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Post by bicentennial on Jul 7, 2022 20:09:44 GMT -5
Hilltop Hoops reported that he had another commitment and that the program knew about it. Mozone seemed to confirm as much in this IG post: http://instagr.am/p/Cfe8VpnAC2F He's wearing an AC/DC shirt. I just wore my AC/DC shirt yesterday. Maybe he'll shake us all night long. Hopefully it won't be another highway to hell. Yeah, would have been better if he had on a Led Zeppelin shirt!
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Post by bicentennial on Jun 7, 2022 0:02:01 GMT -5
Was reading an article with an interesting take that might make this whole process easier. Simply classify AR15s or really any high capacity magazine gun or bump stock modifications a Class 3 firearm and the issue takes care of itself. All class 3 firearms are already subject to licensure, registration and training requirements. Currently applies to machine guns, guns with silencers, sawed off shotguns, etc. just expand it to include these weapons of mass destruction and the problem takes care of itself without having to address any constitutional issues. This may be genius. Does anyone know if this could be done by administrative rule making with notice and comment???
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Post by bicentennial on May 1, 2022 17:10:57 GMT -5
I do but not because the roster at this point is better. Statistically teams like people regress towards the middle point or mean. It is really hard to lose twenty games in a row two years in a row. Not sure if a team has ever gone undefeated two years in a row in conference. I suppose we could be the first. Depaul went 0-18 and followed it with 1-17 and 1-17 in conference. The second year was in part under the same coach but they fired him mid season and the assistant who was promoted was let go so it was under 3 coaches. Without a significant upgrade in coaches and players would think 4-16 would be an average expectation. I suspect none of the statistical gurus has ever looked at what the next year's expectation is after a winless season.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 21, 2022 21:31:26 GMT -5
From two practical standpoints I am not sure the above would be enforceable. First the school cannot pay the athlete directly due to NCAA rules. An athlete gets a scholarship and other permissible benefits on an annual basis in return for remaining a student athlete in good standing. It would be unclear to me that there is any more value to a 4 year scholarship than to 4 one year scholarships. So by making the athlete sign a contract for multiple years, the school is demanding the promise not to transfer for no consideration in return. Second, I do not believe non compete clauses have ever been applied to students except possibly if you argue that the old NCAA transfer rule served as a 1 year non compete without loss of eligibility.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 9, 2022 13:57:44 GMT -5
Kenpom had us as one of the ten unluckiest teams in all of NCAA division 1 college basketball. Interestingly, Dartmouth had worse luck.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 6, 2022 20:36:54 GMT -5
I guess I don't understand why Russia is the defacto inheritor of the USSR seat on the UN security council. Wouldn't it make more sense if the seat rotated between all the former USSR nation states. Since Russia has had the seat since the fall of the USSR shouldn't it rotate to another former USSR nation state. I would suggest Ukraine!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 13, 2022 18:07:03 GMT -5
Carlson has to be on the Russian Payroll or Kompromat list. Otherwise why would he be doing this? I thought the same but I figured he would dial it back when his handlers could no longer pay in Dollars. Guess he is OK with rubles!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 3, 2022 0:07:20 GMT -5
Good to know we stand with the Iranian people. And he also said that there are more companies incorporated in his state of America than in the rest of America. You know what? BFD. He's still a million times better than the last guy, or than DeathSantis would be. Actually far more C corp companies are incorported in Delaware than in any other state. That number is about 1.6 million I do not know if anyone has counted up the number of C corp companies in the other 49 states. I suspect strongly if you count up LLC corporations that Delaware does not have more than the rest of states combined but his statistic could be correct for C Corp incorporations. You do have to wonder how much McConnell or the RNC paid for the typo to show up on the teleprompter.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 1, 2022 17:51:40 GMT -5
Look I would certainly not say Ronnie Thompson has the credentials to have a high paying job in the Basketball department at GU.
