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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Dumbest Stat in College Football
But in the immortal words of Lee Corso - not so fast, my friend.
That 6-1 is the ranking of those teams when LSU played them, not a team's ranking at the end of the season. Meaning, to "credit" a team for such a stat is highly misleading.
Two of LSU's six "ranked" victories are against 6-6 South Carolina and 6-6 'Bama. Should anybody really be including a squeaker victory over a Crimson Tide squad that lost to Louisiana-Monroe and a 'Cock squad that lost its final five games as marquee wins?
On the flip side, the Tiger loss to "unranked" (at the time) Arkansas, which climbed back into the rankings after beating LSU to end their season, doesn't look the same anymore either.
Thus, while 6-1 sounds great when trying to a make a case for a team at the end of a season, it's bogus as hell.
Looking at some other schools, should USC get credit for being "3-1" versus ranked teams when two of those "ranked" teams turned out to simply be rank: 5-7 Nebraska and 6-6 Cal, loser of six of its last seven games?
On the flip side, Mizzou, poor astro-fucked Mizzou that got hosed out of a BCS game, should get some love for beating an Illinois team that turned out to be damn good. They shouldn't be punished just because a bunch of overweight pollsters thought - in the middle of summer - that the Illini would suck come fall and the team was thus unranked when the Tigers played them to start the season.
I could go on, but you get the point. This is just one of those "stats" that has always bugged the hell out of me. Especially when it's used at the end of the season to justify one team's inclusion in this or that bowl game. Once the season is over, you have to take a better look at the body of work out there, not continue to base the shit on incomplete info.
Then again, what else can you expect from a sport that uses this craziness to crown its champ to begin with?
47 comments:
- David said...
what's michigan's record against ranked teams? or ohio state's for that matter? has any team in the big ten beaten a ranked team this year?
- December 04, 2007 9:49 AM
- Joshua said...
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- December 04, 2007 10:02 AM
- Jeremy said...
Not sure if that was sarcastic, but here you go:
Missouri, Iowa, and Michigan beat #13 Illinois.
Illinois beat #1 Ohio State.
Ohio State, Illinois, and Penn State beat #21 Wisconsin.
- December 04, 2007 10:02 AM
- Joshua said...
I just went and looked since research isn't a strong suit around here...
Team...BCS, AP, Coaches final ranks
Auburn 22,23,21
Ark 25,nr,24
LSU beat every one of those teams but Arkansas. This took all of 3 minutes to look up and post. But go ahead with your hollow bashing of LSU. And please try to fit in what ranked teams Ohio State or anyone else might have beaten. A quick perusal for me shows a 1-1 record for your conference champ.
You run a good blog dude, you're better than spiteful,childish posts like this.
- December 04, 2007 10:03 AM
- WingRG said...
rankings are very arbitrary. In a season like the one we just had, when no one had any clearcut idea about who should be in the title game, there's also no clear cut rankings that you can have (i don't care if it's top 2, top 5, or top 25).
SEC has been a self-perpetuating myth (or a self-fullfilling prophecy) all year. LSU is ranked higher, b/c when they win, they're beating other highly "ranked" teams (some of which shouldn't be ranked at all) and when they lose, it's also to highly "ranked" teams (again, some of which shouldn't be ranked). It started with too many SEC teams being ranked in the top 25 in the preseason.
I know, people will say "Wing is completely out of his tree, he thinks he can rank these teams better than the experts". Which experts would those be? The ones that predicted OSU will be 3rd best team in the B10 (behind UM, UW, and PSU). Or the ones that set up a 41 point spread for USC-Stanford? Or the ones that predicted Louisiana-Monroe has no chance against 'Bama? Or the ones that said that Pornstaches' team will give up over 60 to WVU?
Everyone has opinions, but even if these people do it for as living (aside from Vegas) that doesn't make their opinions any more right than mine or yours.
- December 04, 2007 10:10 AM
- Andy said...
Looks like it is that time of year....
I love it when the S.R.T.I. (SEC Redneck Troll Infestation) season rolls around...
- December 04, 2007 10:34 AM
- Mikoyan said...
The East German judge gives joshua's post a 5.8 for artistic merit and 5.9 for technical merit. Had to deduct points because the triple lindy was only a 2.5 lindy.
I wonder if we could lure that East German judge out of retirement to be a pollster.
As for the subject of rankings, Michigan was a 5 ranking when the season began and now that the season is over, we see how much that means. Then there is the shenanigan factor with some of the polls.
- December 04, 2007 11:34 AM
- Sundawg said...
Wings, are you saying you're uncomfortable being #1?
All team suffer from the same malady, the highly-ranked team you beat early in the season goes into the shitter and you're accused of knowingly playing a soft schedule. The Domers have turned soft schedules into an art form, but that's a whole other story.
I heard on ESPN that the SEC was the toughest conference in college football. I don't question this having seen the ritual killing and consumption of the opposing team's captain. Just sayin' ...
Gotta go wire brush my neck.
- December 04, 2007 11:45 AM
- WingRG said...
nowhere in my post did it say that i thought (or didn't think for that matter) that OSU should be #1. I just happen to agree with Yost, regarding this particular statistic (record vs ranked teams).
Here, i think that top 4 teams in the B10 are same strength as top 4 teams in the SEC. But the SEC ones are ranked, whereas the B10 ones aren't. Is that b/c of bias? Maybe. Or maybe my subjective opinion of the teams' strength being equal is wrong? My point is you don't really know for sure.
- December 04, 2007 11:53 AM
- Yost said...
First of all, this wasn't an anti-LSU post. It was an anti-misleading stat post.
And the research is fine, your understanding of what they're saying is the problem. The 6-1 record they're referring to is the ranking of the teams WHEN LSU PLAYED THEM which is why your little list doesn't add up to seven since South Carolina, UK and Bama are no longer ranked (yet are included in that 6-1 stat).
On the flip side, Arkansas was unranked when they played LSU and thus were not included.
I guess I just want to say, you leave good comments, dude. You're better than ill informed knee jerk comments that aren't specifically directed at a school you root for.
