LouisEly
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I'd be willing to bet that's the norm when a coach is fired in-season now, and that's due to the portal window. If you are going to bring anyone in from the portal you need to have a coach in place ASAP. And kids are going to bail if they don't know who the coach is going to be. Between the first signing date for recruits in December and the portal window you can't have a prolonged coaching search anymore. And I don't think there's anyone in the NFL who wants to go to the circus that is college football right now.
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The best Northwestern has done in the NIL era is 8-5 in 2023; they played two ranked teams and lost both games. They went 4-8 the next year and are 1-2 so far this year. TCU has oil money and Jesus money coming out of their rear ends.
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That's true - no QB recruit in 2020. I thought they had a good OL class in 2021 and they did on paper - Rucci, Mahlman, Benzschawel. But it was only three players, Rucci didn't want to wait his turn so he took advantage of the portal, and Benzschawel was severely over-rated. He's a redshirt SR now and hasn't been able to earn a starting job, and that says something right now. So, in three years (2021-2023) Chryst brought in a total of 6 OL - Rucci, Mahlman, Benzschawel, Brunner, Barrett Nelson, and Durand. Six OL in three years... no wonder their OL is a disaster. And you can't fix that in the portal when you have to buy a starting and a backup QB every year. I don't think that PC was a bad hire. His promotion of Joe Rudolph to OC and then replacing him with Bobby Engram was the death knell. That, and NIL.
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The #1 way that you beat yourself is by trying to do too much. While I appreciate Danny O'Neil's level of effort, by trying to do too much he hurt his team badly today. Bad INT, bad sacks, gave Maryland more yardage than he generated for UW. Thanks, Chryst, for your half-assing of recruiting the last two years you were here and for all of the quality QBs, OL, TEs, and DL you left behind (which I believe is a total of two two players - Mahlman and Brunner). When you don't have $40M in NIL to spend on a team you can't buy an entire offense and half of a defense to get you a halfway decent team.
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I don't agree with this. The schools that people use as examples have benefited from easy schedules. Indiana got torched in the two games last year that they played against good teams. They weren't that good. Arizona State lost to Cincinnati last year and this year they lost at Mississippi State where their starting QB went 10-22 for 82 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs. UWs backup QB did that against Alabama. Deion brought his own luggage. He hasn't beaten a good team yet and started this season 1-2. If by "boosters" you mean Larry Ellison shelling out $10M for the #1 QB recruit in the country at the behest of his sugar baby, or Phil Knight shelling out $40M to fund his alma matter, yes, but UW doesn't have any of those boosters.
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Well, UW hasn't lost at home to Tulsa, so things could be worse. I hope that OSU allows Gundy to finish the season. He's been there long enough and given enough to that program to have earned that right. Maybe like Chryst he's just had enough of what college football has become and is half-arsing it.
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Any thought to having Joey O be defensive replacement SS?
LouisEly replied to BigWoo53's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
If Priester or any other ground ball pitcher is starting you can bet that Ortiz will be starting as well. When you have a ground ball pitcher starting you put your best defensive SS in the game. -
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Including Anthony Rendon.
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When you have a lot of money in Southern California, life can be really, really enjoyable.
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Lose some velocity, pick up a cutter. Woody has transformed himself marvelously.
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I did that to a kid my very first tee-ball practice. Right between the eyes, busted him open. Never wanted to pitch after that. A few years later when I was 11 or 12 my coach asked me to because we had no other pitchers available. Was not comfortable at all the first inning (walked the first five batters). Ended up throwing a complete game with 9 Ks in 5 innings.
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Another 4+ run inning. They sure learned how to pour it on this year.
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Have to do that during the regular season. Fine line between starters going too long and burning out the bullpen. Have to manage for the marathon before getting to the sprint at the finish. Lot more off days in the playoffs where the bullpen will be rested. Starters rarely go more than 2x through the lineup.
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Here's his OPS-A by inning: 1st: .550 2nd: .608 3rd: .693 4th: .641 5th: .856 By pitch count: 1-25: .556 26-50: .679 51-75: .706 76-100: .829 His issues have come when they have tried to stretch him into the 6th inning. In the playoffs there will be no need for that. He'll be perfectly fine as a starter in the playoffs who will go 2x through the lineup (like just about every starter in the playoffs): 1st PA: .658 2nd PA: .653 3rd PA: .845
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Stood next to him in an elevator in Cedars Sinai about 20 years ago
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With Quintana's calf injury, they may need Patrick for a spot start or at least long relief outing.
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Never fear, Vaughn is here!
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Angels can hit HRs, but that's about it. 3rd to last in OBP. Solo HRs rarely hurt you.
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I feel pretty confident saying that come playoffs, Perkins will be nothing more than a PR/late inning defensive replacement.
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Please explain how you have made it this far in life without those two things.
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As someone who works in the marketing field, this is something that is easily solved. For several years now, there has been a saying that "6 (seconds) is the new 60 (seconds)". People just don't have the attention span for long commercials, and half of people watching the game at home are going to the bathroom, getting a beer or a snack, checking their phone, etc. Hell, some bars play music during the commercials. It would be really, really easy to make 6-second commercials to play on TV between plays. The networks can get just as much ad money (perhaps even more), and advertisers are going to get more eyes and ears on those commercials than having 2:30 commercial breaks when they know and have known for years that half of the audience is doing something else during commercials. They need to take a cue from baseball. Pick up the pace.
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Since coming back off of the IL, Bauers has a .969 OPS and a 1.204 OPS over the last 6 games. Ride the hot hand.
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My family has had season tickets in section H for 55 years. For most of the last 20 years I've lived outside of WI, so I'm lucky if I get to one game a year. Thus the novelty is still there for me and I enjoy going to the games, win or lose. It's the totality of the experience - going back to Madison, walking with the crowd to the game, going to a bar on Regent or Brats before the game, hitting the bookstore and State Street before or after the game, dinner up by the square afterwards. For me, it's about much more than the game. Maybe if I went five times a year I might feel differently. Just curious, other than winning, what would make you feel differently? Now that it's legal to pay players, and they're in a conference with much deeper pockets in Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State, they're very unlikely to finish in the top four and go to the conference championship game and/or the Rose Bowl. Barring a ridiculously easy schedule fluke I think that 9-3 is the best they are going to be moving forward regardless of who is the coach.
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Absolutely. The Big Ten has by far the biggest TV deal and each Big Ten legacy team is getting $70M/year from TV revenue. College athletes are initially going to get $20M/year for their share, so they can afford any coach they want to.
