Tag: Sports
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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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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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It is ok to not love the sport
Football or soccer is the game of billions. It is at its core, a simple game that everyone can access. It should always preserve and expand that identity. In the past few years, the sport and its identity have been under attack. It’s been threatened from every side. Some want to keep women out of…
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Best CFB job rank
Simple question: which job is better? Would you rather coach at Michigan State or Mississippi State? Tennessee or Texas? Texas or Texas State? How about Texas Christian TCU? There’s no way to create a absolute list that will satisfy everyone. This is not an attempt to create that. There are too many personal values that…
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