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MadVillageVol

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cat inkansas said:
Re: Shakes list: could do most of it----but couldn't live without Billy Ray and Miley.
Why is it I never think of Memphis as being in Tennessee (culturally not geographically)---always think Arkansas or Mississippi? Love Memphis, will not ignore any Vol posters that I know are from Memphis.
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Take heart, Billy Ray is actually from Kentucky
 
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Hungry Jack

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That's kinda like asking if NU is all that different from University of Chicago. :)
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Both great research institutions, but quite different.

I did my MBA at Chicago, undergrad at NU. My wife, a UC undergrad, teases me about attending college at a "finishing school" but readily admits she would drive up to NU to party.

I loved mt time at NU, but what is amazing about Chicago is the intellectual power. The business school basically built the foundation of modern finance theory. Stiller, Friedman, Merton Miller, Gene Fama, Fischer Black, and Myron Scholes are some of the most known names in finance who did their research at UC.

But what is truly revealing is the rise of behavioral economics at UC. The same institution that gave us free markets and rational investor theory also gave us the theory on why humans make bad or irrational decisions (turns out not necessarily irrational, just unknown assumptions about what we value). Two diametrically opposed ideas coming out of the same school. That amazes me about UC.
 
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Hungry Jack said:
Both great research institutions, but quite different.

I did my MBA at Chicago, undergrad at NU. My wife, a UC undergrad, teases me about attending college at a "finishing school" but readily admits she would drive up to NU to party.

I loved mt time at NU, but what is amazing about Chicago is the intellectual power. The business school basically built the foundation of modern finance theory. Stiller, Friedman, Merton Miller, Gene Fama, Fischer Black, and Myron Scholes are some of the most known names in finance who did their research at UC.

But what is truly revealing is the rise of behavioral economics at UC. The same institution that gave us free markets and rational investor theory also gave us the theory on why humans make bad or irrational decisions (turns out not necessarily irrational, just unknown assumptions about what we value). Two diametrically opposed ideas coming out of the same school. That amazes me about UC.
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Yes! This exactly! And Kentucky provides Makers Mark while Tennessee has Jack Daniels. See, the analogy is practically perfect! :)
 
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curtis b. said:
How many?
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Three. One to chill the wine, another to change out the Adele CD, and a third to call Maintenance. :)

I can think of a few things the Bama fan and maggot have in common, but which did you have in mind?

[note that the guy who invented and named the toothbrush lived in lower Alabama. otherwise, it would've been named the teethbrush]
 
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curtis b.

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They can both live
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Three. One to chill the wine, another to change out the Adele CD, and a third to call Maintenance. :)

I can think of a few things the Bama fan and maggot have in common, but which did you have in mind?

[note that the guy who invented and named the toothbrush lived in lower Alabama. otherwise, it would've been named the teethbrush][/QUOt
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VFL-82-JP said:
Three. One to chill the wine, another to change out the Adele CD, and a third to call Maintenance. :)

I can think of a few things the Bama fan and maggot have in common, but which did you have in mind?

[note that the guy who invented and named the toothbrush lived in lower Alabama. otherwise, it would've been named the teethbrush]
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they can both live a long life on a dead bear.
 
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curtis b.

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Making a point to nu here. No matter how much or how deep they hate the sec, their hate is nothing in comparison to the hate most TENNESSEE fans feel for the sec. When we play a team from the sec I not only wish to win, I pray we obliterate, decimate and annihilate them. I do not like any and do not respect most of the teams in the sec.
 
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curtis b. said:
Making a point to nu here. No matter how much or how deep they hate the sec, their hate is nothing in comparison to the hate most TENNESSEE fans feel for the sec. When we play a team from the sec I not only wish to win, I pray we obliterate, decimate and annihilate them. I do not like any and do not respect most of the teams in the sec.
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Heh, I actually like my fellow SEC fans and their programs. I mean, most of them, except for the idiots (as you've seen, we have our own idiots, as all fan bases do). Love being a part of a large, rich tradition that stretches so far across a beautiful part of our nation. Just as I'm sure many NU fans are proud to be part of the B10 with all its tradition.