I do think the description of what happened at Ball State above is not accurate or fair. At the time and the following year I read articles in the Muncie Papers and Indianapolis papers including the decision of a former judge who arbitrated the case. RT was the coach at Ball State and had a better season his first year than the coach they let go the year before. He was fired during the offseason following that 1st year. It was alleged that at a time when RT was not to be in contact with the players he was spotted in the upper stands of the gym where they were having an off season practice or scrimmage. When it went before the arbitrator the next year it came to light that he was fired based on the report of only one witness who reported the presence of a bald black man in the upper stands of the gym. The person who reported that to the school assumed it was RT but did not know RT and admitted at arbitration that he did not know what RT looked like. The school decided the bald black man was RT but no one at the scrimmage saw or knew of a person watching the game from the upper stands. RT was awarded the rest of his contract.
I hardly call that playing a race card! Its called not being fired for cause when being sacked for no reason despite a guaranteed contract. The arbitrator said no reasonable person would believe RT was the only person that could have been in the stands. Despite the report by Ball State, the NCAA did not even believe the report was worth investigating.
Perhaps we could get Nike to hire RT to create a bunch of promotions with players NIL in them to help recruit/keep players! I believe for some years JT2 sat on the Nike Board.
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 26, 2022 11:24:06 GMT -5
I was wondering if Biden could nominate and ask the senate to advise and consent on multiple supreme court candidates. That way if another opening were to occur late in Biden's term, even if the Democrats did not control the Senate, he would still get his appointment seated on the court. I still will never understand why Obama as his last act before stepping down did not appoint Merrick Garland to the court by saying the Senate leadership was derelict in its duty under the constitution. The constitution says the Senate "shall" advise and consent. The Constitution doesn't say the Senate gets to decide if and when to do their job.
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 22, 2022 23:28:38 GMT -5
While I am no fan of Joe McCarthy talk about a party swinging from anti-red to full tilt red love? Someone knew their primary colors when they started painting the election maps!
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 22, 2022 23:22:36 GMT -5
Just want to lay out a few facts about Falk - he got Ewing a $3M contract in 1985 when Magic was making 500K - Air Jordan was his idea and doing - a billion dollar industry he created - He was MJ’s agent and most of Dean Smiths guys too - Nike is a huge asset for our program and he’s a big reason for that - His partnership with JT2 was brilliant and elevated GTown guys for decades - the Bald Truth is a great read (highly recommended) He is also widely credited as the guy who made Allen Iverson put away money so he would not end up destitute despite making generational wealth! While there may be some good from agents tied to AAU programs there are many horror stories of AAU agents not acting in young players interests and ending up steering them into the poor house!
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 22, 2022 15:23:57 GMT -5
I agree with that Ed. Seems to have a solid stroke... ...and beyond that as the competition picked up from OOC to BE he has really struggled at times down low (w/the exception of the first Nova game where he was excellent). He continues that methodical back down over and over again that just doesn't work against more athletic kids. Even before these last 2 games he wasn't even getting to the FT line like he was before due to that. He's forcing too much and really never kicks out when stuck. To your point a 41% 3pt shooter this year a few more set looks for him would help this offense.... It also highlights why a 6'6 below the rim player, while very skilled, is hard to march out there as your starting 4. He has improved his body since last year, but it has always been clear he is a situational sub rather then a starter. He looked great against fellow lesser athletes in OOC, but his limitations aren't going away in that regard. If he builds his body into a rock over the next few years, maybe he can bully some of that stuff up there but the long 6'9 leaper is going to make his inside game difficult if not obsolete. I don't think I agree. I look at Perry McDonald and his skillset and I see a place where Holloway could excel particularly since even in the paint the refs call more fouls!
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 22, 2022 15:09:20 GMT -5
I was wondering (given that republicans have refused to meet with and as required in the constitution advise and consent on democratic supreme court nominees) if there is any reason why President Biden could not nominate and have the senate vet (advise and consent) 10 or 15 persons now to be his supreme court nominee then only appoint one of them. That way in the next 10 or 15 years if a republican senate again refuses to meet with and advise and consent on a future supreme court nominee, the democratic president possibly even Biden himself would have one or many persons already on a list he could appoint?
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 20, 2022 21:54:58 GMT -5
GU 80 DePaul 78 Would never post a score where I thought GU was going to lose since I would never want to win against GU. First time I am posting this season!
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 19, 2022 22:50:26 GMT -5
someone used to be able to run the different lineups would love to have a comparison of our small versus big lineups and those with beard in and those with rice in as I suspect our smaller lineups may be our best ones!