- December 04, 2007 11:56 AM
- Sundawg said...
Wings, you're right; you don't really know until it's settled on the field. I would argue the Dawgs belonged in the top 10, but as high as #4, maybe not. But it's not something you give back once you've got it.
We have a weak defensive secondary, and playing Hawaii' Colt 45 (45 TDs by the end of the game?) scares the crap out of me. I was at Georgia's last Sugar Bowl against WfVU and it wasn't pretty. At all.
- December 04, 2007 12:27 PM
- WingRG said...
it seemed that UGA overlooked WVU that year, and payed for it dearly. You shouldn't make that same mistake with the Rainbow Warriors, just b/c their schedule is ranked 117/119. Georgia should win this game, but in this crazy season what does that really guarantee?
- December 04, 2007 12:31 PM
- Mikoyan said...
By Gene Wojciechowski from ESPN
SAN ANTONIO -- There's no disputing it: The just deceased college football regular season was crazier than ordering a chocolate martini at a biker bar.
No. 1 Missouri lost the Big 12 bakeoff to favored Oklahoma, and No. 2 West Virginia absolutely shanked its national championship chances to four-touchdown mutt Pittsburgh. And that's just part of what happened this past Saturday. How about the previous 14 weeks?
Appalachian State over Michigan. USC, Boston College, Cal, Kansas, South Florida, Oregon and West Virginia all yakking away their No. 2 rankings. Oregon's DayGlos. Mike "I'm a man!" Gundy. Notre Dame and its bungee jump into oblivion. I could go on.
But, sorry, crazy isn't good enough. College football deserves better than simple bedlam. Chaos doesn't legitimize ignorance or stupidity.
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A series of upsets helped Jim Tressel and the Buckeyes finish No. 1 in the BCS standings.
By sheer accident, nothing more, Ohio State and LSU will play Jan. 7 in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game. A few days ago it was supposed to be Mizzou vs. West Virginia. And before that, Kansas vs. LSU.
If there were a congressman to write concerning the forever flawed Bowl Championship Series (Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C.?), I'd give you his address. But there isn't. Instead, we get SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who doubles as the Bowl Championships Series coordinator. It's a crummy part-time job because you're forced to explain the unexplainable, defend the indefensible.
Slive is a smart, well-intentioned administrator, but when he says, "I don't see what I would call an NFL-style playoff in the offing," someone needs to remind him that it isn't an "NFL-style playoff" we're talking about. It's an NCAA-style playoff, the kind of elimination tournament seen in nearly every NCAA sport and every NCAA football division except Division I-A. SEC schools won two of those "NFL-style" playoffs last season. They're called Final Fours.
And when he says he's looking "very, very hard [at] drilling down into that concept" of a Plus-One format (sort of a seeded, one-game playoff game after the bowls), he's admitting the BCS has major imperfections. Otherwise, why bother?
Think about what just happened this past weekend. The short list:
One-loss Ohio State reached a national championship game by doing nothing more strenuous than clicking the TV remote. Congrats. The Buckeyes will go 50 days between their last game and their next.
The 10-2 Mountaineers were eliminated partly because of an injured thumb.
An 11-2 OU team beat Missouri for a second time this season -- including Saturday's 21-point win against the No. 1 Tigers on a neutral field -- and got aced out.
LSU, also 11-2, squeezed in.
Poor Mizzou went from No. 1 to a non-BCS bowl (the Cotton) in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Kansas, which lost to Missouri late in the season and failed to reach the Big 12 title game, was invited to a BCS bowl, the Orange.
Georgia, which is 10-2, was in the BCS title game discussion despite not winning its division or conference championship.
USC, playing as well as anyone these days, finished 10-2, but still gets no soup.
And don't even get me started on why the only undefeated team in the country, 12-0 Hawaii, is completely ignored in the Jan. 7 equation.
Is this any way to determine a national champion? And if the bowl results shake out a certain bizarre way, we could even have a split championship. How fitting.
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Bob Stoops pointed out that the BCS is "sort of like a playoff."
College football's madness arrived late Saturday night when the absurd BCS "system" forced coaches to campaign for their teams like they were trying to win the Iowa caucus. Oklahoma's Bob Stoops delivered his hard sell after the 38-17 victory in the Big 12 Conference championship. Georgia's Mark Richt and USC's Pete Carroll also issued spins on behalf of their respective teams. The BCS didn't give them any other choice.
When someone questioned Stoops about the Sooners' chances to reach the BCS title game, the OU coach could barely contain himself. "Well, I'm glad you asked," he said, before making his impassioned pitch.
Stoops is anti-playoff. Too many moving parts, he said. His reasons: the regular season would become less important … fans would have difficulty traveling from playoff site to playoff site … regular-season attendance might suffer … the bowls might be adversely affected. Anyway, he said, the status quo is "sort of a like a playoff."
"Sort of like a playoff" isn't working. "Sort of like a playoff" gave us at least six teams that could each make valid arguments for a BCS Championship spot. But instead of a playoff, the finalists were determined by 176 voters (some of whom actually pay attention), six computer polls and politicking.
But even Stoops acknowledged that this season, especially with so many legitimate BCS contenders at the end, lent itself to a playoff. "It's a decent argument," he said.
Standing just outside the Oklahoma locker room at the Alamodome was Tostitos Fiesta Bowl president John Junker. The well-respected Junker was waiting for clearance to go inside and officially invite the Sooners for a repeat appearance to his bowl.
"We got the most dominant team in the country coming to our game," said Junker, moments before being waved in.
Not dominant enough to convince enough computers or voters. And that's the shame of all this. Nobody is playing better than OU, Georgia or USC right now. But it's Ohio State, with its puppy fur-soft nonconference schedule and so-so Big Ten quality, that was chosen for New Orleans. Interesting, since the Buckeyes didn't register a win against a top 20 team at the time they played. At least inconsistent LSU mostly survived a killer conference and won its league championship game.
This isn't meant as a total rip job on the Buckeyes and Tigers. They finished atop the BCS standings because they won and lost at the "right" times against the "right" teams. They are the beneficiaries of the perfect BCS storm.
