Had my Christmas beer last night
Sweet Baby Jesus -peanut butter porter

It was great just like my kids I could share it with

3.1” on the board in Ringoes, was expecting an inch at most

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Knight Shift said:

Made it to EWR. People forgot how to drive in light snow. People on Turnpike in left lane going 45 mph. 😂

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accumulating snow should be over there by 7:30 am - good luck!

Salvi's Headband said:

Also understand that the number is "total value. " We will be paid much less than 3 mil a year.

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Has anyone seen the contract? I have seen multiple postings. Some saying 5 year 30 million with a 5 year option. Some saying total value 10 year 30 million. The Asbury park article posted above, poorly written and vague, states as you say the 10 year option.

I looked on the Rutgers website and can’t find the contract. It’s odd to post 10 year value when the option hasn’t been triggered.

MadRU said:

Still snowing in Union County

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yep, you likely have another 1/4" to go (especially for eastern Union).

GoodOl'Rutgers said:

I think Salvi has you on this one.

So how much do they pay for the first 5 years.. if they do not extend another 5? Seems like it is back-loaded. I do not like the idea of big promised money for the extension if the vendor has all the control. That is, there is no upside if Rutgers out-performs during teh first 5 years.. the pay rate for teh second 5 years is set in stone. And if Rutgers under-performs, then the vendor can drop us or renegotiate much lower.

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Also understand that the number is "total value. " We will be paid much less than 3 mil a year.

Still snowing in Union County

Sweet Peas Corner said:

Snow stopped in Flemington at 6am. Moons out. Have maybe 2 inches on the grass and much less on pavements. Maybe a 1/2 inch in spots, Don't know the amount in Hillsborough where all my accounts are but going to head out soon. May have to just shovel walks for some elderly accounts and commercial accounts are closed. We'll see...may scrape the lots if itdoesn't melt away by Monday.

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Way less on paved surfaces everywhere except well NW where it was below 32F the whole storm.

Snow stopped in Flemington at 6am. Moons out. Have maybe 2 inches on the grass and much less on pavements. Maybe a 1/2 inch in spots, Don't know the amount in Hillsborough where all my accounts are but going to head out soon. May have to just shovel walks for some elderly accounts and commercial accounts are closed. We'll see...may scrape the lots if itdoesn't melt away by Monday.

Selected NWS reports, i.e., only from stations reporting after about 1 am (except for SNJ where the snow ended earlier), since any reports before that would be incomplete. A general 2-4" for the advisory counties (everything N of 276/195 in PA/NJ, except for Monmouth and Middlesex) and for Middlesex too.

Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
514 AM EST Sat Dec 21 2024

...UPDATED SNOWFALL REPORTS AS OF 5 AM...

Location Amount Time/Date Provider

...New Jersey...

...Burlington County...
Columbus 2.0 in 0245 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter
Mount Holly WFO 1.6 in 0500 AM 12/21 Official NWS Obs

...Gloucester County...
Washington Twp 1.3 in 1005 PM 12/20 Trained Spotter
Mantua 1.0 in 0402 AM 12/21 Public

...Hunterdon County...
Clinton 3.8 in 0345 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter
Whitehouse Station 3.1 in 0340 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Mercer County...
Trenton Mercer Airport 2.3 in 1200 AM 12/21 ASOS
1 N Hamilton Square 1.9 in 0100 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Middlesex County...
North Brunswick 2.4 in 0211 AM 12/21 Public
Piscataway 2.2 in 0145 AM 12/21 Public
South River 0.8 in 0330 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Monmouth County...
Freehold 2.0 in 0430 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Morris County...
Butler 3.7 in 0504 AM 12/21 Public

...Somerset County...
Warren 3.0 in 0500 AM 12/21 Public

...Sussex County...
Sparta 4.5 in 0445 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Pennsylvania...

...Bucks County...
1 ESE Fricks 3.3 in 0430 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter
Furlong 3.1 in 1230 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter
Warminster 3.1 in 0500 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Lehigh County...
1 SSW Ancient Oaks 4.1 in 1245 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Monroe County...
Coolbaugh Twp 3.5 in 0300 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Montgomery County...
Horsham 3.3 in 1145 PM 12/20 Public
Trappe 1.8 in 0330 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

...Northampton County...
Nazareth 4.6 in 0500 AM 12/21 Public
Martins Creek 3.4 in 0230 AM 12/21 CO-OP Observer
North Catasauqua 2.8 in 0510 AM 12/21 Trained Spotter

biochemist01 said:

Agree Bill. Soldano is pinning guys like crazy. However, losing to average guys is still the big problem. Let's see how Midlands goes and how it goes against higher ranked guys. I see the pinning but I also see giving up the leg to get into his comfort spot and I worry that top 20 guys are going to exploit that as usual.

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Great assessment. I 100% agree with you. Pinning the average shnook is not really a big feat. If he pins some top fifteen guys like that then we know he's on track to become an all american. Like you said and others he is very hot and cold and big time wrestlers are stronger and have figured him out. It's like Gravina. In the beginning he would hit that slide by and beat top tier talent. As soon as everybody figured he was a one trick pony his wrestling got neutralized. He later started struggling with mid level wrestlers.

Zak57 said:

Have to disagree. He could be a priority but as always the price has to be right.

