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Geese Feeder

Geese Feeder

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For what it’s worth, Calipari has long maintained that his ultimate goal as Kentucky’s coach is to send his players to the NBA, which is fine if you take that at face value. But when virtually every guy he recruits is bound for the NBA anyway, it’s easy for this to come across as a man trying to defend himself against critics who may wonder why he has only one national title to show for the greatest recruiting stretch any program has had in almost 50 years. This would be like if you missed a sales quota and tried to tell your boss that it wasn’t a big deal because your real goal was to make your clients like you, which is something you knocked out of the park because you took them golfing and drinking all the time and always picked up the tab. That’s great and all, but you still gotta put up numbers or none of it matters.

Titus on UK via The Ringer.
 
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SAECATFAN

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Nov 7, 2001
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Yep. Never understand why people rush to get on the damn things at boarding. OH I WANT TO SIT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 30 MINUTES IF POSSIBLE LET ME ON FIRST PLATINUM VETERAN WITH KIDS HERE

Always enjoy my coke and magazine with an increasingly spacious and pleasant terminal seating area while this goes on tbh...
 
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wcc31

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Mar 18, 2002
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We're going to beat these F'rs. Starting to really feel it. Perfect circumstances for Cal- talented, confident team coming around at the right time that is somehow completely under the radar.
 
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BBdK

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SAECATFAN said:
Yep. Never understand why people rush to get on the damn things at boarding. OH I WANT TO SIT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 30 MINUTES IF POSSIBLE LET ME ON FIRST PLATINUM VETERAN WITH KIDS HERE

Always enjoy my coke and magazine with an increasingly spacious and pleasant terminal seating area while this goes on tbh...
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THERE WON'T BE ANY OVERHEAD BIN SPACE IF I DON'T GET ON ASAP.

-Hopes Lavar keeps talking.
 
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wcc31

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UnfrozenCatfanLawyer said:
It's really, really hard to win a national title.
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It's such a lazy narrative- the "best stretch of recruiting ever!" spiel. This isn't 1985 where you keep your dudes. He's not piling on talent. He's rebuilding every year.

Ask darlings K and Izzo how fun that is. Trust me- it's much easier for a Roy Willams who starts 5 upperclassmen McD AAs.
 
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UKStoleMyFish

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UnfrozenCatfanLawyer said:
It's really, really hard to win a national title.
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True, but the more legitimate cracks you have at it, the more titles you should have (duh). The randomness of the tournament is minimized over time.

It's not reasonable to determine whether a baseball player is a good hitter based on one at bat, but it is fair to make that determination over the course of a season.

I guess what I'm saying is if he doesn't win it all this year, he's terrible and should be fired.
 
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Ron Mehico

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One of my pet peeves is how everyone RUSHES to stand up the second you can once a plane lands, like they need to get out of the plane before it catches on fire. Never understood it. I just sit down continuing to do what I do until the people in front of me have left and then I stand to leave the plane, see no reason to stand there with your head ducked down and bumping into people like your on the GD NYC subway for 15 minutes.

Our wedding photographer was an obese couple my wife knew from HS that took 8 damn months to get us our pictures. My favorite was the little 5 minute video they did, my favorite part of that was the beginning when he was doing an artistic shot of the rooms getting ready for the wedding. The brides room was a minute shot with all these decorative things - something blue, something used, all the girls makeup, etc. The groomsmen shot was a 10 second shot of empty shot glasses, cigarette butts, and socks.

This 10PM Friday tip time is going to kill me, its going to be all I can do to not be blacked out by the time the game starts. I'm dreading the entire evening leading up to it, I'll probably burn 1,000 calories sweating and pacing like an idiot.
 
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UKStoleMyFish

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Seth Davis picked UCLA to win, which is reasonable. He also picked them to score 98 points, which is inarguably the dumbest prediction I've ever seen anywhere about anything ever. Does he not know that UK's defense has improved exponentially since December? Does he not know that we've been grinding it out for weeks? Does he not know that everything slows down in the Tournament? Does he not know that UCLA has scored 98 once exactly once in the past 5 weeks, and that was against Lorenzo Romar and Washington?

There are 4 year old Guatemalan street children who have a better understanding of the game of basketball than Seth Davis. Yet CBS still keeps trotting him out there, year after year, asinine prediction after asinine prediction.

He's an embarrassment to the planet earth.
 
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mashburned

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Mar 10, 2009
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I got a great idea. Put a go pro on your doggy, market him as a wedding videographer/photographer providing a unique dog's-eye view documentation of your wedding extravaganza, and profit heavily. All the hens will need this. You don't have to do a gd thing. Charge primo prices because Rufus is certified and you can't get this service anywhere else. All your friends will be so jealous. Think about the laughs it will provide when Rufus sticks his nose in old Aunt Betty's crotch.
 
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IsRichieGonnaStart

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If given the choice again between stick needles in my balls for 365 straight days or plan a wedding while dealing as the go between with the lass and my mom I'm going with option 1 in millisecond.
 
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cole854

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woodfordandwater said:
True, but the more legitimate cracks you have at it, the more titles you should have (duh). The randomness of the tournament is minimized over time.
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That isn't true at all. Each year stands on its own merit, as does each game. The only thing Cal or any coach can control is his team. He may get the best recruiting class ever, and in that same year, Duke may get 3 experienced upperclassmen via transfers to go with their own crop of burger boys.

The randomness of the tournament isn't minimized at all...each year you have to win 6 games and it takes one game to send you packing. Many variables have to fall into place...seedings, brackets, geography, injuries or lack of, bad whistles for and against, etc, etc, etc.

People clammer about Dean not winning more...and the same thing is being said/will be said about Cal. Winning this tournament is one of the hardest accomplishments in sports, and it requires a lot of luck. What happened last year or each prior year has this much bearing on the games tomorrow: Zilch.
 
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BBdK

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Good post, kinda -- but "isn't true at all" is false.

The more chances you have, the more likely you are able to finally get all those breaks that you speak of.

If you play Roulette, your chance of Red or Black is the same on EVERY roll (statistically) -- but if you roll 10 times and bet Black each time, your chance of getting a Black in there SOMEWHERE is better than if you rolled once, true statistics be damned.

Not unlike "putting yourself in contention" for a major enough times is typically enough to get these guys over the hump.
 
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UKStoleMyFish

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cole854 said:
That isn't true at all.

The randomness of the tournament isn't minimized at all.
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Wrong.

If you have the best players in the country for one season and don't win it all that same season, that's not an indictment on you as a coach. The Tournament is random, and in a one game setting, almost anything can happen.

But if you have the best players in the country for 10 years running and never win it all, then yes, it's fair to question coaching at that point.

The odds that a .180 hitter goes 0 for 1 is 82%. The odds that a .180 hitter goes 0 for 10 is 13.7%.

Learn math.

Also, read better.
 
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Very sensitive subject for my DC area brethren, apparently. They walk a fine line of kissing Sr's *** while at the same time tip-toe around calling out JTIII for driving the program off a cliff.

I get a North Korean vibe from that program. Questioning a Thompson will result in similar fashion as going at Kim Jong-Un.
 
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