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Post by hoya9797 on Jul 13, 2023 11:16:42 GMT -5
Another victim of the twenty-worst century: Kenner League... There has never been a better time to be alive, in the history of humanity, than right now. Don’t lose sight of the constant and relentless progress going on all around us all the time.
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Post by hoya9797 on Jun 12, 2023 9:22:19 GMT -5
And, if not, it’s Trump for you. I have never voted for Trump and never will. Hard to believe given how much you supported and continue to support his agenda.
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Post by hoya9797 on Jun 12, 2023 7:52:15 GMT -5
Waiting to see if any Republican presidential candidate calls for Trump to be held accountable and sent to prison. Whoever that might be he/she might have my vote. And, if not, it’s Trump for you.
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Post by hoya9797 on Jun 5, 2023 9:21:12 GMT -5
If these numbers are accurate, and if the $3M that Cooley/Reed talked about as Georgetown's NIL budget is accurate, we should be having a lot more success recruiting transfers like Dickinson, Spencer and the great Jordan Dingle than we have been. Did they say that’s the current budget or the goal? Right now, those can be very different things.
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Post by hoya9797 on May 24, 2023 6:56:49 GMT -5
If retaining (or even hiring) Pat Ewing for the most prominent job at the University isn’t incompetence, then what is?
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Post by hoya9797 on May 19, 2023 17:22:32 GMT -5
I think some people are overselling. Lol. Imo, he's not a high major player, and shouldn't be higher than 3rd string unless everything about his game from footwork to agility to instincts to offensive repertoire and beyond have improved. On a 2-18 team last year he was essentially 4th string behind a former player/manager. And from the leaked/rumored staff discussion with recruits this offseason - they would prefer not to even play him in a backup role. In 2003s case, he absolutely despises Ewing so there is a Little bit of that going on in terms of Hoping Mutombo dominates. Which doesn’t even make any sense because Ewing would have played his friends son as much as possible if Mutombo was any good. You still haven’t been able to grasp Ewing’s incompetence, have you?
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Post by hoya9797 on May 5, 2023 18:26:02 GMT -5
The percentage would more than double. You're burying the lede here. Who is it, in your view, whose idea of "the diversity we are looking for" entails having a student body that is 29% Asian-American, four times the proportion of the overall population? I think he’s saying that, if we went by academic profile alone, we’d have double the number of Asian students which is not the type of diversity we want. I don’t know if that’s true but that’s how I read it.
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Post by hoya9797 on May 5, 2023 6:18:49 GMT -5
Country club sports (tennis and golf?) definitely provide scholarships and are not mostly non-scholarship. They aren’t full rides (men’s golf has a 4.5 allotment per team) but at most schools, these are not students playing a sport in their spare time like it might have been 30-40 years ago.
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Post by hoya9797 on May 4, 2023 20:37:32 GMT -5
Are womens and non rev sports not allowed to fundraise? Sure, the scope and scale might be reduced but that's ok. I played a non rev sport at GU and I've never understood why Allen Iverson was supposed to subsidize my athletic experience. Allen Iverson wasn't subsidizing anything, the basketball program isn't some crazy profitable enterprise. It relies on donations to operate and without them would operate in the red. Those that donate major money generally care about one or two sports and are now tailoring their efforts to paying players in those two sports instead of donating to the athletic department as a whole. If basketball revenues aren’t supporting non rev sports then why are you saying those sports would go away if the players in revenue sports get paid? Seems to me that you are saying the money that would be used to pay the players is the same money that is, today, used to support the non rev sports. If that’s not the case, they why would paying men’s basketball players have any impact on women’s golf?
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Post by hoya9797 on May 4, 2023 18:17:44 GMT -5
This raises the question, though, of whether it was ever "fair and equitable" for those donations driven by support for football and men's basketball to be used to prop up the other sports. The fact that the dollars are shifting from donations to university athletic departments to collectives to fund "NIL" for football and basketball recruits drives home the fact the donors want their money to be used for those sports, not for a holistic and multifaceted athletic program. I think it is definitely fair and equitable for amateur sporting organizations at federally funded universities to provide equal opportunities to men and women. The supreme court agrees. If you think it should be purely a transactional business and not amateur sports, that would mean no women's college sports and most schools having somewhere between 0 and 3 men's sports. "Fair and equitable"... for the top 5% of athletes in 3% of the sports. Are womens and non rev sports not allowed to fundraise? Sure, the scope and scale might be reduced but that's ok. I played a non rev sport at GU and I've never understood why Allen Iverson was supposed to subsidize my athletic experience.
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Post by hoya9797 on May 3, 2023 9:11:28 GMT -5
What I am not in favor of is pay for play, which is separate. Why?
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 29, 2023 16:57:27 GMT -5
When the NCAA changed the rule allowing transfers to move schools one time without having to sit, I don't think the intent was to actually allow players to transfer multiple times without having to sit. Otherwise, that would have been the rule. The problem is that the NCAA has never had a backbone and has allowed players and universities to use waivers freely without real justifications, as happened last year for a multitude of athletes. I would actually like to see the NCAA enforce the rules, otherwise what's the point of having rules at all? Things have also gotten out of hand, with players constantly transferring. I know it's in fashion now to want to let guys do whatever they want in the name of freedom, but the instability the policy brings is out of hand, it forces coaches to constantly be recruiting both inside and outside the program, and it causes so much roster change year-over-year, that it's hard for fans to gain any allegiance to players (And why would they? Increasingly, players have no allegiance to their institution; a very high percentage of players no longer spend 4 years at a university). I realize the NCAA is only quasi-professional (and technically not), but no professional sports organization would even allow the level of pandemonium and roster changes that have been happening. I would do the following: 1. You get one "free" transfer. Once you use it, you cannot transfer again without sitting a year. 2. You cannot use the "free" transfer until being on the roster of a Division I program for two years, unless there is a coaching change or truly extenuating circumstances (returning home for a relative who is sick, etc.). This would give kids a lot of freedom, but it would also force kids to make some sort of commitment to their university, too. I realize for a long time the balance has been against the players, but allowing guys to transfer year to year with no penalty is simply a bad idea for the game, and weakens it. What’s the guarantee the school makes to the player? Are scholarships still one year and renewed annually?
