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Gardening days are past me now – we’ve embraced maintenance free condo living. But I avidly support other local gardeners through our farmer’s market. Love reading about the adventures, though.
Pepper discussion brings back memories – suite mate of mine at Lee dorm and I made many a batch of chili on our “super secret and highly illegal hot plates”. We typically stuck to cayenne and habañero, and that was plenty of punch for me. We discovered hot-plate chinese food and once made some chili with left over tien tsin peppers, but they seemed pretty much like cayennes so we never tried it again…
Dudes in Alpha’s post are just bat-sh*t crazy….
^Agreed. When you have to spell it out for people, you’re doing it for a reason…
I will miss the old man. He wasn’t perfect for TV, didn’t have the “look” that they like, and he had his slight impediment. But that aspect has always been overblown. I can’t remember a single time listening to him when I didn’t understand every word he said. Bill Walton is almost certifiably crazy, and Bob Knight’s an ass – but I’ll take either of them any day on the basis of their knowledge of the game alone. I like my analysts to know more than me, so that they can teach me something during the game. I guess I have a highly acquired taste for the knowledgable eccentrics…
Like all of us, Lou isn’t perfect. I will miss the viewpoint and color provided by a man who knows more about football than almost anybody. I hope he lands somewhere where he can have some fun. Wherever it is, they’ll be lucky to have him. Good luck to Coach.
There have always been draft busts, some bigger than others (hello, Sam Bowie). But with today’s rules, at least from the outside, it’s a crap shoot. Having three years would provide MUCH for data for proper analysis, and NBA owners would be able to hold their draft analysts accountable at a whole new level.
The junior rule would definitely lift all boats, since the primary impact would be fewer seats available, year over year, at the elite programs.
^firmly on display last night: Rick is right, K took a BIG gamble on Grayson last night and it paid off BIG. Few coaches would have that…..fortitude. Mike coached his ass off last night, even on the ladder he looked exhausted.
Not sure how to paint the right picture for me…I pulled REALLY hard for Wiscy last night, mainly for the reasons that Beej has previously posted and (this may get some negative comments going) I really like Bo.
Don’t like it when Duke wins, but nowhere near UNX level hatred. And oddly, I CAN and DO actively support any other ACC schools. Just can’t do it for the blues. Maybe in another ten years I’ll be much wiser, I’ll grow as a person, cast aside my preconceived biases. Maybe you can teach a 50-year old dog a new trick?
Hey, you REALLY old guys…any chance of that happening?
In a lengthy meeting now, bored out of my mind. Those of you who saw the goal tending call, was it legit?
Damn, Beej, just watched the replay again closely. Not sure my “two steps inside Whit’s” estimate is right. Dude was out there.
That shot was what, maybe 35 feet out?
Two steps inside Whittenburg’s? Was watching with no sound, learned from Twitter that the kid who hit the shot was the coach’s son. Fantastic March Madness moment!
Sooooooo, there’s this:
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE. Only three games down and 0.27% (!!!) of brackets remain perfect on the http://t.co/pHskMClGST Bracket Challenge.
— CBS Sports CBB (@CBSSportsCBB) March 19, 2015
Seriously, I have to wonder is somebody on the committee seriously trolling U*NC? This is amazingly funny.
Here’s what Jay Coleman, one of the architects of “Dance Card” tweeted last evening:
#DanceCard missed Boise St., Dayton, UCLA. No prob w/first 2: bracketed our cut line & are in First 4, but UCLA bid bucked 1428-to-1 odds
— Jay Coleman (@AnalyticsProf) March 16, 2015
Flawless, as always. Have to agree that Temple may have the first legitimate gripe I’ve seen in some time.
I can’t believe I’m going to be pulling for Notre Dame in a sports competition. It’s like I’m in some weird, alternate universe…
Yes, the point is that both defenders did EXACTLY the same thing. Neither was perfectly set, both braced their arms for impact. One was called a foul, the other wasn’t. In both cases, to the benefit of the ACC blue team.
This has turned into Everybody Hates Jamie Luckie.
Love the fact that he’s calling this game – it means he won’t be calling the 2:00 game. OR the 7:00 one.
*EDIT: I should have put “2:00” game in quotes, LOL.
Recent games suggest a pattern of improvement (BC notwithstanding) and give me hope for a close, well fought contest. That’s my hope, that we’ll maintain enough focus to put ourselves in position to make a run at winning near the end of the game. I like the tightness and success of the new, more limited rotation, but I worry a little about it from the prospect of multiple games / weekend.
The development of Cat, and the implications of that development for the rest of the team, have been an absolute joy to watch unfold.
In the end, what I’d like to see most is a game that we either win or lose, and don’t have taken away by external elements. We’re due that opportunity.
Go pack!
What galls me the most is the News and Observer saying that he would never allow anything he knew to be untrue to be printed. What BS.
This. I was at our alma mater (in some capacity) from 1982-1991, and I saw firsthand the orchestrated assassination. The statement you paraphrase from the article is sickening. A more accurate statement would be “Claude would never print something that he didn’t believe to be true or didn’t want to be true.” He never hesitated to sensationalize exaggerations, rumors and outright lies, no matter how questionable the source. He never hesitated to bury or not print at all anything even remotely positive.
The portrait painted by the staff writer is nothing more than a posthumous attempt to highlight Sitton’s conquests while ignoring the ignominy of his methods, to color the man at a higher moral or ethical level than he ever attained.
As the saying goes, I try not to speak ill of the dead, but those of us who were in Raleigh at the time and lived through this know of what we speak. There are many things that our schizophrenic fan base can over-inflate and exaggerate, and I am occasionally guilty of that myself. This is not one of them.
This man was an ethical wasteland, an ego-driven destroyer, and an elitist, filled beyond mortal capacity with self-assured righteousness. He was the worst of the worst, an absolute piece of wind-driven filth, and I don’t give a f*ck who get pissed off because I said it.
That’s as bad as I’ve ever seen. If I’m coach Chambers, I’m risking another $10k in the press conference.
Absolutely amazing stuff, Jiggs. Fun to read, fun to digest – first read was a couple of hours ago, and I’m still digesting this. Kinda like listening to Robin Williams do standup – every time you repeat it, you learn something new…seriously, thanks.
I believe in the every 32 years formula.
^I like the way you think…
Then there’s his penchant to immediately shoot – no matter where he is – on offense. Score, time, possession – nothing matters, just jack it up.
There is this. Apparently, I had created a mental block, erasing a huge trove of painful memories from my little brain. Thanks for dredging that back up….
We’ll need aggressive but patient KW; hope he’s the one who shows…
IMO it’s all about match-ups. KW will be needed against the ‘Cuse zone, so I expect to see more minutes. Somebody will have to pop to the middle and be able to hit that mid-range jumper to collapse the zone away from our shooters. KW is at his best (whether he thinks so or not) at exactly that.
Count me in the club who think that our offense goes as #1 goes.
