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Devo182 said:
Looks like all the models these days are pretty fantastic at getting the job done. Eventually landed on Instant Pot's version.

One more question for the sous vide folks - have you ever tried the kitchen torch approach to searing? Apparently it can sear quicker and hotter than a pan, that said I wonder when you would add the butter during the searing process or if the torch method is worth it over a classic pan sear, considering you'd have to re-up on the fuel every so often too.

I see some for only $20-30 and am tempted to try it...or maybe I'm going way overboard for something I only eat once a week-to-2 weeks anyway 😅
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Yeah they all do the same thing haha some just fancier. I’ve never used to torched method. I like the charcoal at the end just another flavor to add to it. If you get the torch let me know how it works for you
 
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2022 College Football Betting Power Ratings

Weird but ok...

What is a Power Rating in Sports Betting?
Power Ratings are not all that different from trading stocks — you assign a value to something based on a number of factors, try to buy it when it’s low, and sell when it’s high.

With stocks, long-term investors look for a clean balance sheet, revenue growth and market capitalization. In sports betting, a gambler should look for price point, market deflation and growth over peers.

Our power ratings are fueled by Wilson’s projections, which aim to judge the true quality of a team based on advanced metrics, coaching changes, year-over-year roster continuity (TARP) and a host of other underlying components.

We can use his ratings to create a point spread between any two teams in the country on a neutral field — just subtract the higher team’s rating from the lower-ranked one.

As the season progresses, we also keep track of teams that are trending up and teams that are trending down, which helps find value among teams that are regarded highly by the public and misranked in the AP Top 25 Poll.
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peaygolf said:
I don't want to make a thread yet..................

But if anyone is interested in getting together and playing golf before a UT night game this fall....................Let me know!
I can make the arrangements.........



I'm making a list of those that "like".....................Later I'll make a thread and give out my email.......
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I don’t play, but I’ll go just to scream “Get in the hole!” to make y’all feel like pros.

TWSS
 
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peaygolf said:
There will not be any amateur sports down the road………
But if a 10 yr old can make money playing the oboe, why not a 10 yr old pee-wee QB? Fair is fair? Right? SMH……..
How much money does the LLWS make? TV, hotels, restaurants, etc……pay the 12 yr old kids.
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I guess I don't care who gets paid what, as long their is some kind of competitive fairness insured, I mean who the hell wants to watch fixed exhibition crap sports? I sure as hell don't.

Make ALL these dumbasses employees, and then tell them they have to go where they are drafted or quit. You can't f'n have it all as a player.

If they don't do something soon...College Football is doomed as a real sport.

I hate all this 💩. It is ruining everything except for one thing, now Crappabama, UGhA and OSPew don't have a monopoly on buying the best players thanks to their well entrenched cheating machines.
 
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Interesting

Dear Andy,

What tends to be more successful for major programs when they hire head coaches: the hot Group of 5 coach or the hot Power 5 coordinator? Seems like a lot of the G5 guys are “builders,” which often isn’t needed at a blueblood program, while the coordinators are more “salesmen,” having already gone through the grind of recruiting to a major program.

— Brian in Buford, Ga.

This is a fantastic question, and instead of pulling an answer out of you-know-where, I decided to crunch some numbers. I examined all the coaches hired by power conference programs* from 2005-19 to see if we can glean anything from empirical data. This is a far cry from what companies like SportSource Analytics do. They’ll break down whether a coach is an alumnus, which the numbers say doesn’t actually matter, and what side of the ball/what scheme the coach favors as well. This is quicker and dirtier, but it is interesting to see if a major category of coach offers any statistical edge.

There were 153 such hires in that 15-year period, but obviously, not all of the coaches getting hired fell into either of those categories. For instance, Dennis Erickson went from Idaho to Arizona State prior to the 2007 season, but Arizona State wasn’t hiring Erickson because of what he did at Idaho. It was because of what he did at Washington State, Miami and Oregon State. Of the hires, 43 were coaches whose achievements as a non-power conference FBS head coach won them the power conference head-coaching job. Meanwhile, there were 52 assistants hired as power conference head coaches. Some of these had been head coaches before, but they were hired based on what they’d done more recently as assistants. The most famous example is Ed Orgeron, whose Ole Miss head coaching tenure probably was a negative when he was trying to secure the LSU job following the firing of Les Miles. Another example is Mike Locksley, who was New Mexico’s head coach but who wouldn’t have gotten the Maryland job if he hadn’t gone through what he termed the “Nick Saban Witness Protection Program” at Alabama.

So who fared better? The assistants had the edge. They had a median win percentage of .528 in their power conference head coaching jobs, while the median win percentage of the non-power conference head coaches was .500.

