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January 04, 2011
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Why would he want to go anywhere else? At least before he's felt what it's like to have a Cardinal team in the BCS title game?
Seems like the school shouldn't have any trouble raising whatever funds it would take to keep him on board. Call Larry and Sergey.
I recall morning sports shows talking about Standford bylaws: the coach's salary has a cap, somewhere below $2 million. Not chump change, but at this point, he'll make more elsewhere.
posted by jmd82 at 08:45 AM on January 04, 2011
Uh-oh, look what I gone and did: I created a NFL playoffs confidence pool. Get to pickin' and trash talkin', foo's!
And here's a bracket for you to refer to.
posted by NoMich at 09:14 AM on January 04, 2011
"In The New York Times, from 1851 to 1980, the phrase 'a Yankee game' occurred 39 times. And 'a Yankees game'? Zero. Contrast the period between January 2005 and June 2010. The Times used 'a Yankee game' 19 times and 'a Yankees game' 65 times: more than three times as often. ... not anymore." -- Ben Yagoda
posted by rcade at 09:19 AM on January 04, 2011
Oh, and I gave everyone 'til Saturday noon (Eastern US time) to get their picks in.
posted by NoMich at 10:52 AM on January 04, 2011
I would love for Jim Harbaugh to leave Stanford for Michigan.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 10:54 AM on January 04, 2011
He can sustain a perennial top 5 powerhouse right where he is.
Easier said than done. Players leave; new players come in and regardless of how widely praised as high school players do not always live up to expectations in college. If Luck leaves, maybe the next quarterback does not make it and Stanford falls to 4th, 5th or lower in Pac10, 12, whatever. Look at Texas; national championship game one year to losing season next.
posted by graymatters at 11:35 AM on January 04, 2011
Oh, what the hell, let's keep it going: Jenn Sterger not alone? Two massage therapists allege Brett Favre sent them dirty text messages too.
posted by evixir at 02:33 PM on January 04, 2011
Brett Favre sent me inappropriate text messages.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 03:31 PM on January 04, 2011
Stats question: when looking at the number of penalties and penalty yardage in an NFL box score, does that include penalties that are declined? TIA if anyone knows this, I need to know for my office pick'em (I want to use "team with the most penalty yards" as a bonus question and I've got a bunch of damn rules lawyers).
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:02 PM on January 04, 2011
Worst Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot.
I'd have more respect for him if he'd sent in a blank ballot as some sort of bizarre protest about steroids. This? This is inexcusable and ESPN.com should immediately have a follow-up article that forces this moron to explain himself.
posted by grum@work at 04:16 PM on January 04, 2011
does that include penalties that are declined?
I can't find a cite for this. But I'd have to say no. Particularly in the case of the penalty yardage. If the yardage is not counted off, how can they include it in the box score?
Or, another example, if a long pass is completed for a TD AND there is pass interference on the same play, they wouldn't count both the yards gained on the reception and the penalty yards. Right?
Anyway, my two cents.
posted by cjets at 07:56 PM on January 04, 2011
All declined penalties are not counted in the stats. When you see that a team was penalized 5 times for 35 yards, those are invoked penalties with counted-off yardage.
posted by grum@work at 09:27 PM on January 04, 2011
Thankee cjets and grum -- that's what I thought, but I appreciate the confirmation.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:44 PM on January 04, 2011
Just to confirm the penalty yardage question, it is yardage accepted
posted by dviking at 11:00 PM on January 04, 2011
The NFL does keep a note of "declined yardage" on penalties, but you have to be a member of the media to get that deep into their stat soup.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 12:01 AM on January 05, 2011
Looking at the scene along the Stanford sideline last night, the confluence of power and celebrity in attendance was noteworthy.
Harbaugh had the game in hand, the world in his grasp. He can sustain a perennial top 5 powerhouse right where he is. He can do mega battle with Oregon (and down the road, maybe Washington) every year.
Why would he want to go anywhere else? At least before he's felt what it's like to have a Cardinal team in the BCS title game?
Seems like the school shouldn't have any trouble raising whatever funds it would take to keep him on board. Call Larry and Sergey.