There will be those who say the unpredictability of this season and of the BCS is what made college football so compelling in 2007. I'd say the BCS is what made this season so embarrassing. How can you have these delicious scenarios without having a playoff to resolve them on the field?
We're back where we started pre-BCS. Chaos reigns. And all because too many people in the business of college football are willing to settle, willing to pretend there isn't a better solution. Makes you want to chug that martini.
- December 04, 2007 1:04 PM
- Joshua said...
Oh shit, now I'm gonna have to get a new username- we have an impostor "Joshua"- I declare shenanigans!
- December 04, 2007 2:02 PM
- WingRG said...
"ok, enough ... i will pistol-whip the next guy who says shinenigans" :-)
- December 04, 2007 2:11 PM
- Joshua said...
I hadn't even read his post when I wrote that comment. Based on the senselessness of it I'm taking back my username. LSU Joshua, change your name dude! And thanks for the compliment Yost, it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
- December 04, 2007 2:15 PM
- Joshua said...
Shnawzberries taste like shnawzberries.
- December 04, 2007 2:16 PM
- Joshua said...
OMG Brian over at MGoBlog is reporting Ferentz is back in the mix. If that happened I seriously couldn't get to a bridge fast enough.
- December 04, 2007 3:03 PM
- Mikoyan said...
Today's Tuesday Morning Quarterback has a commentary about the BCS. He sums it up as being about the money which is about as honest as anything else.
- December 04, 2007 3:11 PM
- jwalk said...
I'm sorry, but I'm tired of all the OSU backing into the MNC. Why should OSU be penalized for finishing out its schedule before Thanksgiving? Make the weak schedule/conference argument if you like. Those two may very well be valid points. But if the B10 is willing to risk late season movement for not playing, it's their deal. This year it paid off for OSU. Last year, not so much for Michigan. An 11-1 conference champ is an 11-1 conference champ, regardless of whether they played last week.
- December 04, 2007 3:21 PM
- Joshua said...
All I have to do is add a lil photo of a Michigan guy and pandelirium will break loose in this comment section.
I could start talking about what a fine man Woody Hayes is and how Notre Dame has the finest winning tradition and Appy State has no chance.
I love you guys.
ps. I bet the Buckeye fans love to do the word verification since incorrect spelling is the point of it. It'll be great the day that "jersywaringmunkeys" pops up.
- December 04, 2007 3:29 PM
- Joshua said...
And joshua, I never said I had any sense. I did say that LSU has probably the most extensive record against pretty dang good teams, in and out of conference, something Ohio State can't even begin to fathom. We skulldrug a BCS conference champ for crying out loud.
So, if there's any trash to be talked anyone's resume, it isn't LSU's. But I understand the original posters intent. I agree completely. If I was to make a case for LSU, I would use the rankings/evaluations as they are now, not at the time. That's a no brainer.
- December 04, 2007 3:35 PM
- Mikoyan said...
Oh yeah, if you go by the final rankings...Michigan and Ohio State are both 1-1 against Top 25 teams.
- December 04, 2007 3:37 PM
- Joshua said...
Actually you'd have to add a pic of a Michigan guy and not misuse words. Unless you really meant Pandelarium, in which case i'd find it highly amusing when an EP by Th' Legendary Shack Shakers broke out.
And i wasn't really baggin' on you, I just want my name back!
- December 04, 2007 3:52 PM
- TitleIX said...
Here's a smart stat:
graduation rates for the bowl teams
note the huge disparity b/w African American and White players.
And, note if you will the comparison between tOSU (53% rate, 43/74) versus Michigan (73% rate, 56/92)
BC with SICK numbers in the high
description of the study design and data sources can be found at www.tidesport.org
carry on
- December 04, 2007 6:50 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Maybe it's because more tOSU players hit the NFL draft prior to graduation. Kind of a side stat that unintentionally highlights the disparity of wins/loses as of late.
- December 04, 2007 7:26 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Hey, hey, it's Ferentz again. Begin the wrist slitting.
If you prefer the ledge, please take a number and wait your turn.
- December 04, 2007 7:34 PM
- TitleIX said...
to drill down on your supposition whetstone, one would need to know the percentage of players not receiving degrees who went on to the NFL vs. those without degrees and no Sunday Play......broken down by race of course
any way you slice it--figures lie and liars can figure and there are clearly some VERY successful football programs with impressive graduation rates....
(and no, I have not been taken over by Jimbo or joshua2)
It just depends on one's value structure.
Win/Loss vs. Diploma
The good news from the study is that
"Nearly three of every four football teams invited to play in bowl games this season met the NCAA's academic-progress requirements, a marked improvement over the past two years, according to an annual report released on Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.
The report, "Keeping Score When It Counts: Assessing the 2007-8 Bowl-Bound College Football Teams," said that 73 percent of the 64 bowl-bound teams were keeping their players on track to graduate within six years. Last year, 64 percent of the teams were meeting the NCAA's academic-progress standards; in 2005, just 60 percent were measuring up."
from The Chronicle of Higher Ed
ps--I think that this previous argument about who has how many in the NFL has been addressed on prior strings??
we win. ;-)
- December 04, 2007 7:41 PM
- TitleIX said...
enlighten me...
why are we committing hare kare over Kirk? (Ferentz, not herbie)
- December 04, 2007 7:42 PM
- Mikoyan said...
The proper term is seppeku....
hari kari is something else....I think...
- December 04, 2007 7:55 PM
- TitleIX said...
actually formal form vs. colloquial
learned something new, thanks Mik!
- December 04, 2007 8:03 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
It is a value judgment. Diploma or 10 million? Hmmm. That's a no-brainer. If you say the diploma that would explain a few things.
As far as the number of players in the NFL, I purposely mentioned the last few years to coincide with the current disparity of wins/loses. What are the stats as of late? I have no idea, nor the energy to actually find out. It was more of a tongue in cheek comment.
- December 04, 2007 8:08 PM
- Corwin said...
The concept of comparing graduation rates among schools is a farce.
First, all comparisons should be made within each university (athlete vs. non-athlete) since the point is to compare the athletic program with the university's normal rate.
