU a little higher rated than Baylor and Baylor's remaining schedule being harder explains the projected tie even though Baylor currently has the one game lead.

    I would still call it Baylor's to lose.  They get KU at home in a game they'll be small favorites in...win that one and the path to even a tie for KU is tough.

     

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