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 19, 2022 23:03:05 GMT -5
There you go again! LOL!! Predictable as always. If COVID is as debilitating to a college basketball team as we've been led to believe by the great Patrick Ewing, then we should win in a laugher tomorrow night at the Dunkin Donuts Center. Also, it's an early start and COVID is obviously rampant in Providence, probably as bad as in DC, so it should be a light crowd similar to what we've seen at Cap One. If you're a betting person, seems like a no-brainer to put a lot on the Hoyas tomorrow night. Look, COVID affects every person differently. There are many studies suggesting many persons with COVID have significant inflammation in their heart after an infection. It is not known why one person has a cold, another person no symptoms and others end up in a hospital bed or dead. We know some of the risk factors for the latter and not being immunized is a big one. We don't know who on the Hoyas had COVID, who needed to quarantine and who has residual symptoms from COVID. We do know for 14 days many members of the team did not practice and we don't know which players and which coaches were unavailable when. We do know that DC was one of the first cities in the United States to have high numbers of Omicron patients and it is also one of the first cities to have passed the peak for omicron and to have cases declining. We do know that the NCAA rules for quarantining changed near the end of the time Georgetown was quarantining and the time for quarantining is now half what it was when Georgetown was on quarantine. Let's watch the game tomorrow and hopefully we will all get to enjoy a good game with a team that looks like a team and plays like a team which was not the experience of the last two games. Hopefuly Ewing is able to be back on the floor coaching and all of our players are finally available to play!
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 18, 2022 22:22:36 GMT -5
Does anyone know what happened to Don Carey?
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 8, 2022 18:59:21 GMT -5
10,008 in attendance for today's St. John's-Providence game. 10,977 at the Pru for UCONN-Seton Hall. COVID must not be as bad in Providence and Newark as it is in DC. It appears that DC has passed its peak while most of the others have yet to reach theirs. The sicker patients and hospitalizations lag the peak by several weeks as seen in the NY times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html. The Peak in Rhode Island does seem higher than DC however.
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 8, 2022 18:54:20 GMT -5
Find it very interesting to see all the excuses about lacking athleticism when all we heard offseason from a good number of folks on the board was some variation of "yeah we weren't the best defensively the past few years, but next year we'll finally have the athletes to run what Ewing wants and the problems will be solved." I realize a few guys were out last night, but I think the above was definitely somewhat exaggerated if we're still at this big of an athleticism disparity against a middle of the pack BE team. And if you disagree with that, even if we're at full strength, then it's time to concede that what Ewing wants to do defensively might not ever work, regardless of athleticism. I think a lot of people are already in that camp. If "everyone" is truly on notice, the staff should be too. Man you hit the nail on the head. That was my feeling during the off season that this year PE would have the athletes he needed to play the style of basketball he wants. But Marquette, and Shaka Smart, showed what those kind of athletes really look like and, with the exception of Aminu and perhaps Holloway, we don't have them. If you disagree just look at how quickly Marquette guys got up the court on fast breaks compared to how slowly our guys did. Given that apparently our whole team was out with COVID and were sick enough that the team needed to miss more than 2 weeks of basketball games, I cannot help but wonder if the "looking gassed" and unathletic comments are beating on a number of athletes who have still not recovered from COVID. The standard for returning to playing basketball is having 7 players and 1 coach eligible to play. The older standard was to quarantine for 10 days from the start of illness and that standard was only shortened by the NCAA on 1/6 coming in line with the new CDC guidelines issued last month. Only 8 players actually played in the game. I did not count the number present but on the bench and did not look to see whether they were all wearing masks while on the bench. Early on there were a number of reports of athletes having evidence of myocarditis and milder heart inflammation on heart MRI scans following COVID infection. There are many sequellae from having COVID including "long covid" which can last months or possibly years. We have yet to know what percentage of the Omicron surge infected patients will have problems for months or possibly even years after having this version of a COVID infection even despite being immunized. While I have no knowledge of the condition of anyone on the team, I would suggest we wait to see how the team performs in the next 2-3 weeks instead of assuming that they are all unathletic and will never be able to play the way PE wants them to.
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