Demosthenian

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Problem is a lot of our stadiums are old with concrete bases with seating right up by the field, making them too narrow for a soccer game and not able to remove seating to fix that issue

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That’s a feature, not a bug

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I know this, as sure as I'm white

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?? Platner is that you?

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These used to be called donations, endowments, etc. Sounds like the Haslams want a return.

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I had a buddy that got in to UPenn, North Carolina, Duke and Dartmouth. He got waitlisted at UGA and it’s likely because he was an out of state student

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He got waitlisted because UGA saw his admissions profile and knew he was capable of getting into better schools.

In addition to selective admissions, it’s now all about admissions “yield rates”. Schools have started not accepting and just waitlisting candidates that are highly likely to enroll elsewhere (e.g. at the better school they also applied to as their first choice), in order to make their conversion rate of offers to enrollees as high as possible.

The WSJ had an article about this just last week or so: WSJ article link

I’m shocked to learn they’re all CEOs of all of energy companies too.

WSJ Article Link

A few highlights:
• “valuations went up 46% over last year”
• “one reason valuations have surged is that the deeper pool of potential champions—created by the loosening of rules”
• Most valuable teams: #1 Texas, $2.2bn; #2 A&M, $1.6bn
• LSU, UGA and Bama in the top 10, worth $1.4–1.5bn




bye, y’all

Lots of Bama enforcers out today! I applaud y’all.

I do like this response though, this is the analysis I was looking for.

On Bernard’s contested catch, both players hands were on the ball as Bernard was making his “football move”, therefore he never “established control” as it was contested all the way through it coming out.

So if it was a catch, the ball came out as a result of the defender causing it to come loose, and so he wasn’t yet down (see the replay) and the ground didn’t cause the fumble.

On the FG, the camera angle wasn’t exactly underneath, so it by itself isn’t the evidence you need, but it provided the basis for a fair review to reassess whether the ball did entirely pass within the uprights. And it really surprises me there wasn’t more dissection from the media (as stated the officials can’t review it as it was above the uprights).

So it appeared to be a prime opportunity for officials putting their hand on the scale, and I’m surprised therefore no one is questioning the call.

The kick looked good. Period. Fowler barely had a peep after Lemonnier commented.

On Bernard, it was either a catch, and then a fumble, or not a catch (as it was contested the entire way to the ground). Remarkable how there wasn’t even a hint of inquiry to a review from Herbie and Chris.

Tells you all you need to know.

Similar to A&M not having yet traveled to Georgia or Kentucky, is there a school Missouri has not yet traveled to, or only played 1-2 times since joining?

There are only 2 worthy teams this year.

This damn playoff has become so obsessive, I haven’t heard a single person say there are really only 2 worthy teams still standing at the end of the year.