But context matters. I also calculated the median win percentages of the assistant group for the coaches who came in after a firing instead of after a predecessor resigning (not because of losing), retiring or leaving for a better job. That knocked Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern), Lincoln Riley (Oklahoma), Ryan Day (Ohio State) and several other excellent coaches out of the pool. Taking away the assistants who took over mostly stable situations left 26 coaches, and their median win percentage dropped to .453. Meanwhile, the 35 Group of 5 head coaches who took over a power conference program after a firing had a median win percentage of .515.

So if our athletic director Brian in Buford is firing a coach, he may want to give the Group of 5 head coaches more consideration. If his coach left for another job or retired in good standing, he may want to look at assistants — probably on his own staff.

But I would advise Brian to heavily consider a group he didn’t ask about. Of those 153 hires, 41 were hired primarily because of what they’d done previously as power conference head coaches. This group includes South Carolina-vintage Steve Spurrier, Alabama-era Nick Saban, Ohio State-era Meyer, Bill Snyder 2.0 at Kansas State, Michigan-era Jim Harbaugh and Penn State-era James Franklin. That group had the highest median win percentage at .539.

And while this might sound like an endorsement of recycling fired coaches, it’s not. AD Brian in Buford needs to be able to spot the difference between Spurrier trying to get back into college football after a bad NFL experience and Charlie Weis trying to get another big payday. But common sense tells us that someone who has held such a job before will understand the rigors of the job and what matters in the job. When Jimbo Fisher was hired at Texas A&M from Florida State, no one had to tell him how to recruit against elite SEC programs. He’d been recruiting against elite SEC programs in his old job.

So AD Brian in Buford, my advice to you is this: When Matt Rhule’s time with the Carolina Panthers ends, jump on him. He’s probably your best bet.
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engineerVOL said:
Joe Milton is one of the worst QBs I’ve ever seen in orange. Yet I feel pretty good Heupel can make him serviceable. He’s so dang frustrating because he looks frickin’ intimidating and smooth. He just can’t throw at the right spot lol.
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I don't think it's possible to "fix" him..but..if anybody can, it is Josh Heupel.
 
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Volsdeep4 said:
Yeah they all do the same thing haha some just fancier. I’ve never used to torched method. I like the charcoal at the end just another flavor to add to it. If you get the torch let me know how it works for you
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That sounds great - charcoal. Unfortunately live in a building unit - no flames even on the balcony allowed.

Went ahead and jumped in on the torch (guess small indoor flames are ok? 😅). Will let you know in about a week.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Joe Milton is one of the worst QBs I’ve ever seen in orange. Yet I feel pretty good Heupel can make him serviceable. He’s so dang frustrating because he looks frickin’ intimidating and smooth. He just can’t throw at the right spot lol.
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Where do you rank him among:

Crompton
Stephens
Coleman
Simms
Worley
Peterman
Guarantano
Dormady
McBride
Chryst
Maurer
Shrout
Bailey
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
This world…

Florida couple kept adopted son in a box inside garage: police — Fox News
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Not sure why they're calling it a box other than to sensationalize what's already a pretty horrible story. But it sounds like they built a rudimentary room (or cell given how it was used) in the garage per the neighbor's description and the 8 by 8 description. Locking anyone in a room from 18hrs a day is terrible treatment but the structure described isn't the same thing as a keeping him in a box which sounds far, far, worse.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I guess I don't care who gets paid what, as long their is some kind of competitive fairness insured, I mean who the hell wants to watch fixed exhibition crap sports? I sure as hell don't.

Make ALL these dumbasses employees, and then tell them they have to go where they are drafted or quit. You can't f'n have it all as a player.

If they don't do something soon...College Football is doomed as a real sport.

I hate all this 💩. It is ruining everything except for one thing, now Crappabama, UGhA and OSPew don't have a monopoly on buying the best players thanks to their well entrenched cheating machines.
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engineerVOL said:
Joe Milton is one of the worst QBs I’ve ever seen in orange. Yet I feel pretty good Heupel can make him serviceable. He’s so dang frustrating because he looks frickin’ intimidating and smooth. He just can’t throw at the right spot lol.
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He ain't good, but far from the worst!!!!
 
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Vols4us said:
This ^.

We have an extended family member and friends who work there. Our SIL did security for a summer prior to being able to go into the academy. Over the last few years the work environment has really stepped up and improved. Most folks really love working there now.

The tuition/books idea is an extension of what other employers like Amazon are doing. You hope to retain the better ones and you are right - about 5-10% at most will take advantage of it. So many of their employees are older, retirees, contractors along with some transients sprinkled in.
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Kroger was doing this 20 years ago. Of course, they're a union store and employees can also easily buy stock in the company but the idea is old for a lot of employers.
 
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