Secondly, those comparisons should only be made among individuals with similar socio-economic status - since they face similar constraints in spending 4-5 years in college.
Finally, the belief that student athletes need to graduate is class-based. It is a remnant of Victorian notion of "amateur athletes" that was used to denounce poor better athletes from playing in the Olympics.
If a former/lesser athlete, who fully met academic requirements while playing, does not find it in his or her interest to earn a college diploma, even after receiving a scholarship, we should all accept it and not judge that individual as not being a success.
- December 04, 2007 8:30 PM
- TitleIX said...
how about a degree that can get you 10 million...over time and without the hip replacement?? :-)
don't get too bent about my comments/posting. it was meant as a take-off on the "dumbest stat in college football" title to this thread.
get it?
what NFL team do you play for as I think the lady doth protest too much. :-)
shits and giggles,
- December 04, 2007 8:50 PM
- Corwin said...
Understood T9. Unfortunately my understanding of wit is not as quick as my venom.
Not an NFL player, just an academic who teaches college football players and realizes 1) that a college degree isn't all that its cracked up to be, 2) athletes are just like other college students and face similar needs/wants to drop out, and 3) college athletic program comparisons like those are poorly done and are not worth the paper they are printed on.
- December 04, 2007 9:13 PM
- Mikoyan said...
One of the guys I read on the ESPN site proposed this at one point. It sounds like a good idea. Supposedly one of the reasons why alot of football players take Mickey Mouse majors is because they are spending the bulk of their time playing football. They don't have alot of time for other things. Plus there's the attitude that they will make it to the NFL.
He thinks that schools should let them play football for four years and then set aside some of the money they make so that they can pursue a real degree if their football careers don't pan out. He was proposing this instead of salaries.
- December 04, 2007 9:33 PM
- MattYancey said...
So does APP State still get credit for beating a ranked team?
- December 04, 2007 9:43 PM
- Korematsu said...
I actually like the system of using the opponent's ranking at the time you play the, but I do see your point Yost. For me, it's a closer call than you see it, but at the end of the day, I definitely understand your beef.
I like the method b/c the measure of how good a college football team largely depends on how well the team is playing at a particular time. Now whether or not this is fair is a different story, but that's how teams are measured. For example, #5 Michigan is dealt a huge upset and is knocked out of the top 25 the next week. USC, LSU, OSU all lose to unranked opponents, but don't fall out of the top 10. The reason, b/c the season developed to the point where a big upset wouldn't been damning. Another example, Georgia and USC are considered two of the best teams in the country, despite losses to South Carolina and Stanford respectively. But West Virginia, also a two loss team that played dominant throughout the year, is likely not considered on those teams' level. Reason: WVU lost late, and Georgia and USC lost early. My point is this. It's much more difficult to beat a team when they are on a streak and ranked high. A team can fall out of a high ranking for many reasons (Dennis Dixon getting hurt, Cal and South Carolina losing momentum). But at the time the game is played, if unranked team A has to walk into #5 team B's house and play them under the lights with an intense crowd, team A has a mindset and will play as if they are playing a top 5 team. Likewise, if unranked team A has to play unranked team B with nothing on the line, the quality of play will be different. I think the better solution is to bifurcate the whole statistic. Come up with a record against teams at the time they played and at the end of the season. Because I think both stats are relevant, and one is not necessarily better than the other.
- December 04, 2007 10:06 PM
- Joshua said...
Wow, everyone's a bit testy tonight. I must say, however, the level of intelligence in most posts is refreshing. Or maybe I've just been hanging around idiots for too long.
As for electing for the Hemingway Solution if Ferentz gets hired, I just disagree with his candidacy on several levels. I've never understood people who change jobs within a conference, it just shows a bit of disloyalty in my opinion. Not unlike dating a friend's ex-girlfriend without his permission. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but it rubs me the wrong way. Secondly, he hasn't done much. I realize he's recruiting at Iowa and it's not us, but I cannot get excited about someone who's team lost to Western Michigan this year. He's conservative like Lloyd, and although I appreciate '97, I'd like to see a philosophical change within the program. And if the story about his son living in low-income housing is true I REALLY don't want him. that's sketchy.
Overall, I just can't get excited about it. It seems so mediocre.
- December 04, 2007 10:08 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
How about I get the 10 million now and when the time comes, I'll pay for the hip replacement out of my petty cash and...over time get a degree if I want one? It won't be necessary, but I might want it just for grins.
- December 04, 2007 11:44 PM
- Mikoyan said...
The pre-season rankings are pretty much meaningless. Michigan's #5 ranking was based on an offense that was returning some pretty good seniors. I don't think they realized how inexperienced Michigan was on Defence. Ohio State wasn't even on the radar despite being a top shelf (blech) team in a supposedly top shelf conference. Even then, it took Ohio State almost the whole season to get to Number 1.
Then watch the fluctuation based on other metrics. Michigan almost fell out of the rankings after the App State loss. USC barely fell after their loss to Stanford. Missouri is ranked lower than Kansas despite beating Kansas. Hawaii is barely in the top 10 despite being undefeated and having a bunch of 2 and 3 loss teams ahead of them.
As such, the polls are no better than the East German judge.
- December 05, 2007 12:26 AM
- Jeremy said...
Mikoyan, Michigan is 1-2 vs. current top 25 teams. Beat Illinois, lost to Wisconsin and Ohio State. Get your head in the game!
- December 05, 2007 8:39 AM
- Mikoyan said...
Sorry, I blanked out on the Badgers....
But still, the whole thing is based on perceptions. The SEC is perceived as a good conference, so their teams get bonus points. The Big 10 is perceived as having an off year, so they get negative points.
- December 05, 2007 11:42 AM
- Toki Wartooth said...
This is all Notre Dame's fault. With as many Big Ten teams that Notre Dame played this year, if they had finished 6-6 instead of 3-9 the computer ratings of the entire Big Ten would be much higher.
- December 06, 2007 4:02 PM
- Korematsu said...
Or more appropriately, the Big Ten would've been higher if Michigan didn't lose to App. State, Northwestern to Duke, Minnesota to Bowling Green, Iowa to Iowa State, etc etc etc.
