Recent content by daj2576

saying the NCAA *is* the member institutions is like saying the federal government *is* the American people. Granted, member institutions like *we the people* have some say, but there is a lot that goes on that has nothing to do with us and that's why we protest, sue, and otherwise to keep that...

I read somewhere that based on tournament seeding, Barnes has the lowest win percentage in the tournament of any coach. Or something like that.

Never has been acceptable. Never will be.

It's absolute recency bias, and it is astounding how people think that is sustainable. Also, consider that most of the predictions about Mizzou are made by people who didn't predict Mizzou last year (thus making last year a great story to begin with).

I get what you are saying and in principle, I don't disagree, however I would like to point out that lots of businesses run in a way that is arguably similar to what you are describing. Any business that has a large R & D budget, for instance, will take the profits from one part of the...

Last year TCU lost 2 of their last three games and went up in the rankings.

As a competitor I would find it far more embarrassing when someone else gives up and goes easy on me. Why do I need them to give me less than their all? What does that prove? And if people were openly calling for the other team to go easy, that's about the worst insult imaginable. Thank you...

Wouldn't that extra win, plus more experience, make a significant difference?

The committee, that left them out, didn't think so...

You're not.

Since we're discussing historical comparisons that don't have much if any impact on this year's game. I'll leave this here.

Iowa lost to any team with a pulse that they played in the B1G. We're built much closer to any team they've lost to, than we are to any team they've beat...by every meaningful **predictive** measure. If UT loses this game...it's a coaching/motivation problem. And let's be real, we have a...

MIT Beaver?

I mean, Terrell Owens played at Chattanooga. To play at a p5 school you are the top 1% of the top 1%, but it's still easy to see that schools do not all have similar talent. And, comparative talent matters a great deal in predicting winners and losers.