HelenaHandBasket
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The portal.I respect your analysis, so I'd like to know what differences there are between seeking to play at a higher level and seeking to play at a higher level.
The portal.I respect your analysis, so I'd like to know what differences there are between seeking to play at a higher level and seeking to play at a higher level.
We will just have to agree to disagree...because you are just plain wrong on this.Exactly the conventional thinking. Unconventional thinking could be to tell the departing that he has two weeks (or whatever timeframe works) and you're going to try to find a replacement in the interim. No guarantees of a scholarship or position on depth chart if he wants to return. It would take some more nimble management of moving parts than coaches are probably used to.
It's definitely way easier to have a policy that if you enter the portal for any amount of time, you are dead to the program. But it might not be the most forward-thinking way to make the program the best it can be.
Cool. I can handle being wrong. Just trying to think of possible ways to get an advantage that might not be the way things have always been done given that everything else in CFB isn't done the way it's always been done.We will just have to agree to disagree...because you are just plain wrong on this.
I just don't think it would be an overall positive.Cool. I can handle being wrong. Just trying to think of possible ways to get an advantage that might not be the way things have always been done given that everything else in CFB isn't done the way it's always been done.
Fair enough. Back to the drawing board. I still like the idea of trying to get FBS talent that would otherwise sit the bench for a couple years at those schools. Everyone has read my ramblings on that. IDK, I'm just not super stoked about a quarter century+ between NCs and a decade between BCS championships. There have to be opportunities out there now that everything has changed.I just don't think it would be an overall positive.
There is, and UM is taking advantage.Fair enough. Back to the drawing board. I still like the idea of trying to get FBS talent that would otherwise sit the bench for a couple years at those schools. Everyone has read my ramblings on that. IDK, I'm just not super stoked about a quarter century+ between NCs and a decade between BCS championships. There have to be opportunities out there now that everything has changed.
You are right. UM has used the portal wisely and to their advantage. And lost fewer players to the Portal than most everyone else, especially MSU.There is, and UM is taking advantage.
There is, and UM is taking advantage.
Attracting a high number of good players and not losing hardly any good players.What are they doing differently other than working the portal from one end like every other team?
Mr. Condescending, living-up once again to that monikerWe will just have to agree to disagree...because you are just plain wrong on this.
In this conversation with CDA it was sarcasm, because I know he gets it.Mr. Condescending, living-up once again to that moniker
HHH is not always my favorite, but I have never considered him condescending. Funny comment coming from you.Mr. Condescending, living-up once again to that moniker
We didn't get a phone at the ranch house where I grew up until I was about 25. A party line, or any line, would have been great.A long, long time ago, one set of grandparents had no phone, the other had a 'party line' number. I never knew how many people were on the party line' for that particular number, but it was a few. Each household had a ring pattern like Morse Code. Let's say two long rings and a short would be your number, hence, your call, so pick up and talk to whomever called you. Downside was anybody else could listen in.
EGriz is like a party line, anybody can read what is written. Your 'inside jokes' are there for ALL to read, and understand or misunderstand as they will. If a reader thinks the style is condescending, it is. One can improve his vocabulary, not post, or go to a Private Message. No need to get huffy.
Whatever, Mr. C.In this conversation with CDA it was sarcasm, because I know he gets it.
Wasn’t their life expectancy like 40 also? You were tuff or you died. Not the case today.Yeah, you grew up with it, so it was the norm. It's amazing with what was just 'normal' everyday stuff. Things you take for granted nowadays, phone, indoor plumbing, and the like, were not there, but you or I never thought about it.
A trip to the outhouse in -20F or colder weather brought up the question, 'how fast can you pinch a loaf?' Can't wait for Spring. Planning ahead was key. Five gallon bucket(with lid)saved a lot of discomfort, and stink.
People living in the late 19th or early 20th century, were a relative tough lot. Never knew what they were 'missing.'
They were so tuff that they measured tuffness by how many BMs snapped off on their way out on account of the cold. Now, that’s TUFF. We should go back to that model. Whole world’s gone mad.Wasn’t their life expectancy like 40 also? You were tuff or you died. Not the case today.
A Northern coach knows him.Havre might take him. From the Temple of Philadelphia to the crown jewel of the Hi-Line.