- December 09, 2007 2:48 PM
- Chester said...
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- August 03, 2008 4:26 PM
- Chester said...
LSU was 5-0 against teams who finished in the FINAL TOP 15 (AP).
USC didn't even play any (not even in their own bowl game. Thanks, Mr. Delaney) and Ohio State played one--LSU.
LSU, when not having many mission-critical players out throughout the season, gained 600! yards total offense (299run-301pass)against the #4 Defense in the nation (final NaziAA ranking).
Check please!
- August 03, 2008 4:35 PM


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Weight management is being sold as a ''life service'' - which once would have been anathema to an industry built on the lure of the quick fix. There is now open acknowledgement it can take repeated attempts at their programs to see results.
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Dietician Rosemary Stanton is not surprised at the new path the industry is taking.
''It probably reflects the fact that people are now not just a few kilos overweight, but a high percentage of Australians are obese or morbidly obese,'' Stanton said.
''I think the weight-loss companies are starting to see that there's so many of those people that they have to adapt their message to make the goal more attainable.''
But she was concerned the slimming world was legitimising yo-yo dieting.
''What concerns me is the idea that it's normal to go up and down in your weight. A new study a few weeks ago showed that from a health perspective people who repeatedly lose weight and put it back on would have been better off staying fat.''
Stanton, who was once a consultant for Weight Watchers until it became ''too commercial'', also questions whether it and other weight-loss companies are now more focused on getting customers to buy their range of convenience foods than helping people slim. This was creating dependent consumers, she said.
''I hear people say all the time, 'I went on Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers and lost weight', but they're hugely fat now and they just think, 'I'll do it again','' she said.
The chief executive of Jenny Craig, Amy Smith, dismisses the criticism and says the shift in the marketing message is not an admission of failure, but recognition of how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.
''You have to look at it as a life service,'' she said. ''It's like taking your car in once a year for a tune-up. Some people will come back several times, but we have to accept on the basis of the statistics - a third of Australian adults and a quarter of our children are overweight - that weight loss isn't a straight line; there are humps and bumps along the way.
''That doesn't mean people attempting it who experience [weight] regain have failed. So in that sense, yes we have reframed the marketing of what success means.''
By adopting a more realistic approach to weight loss and focusing on peer support, lifestyle change and nutritional education, Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers maintain they set themselves apart from the ''charlatans'' that thrive in a $790-million-a-year diet industry. Weight Watchers this month lobbied the federal government for $115 million in subsidies to allow publicly funded access to its programs.
Jenny Craig has made a similar pitch to government, arguing it offers a scalable national response to the obesity crisis. Some health experts have cautioned government against funding commercial enterprises, which have strong ties to the food industry. In 2010, Jenny Craig's Australia and New Zealand arm was bought by Nestle - which makes Smarties, Kit Kat and Allen's lollies. Weight Watchers New Zealand recently partnered with McDonald's to produce a range of healthy meals. The links prompted the Obesity Policy Coalition to accuse junk food companies of making their customers fat and then selling them the cure.
But how many people who sign up to these programs regain the weight and return for another attempt?
Neither Weight Watchers nor Jenny Craig were able to provide data on how many times, on average, their clients repeat the programs.
The managing director of Weight Watchers Australasia, Joseph Saad, said it was not uncommon, particularly for women who regained weight at menopause or after having children, to come back, but that did not equate to yo-yo dieting.
''It's OK for people to give smoking cessation a go but not everyone can quit first time, and we're no different to that,'' he said. ''Ultimately, does it really matter when you get to the prize of losing weight if it took three or four attempts?''
Saad says Weight Watchers has more than 70 clinical trials that detail the approach's efficacy, including one showing that five years after completing the program the majority of people have kept more than half of the weight they lost off.
Rachel Allworth, 38, tried Weight Watchers, Lite 'n' Easy, Tony Ferguson's meal replacements, the hip and thigh diet and a soup diet in an attempt to shift weight from her 164-centimetre, 80-kilogram frame.
''I would lose some weight and I'd think I'll try and do it myself and then the kilos would pile back on,'' Allworth, of Padstow Heights, said.
She joined Michelle Bridges's 12-Week Body Transformation program in February. This incorporates exercise plans, nutritional lessons and motivational videos.
Now she is 58kg and training for a half marathon.
''I never exercised before this, and when I joined I started with walking,'' she said. ''As I got faster I started running and I love it. I'm eating healthier as well. I've set goals in ways other programs have never taught me to.''
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
The Great Debate: Would You Go?
Let's go back, it's November 18th, 2006. #1 OSU vs. #2 Michigan. And...
Your friend/brother/co-worker/PICK ONE is getting married that day just as this Ohio State man and Michigan woman did. Thus, do you go to the wedding? And if no/so, where do you draw the line (meaning, if it's your brother, you'd go but if it's a co-worker, screw him)?
What say you, MZone reader?
P.S. The question of why an Ohio State fan and Michigan fan would get married in the first place is a whole other can of worms. This makes Romeo and Juliet seem quaint.
47 comments:
The fact they support different ends of the OSU/UM spectrum appears to be perfectly fine by them.
You know, there are some things that are more important than football. The asshole who considers boycotting a wedding deserves to be shot.
Being a Michigan student from Ohio, this is EXACTLY the sort of attitude that I HATED OSU fans showing. Allowing the rivalry spill over into areas it doesn't belong. I'm am 100% for the game, and am completely willing to partake in rivalry-fueled activities, such as trading anti-OSU jokes (and vis versa) at a lunch break. Or drawing block Ms on someone's abandoned books during school. Or whatever.
But in the end of the day, it's only a football game. Don't let it interfere with what is important in life. It's a distinction that I generally see Michigan fans showing, and many OSU fans do not. Grow up and join the former.
- December 01, 2006 1:33 AM
- Yost said...
Uh oh, I guess I deserve to be shot, then.
But what about shooting the bride and groom for picking The Game as their wedding day? Please tell you'd at least give them a REALLY shitty gift.