I just love talking smack with them sometimes. VolNation's "Make Fun of [insert this week's opponent]" threads are some of the funniest and most entertaining of the season. :)
 
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cat inkansas said:
Re: Shakes list: could do most of it----but couldn't live without Billy Ray and Miley.
Why is it I never think of Memphis as being in Tennessee (culturally not geographically)---always think Arkansas or Mississippi? Love Memphis, will not ignore any Vol posters that I know are from Memphis.
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Being from Nashville, we don't consider Memphis as being in Tennessee, either.
 
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You have someone from the Titans on your fantasy football team? Did you pick last or what?
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My company has 4 people in it we play a winner take all fan duel every week. If you haven't played before, you get a salary cap of 60,000 and have to pick 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, DST, and Kicker. The top players at QB, RB, WR are around 9,000. (DST and Kickers are bottled up around 5,000, and TEs are 6,000 unless you want Gronk, leaving you 44,000 for 6 positions). If you take all the top guys you run out of money fast. If you play all middle tier guys, you lose. I think the game plan is to find someone that isn't valued that has a good week. As such, Marcus Mariota isn't always a bad play. He's had 3 weeks where he's had 4 total TDs. This week Mariota is worth 7,500. Tom Brady is worth 9,300. Basically Mariota would save you 1,800. Take 900 and put it to a RB and 900 for a WR. That takes you from Randall Cobb to Calvin Johnson and Shaun Draughn to DeAngelo Williams or Mark Ingram.
 
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curtis b.

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Heh, I actually like my fellow SEC fans and their programs. I mean, most of them, except for the idiots (as you've seen, we have our own idiots, as all fan bases do). Love being a part of a large, rich tradition that stretches so far across a beautiful part of our nation. Just as I'm sure many NU fans are proud to be part of the B10 with all its tradition.

I just love talking smack with them sometimes. VolNation's "Make Fun of [insert this week's opponent]" threads are some of the funniest and most entertaining of the season. :)
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Maybe after we win the big one (sec champ). But until then...NO.
 
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curtis b. said:
Making a point to nu here. No matter how much or how deep they hate the sec, their hate is nothing in comparison to the hate most TENNESSEE fans feel for the sec. When we play a team from the sec I not only wish to win, I pray we obliterate, decimate and annihilate them. I do not like any and do not respect most of the teams in the sec.
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Is that a Tennessee thing? Seems Vanderbilt gets disrespected by its SEC brethern as well.
 
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Alaskawildkat said:
Is that a Tennessee thing? Seems Vanderbilt gets disrespected by its SEC brethern as well.
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It's not related to respect. It is related to the fact that there is limited benefit to having the rest of your conference with a strong program. When the SEC went on its dominant run, Tennessee had multiple seasons in a row where they had one of the Top 5 hardest schedules in the country. That was of no benefit to Tennessee. With the division down and the SEC around the 3rd best conference, Tennessee has a more managable schedule.

Simply put, a weak conference means an easier schedule for the Vols and an opportunity for more wins. When other SEC programs are down, it is easier to recruit against them, so in the future there can be more wins.
 
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It's not related to respect. It is related to the fact that there is limited benefit to having the rest of your conference with a strong program. When the SEC went on its dominant run, Tennessee had multiple seasons in a row where they had one of the Top 5 hardest schedules in the country. That was of no benefit to Tennessee. With the division down and the SEC around the 3rd best conference, Tennessee has a more managable schedule.

Simply put, a weak conference means an easier schedule for the Vols and an opportunity for more wins. When other SEC programs are down, it is easier to recruit against them, so in the future there can be more wins.
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We have internal debates about that sort of thing on this board. I imagine that there are other posters who disagree with you. We have two very opinionated sides on this one.
 
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Alaskawildkat

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dagley07 said:
It's not related to respect. It is related to the fact that there is limited benefit to having the rest of your conference with a strong program. When the SEC went on its dominant run, Tennessee had multiple seasons in a row where they had one of the Top 5 hardest schedules in the country. That was of no benefit to Tennessee. With the division down and the SEC around the 3rd best conference, Tennessee has a more managable schedule.

Simply put, a weak conference means an easier schedule for the Vols and an opportunity for more wins. When other SEC programs are down, it is easier to recruit against them, so in the future there can be more wins.
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Thanks for the added perspective.
 
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