"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong" E. O. Wilson
"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested". Sheldon Cooper
My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick, mainly because his name is Steven.
It's not necessarily a cash cow for them. I think they get $1M per conference from the ESPN/ABC TV deal which they share so it's around $100K per school whether they play in the game or not. But for them it's better than playing in the playoffs where they'lllose their first game and potentially lose money doing it if they host.
Looks like another seed is going down. That makes 3 of 8 to lose today. Weber St up on 8 SUU, 30-13 w/ 4min to go.
3 Jacksonville St
4 Central Arkansas
8 Southern Utah
No real reason to do this, but don't have anything better to do right now while watching a guy repair field turf.
Code:Conf 1start 2start Qstart record CAA 4 3 2 4-2 MVFC 5 4 2 4-3 Big South 2 1 1 2-1 Big Sky 3 2 1 2-2 Southern 3 2 1 2-2 Southland 3 2 1 1-2 Pioneer 1 1 0 1-1 OVC 1 1 0 0-1 Patriot 1 0 0 0-1 NEC 1 0 0 0-1
Sagarin's take on the lines home team in bold:
SO AGS score err
W L.. 26-7 +2 James Madison -21.0 over Stony Brook 94%
L. L.. 13-30 +29 Southern Utah -4.0 over Weber State 62%
W W 37-22 -6 South Dakota State -9.0 over Northern Iowa 74%
L. L.. 15-21 +22.5 Central Arkansas -16.5 over New Hampshire 89%
L. L... 7-17 +18.5 Jacksonville State -8.5 over Kennesaw State 74%
L. L.. 42-54 +14.5 South Dakota -2.5 over Sam Houston State 57%
W W 28-10 -16.5 Wofford -1.5 over Furman 55%
W W 38-3 -5 North Dakota State -30.0 over San Diego 99%
4-4 so, not a good week.
5 of 8 missed by 1 standard deviation or more.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie