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College Football - Championship Week and Beyond
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Andy's topic in Other Sports
Worst winner since the last Bama guy to win the award. You may know this and I just missed the joke, but Bama's never had a Heisman winner before. Yep. -
College Football - Championship Week and Beyond
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Andy's topic in Other Sports
Worst winner since the last Bama guy to win the award. -
NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
The MAC isn't a conference that takes much for a complete turnaround. They've had 7 champions in 9 years, and 9 schools have won or tied for the division in the last 5 years. -
i don't know.... his track record doesn't really show that so far. his first 3 years were very good, and last season he was hurt. in 271 career innings so far he has really nice numbers (1.18 whip, a k:bb of over 4). that's a pretty big sample size. even if those things you say about him are true, he's shown he can be well above average consistently.... assuming he's healthy. I'm not trying to say that his true talent level isn't good. I guess my point is that despite having a pitch to contact game, he's not likely to be any more consistent than a power reliever who has the potential to be more dominant. I wouldn't be terribly upset with him on the Cubs, but considering all that and his injury history, I'm not going to lead a campaign to add him to the pen.
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Capps has some good qualities, but ultimately he's an extreme fly ball pitcher who allows a ton of balls put into play. In short relief that's a recipe for a lot of up and down years.
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For the third time, is there any evidence that an actual or proposed conference/division realignment was influenced by the interests of women's sports, at the expense of the best option for revenue sports?
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NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
I don't think Gill will let them slide to Terry Allen levels, but I don't think he'll do a whole lot to elevate the program. While Buffalo was a terrible program when he got there, it is in the MAC(which has an obscene amount of parity), and he could only manage one winning season there(Doc Saturday likes to point out how much Buffalo benefitted from turnover margin that year). The only thing I found on Long or Torbush was that Torbush became a punchline during his time at aTm. Ultimately, recruiting will probably be what defines Gill. If he can recruit in the top half of the North, their South rotation could allow them to make a run at the division if things fall right. I don't see him as much of a game changer though, maybe that changes if he's able to stick around for a couple 4-year cycles. -
LeBron just scored 10 points in 75 seconds. He also got a steal and drew a charge in that span.
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Just to repeat, I'd be interested in any evidence that Women's sports swayed divisional or conference realignment when it ran counter to the best interests of revenue sports. And as an aside, it's insanely easy to justify for the AD's, because football and (to a lesser extent) basketball pay for the other sports. It's not stiffing the non-revenue programs if it gives them more money, or keeps them alive.
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For the target age market, Dallas was not only the only team in the biggest football state(not to mention spreading into Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc.), but a powerhouse that won multiple titles when that target market was in their formative years that created fans nationwide.
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And the Big 12. And the ACC. In basketball. The Big 12 doesn't seed their tournament by division, but they schedule by division. Home and home against everyone in your division, one game against everyone in the other division. It doesn't look like the ACC does that though.
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Except that there were places on the 2003 roster-in-progress for Karros and Grudz. Where does Mike Lowell, an aging third baseman at best and a first baseman/DH otherwise, fit on the Cubs? The same place Jake Fox did, as a pinch hitter and spot starter for the corner infielders.
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And the Big 12. And the ACC.
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This is embarrassing. They will not have any say. You are the only person who remotely thinks so. Please stop. It's called equality in athletics and it weighs very heavily on athletic directors. Anyone who thinks the women coaches won't be demanding a say in the divisions, and causing problems if they don't get it, doesn't know how an athletic department works. Please find me any evidence that women's athletics has played any role in any actual or proposed conference realignment, when the women's sports interests ran counter to what would be best for revenue sports. Hint: You will be looking until the end of time.
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This is embarrassing. They will not have any say. You are the only person who remotely thinks so. Please stop.
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Non-revenue sports matter about less than 1 percent when it comes to conference realignment. Female non-revenue sports(monotonous monotonous) matter less than zero percent. No one cares that MSU and OSU and Purdue's women's hoops end up in the same division in a realignment. There is no money in it, and if it makes sense for the revenue sports, it will be done without a moment's thought to the Big 10's golf programs. No one said that the strength of the teams shouldn't factor in. Everyone is rightly shredding your "you couldn't possibly put IU and Purdue in the same basketball division, how unfair" argument. The truth of the matter is, if the Big 10 adds a western team(let's say Mizzou for argument's sake) and divides it at the IL/IN line, the eastern division will probably have more star power in both sports. However, with Iowa/Wisconsin/Mizzou in the western half there wouldn't be a huge competitive imbalance with a potential football championship game.
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To compare to the Big 12, the only big rivalry in the North is Mizzou/Kansas, and both those schools were horrible when the conference was made. Maybe Nebraska/Colorado too. Plus they separated the Nebraska/OU rivalry, and things have turned out alright.
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Pitt probably makes the most sense. Not sure how they are academically, but they have to be better than Cincy. As a Mizzou guy who grew up in Big 10 territory it's a fun idea to think about, but I don't think it would happen.
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NCAA Football Coaching Vacancies
Transmogrified Tiger replied to snoodmonger's topic in Other Sports
Those must be some strong family ties. I understand he'd get a substantial raise, but he'd get that with whatever future job he takes, and there have to be better jobs out there for him, if not necessarily this offseason. Taking over a team that went 5-7 (1-7), losing their QB, RB, and top 2 WR, without very much tradition or prestige to help him attract recruits, seems like an unnecessarily difficult project for someone who has built what Harbaugh has at Stanford. -
Not at all. If you're wanting the fairest system anyway, the less importance you can place on a 12 game schedule, the better. For every team that would have meaningless games near the end of the year because they are in regardless, there'd be two teams fighting to break into those last couple at larges, or trying to win their conference to get an auto-bid. Imagine how pissed Nebraska would be if their loss cost them the shot at a potential title instead of the difference between the Fiesta and Holiday Bowl.
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http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1772&position=P#pitchtype While it's not able to segment between the A's and Cubs from 2008, it shows he definitely threw a slider for several years, and that it looks likely that he scrapped it(and the splitter for that matter) around the time he became a Cub.
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Cubs f/x has an interview with Parisi, and he says he's added a cutter in the last year or so, that he plays with the break so it varies from slight cutter to small slider. Link
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Wiki says he signed a minor league deal with Oakland in 2009 after having TJS in 2008, but that's all I can find.
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Red Sox picking up 9M of the 12M owed to him. This doesn't help Hendry in the slightest, either. A guy who can play a corner infield position, doesn't cause a media circus on a daily basis and only has 1 year on his contract still has 75% it picked up by his former employer without taking back an equally bad contract in return. Actually, a pretty highly respected prospect at one time, although I think he's fallen below the radar a little bit of late. Max Ramirez is a top shelf catching prospect. They took on the money so they could get a good player in return. Also, like was mentioned, Lowell may not have the baggage of Bradley, but as a guy who is rapidly becoming a 1B/DH, he's not nearly as usable a talent as Bradley is.
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Cubs Top Prospect Lists (NSBB, BA, etc.)
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Fangraphs had their top 10 today: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/chicago-cubs-top-10-prospects/ Brett Jackson was not eligible. 1. Cashner 2. Castro 3. Vitters 4. Lee 5. J. Jackson 6. Carpenter 7. Flaherty 8. Rhee 9. Watkins 10. Gaub
