Recent content by champs99and04

If I had to guess, the IQ of the criminal is generally more predictive of his ability to evade arrest than is the quality of the security/surveillance system. Doesn't necessarily mean there shouldn't have been more cameras, but my impression is that the killer targeted this building...

While this may be true based on where players' were rated coming out of high school, I don't think it means much. It can be difficult to project what a 16 or 17 year old prospect is going to look like at 20 or 21, and that uncertainty has traditionally benefitted smaller schools with smaller...

I can follow his logic if his point is that the college football playoff shouldn't be modeled after March Madness. I'd actually agree with him there. They are two very different sports with much different levels of variance on a game to game basis. Your average 14-seed might beat the 3-seed...

The top five isn't actually all that disastrous. Since the new league's inaugural season in 2013-14, it's typically had between four and six top 50 teams. Having only two or three in the top 25 wasn't all that unusual either. But usually there were at least a couple others right on the cusp...

No. The best win in college football this year is Indiana beating Ohio State. The second best win is either Indiana winning at Oregon or Texas A&M winning at Notre Dame. The only reason most people think otherwise is because of the SEC/Georgia mystique, which is still greatly contributing to...

They did? I count one additional top 25 wins and some comparable ones after that (Notre Dame actually beat some pretty good teams but didn't get credit for it because they beat them so bad). I'll grant you that beating teams like LSU, Auburn, and South Carolina is more impressive than beating...

Which four top 25 teams did Bama beat?

I'm no Irish fan, but Notre Dame is clearly a better football team than Alabama. Clearly. Especially based on how they're playing right now. Bama lost to a pedestrian Oklahoma team at home and was very fortunate to beat Auburn. "You can't punish a team for playing in the conference...

The biggest issue for UConn here isn't that the league is bad. NET is designed to be a schedule-independent metric, or at least to the extent it's possible. This is why Gonzaga is always a high seed despite playing a poor conference schedule. Same with Houston when it was in the AAC, Duke...

I think you and @HW611 are cutting Cooley too much slack here. It's not 2018 anymore. New coaches are almost always tasked with replacing an entire roster upon arrival, and most of the good ones have no trouble finding ways to compete immediately. For Georgetown to still be losing to teams...

Why do you say that? Obviously the more data it collects, the more reliable it is, but it tends to be pretty accurate, at least as a grouping mechanism (which is also what NET is), even this early in the season. Unfortunately, with conference play fast approaching, the league's fate is already...

I'm a Big East guy, but boy, that's ugly - and not surprising given how ugly the OOC results have been. This is comparable to some of the AAC years.

People were trying to run Mora out of town just a couple weeks ago, lol.

I'm not saying betting a lot of money makes you an addict. But having a lot of money certainly does not preclude you from it, and in many cases it puts you at higher risk. This is especially true for successful businessmen and investors who are used to profiting off of everything they do - or...

People who don't understand how someone with a lot of money could gamble don't understand addiction. If anything, money makes it worse. Ask Floyd Mayweather, Dave Portnoy, etc. Also - the leap from "legal gambling" or "recreational gambling" to "illegal gambling" isn't as large as most...