Bobref

Add AI to the growing list of reasons I’m glad to be on the cusp of retirement.

@Irishman, you need to start a 2023 topic. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot more of these in the near future.

Michigan City

Regardless, there’s no doubt he took a big leap forward last season. They just need to keep him on that trajectory.

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And the first use of the “winged” helmet design was by … The Ohio State University. http://www.spartanjerseys.com/michigan-state-football-jersey-helmet/winged-helmet/

This is a serious accusation. What say you, @temptation? https://fanrecap.com/michigan-continues-to-ripoff-ohio-state-tradition-for-winning-the-game/ Michigan continues to ripoff Ohio State tradition for winning 'The Game.' It’s becoming increasingly evident that the Michiganfootball program has tried to emulate Ohio State more than it will ever admit. From adding signage in the football facilities to embracing ‘The Game’ between the Buckeyes and Wolverines in a more aggressive manner, Jim Harbaugh and company are doing their best to get the upper hand in a rivalry that became one-sided for almost two decades. For further proof, the Michigan football program shared details of a charm that was designed and handed out to the members of the football team for the win over Ohio State last November. The Wolverines did the same thing the previous year, so apparently, there’s no such thing as imitation being too much of a good thing. The Buckeyes have been handing out gold charm pants for every victory over Michigan since 1934 and that continues to this day. Take a look at the front and back of a charm that made the rounds on the Michigan Football Twitter account that commemorated the Wolverines’ second-straight win over Ohio State on the football field. I have to admit, this does hurt a little, and here’s to hoping that next season we don’t have to see another version of this ripoff tradition being celebrated on social media. Maybe Ryan Day can start ripping off awkward press conferences, wearing khakis, and donning a hat with a suit. After all, imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

If you’re like me, craving a football fix, the XFL season opens today. I’m going to watch, and am interested in one feature of the coverage in particular. Apparently, conversations between the on field officials and Director of Officiating Dean Blandino, will be on an open mike. If that’s true, and the public actually hears what goes on in those discussions, I think more people will realize just how difficult the job is, and how hard they work to get it right. Should be both entertaining and enlightening.

I didn’t mean “contract” in the strictly legal sense. I should have made that clear. More in the nature of a social contract. Break the social contract at your peril.

Most important nonplayer in the Bears organization right now: Andrew Janocko, QB coach.Fields needs to work on accuracy, which starts with mechanics.

Exactly what they said about Hurts … and look what he grew into. Fields can do the same … and will ultimately be better than Hurts.

The Social Security System — at least, the part of it that represents a forced savings system — is a contract between the US Government and the citizens who gave up present realization of earnings in return for a promise by the Government to pay them back, according to the system’s formula. Revise, or even eliminate, the system going forward if you must. But not for those who have already paid into it.

Justin Fields is a bigger, faster, stronger, younger version of Jalen Hurts, but with superior arm talent. Change my mind.

So, Carmel conspires with the rest of the MIC schools to oust its chief rival from the Conference, being willing to take it on the chin as an independent for a couple of seasons. Then isolate CG and be granted readmission to a new MIC, one in which CG’s ascendancy is not so much of a problem. It’s obvious, no?😉

It was a foul. Everything else is speculation, subjective opinion, and, ultimately, irrelevant.

The guy who was called for the foul doesn’t think so. He fessed up. https://athlonsports.com/nfl/eagles-cb-james-bradberry-on-controversial-penalty-i-tugged-his-jersey

Front runner for the OC job is now Andy Ludwig, OC at Utah.

The “Bee’s Knees?” Is that a thing down in Renssel-tucky?

One wonders when the rules changes, equipment improvements, increased neurological surveillance, elimination of most contact in practices, etc., will begin to show results in the CTE studies.

I am unaware of any study that reaches that conclusion for subjects who play tackle football through the high school level, and then stop. Are you?

CG loses Carmel but picks up Lakewood (OH) St. Edward. Carmel loses CG and picks up ? Regardless, advantage CG.

The selection biases are basically two: First, CTE can only be diagnosed by post-mortem examination. Thus, only players who have died are examined. To the extent CTE has a negative effect on life expectancy, a sample of only players who have died is skewed toward a higher incidence of CTE. Second, the great majority of former players whose brains were examined post mortem exhibited symptoms of CTE while they were alive, again skewing the sampling in favor of a higher incidence of CTE. @US31had it exactly right. There is no control group. If you go to the article published by Boston University, it contains this: “The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE, as brain bank samples are subject to selection biases.” https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2023/02/06/researchers-find-cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/

The Munster football community is mourning the passing this morning of Tom Largus. A great player for the Mustangs in the 70s, Tom was an assistant coach at Munster for decades. A member of the IFCA Region 1 Hall of Fame, Tom was the type of guy that everyone liked. Never heard anyone say a bad word about him. Godspeed, Coach.

Don’t put words in my mouth. That is not what I said at all.

You get the government you deserve.