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I agree. Let’s say Pete is a priority and Cohen is also a huge Mets fan. He is also a pretty smart guy.
This could be playing out in a way where they are ok with Pete going out there to shop for his 1 big career payday. And all along letting Pete set his own market and then come in as good guys with an offer that is a little better.
I doubt that they are just sitting there and not in contact with Boras every day.
It makes too much sense for both Pete and the Met’s to make this happen. Steve will give him the best deal or match his best offer. Pete at 1B/DH and Vientos at 3B is what the Met’s need for the next 3-5 years. Pete makes a ton of money off the field, he ends up in the Met’s HOF and number retired and a favorite Met forever.
Also, for Pete, with Soto on the team and the lineup Nimmo, Soto, Lindor, Pete, Vientos- dude is going to have guys on base and protection behind him that he may not have somewhere else.

RocktheRac said:

He said he has to up the totals from what the map was showing.

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Maybe he's hitting the sauce, because they're replaying his 10 pm forecast right now and he's just talking about minor accumulations overnight with the "big story" being the coming cold air. Never said anything about more than 2" of snow, except for areas close to the Delaware River, as per his graphic, which did not change from 7 pm to 10 pm (the one I posted around 7:30 pm).

Edit: here's the finally updated snowfall map from News12, as of 6 am today (as it says on the map). Maybe it was you and Sweetpea hitting the sauce together, lol.

Derek was a horrible fit with Dylan because he always wanted the ball and Dylan should always have it. He was a better defender than JMike, but Derek would not have accepted or been happy in JMike’s role. JMike is averaging less than 2 shots per game over the past 6 games. Pike has gotten JMike to accept his role. That’s not Derek — if he had not shot in a few trips you knew a midrange miss was going up soon

RU848789 said:

Best hour of the storm with 0.3" bringing us to 1.4" as of 1:30 am and with temps steady at 32F, we're finally seeing some accumulation on paved surfaces (just a coating so far, but assuming we get another 1/2"-1", much of that should end up on the paved surfaces now (once the snow has a foothold, subsequent snow falls on 32F snow, not slightly warmer cement, and accumulates readily).

Nap time for the next ~3 hours; hopefully the HRRR/RAP hi-res models, which have been doing well continue to do so, as they show another 1" for much of CNJ and 1"+ for all of NENJ/NYC from now through 7-8 am.

Was surprised to see a report of 1.5" in North Brunswick from a couple of hours ago - they must have over 2" by now. Lots of 1.5-3" amounts reported in Sussex/Warren/Morris and Hunterdon/Somerset/Mercer, as well as in most of EPA (Bucks/Montco/Lehigh Valley etc.) Philly Intl only reporting 0.1", but Bustleton in the far NE of the city is reporting 1.5" and a friend in CC has almost 1". Another poster in my hometown of Turnersville about 10 miles SSE of CC reported 1.4". And finally, NENJ/NYC are starting to get accumulating snow.

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Just woke up and took a nice walk outside in the gorgeous silence of a fresh snowfall. As of 5:30 am, we're up to 2.6", which is 1.2" the past 3 hours or 0.4" per hour and the radar loop from the last 3 hours looks like the snow was pretty steady for most of NNJ/CNJ/NYC (N of 195) and it still looks pretty good for another hour or two. Temp is down to 31F and all paved surfaces are covered with about 1" of snow. Huge overperformer - think we'll make it to 3" as the latest HRRR still shows another 1/2-3/4" for most of NNJ/CNJ (especially the eastern half as the back edge of precip approaches) - as I said when they posted the advisories last evening, Middlesex County should've been part of it.

vkj91 said:

About as new as the ridiculous “fair share” argument.

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You sound like a guy that’s probably due for a visit from the IRS. Perhaps you could benefit from an audit.

G- RUnit said:

You keep saying that without any support. That’s not fair. Who exactly?
Teammates who hate effort, hustle and defense?

And even sillier, it’s basically a whole new team this year. One player back from last year, JMike. JWill was only here for two months and Ogbole was hurt.

And Seems to me Mags giving up on the season and pouting Gavin were the problem children. They both fled rather than forced out. I have shown some support for my conclusion. Where’s yours?

Team chemistry comment grossly unfair and nothing to support it against Simpson.

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He does that - makes allegations like that and never backs it up. Why? Because he’s full of it

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He said he has to up the totals from what the map was showing.

Fat Koko said:

Won despite huge weather challenges on campus forcing lots of indoor training and outdoor artificial turf field which soccer players hate. Tiny state with little in state talent.

Players from Germany and Hungary scored the goals in the final. Two players selected in first round of MLS draft a few hours ago. How did these guys end up in Vermont?

Shows anything is possible in college sports.

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There are like 200 D1 men’s soccer programs compared to almost 350 women’s.
Men’s programs live on international talent. Many of the better men’s programs are small schools that you don’t equate to sports. Marshall who lost has been in championship game think 2x in 4 years.

chase_NJ said:

Dylan is, currently, the most polished and NBA ready of the three.

Flagg is the most versatile of the three, but likely has the lowest ceiling (relatively speaking).

Ace is the least NBA ready but has the highest ceiling.

I would be happy with any of the three if I was the first team picking.

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I disagree, Flagg at 17 years old has the most potential. He needs to work on his outside shot but once he improves that he will be a great all around player. He passes. rebounds, blocks shots and his overall athletic ability is very high.

Here is a good article that makes two main points: First, it's far from clear that any of the NCAA's restrictions, even the basic five-years-to-play-four-rule, are legal; second, the decision is one more argument in favor of Congressional legislation or the unionization of college athletes. Congressional legislation could give the NCAA an antitrust exemption (or have a federal agency make the rules). A collective bargaining agreement between the NCAA and a union could legally impose restrictions, such as on transferring, that would otherwise be antitrust violations. https://sports.yahoo.com/diego-pavi...dMvE4kxOrv7Jxjka0908cl1t-TsHvb_xfag3IONYq5ULl