Happy Pi Day From Joshua Dobbs

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Hacksaw

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This is fun. Kid is one smart cookie...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4_DlsEOco[/youtube]
 
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By the time I logged on this morning at work, I had about 6 emails wishing me happy Pi day and none of my friends "rocket science" material. The Internet is a fun hang-out of material.
Yes, great to have smart players; would like to have a QB who can thrown down field:whistling:
 
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tenninohio said:
By the time I logged on this morning at work, I had about 6 emails wishing me happy Pi day and none of my friends "rocket science" material. The Internet is a fun hang-out of material.
Yes, great to have smart players; would like to have a QB who can thrown down field:whistling:
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Then, this is your lucky day!
 
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tenninohio said:
By the time I logged on this morning at work, I had about 6 emails wishing me happy Pi day and none of my friends "rocket science" material. The Internet is a fun hang-out of material.
Yes, great to have smart players; would like to have a QB who can thrown down field:whistling:
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Josh Dobbs is more than capable of throwing the ball down the field. I am so sick of this baloney about Josh Dobbs' supposedly inability to throw the long ball. Yes, he can improve some on his deep ball, but he passed the ball pretty well last season having a high QB rating and completing 64% of his passes. Please take a look at the post linked below where I link to numerous examples of Josh Dobbs throwing medium to long range passes for big plays. I intentionally left out short passes that turned into long gains like the opening pass of the 2nd half of the Kentucky game.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-football/235889-if-we-go-8-4-a-9.html#post11237882
 
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bhouston79 said:
Josh Dobbs is more than capable of throwing the ball down the field. I am so sick of this baloney about Josh Dobbs' supposedly inability to throw the long ball. Yes, he can improve some on his deep ball, but he passed the ball pretty well last season having a high QB rating and completing 64% of his passes. Please take a look at the post linked below where I link to numerous examples of Josh Dobbs throwing medium to long range passes for big plays. I intentionally left out short passes that turned into long gains like the opening pass of the 2nd half of the Kentucky game.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-football/235889-if-we-go-8-4-a-9.html#post11237882
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Beautiful. Thank you.
 
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bhouston79 said:
Josh Dobbs is more than capable of throwing the ball down the field. I am so sick of this baloney about Josh Dobbs' supposedly inability to throw the long ball. Yes, he can improve some on his deep ball, but he passed the ball pretty well last season having a high QB rating and completing 64% of his passes. Please take a look at the post linked below where I link to numerous examples of Josh Dobbs throwing medium to long range passes for big plays. I intentionally left out short passes that turned into long gains like the opening pass of the 2nd half of the Kentucky game.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-football/235889-if-we-go-8-4-a-9.html#post11237882
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He and Worley both had trouble hitting receivers in stride on long balls. I think Dobbs will fix that before the season starts, though.l
 
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bhouston79 said:
Josh Dobbs is more than capable of throwing the ball down the field. I am so sick of this baloney about Josh Dobbs' supposedly inability to throw the long ball. Yes, he can improve some on his deep ball, but he passed the ball pretty well last season having a high QB rating and completing 64% of his passes. Please take a look at the post linked below where I link to numerous examples of Josh Dobbs throwing medium to long range passes for big plays. I intentionally left out short passes that turned into long gains like the opening pass of the 2nd half of the Kentucky game.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-football/235889-if-we-go-8-4-a-9.html#post11237882
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<rattle, rattle> jerking the chain.....:thumbsup:
thanks for the link; it was a good read.

<yawn) now back to my boring Saturday
 
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ncvol17 said:
Amazing memory - guess learning the play book is no big deal for him...
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It has more to do with the way you think, and having a photographic memory. I once did a visual test in which I shown a list of numbers, got to look at it for one minute, had the list taken away, and was asked to repeat the numbers, then to repeat them backwards.

We started at 8 or 10 numbers, then after doing that list, I was given another list with more numbers until I decided to quit after successfully doing 32 numbers. Each time the list changed to a completely different group of numbers, so I had to flush out the old and start all over with a different bunch. Then, I had to give the list backwards.

I was able to do it every time, but I cannot remember people's names. Dobbs may be very smart, but the numbers thing doesn't show genius. It just shows that you can organize numbers in your mind, and see the list after it goes away. I remembered in groups of three numbers, just like he did. I could still see the numbers in groups of three. There is no way that I could have remembered 32 numbers, but I could do 11 groups.

As I said before, this was pure concentration for one minute at a time. It fried my brain, so I quit before I could find my limit. I think that the 48 he did would be fairly easy, given enough time to study. Like I said, I can't remember names, but I remember phone numbers from 50 years ago.
 
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There is a professor at UT named Rajan Mahadevan who once held the record for memorizing digits of pi. Rajan memorized 31,811 digits of pi. I had him as my professor back in the early 2000's. The guy is amazing. I remember him doing what Dobbs did in that video in class only Rajan did it on the spot with a set of numbers created by the class, then he recited them forwards and backwards on the spot after just seeing them.

Crazy to think about a human being capable of memorizing almost 32,000 digits. Even crazier, the record is now more than double that.


Rajan Mahadevan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are a few articles out there about Rajan.
 
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Just out of curiosity, anyone know what Dobbs' parents do career wise?
 
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A speed limit sign near the UTSI campus:

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1972 Grad said:
It has more to do with the way you think, and having a photographic memory. I once did a visual test in which I shown a list of numbers, got to look at it for one minute, had the list taken away, and was asked to repeat the numbers, then to repeat them backwards.

We started at 8 or 10 numbers, then after doing that list, I was given another list with more numbers until I decided to quit after successfully doing 32 numbers. Each time the list changed to a completely different group of numbers, so I had to flush out the old and start all over with a different bunch. Then, I had to give the list backwards.

I was able to do it every time, but I cannot remember people's names. Dobbs may be very smart, but the numbers thing doesn't show genius. It just shows that you can organize numbers in your mind, and see the list after it goes away. I remembered in groups of three numbers, just like he did. I could still see the numbers in groups of three. There is no way that I could have remembered 32 numbers, but I could do 11 groups.

As I said before, this was pure concentration for one minute at a time. It fried my brain, so I quit before I could find my limit. I think that the 48 he did would be fairly easy, given enough time to study. Like I said, I can't remember names, but I remember phone numbers from 50 years ago.
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Wow, what a buzz killer. Thanks
 
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Hacksaw said:
He does remind me a little of Matt Damon's genius character in Good Will Hunting.

...without the psychological issues and annoying Boston accent, of course.
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Just saying nothing about Joushua Dobbs reminds me of any movie . That young man is SMART .
 
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