RaceToTheTop

You said we "would be lucky if he averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds". Joey Brunk was injured to the point of having to be redshirted as a freshman and then spending a year where he was thrown in games just to try to get him to get him some court time. And no, we wouldn't be 'lucky' to have Duncomb deal with two years of injuries like Brunk did. Is that even a serious question? You seriously think that the expectations of Brunk coming out of high school was to be a 5 and 5 player?

Can you hear all the eye rolls when you post?

That's Danridge's FRESHMAN numbers. You want to lay money that Danridge doesn't put up better than 5/5 for his CAREER?

I wouldn't say 80 and 130 are that different, especially for a Junior. I also know think Rivals tends to be a little behind in their ratings traditionally....they didn't have him in their top 150 until last fall and I think they tend to kind of just move players up and down gradually instead of all at once.

"We would be lucky" if a top 100ish center averages 5 points and 5 boards over his career? Get bent.

On #2: avoid op ed pieces disguised as fact. It's really that simple. On #3: You keep assuming that if someone disagrees with something that 'a president or a boss or any other authority figure is not grounds for dismissing everything they say or do as wrong' assumes that is what the person is doing when they disagree with them. It's an old and tired non-defense deflection. It's a total non-attempt at actually debating the point by attacking the messenger as biased. Arguments stand or fall on their own merit regardless of who says them.

From what I've seen of Duncomb, I'm impressed with his post moves for someone his age. Will need to put some more muscle on but seems to have the body type to do so. In terms of Kaufman, I'm not one for turning down quality players because you think there might be someone who is better that could take the scholarship. The eggs in a basket approach bit us with Keion Brooks.

IMO, top 100 big men have better ceilings than just being a role player for four years.

In terms of 'most can't get tested'....the last three days there were almost 9,000 tests given in Indiana and that represents almost a third of the total tests given in Indiana. While there is definitely a shortage of tests, that's more of a state to state thing. You are more likely to be able to get tested in Indiana than most states. My sister works at a county hospital in Indiana (the only hospital in the county) and they were allotted 250 tests. So far, the county has had to test just 57 (only 3 of which were positive).

Daily Indiana report: Highest single day # of cases reported (568). However, the exponential rate of increase has seemed to be slowing down. It took six days for the # of cases to double from March 31 to April 6; previously it had been taking about 4 days. Number of deaths in Indiana attributed to coronavirus is up to 173. One bit of good news: from March 26 through April 2nd there had been 8 straight days of double digit daily deaths with an average of 13.4 per day; we now have had 4 days with the death total in the single digits with an average of 5.5 per day over that time. Yesterday there were 4 deaths, the state's lowest total since March 23.

Iowa at Penn St and Purdue at Illinois simmed.

Brunk, TJD, and Thompson can all play the center position in today's game. IMO, Haarms is looking to go somewhere that he can look to be more of a stretch five....somewhere that he is more of a focal point of the offense. The only way to do that is to go more mid major or somewhere willing to let him move out of the post position. He's probably seeing it as the only way that he could ever get a look in the pros (he won't.....but that is the only way).

While it's not essential travel, I am taking my son to pick up his kayak from a house about an hour and a half away as he was storing it at a cottage that is about to be sold. I'll have my two liter bottle to pee in and won't leave the vehicle except to pick the kayak up. I've only driven my car once since March 13th (to go to the local fairgrounds to walk at the track there). We have a small lake just outside of our backdoor, so he'll be able to row around in it if he wants.

I crunched some numbers on the counties in Indiana today. In terms of confirmed cases per population, the worst infected counties in Indiana are: 1. Decatur (1 case per 295 people) 2. Ripley (1 case per 406 people) 3. Franklin (1 case per 415 people) 4. Scott (1 case per 457 people, but that only amounts to 6 cases in the county) 5. Hendricks (1 case per 480 people) 6. Marion (1 case per 483 people) 7. Jennings (1 case per 777 people) 8. Johnson (1 case per 195 people) 9. Morgan (1 case per 917 people) 10. Hamilton (1 case per 944 people) The counties with the fewest cases per population: 1. Perry, Pike, and Benton: no cases in each of these counties. Perry has a population of 19,141, Pike 12, 411, and Benton 8,667. 4. Spencer (1 case per 20,526 people) 5. Adams (1 case per 17,598 people) 6. Daviess (1 case per 16,469 people) 7. Wells (1 case per 13,974 people) 8. Pulaski (1 caes per 12,660 people) 9. Dekalb ( 1 case per 10,676 people) 10. Wabash (1 case per 10,544 people) The current state average is one confirmed case per 1,300 people.

Illinois at Michigan St, Minnesota at Purdue, Rutgers at Nebraska, Wisconsin at Ohio State, and Maryland at Indiana simmed.

You talk of the country needing unity yet continue to put this imaginary "the left" in one convenient little category. You want to tell people they live in a black and white world while showing that you can't see gray.

I started college as a journalism major before switching majors. During this time of being in home isolation, one of my projects was to reorganize my home office. I came across some of the short stories I had written when I was between 25 and 30. I had about 300 pages of stories written when I stopped about 25 years ago. Found one that I had forgotten about....started reading it and found that while I probably didn't think much about it at the time, it might have been the best I'd written.....and the last page was missing. Ugh. Have no idea how the story turned as I don't recall it.

I'll give one minute positive: I've chewed my nails all of my life -- nasty habit -- and stopped completely. Didn't even really think about it, just stopped. I've pretty much been housebound since the 13th other than walks -- my in-laws live with us and my 69 year old mother in law is asthmatic, so we have to play it very safe -- and here they were after two weeks before I trimmed them.

And that's the issue with assumptions.....but even if you were the farthest-to-the-left liberal, it would have no bearing on the merits of your argument. The merits of an argument stand or fall on their own. And if someone chooses to not address the message but instead attacks the messenger, the only conclusion that can be made is that can't find fault in the message.

Seriously, stop with 'the left'. Either you have an accurate answer to the criticism or not....saying 'the left' is nothing more than a weak diversion. It's nothing more than special pleading. The fact that you think that 'the left' want him to fail -- which would mean thousands and thousands of people die instead of live -- it's insulting. How about you ASK what people on here feel instead of just make some bald face assumption of what 'the left' feels?

Simply put, that's wrong. Not counting employees in the count -- and I have to assume that is a significant number -- at least externally seems to be a statement by Wal-Mart that they value the customers but not the employees. The protection is supposed to be there for both.

Except Trump calls the sky red.

You don't have to go back to Jan 15th to see the lack of response.

Re: states rights..... it’s funny how many ‘state’s rights’ issues have been over ridden (not just by this administration, but historically) by executive order....yet when it comes to covid 19, it’s not a consideration.

First week of box scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FurcZ_-uBcxmnuY3N_MGmc_jDOdqM16QwZMxDfgGp_g/edit?usp=sharing Second week of box scores here -- Illinois at Michigan State game simmed. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rdx3XZhVbQstcDSnceltS672aLF_BZnyj2a4FLZob0/edit?usp=sharing Standings and box scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RcUZOBBDFUrhDCu9hUsV7oi_WQnPTELJgWiayJ42KJk/edit?usp=sharing