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FBS tiers
Introduction Ranking college football teams is hard. There are numerous reasons for that. However, it boils down to too few datapoints. There are 136 teams in FBS and during the regular season each team only plays 12 games. The opponents are comparable, teams also play one (sometimes two) FCS team. Even within FBS there are…
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Shaka Smart All-Stars
In 2011? an ESPN article talked about how then hottest college basketball coach prospect Shaka Smart played in an all white AND an all black basketball league at the same time. Like Shaka Smart a lot of cfb coaches are ethnic ambiguous. Iam not going to try and figure out who is what. I’ll merely…
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Grading CFB recurring ads
Is this review sorted in any way? NO. Is this review consistent in any way? Also NO. Is this review the absolute truth? YES. Woke up feeling the cheesiest , Coach! (Cheez-It) A classic. Aways brings a smile to my face. I woke up feeling the cheesiest Coach! 10/10 Modelo Recruiter (Modelo) Every week it…
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The Ivory Tower of Cards
What happens when the castle of cards collapse? Who will be punished when bankruptcies, mass firings and mass closures across the nation happen? What impact would a widespread collapse of an industry have on the economy? On the local communities? On you, a random person on the street? The average person might know of the…
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The researcher in the lab progression in outdated memes
LVL 1: 1st year undergrad LVL 2: Experienced undergrad LVL 3: Fresh grad student LVL 4: Grad student LVL 5: Grad student about to defend LVL 6: Graduate student post graduation LVL 7: 1st year postdoc LVL 8: Year X postdoc LVL 9: 1st semester of Assistant Professor Tenure-track LVL 10: Associate Professor LVL 11:…
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A totally accurate ranking of bookmarks
The advent of e-readers and widespread adoption of audiobooks, the need for bookmarks has diminished. However, you will always need one whenever you get your hands on a physical book. Other developments – booktok, bookstagram and things of the genre – have introduced a number of wild, bizarre and impractical bookmarks that look cool. With…
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Deckbuilding in a new TCG
Trading card games (TCGs) have been a big part of my free time for a long time. Pokémon TCG, however, has been a blind spot on my experience. The new Pokémon TCG Pocket (what a mouthful) is free-to-play and seemed like a good opportunity to learn. After the tutorials that taught me the basics of…
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Analysis of the US men’s soccer talent development
Whenever the US Men’s Soccer National Team (USMNT) underperforms, the reactions highlight two things. The first is the disproportional expectations to what is historically a perennial World Cup outfit. The second is the impact of the athletics system on the professional performance. While the appropriateness of the expectations can be interesting to ponder, talent development…
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Want to
“Sports are healthy” is a myth that persists in the public’s mind. That is barely true for the average person. It is definitely not true for performance sports. On the contrary, sacrificing your body is part and parcel of the process. More importantly they will choose to long term injury to achieve short term glory.…
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Copa America USA as College Football
I want to enjoy this Copa America even though there are many things I hate about it. Terrible fields with terrible grass on top of concrete, a field that is at the minimum size, wildly incompetent VAR decisions, Alexis Lalas saying the dumbest thing possible at any given moment, AAAAAAHHHHH *DEEP BREATH* I found the…
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