iReC89 said:

The Articles of Confederation was a constitution of the United States, just not what we refer to as THE constitution. We divided from Britain as the United States of America as of the declaration of Independence. Can't confirm the first DD.

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Agree, The Articles of Confederation was the way the US was bring run before the Constitution came to be. And though the President under it was mainly a ceremonial position without executive power , the holder of the office was President of the Country , just not considered one now that the USA has the Office as a separate branch of government as specified in the US Constitution that replaced The Articles of Confederation as how the Government operated
>The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy.<

Calling a clean program that is towards the bottom but not at the bottom of its conference a "disgrace" is way over the top.

Disgrace is scandal.

To a lesser extent, disgrace is like #250+ kenpom ratings.

What we are watching is just standard issue bad.

NickRU714 said:

How do you already know we need to retain the 4 incoming freshman for their sophomore year?

What if it turns out they aren't Big Ten caliber players?
Im a broken record but did we need to retain Jalen Miller and Chol until they were seniors?

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Sorry if it get's mentioned further along in thread, but who knows? Chol was a top 5 JUCO this year, averaging 20+ and rebounding well. Could he have given us a longer, better shooting option than Derkack? Could he have given what Hayes has? A team won't have 13 stars. The portal doesn't guarantee you Big Ten players either.

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Last year AG field day absolutely sucked at cook. The amount of vendors and food stands shrunk by 60 to 70%. Lines for food and drinks were 50 to 100 deep for the limited sites. The entire Wood Lawn Mansion field that used to be packed with vendors and food stands had not a one.

bac2therac said:

Stats? What does that even mean. His points this year generally meaningless in terms of producing wins

His decision making awful along with his defense

He takes step back 3s

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He's taken 8 threes this season. I don't remember all of them but I am confident that the majority of them were not stepbacks. The kid shoots 82% from the line it isn't that absurd to believe he could hit a wide open three.

The 8 threes taken by Lathan are honestly less concerning than the 36 taken by JWill (25% career) and the 40 taken by Derkack (26% career).

Hell, Grant, who everyone is in love with (and for the avoidance of doubt I want to keep him too) is 8/34 from beyond the arc.

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Local Shill said:

There wouldn’t even be words for the level of embarrassing if both basketball teams miss the Big Ten tournament. It’s not at all out of the realm of possibility.

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More likely than not

It's not a disgrace or a mistake. It's the price of raking in the big bucks as a member of a coast-to-coast conference. Every team will have an occasional tipoff time that isn't optimal for the fans at home, especially the west coast teams. Should Washington fans have to endure a pre-dinner tipoff to accommodate us on the East Coast?

The networks are always going to put the most desirable matchups in prime time for the largest viewing audience. This isn't such a matchup...

2/18

Purdue at Michigan State.....MICHIGAN STATE
Illinois at Wisconsin.....WISCONSIN
Minnesota at UCLA.....UCLA

2/19

Nebraska at Penn State.....PENN STATE
Oregon at Iowa.....IOWA
Rutgers at Washington.....WASHINGTON

2/20

Northwestern at Ohio State.....OHIO STATE
USC at Maryland.....MARYLAND


Fri/Sat/Sun: 3-6
Season to Date: 90-42

RUChoppin said:

At this point, it'll really depend on how they look in the first half whether I stay up. There's very little chance that I'll watch it on delay Thursday, it will probably just check the box score in the morning.

This was a scheduling flub by the Big Ten, imo.

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There are 2 other games at 6:30, 8:30 and our game. All on BTN that's the reason.

RUsojo said:

Agree that basically should be trying to retain everyone (basically. As many as possible realistically) with the goal of adding guys that will play ahead of most of them.

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Yeah, of course, you always want to be upgrading and there will be guys you can't keep because they don't want their new role, ect. I also target guys w multiple years remaining unless filling a big hole.

SBP said:

It was for a show he does

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so he's posing for the camera for all to see .
Even if posing Slick Rick knows how to motivate and make that motivation turn into wins

goru7 said:

So essentially you found no one other than lottery picks to compare him to ?

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“I found” lol.

No, you said to “go look at the stats” and this is simply a list of freshman centers (in big ten and sec, playing more than 5mins or 5 games)

rbled said:

We have to run an offense that schemes guys open and creates mismatches.