- December 01, 2006 1:37 AM
- 1201 S. Main St. said...
This may be a case where the buckeye shouts Fuck Michigan and it would be and it would be less of an insult and more of a post wedding directive.
What's the over-under on how long it lasts?
Anyone who schedules a wedding on a football Sat. is getting a shitty gift from me (unless it's the bye week). Double shitty if it's OSU week.
- December 01, 2006 2:06 AM
- Yost said...
Plus just think about how much anniversaries blow. Yeah, this is just wrong on so many levels.
- December 01, 2006 2:13 AM
I had a friend who got married on the UM versus MSU game, and that pissed me off so much I almost didn't go.
- December 01, 2006 2:31 AM
These types of situations occur in real life.
It's simple really, the chick picks a date and the guy says yeah, fine. A couple months later, he checks the pre-season schedule and it's still no problem, 'cause you're a guy and you know that you never schedule anything 6 months out so you don't even think about the wedding date because it's just an abstract concept anyway.
When the abject horror of what has happened hits you, it's way too late to change the date. You might as well call it off. But then you get the great idea that you won't have to pay for a tux and wedding dress, just a couple $150 team jersey's and it's all cool.
And I just want to say that anon 10:33 is a chick.
- December 01, 2006 2:52 AM
- Zach Landres-Schnur said...
your brother or sister would know better not to fuck around on game day. as for your coworker, hey, the office needs some controversy. go to the game.
- December 01, 2006 3:23 AM
If it was my OWN wedding, I would be saying my vows via cellphone from inside the stadium. At halftime I would contemplate what the hell I was thinking, marrying a woman who would schedule our nuptuals on the day of the game. The first guy who was talking about "allowing the rivalry to spill over into areas it doesn't belong" obviously isn't a true fan. The reason it's a rivalry and not "just another game" is because it spills over to those other six meaningless days of the week.
- December 01, 2006 3:43 AM
This is why everyone loves Spring weddings. I would never subject my family and friends to miss a huge game like that. Its so easy to pick a day. Why does it have to be on Saturday and why does it have to be in the Fall? I remember watching the USC/Hawaii game in early September two years ago from the Kitchen of a a hotel where the reception was held. I'm a USC fan BTW, not a Warrior (they dropped the "Rainbow" portion, correct?)
- December 01, 2006 4:21 AM
I say try to be as much of an attention whore as possible and get the media involved. That way, you can try to get married DURING the game while AT it.
Then, every anniversary, whore yourself out to the media and try to get into said football game for an anniversary, or just try to get into a different one.
Or just schedule the fucking thing in June.
- December 01, 2006 5:28 AM
- Dezzi13 said...
This is the very reason I will never have a fall wedding... too many chances to have your anniversary fall on a big game! At least in June/July, you can schedule it so that you would only miss a regular season baseball game.
I have also informed my friends of this... so when they decide to get married... they know my feelings on having a wedding during football season. My old roommate had a wedding on a football Saturday... luckily, the ceremony started at noon and there was a break before the reception, so we were able to go back to the place we were all staying and watch some of the game.
I think if a "friend" were to have a wedding on gameday, I'd go, but turn up the volume on my mobile phone and have the Michigan fight song as my ringtone, making sure that someone called me with an update every 5 minutes during the ceremony...
P.S. - I'm a big a-hole. I get told that all the time!
- December 01, 2006 7:08 AM
If it was family I would think about it, but I would also probably beat him up (assuming it was a brother) for being a jackass & picking that day to get married. Anyone else, I would politely decline to attend as they had no consideration towards me & my football necessities so therefore I would feel no need to be considerate towards attending their wedding.
- December 01, 2006 7:44 AM
I actually had a buddy from med school at michigan that went to ohio state for undergrad. We always thought he was stupid because of it... but this confirmed it... he got married on that day, and also in Seattle Washington, and asked us all to come. I told him I was on call.
- December 01, 2006 8:21 AM
If a guy gets married on a football Saturday, then he's probably gay and the wedding wouldn't be legal anyway (except in Massachusetts).
My wife wanted a fall wedding...I told her if you schedule it then you better find another groom, because I won't be there. It got moved to March and we watched the Big Ten tournament on TV in the bar of the country club we had the reception.
- December 01, 2006 8:31 AM
- Ignats75 said...
My wife of 1 year had to go to a wedding stag once because I was in Columbus for a football game. She whined a little at first, until I told her, "Hey its your friend, you go to the wedding. I've had these season tickets longer than I've had you." Ya gotta show 'em who's boss. (God I hope she doesn't see this. LOL)
My friends were all told early on that I don't do fall weddings. If you want me at your wedding, there are 41 other weeks out of the year. Pick One.
Now that my kids are getting to be marrying age, they've been told too> Pick a fall day and they can use the ladder in the garage.
- December 01, 2006 8:45 AM
I have told both of my sisters that if they choose to get married on the same day as the Ohio State/Michigan game, I will not attend their weddings. They have been forewarned, and I am comfortable with my decision.
I read an article in the WSJ about the "Biggest Game Ever" before this years game. In it, some whiney douche was talking about how he accidentally scheduled his wedding during the game. He stated that though it was a lamentable oversight, it would be a 'friendship ender' if any of his buddies missed the CEREMONY (not the vastly more important reception mind you, but the CEREMONY) to watch the game. I'll tell you what would have ended my friendship with that jackass, receipt of the invitation.
Great blog by the way (and I'm a Buckeye). Sorry you were treated poorly again in Columbus, its inexcusable. We have got to keep working down here on convincing the retarded portion of our fan base that their agressive obnoxious behavior is shameful, and won't be tolerated. I do disagree with you though, that it doesn't happen at other venues. I was hit with a full beer can in Happy Valley last year, and watched my 60 year old mother get hit with ice by a drunken group of northwestern fans in Evanston in 2004 (but, given that they hadn;t beaten us in 33 years at that point, its hard to assume that they;d no how to react). Regardless, the ubiquity of hooligans at sporting events doesn't excuse our fans, and I'll continue to make this point to anyone that will listen.
- December 01, 2006 8:48 AM
- Galen said...
