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Football could be rectified pretty easily by reducing the number of scholarships and/or forcing schools to guarantee that each player gets a four-year deal. Basketball is a little harder since you really only need one or two elite guys to have a Final Four team and there are only a handful of them every year.

Doesn't this pretty much apply to NCAA football and basketball as well? Heck, 90% of college football games have ridiculously high spreads and aren't competitive at all and you go into every season knowing that OSU, Clemson, and whichever SEC team makes the playoff are about the only 3 teams with a chance to win it all. Yeah, it is why I don't follow much of either of those sports. Badgers are about it for me. I can't even remember watching the National Championship the past couple of seasons. It just is strange to me that a lot of these leagues like the NBA/NCAA have such a strong following with the way it is set up. I mean if you are not a fan of those top teams, why bother? Re: College Depending on the year, just making the tournament is a success for a lot of teams. Similarly, winning a game or two is a big deal for others. Obviously, for a handful, anything other than a Final Four or a title is a waste of time. If you are a UW or Marquette fan and think it's a waste of time to cheer unless they win it all, you might as well read books instead of watching games. Re: NBA I think you are right and this is why ratings are down. There are only a handful of teams with realistic chances of getting to the finals. Thankfully the Bucks are one of them but if they were an 8th seed or something I would probably start watching come playoffs just hoping they could win a few games. As it stands, they have the best player in the world and win or lose he typically does something I haven't seen before on a basketball court. He is that good. Right now he is arguably the best offensive and defensive player in the league (apologies to James Harden but I did say "arguably") and the bizarre thing is that he has room to grow. I am genuinely curious to see if he can reach his ceiling. If he does he might be the best athlete the state has ever seen. He might be even if he doesn't.

49ers might really regret not taking that tie a few weeks ago.

I hate the idea as well, but was just looking for high-priced guys that crappy teams may be looking to offload. Interesting thought. "We will take your high priced guy off your hands but in order to do so we will also require a prospect".

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Anybody watching Watchmen? It's a trip.

Man, it's like the Red Wedding.

This has been an insane run. 16 of their last 17.

Agreed, but I also think that justifiably or not Shaw was rattled by them bringing in Moustakas in 2018 and never really regained his confidence. Maybe but on the other hand if just the threat of competition makes you sink that badly...

Stearns: "We intend on being competitive once again next year. We think we have a quality team and will continue to complement and add to that team throughout the rest of the offseason. We've got a lot of offseason left."

This is like trusting Gery Woelful to break legit Bucks news. I'll believe this when Stearns says it.

I had a similar thought but I looked at the box score and it was already 24 - 7 when the first one occurred which was a 4th and 8 play. So if game goes as it had been they probably don't make it and OSU gets the ball in roughly the same spot.

Unfortunately, Justin Fields has better secondary moves other than back pedal and throw off your back foot so you'll likely need some sort of spy or be damn confident that your rushers can not only get pressure but maintain their lanes. Yeah, it's bleak. Really think the only hope is if UW wins the turnover battle by like 3.

Yes.

Yes, and this is also how teams can quickly drop to the bottom of the standings and stay there for prolonged periods of time.

I think they need some other stuff to happen in order for them to gain 10+ games in the standings.

It's December 2nd.

Reds must think (hope) their young guys are going to take a big step forward. Votto's done, IMO.

Moose, Pomeranz, and Grandal all get four year deals.

Directly from the article: Because of the increase in demand, the cost of a tree has also risen. It pays to read beyond the headline. Yes I saw that it still doesn't change the fact that the headline is just completely misleading and mostly just click bait marketing. How is this misleading? Millennials driving up cost of Christmas trees Also, that wasn't your original argument.

I think they can do that with the Wildcat but not with Coan. Or maybe that's what you meant.

Thought this would be a good game for its own thread. OSU is currently a -17.5 point favorite. To me, the key on defense is getting a pass rush. The Minnesota QB was under constant duress last week and made a bunch of throws off his back foot (in addition to eating turf a number of times). You can really mask mediocre defensive backs by putting pressure on a QB. I really don't see any other way to stop OSU's skill players.

Caught up on some movies while traveling the past week.. Yesterday A power outage causes a dude to get whacked by a bus. When he wakes up in the hospital, he is the only person on earth that remembers The Beatles. Given he is a musician, he takes it upon himself to start writing and recording all the Beatles songs he can remember. Pop stardum ensues. Cute rom-com from Danny Boyle. Rocketman Mentioned earlier in the thread. A biopic about Elton John. His parents sucked pretty bad. There was one sex scene which was about as tame as a Lifetime movie. Movie as a whole felt like it was lifted from a Broadway musical as there are interludes where characters break into song. I like movies where someone overcomes demons to find happiness even if it's a bit sappy and stretches the truth (Elton was not clean and sober when he shot the video for I'm Still Standing). Ad Astra I was totally into this one and then my plane landed. Gah. The Irishman Scorcese's latest about an Irish hitman working for the mob in NYC. General consensus is that it's too long and I agree that it could shave 45 min at least and still get the point across. I also thought they should have used younger actors for the periods where DiNiro was supposed to be a young man. The CGI made him look younger but his body movements were still that of a 75 year old dude. Overall I really liked it though. I thought Joe Pesci gave the best performance of the heavyweights.