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IU playing Man vs Zone coverage

Raiola’s Passer rating vs Zone coverage, which IU plays most of the time, is 90%. Against Man to Man, only 44.5%. That’s obviously a drastic difference. How does IU not let him get into a good rhythm back there?

Coaches or others in the know here, do you see IU switching this up on Saturday to play more press/man coverage to take advantage of this stat? If so, how much can a predominantly zone team, like IU, change up in just a 2 week window to prep?

D1Baseball's top 100 program rankings...

D1Baseball just finished their top 100 program rankings. These are current PROGRAM rankings and don't take in consideration of previous seasons. Their ultimate goal here is to identify the programs in the best shape right now, with an eye toward the next five to 10 years. Here are the B1G rankings for those teams that made the list:

OSU - 91st

Iowa - 72nd

Washington - 70th

Illinois - 54th

Michigan - 44th

Nebraska - 43rd

Maryland - 42nd

Indiana - 41st

UCLA - 40th

Oregon - 38th

As expected, the warm weather schools led the way with the top 10 programs being: FSU - 10th, Texas - 9th, Miss. St. - 8th, Texas A&M - 7th, Virginia - 6th, Arkansas - 5th, Vanderbilt - 4th, Florida - 3rd, Tennessee - 2nd, and LSU - 1st. A team of interest is Louisville at 18th.
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I didn't think Trump was going to do Ava Maria a third time but then BAM 2nd encore!!!

Man, was that awesome or what? I love watching Trump sway side to side to Sinead and November Rain.

And Noem...wow...a masterful job. I'm sure the local animal shelters know who should emcee their next local public access telethon. "Do you want to hear another song, Papa?!"

I swear he slurred "let's make America gayer" right before the gay anthem YMCA came on. And, I mean...let's be honest: who doesn't love hearing YMCA in a crowded room full of medical emergencies?

"Play it again, boys! But never run up hill! Give me the Leonard Hallelujah, not the Buckley crap! When I look into your eyes....I see a love restrained..."

Dude just stood there. W a mic. And people waiting to ask him Qs. lol

This might actually move the meter. lol

Why everyone should think like a lawyer


Pretty interesting take on applying lawyer-think to business everyday life.

Scott Turow, an excellent legal fiction writer, described a legal education like this :

But legal education is not about specific cases or statutes. It is, as Mr Turow later understands, about processing a mountain of information and exercising judgment. It teaches how to infer rules from patterns, use analogies, anticipate what might happen next, accept ambiguity and be ready to question everything.
I mostly agree, especially the part about being ready to question everything. Particularly when group-think is involved. But should everybody think like a lawyer? Not at all. Not all lawyers think like a lawyer. Variety is good. But the independence lawyers bring to the table is important.

What makes a person likable??


I was just reading the above article and a couple stuck out that really makes a person unlikable to me:
  • They don't try to impress.
  • They don't preach
To be honest I kinda combine those two because I been around too many people who preach trying to impress others on how much they know. No matter the subject they know all about it and I immediately know that they don't know sh$t.
All the other things are important but those two are the two that stood out to me.

What we've learned about the Coachella incident

I wanted to put this in a seperate thread because it goes to what I said about all the criticim the SS and FBI got following the assasination attempt n Trump in PA. People were asking why they didn't stop the kid as a "suspicious person", and I maintained that he looked like a typical Trump rally attendee and people with guns are not exactly unusual at Trump rallies. For example, we know because of testimony to the Jan 6 Committee that the SS was aware of armed individuals outside the security perimeter when Trump was giving his speech.

We also know that Trump was upset that some of the people who weren't coming inside the perimeter were disauded by the fact they had to go thru the manometer r and presumably surrender their weapons. So he yelled at the SS demanding they stop screening people because "they're all my people and they don't want to hurt me". So that is the background to both the failure to detain the kid in PA, and the actual detainment of the guy in Coachella.

I'm not talking about criticism the agencies got regrading how they handled seeing him on the roof. I'm talking about video that showed him walking around (looking like any other rally attendee) where people claimed he should have been stopped for "acting suspicious"...


Now remember the post captioned "They're never going to stop" which linked to this twitter genius and his detailing of the "3rd attempt" "on Trump's life?And all the conclusions some people leapt to, like Harris/Dems were to blame and it's all a plot?