*cue sound of loading gun*
No line to be drawn here, if you plan a wedding on a football Saturday you won't see me there – period. Brother/friend/coworker/mild acquaintance – whoever. A lifelong friend of mine found this out a while ago when he got married on a fall day sans Galen. I don't know if he ever forgave me for it, but you have to have rules to live by.
Anon 10:33 is either a woman or one of those "casual" fans that says "oh well, [insert team here] didn't play well today, too bad. They'll have to get 'em next time" while I'm punching holes in my wall in a fit of rage.
- December 01, 2006 8:51 AM
"If anyone has any reason why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever live in peace."
"FUCK MICHIGAN"!!! (rings out in chorus)
- December 01, 2006 9:07 AM
I've only missed one USC home game in 35 years......my nephews wedding. It still sucks! My wife has attended more than one wedding without me during those 35 years, and my only regret is the one I missed for my sister's kid.
I agree with the others commenters that if you schedule the event on a fall saturday, you made your bed, now sleep in it.
- December 01, 2006 9:17 AM
- PeckHorn78 said...
Make no mistake, the groom has nothing to do with scheduling the date of a wedding- his only responsibility is to pick up the tux and show up on time. That being said, stories abound of brides breaking down into tears as most of the groom's party (i.e. Best Man, Ushers, etc.) are at the hotel bar watching the game while the reception is going on. Brides in areas of the country where college football is huge don't even THINK of trying to schedule a wedding on a fall saturday.
- December 01, 2006 9:38 AM
I've said this many times .... I wouldn't go to my own daughters wedding if it was same day as The Game.
- December 01, 2006 9:41 AM
The bride has the most say in scheduling the wedding date. In this instance she's a Michingan fan. No reason to was a perfectly good day watching LLoyd lose another one when she can be getting married.
- December 01, 2006 9:50 AM
- MGOBLUE94 said...
I had to miss the UM/ND game last year for a wedding in North Dakota for my wife's best friend. Thanfully the wedding was on Friday night, but watching UM/ND from BW3 in Fargo blows!
Agreed - wedding in the fall you take your chances!
- December 01, 2006 9:51 AM
I've seen this in Alabama with Bama-Auburn. It usually end with a late November domestic violence call for the local fuzz.
- December 01, 2006 9:58 AM
- harry hasselhoff said...
Since OSU won the game, does that mean the groom gets to make the bride wear the black-box over her face all the time? I took a look at the unedited pics from the original article and that wouldn't be such a bad deal for him.
- December 01, 2006 10:18 AM
I've had two buddies get married on OSU-Michigan day and I was in both weddings. I'm a UM fan (dad's an alum) living in Ohio. I missed the upset win at OSU in '96 and last year, luckily, I missed the OSU comeback. Last I saw UM was up 9 and I've never seen the end, nor do I want to. My take is: if you are not a football fan and don't know better, it is excusable. However, how the hell do "FANS" of OSU and Michigan INTENTIONALLY plan a wedding the day of the game!!!
- December 01, 2006 10:19 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
a lot depends on the circumstances. i have friends who are not into football or not in to tosu or michigan. if someone schedules a wedding during tosu-michigan in order to avoid the usc-ucla/bama-auburn/etc., i may not go, but i wouldn't blame them for having a different priority.
and sometimes conflicts just happen. my wife & scheduled a march wedding- best date was final four weekend. at the time, didn't seem like a problem. then tosu went on its big run under o'brien and made the final four. as luck would have it, tosu's game was set as the early game, and was over before the ceremony. however, had it been the late game, she was insisting we move the ceremony.
- December 01, 2006 10:22 AM
My brother's wedding was not only on the day of UM/OSU game, but it was my freshman year (would have been my first time at The Game). I skipped the game.
Thankfully it was the 2001 game so I didn't miss anything. Actually I'm kind of glad I wasn't there.
- December 01, 2006 10:22 AM
- NikkiJ27 said...
I actually have two friends (fellow Mich alum) who had to go to weddings on November 18th.
One of them went to a bar 2 minutes away from the church to watch the beginning of the game (wedding started at 5pm), and then missed the end of the game, but got text updates from us. My other friend watched the entire game at a bar, missed the ceremony alltogether and showed up late to the reception.
I think I'd do what my second friend did. Honestly, if people want me to come to their weddings, all they need to do is not schedule them during the game of the century. As far as a brother or sister's wedding - they know me well enough to never do something like that.
- December 01, 2006 10:27 AM
You guys are missing the bigger picture here. In Columbus, it is a widely known that if you want to have a wedding on the cheap…you schedule it on a home Saturday OSU game. The reception halls are half the price and essentially everything else is so much cheaper because of the lack of business for those days. If you had you wedding on the 11/18 this year, you would have save TONS of money. So not only is that person inviting you ruining your chance to watch the game, they are pimping you out to save $$$.
True story…two years ago…had a friend who was in the service and had to get a quick marriage done…he only had the day of the Michigan game to do it. Everybody was pissed…to make matters worse, his wife wanted a real wedding a year later with a big ceremony and reception and scheduled it on the Michigan game one year later!!! Some nerve.
- December 01, 2006 10:32 AM
- Ignats75 said...
I had actualy forgotten about this. In 1972, my Uncle (not a fan of either team and home on leave from Nam) scheduled his wedding the day of The Game. (Think Dennis Franklin and Goal Line Stands :D) My Mom (known to one and all until she died as Grandma Buckeye) was fit to be tied. I was 15 and my sister was 13. We had never seen OSU lose at home, so as a compromise, my Mom arranged to get us to the game. SHe never let her Kid Brother ever forget that one!!! But I guess early on I learned that this game is a priority for me!
- December 01, 2006 10:36 AM
- CaliGirl said...
I have already told my boyfriend, IF we ever get married, it will not be in the fall...we have too many friends that are football fans (and I am one of them)...We have some friends that got married on a football Saturday, because it was a bye week that year, she is a Football fan just as much as the next woman...BUT almost 10 years later she is starting to get bitter having to celebrate her anniversaries at a football game...WE MUST THINK AHEAD :o)
- December 01, 2006 11:24 AM
- Andy said...
