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Played in a golf outing today with a HS basketball coach here in PA, whose son played AAU and college. His son was very good, but not high major.

When Pitino was at Iona, he shows up with for a game that was featuring several targets, one of which was a high priority. His son, who was playing that day, goes to the gym with his dad, the coach to stretch and do some extra work. They walk in to the gym and the only two guys there were Pitino and his assistant. The target put up 24 points and 12 rebounds, but wasn’t paying attention to the game when he was sitting and during the third quarter his teammate throws down a thunderous dunk that brings down the house. Bench was celebrating except for the target…Pitino taps his assistant on the leg and they walk out.

Not surprising, but he said high majors spend very little time recruiting HS kids, even AAU. 95% of their time and money is spent on re-recruiting players on the squad and picking off transfers. They figure they can just throw money at them after their freshmen year, using mid/low majors as farm teams. Laughed when I asked if $3.5M NIL budget was a good number.

And speaking of Villanova, he used to tell his players to watch the system Jay had to teach them. He said Nova now looks like every other team. Neptune is in trouble.
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Paint Touches - Wins Against Bubble

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I came across this story from Paint Touches. While it's ostensibly about which Big East team has the strongest non-conference schedule, it really covers a new metric that the Selection Committee will have in its toolbox for the 2024-25 season called Wins Against Bubble.

For those who tire of the metric system, feel free to ignore. For everyone else, it's a nice breakdown of how this metric is determined and how it might affect your team this season.

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Who has the toughest non-con schedule in the Big East?

There’s no right way to measure a projection, but using Wins Against Bubble, we get a much better look at how challenging schedules are top to bottom.
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PiratePride said:
look.... I agree with you that Trump did not handle that right.... but MY point is that "some" posters overstate Trump's errors... if you said almost two weeks, I would have no problem.... that would have been accurate..... but "for weeks" leaves it open to readers' imagination.... and was actually incorrect ..... possibly purposefully.... am I wrong?
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I mean, yeah. 12 days not commenting on that from POTUS is not a good look already.

I didn’t have the exact number of days off hand so I said weeks. I don’t think that changes anything and wasn’t trying to overstate it.
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Merge said:
The point was that he was also asked about the attack a couple times and walked away without any public comments on it for 12 days.
2 days under "weeks" is still not a good look.

It was weak of Walz to walk away from the question. I just think if that moment is weighing in on how you will vote, then you're ignoring the character of Trump who did something very similar. I think there are much better policy arguments to support a vote for Trump instead of getting into character.
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look.... I agree with you that Trump did not handle that right.... but MY point is that "some" posters overstate Trump's errors... if you said almost two weeks, I would have no problem.... that would have been accurate..... but "for weeks" leaves it open to readers' imagination.... and was actually incorrect ..... possibly purposefully.... am I wrong?
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Lobbyists…

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Merge said:
Not arguing that.

According to the study, sugar drinks good are good for depression but sugar snacks are bad.
This sugar in a cookie will make you depressed but the same sugar in a drink will reduce your risk. That doesn't really make sense.

All I am saying is that the study seems to be correlational rather than causational.

Seeing that depressed people were more likely to consume diet drinks doesn't necessarily prove that the drinks caused the depression.
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the people who did the study disagree.....

But the authors disagree. Prof Andrew T Chan, chief of the clinical and translational epidemiology unit at Massachusetts general hospital and co-author of the research, said: “The strength of our study is that we were able to assess diet several years before the onset of depression. This minimises the likelihood that our findings are simply due to individuals with depression being more likely to choose ultra-processed foods.”

There's tons of studies going between ultra processed food, artificial sweeteners and their link with mental health. People like Prof Chan believe they have something while I bet the food lobby will keep things down.
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Harris

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PiratePride said:
It was 12 days before he himself addressed it publicly..... big difference than "for weeks". I got that from an LA Times report back in 2017.
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The point was that he was also asked about the attack a couple times and walked away without any public comments on it for 12 days.
2 days under "weeks" is still not a good look.

It was weak of Walz to walk away from the question. I just think if that moment is weighing in on how you will vote, then you're ignoring the character of Trump who did something very similar. I think there are much better policy arguments to support a vote for Trump instead of getting into character.
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Harris

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Merge said:
Not hostages, but service members ambushed in Niger He didn’t comment on that for weeks and ignored a reporters ask for comments on it.
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I agree that he should have addressed it immediately. He had his press secretary read the comments that he was supposed to deliver the next day. Sounded like a secret type mission gone awry.... but still. He did call the parents of the deceased and a report told about at least one of the parents who were appreciative of the call. It was 12 days before he himself addressed it publicly..... big difference than "for weeks". I got that from an LA Times report back in 2017.
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