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 28, 2023 11:57:12 GMT -5
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 28, 2023 11:53:18 GMT -5
I believe, though Please correct me, that seven Biden family members were recipients of wire transfers from a Hunter Biden affiliate that received funds which originated from a ChiCom related energy company. Is that not correct? What those transfer mean or don’t means should be explored as Joe’s simple “that’s not true” doesn’t wash given his penchant for abject falsehoods. Paste that press article here and let’s see it. I didn’t know there are seven members in the Biden family. It might be hard since the Tucker Carlson stuff may have been removed from the Fox site.
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 28, 2023 10:52:10 GMT -5
FSU I have some concerns that he wasn't seeing action for his high school team? Imagine how he feels.
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 24, 2023 20:09:18 GMT -5
If he is “At best a bench warmer in the NBA”, how is maximizing his value and earning potential while in the college ranks a sign of immaturity? If anything it shows he is realistic about his pro prospects and is making sound financial decisions. Kansas and Kentucky may not be academic powerhouses compared to Georgetown, but they are the Harvard and Yale of college basketball, plus they have big time boosters. The myth of the high level college athlete choosing a program for the “value of education” is dead. If GU wants to compete, it will assign value just as Hunter is doing. If GU is hoping recruits will come for the “education”, it’s going to be tough going. In the ever-shifting world of NIL and college basketball transfer portal, what Hunter D is doing is probably shrewd I suppose and pretty blatant, but I also sense some of what hoya18 says and feels. I don't know a lot about HD, but the buzz of coming off as immature and jerky is there, and there is something unseemly about wooing him with big NIL bucks and going big time on that front. Why it unseemly to try to pay someone who has value? That’s all that’s happening here.
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 19, 2023 13:46:08 GMT -5
Again, this is what happens when you do single elimination tournaments. For example, KenPom said that Houston was 81.3% to beat Miami. That means that, on average, if they kept playing Miami would win about 19 out of 100 times. While those are low odds, it still shows that in the long-run Miami is going to win a fair number of times. Alabama was 75% to beat San Diego State. Again, that means that if you played 100 games, San Diego State would win 25 times. That's a lot, and while "unlikely," San Diego State winning in that scenario isn't crazy. KenPom had the San Diego State/Creighton game at basically 50-50, San Diego won by 1 point. So, not sure what you think this even tells us. Florida Atlantic's odds of beating Tennessee were 30%, and Florida Atlantic was actually just over 50% to beat Kansas State, so again that's another 50-50 game. When you have a single elimination 50-50 type game, variance/luck/who is hot is going to affect the outcome a lot more in that one game. A single game like that is virtually useless in telling us who is really "better." I am not sure if anybody here plays poker regularly (or did in the past), but if you do, you'd know that 20% outcomes, even if unlikely, happen ALL THE TIME. All due respect to you and your precious kenpom, but Houston is not beating Miami 81 out of 100 times, as anyone who watched the game would tell you. Furthermore, Maryland is not slightly superior to Miami, as KenPom would have you believe. Statistical analysis of NCAA Men's Basketball can be instructive, but your reliance on it to mask your ignorance and/or indifference to the games being played is a real bore. Maryland beat Miami by 18 so maybe they are more than slightly superior. Surely that one result matters the most when comparing the two.
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 19, 2023 5:32:31 GMT -5
#24 Miami beat #2 Houston and #5 Texas #14 San Diego State beat #4 Alabama, #12 Creighton and #17 Florida Atlantic #17 Florida Atlantic beat #6 Tennessee and #21 Kansas State Rankings are post-tourney KenPom. It’s almost like weird things happen in very small samples.
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 18, 2023 11:01:11 GMT -5
For example, a key reason the Big 12 got 7 of their 10 teams in the tourney was because people nationwide thought the Big 12 was the best league. How exactly do you support this one? KenPom had the Big 12 as the top conference by a pretty wide margin. Was that just because people nationwide thought it was the best? Does he have a variable to adjust his formula for what people nationwide think to be true?
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Post by hoya9797 on Apr 17, 2023 20:45:24 GMT -5
At least he knows what he needs to work on... Any consistency with that shot and he could be dangerous. This is the main reason he couldn’t get PT here. His shot is a line drive so he can’t consistently hit 3s. All his shots are midrange shots (2003’s worst shot in modern basketball) He should just join Seton Hall but looks like his PT their will be limited while he furthered develops as a guard instead of small forward and while Shaheen works on his shot. He’s still looking at Manhattrn college which would be able to offer him a lot of PT. So kind of the same situation with Hall/Georgetown (less PT) vs a lot of minutes (Manhattan college) 28% of his shots last year were midrange 2s. Given that he was playing in a Pat Ewing system, that’s really good.
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