Good for them. I hope they will be very happy and their children grow up to be Wolverine fans.
If they were my friends or family, they would have to accept the fact I would have brought a TV to the ceremony or reception.
- December 01, 2006 11:37 AM
Caligirl said it: It looks like the groom is getting his revenge one year at a time. Funny!
- December 01, 2006 11:38 AM
My Brother and sister-in-law got married on the same day as The Game 15 or so years ago. My S-I-L went to IU but her father and brother went to U of M, as did I. Most of my family are Spartans. The ceremony was in the afternoon, and the powers that be had to delay things because my brother's F-I-L, B-I-L, and I showed up late because we were watching the game. I think Michigan won because this was back in the day of Cooper, but I can't be certain.
So I guess I draw the line at my bro.
- December 01, 2006 12:12 PM
"The asshole who considers boycotting a wedding deserves to be shot."
Anon 10:33, you're what my good friend Tyra Banks likes to call a "Bridezilla." Scheduling your wedding in the middle of another big event that your friends and family care about is a dick move.
- December 01, 2006 12:21 PM
- Andy said...
I skipped a wedding last year (my mom is remarried and her husband's daughter was getting married). Once I saw the date on the card, I declined. I also said I was going to the game (luckily someone came through at the last minute with them, so this wasn't a complete lie). I was in the dog house for awhile, but too fucking bad. I will not miss The Game ever. I also blamed them for picking a stupid date for their wedding. They should have checked the calendar.
- December 01, 2006 12:24 PM
I've seen mixed marriages like this work out. We have them between Eagles fans and Giants fans here in Eastern PA and somehow they make it work (sometimes).
- December 01, 2006 1:02 PM
- The King said...
No one I care about would ever do something this stupid. One of my UM roommates got married on OSU/UM weekend, and I skipped the wedding. And I wasn't even going to the game.
- December 01, 2006 1:06 PM
Brides in areas of the country where college football is huge don't even THINK of trying to schedule a wedding on a fall saturday.
Peckhorn, you are right. I was born, raised, and still live in SEC territory. There is no way in hell that I would schedule a wedding anytime during the fall, much less "the game." There are two times during the year you'll never get to schedule a wedding-during the fall and during March Madness. Those two events are just that much more important than a wedding to me.
And let me just say this-us female sports fans know better. And those non sports fans brides need to ask their fiance when is not a good time for a wedding, because that's inexcusable.
This is one of my pet peeves. Thanks a lot Yost for bringing it up.
- December 01, 2006 2:33 PM
They'll have one kid, who becomes a ND fan just to pis them off.
- December 01, 2006 2:45 PM
I'm getting married to a Notre Dame fan. Never thought i'd see the day, but love does that to you sometimes.
Plus when we beat Notre Dame in week 3 she avoided me all day and wouldn't talk to me. When we eventually got to talk and I got to rub it in it was great.
- December 01, 2006 2:58 PM
More like you got to "rub one out"
No chance she'd give you any that night
- December 01, 2006 3:23 PM
Anon 7:32. good story... bringing back memories of all sorts of unreasonable wedding demands from friends over the years. 2-weddings-2gamedays...now that is just beyond the pale...
- December 01, 2006 5:25 PM
anony 11:33. what are you doing later? :)
- December 01, 2006 5:27 PM
Cousin, HUGE Michigan fan, married during The Game in '96. Missed the actual wedding, but it was one hell of a reception (and I not just referring to Tai Street's). As hard as that was for me to believe, peep this: he was on vacation this year for his tenth anniversary and missed The Game. Rather than take this an indictment of him as a Michigan fan, I take this as a showing of how much he loves his wife. For me, it's also become a yardstick: (1) I have a lot of growing up to do, because to me that's just fucking crazy (2) if I ever become stricken with a girl such that I'd skip The Game to be with her, I'd marry her on the spot and I wouldn't give a f*** whether any of my friends or relatives showed.
- December 02, 2006 12:43 AM
Getting married on the day of the game with your biggest rival is unseemly. End of discussion.
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Ghostscript is a processor for PostScript and PDF files. It can rasterize these files to a wide variety of printers, devices for screen preview, and image file formats. Since applications tend to prepare pages for printing in a high-level format such as PostScript, most Unix users with low-level bitmap printers, such as inkjets, use GhostScript as part of the printing process. In addition, Ghostscript is capable of converting PostScript files, functionality comparable to Adobe Acrobat Distiller, but on the command line. In addition, Ghostscript is used for file import and viewing by a great many other applications, including xv, ImageMagick, gimp, and xdvi. Several GUI wrappers for viewing PostScript and PDF files exist, including GSview, ghostview, gv, ggv, and kghostview. This is far from a comprehensive list.
AMC is a programmable compiler/preprocessor. It has a built-in programming language called CGL (Code Generation Language) that lets you add new syntactical elements to the source files that AMC processes. In addition, AMC has a module structure reminescent of the UCSD p-System compiler. AMC comes with a default package that adds a dynamic form of OOP to C.
ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++, Java, or Sather actions. It is similar to the popular compiler generator YACC, however ANTLR is much more powerful and easy to use. ANTLR-produced parsers are not only highly efficient, but are both human-readable and human-debuggable (especially with the interactive ParseView debugging tool). ANTLR can generate parsers, lexers, and tree-parsers in either C++, Java, or Sather. ANTLR is currently written in Java.
Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl as the host scripting language. Apache::ASP allows a developer to create dynamic Web applications with session management and embedded Perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API.
A+ is a powerful and efficient programming language. It embodies a rich set of functions and operators, a modern GUI with many widgets and automatic synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather efficient interpreter.
APRIL is a symbolic programming language that is designed for writing mobile, distributed and agent-based systems especially in an Internet environment. It has advanced features such as a macro sub-language, asynchronous message sending and receiving, code mobility, pattern matching, higher-order functions and strong typing. The language is compiled to byte-code which is then interpreted by the APRIL runtime-engine. APRIL now requires the InterAgent Communications Model (ICM) to be installed before it can be installed.