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It's almost damned if you do and damned if you don't. People heard about the guy being detained at Coachella, and then were up in arms that he was "released". It was all over the internet, people (who are geographically) challenged saying it was Kamala's fault due to rules she put in place while she was "ruining" SF. People saying it was CA's lax laws, and releasing felons.or that he was an FBI plant, so thy let him go.Just about every nutter conspiracy theory you could imagine... (Read the comments)

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So it turns out that the guy was a Sov Cit driving a vehicle with fake license plates. But the reason he was initially arrested was because he advised the officers that he had loaded guns in his trunk. He claims that that was common practice when he attended Trump rallies in NV, but that he was unaware that apparently things were different in CA. According to the interview below he was actually a Caucus Captain for the Trump campaign in NV. He also claims to know members of the family,including both Eric and Jr. Which if true would kind of make them look (more) silly, since they were on social media attacking the Admin for the lax security and basically claiming that Harris was "responsible"...

So watch the interview and judge for yourself whether this guy was a dangerous assasin, a nutjob, or both. Maybe had the PA incident not occurred this might have been handled differently. One thing you can be sure of, is that many of the same people who were critical of him being released initially, are now going to turn around and claim the SS and sherrif's were harassing a Trump supporter by arresting him in the first place. I'm not sure he's really much different than the average Trump rally attendee, but I do think it will be interesting to see the reaction from the Bobbsey Twins if he can prove he actually knows them...

Another clip from Newsnation less than 2 days from the first one...

Again check out the comments and you'll again see people blaaming Law Enforcement for the unwarranted harassment of an innocent (if wacky) Trump supporter. And of course both Harris and the Dems are to blame as well. Because...of course...


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Like I said. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
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Aliens Enemy Act of 1798

Tonight trump stated if he is elected, He will begin The Aliens Enemy Act of 1798. He would deport, attack, and hunt down to suspend the constitution and declare Marshall LAW. He would go after anyone who disagreed with him including me, Biden and the press. We ill become the Maga states of America. The Supreme Court gave him Immunity, we must stop him at the Ballot BOX. Project 2025 would get rid of the voting and civil rights of black and brown people. He would get rid of women's rights also. The sad thing is to hear all of the white people at the rally cheering for him. They do not realize. I heard someone say Rain falls on us all. He may attack me now, but what's to say he will attack you later?

Senate Leadership Fund (GOP) internals on key Senate races

Apologies for starting a seperate thread, but this doesn't really fit in with the Harris/Trump thread. I know DBM is a fan of "leaked" internals, so I thought it might be interesting to some to see what the organization charged with capturing the Senate for the GOP is seeing in their internal polling. It tracks from Aug to Oct, so you can see the shift which they view either negatively or positively how the race has evolved...

This might be interesting to fellow political junkies like myself because they don't just give the raw numbers. They actually add an analysis of what in their view has happened and why. There is one huge surprise (in addition to the SLF's own internal polling showing Brown up 6 in Ohio) and that is the race in Texas. Notice how they blame Cruz's problems on being outspent and facing a barrage of ads from Allred...

It's a little hard to read since trying to paste tables is not in my wheelhouse.

TEXAS SLF Internal Poll/The Tarrance GroupOct Mid-SeptCruz Fav/Unfav: 49/48 49/47Allred Fav/Unfav: 48/36 40/28Generic Senate Ballot | GOP vs. DEM: 52/43 49/45Pres Ballot | Trump vs Harris/Biden: 50/45 50/46Senate Ballot | Cruz/Allred: 48/47 47/44

TEXAS POLLING NOTES

"Beginning in early August, Colin Allred has been heavily outspending Ted Cruz on TV, closingup the multicandidate ballot to a single point. GOP outside groups (including a dedicated Cruzsuper PAC) joined the fray in late September and narrowed Allred’s spending advantage. We are carefully monitoring additional media placements and will have fresh polling numbers here next week..."


The main takeaway from a Dem standpoint is that in one month (Sept) until Oct they show the race going from 47-44 Cruz, to now showing Cruz only up 48-47. This is a race where favorability could tell the tale because Cruz is at 49-48 compared to Allred's 48-36.

This is a 5 page memo going into great depth about the numbers in all the contested Senate races...They weren't polling Nebraska previously, but the memo mentions that they are in the process of doing so because Fischer's issues seem to have crept up on them.The largets lead they show for Pubs in states that will decide the Senate is Tester down 4 to Sheehy the non-native Montanan who has told a variety of stories about how he got shot in a parking lot at a National Park...

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