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100%, otherwise it is just lazy, low IQ lacrosse. When I say lazy I am not referring to the players, I am targeting our coach's analysis and use of the offensive portion of the roster.

I wonder if he gave the same speech to the Louisville team equipment manager after he shagged his wife?

"Dig in and get tougher! Your whole life is going to be adversity!"

rucoe89 said:

We need an AD that’s into winning

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RU WBB needs a HC that can make the program a winner, not a bottom feeder .

Smols said:

Well if you really want to watch it, you'll have to stay up. If not, DVR it. Even if this game were in prime time you wouldn't get many to watch this team at this point.

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At this point, it'll really depend on how they look in the first half whether I stay up. There's very little chance that I'll watch it on delay Thursday, it will probably just check the box score in the morning.

This was a scheduling flub by the Big Ten, imo.

RUsojo said:

Wrote bad code that picked up crowl. You brought it up the topic was just trying to answer

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So essentially you found no one other than lottery picks to compare him to ?

RUChoppin said:

Senior: Derkack, Ogbole
Junior: Davis
Soph: Sommerville, Grant, Dortch
Frosh: Ware, Mark, Powers, Nwuli

Grab 2 guys from the portal.

Williams can grad transfer somewhere.

Even with this, we'd be light on upperclassmen

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That is a bottom of the B1G level roster

rutgersguy1 said:

INTC up 10% again on the TSMC AVGO news. Don’t know if I’d say it’s a breakout yet but it’s above a resistance area for now.

Still wonder about a takeover but new admin might be amenable takeovers in general but the other side of that is would they be as amenable to foreign ownership.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-stock-surges-on-report-of-broadcom-tsmc-exploring-deals-that-would-split-up-chipmaker-140021691.html

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A takeover/partnership makes a lot of sense in this political environment.

bac2therac said:

Stats? What does that even mean. His points this year generally meaningless in terms of producing wins

His decision making awful along with his defense

He takes step back 3s

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We see 2 different games. Just take Oregon . You focus on a step back 3 at the end of a shot clock, I see someone who converted down low , was 6-8 shooting with 14 points , so if ACE and Dylan showed up like normal , we had our 3rd scorer we need for wins. He had only 3 rebounds as there were not a lot of defensive rebounds and he blocked Biddle not once but twice on defense. If you didn’t like some things he did on defense , then you are purposely choosing to be blind.
He is the best offensive center since Echneiqui and is only going to get better. He surely can kick it out more but that will come with experience as early on coming off the bench , with Dylan and ACE taking every shot , he probably thought he never would get the ball again. But since he has been in the starting lineup , he is setting better screens , using his handle and getting up good shots on the lane. His pick and roll defense needs work like our entire defense but he needs more experience to get better on the defensive end.

RUChoppin said:

We've only had one weeknight game start later than 7:00 p.m. this year, and it was against Illinois (an hour earlier local time for their fans).

They could have easily started this one at 6:00 or 6:30, as we have done on weekdays several times this year.

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Well if you really want to watch it, you'll have to stay up. If not, DVR it. Even if this game were in prime time you wouldn't get many to watch this team at this point.

goru7 said:

Queen , Newell and Isvic are potential lottery picks. Crowl is a senior , nice try though. Jacobsen has hardly played for Purdue who happen to have one of the best centers in the country if you didn’t know who is a junior now but his freshman stats not great. So your list is a joke . Lathan matches up just fine with a great majority of freshmen centers in the country. How disingenuous posting those players. ? I guess you couldn’t find too many other freshmen centers doing what Lathan is doing.

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Correct, and Newell isn't even a Center - he's a stretch 4 guy more in the mold of Ace Bailey.

For a freshman "big," Sommerville had a good year on the offensive end (7ppg, 4 rpg). His defense has been bad, although I think he did a pretty decent job against senior Nate Bittle the other night.

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Queen , Newell and Isvic are potential lottery picks. Crowl is a senior , nice try though. Jacobsen has hardly played for Purdue who happen to have one of the best centers in the country if you didn’t know who is a junior now but his freshman stats not great. So your list is a joke . Lathan matches up just fine with a great majority of freshmen centers in the country. How disingenuous posting those players. ? I guess you couldn’t find too many other freshmen centers doing what Lathan is doing.

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Wrote bad code that picked up crowl. You brought it up the topic was just trying to answer