Reminder. We're ten days out from Halloween. (You'll note that Halloween decorations were put up over the weekend.) As usual everyone is expected to wear a costume. In the afternoon there'll be various activities and games and the straw hat band will drop by. The first floor conference room will be converted into a haunted house. And don't forget the Halloween Party at Hey Alumni Go's house that evening. All are invited. And oh by the way....boo!
Speaking of Halloween week. You kids play nice. I'm in Mexico City most of next week celebrating my silver anniversary. I'll be going to Dia de Los Muertos stuff, watching a luchador match, eating street tacos and Michelin star food, and generally taking in the vibes.
back and forth game between Lions and Vikings. Goff lead game winning drive and brand relatively new FG kicker kicks game winning FG as time expires.
Bates, who was plucked from the United Football League after incumbent Michael Badgley got hurt at the beginning of training camp, is 10 for 10 on field goals this season.
49ers lose game 28-18 to Chiefs and apparently Brandon Aiyuk for the season with an ACL injury. Purdy and Mahomes combined for zero passing TDs and 5 INTs.
The list of people who are out is longer than the list of people available for the 49ers. Only because of the ridiculous length of the NFL season is this not already a lost year; there is still time for collapses elsewhere that eclipse SF's. But prospects do not look good.
It's a sunnyside-up egg with a bit more oil, tilted in the pan so that you get the whites to create little trails across the pan, and then you just let it cook longer. All the trails on the egg and the edges of the white get all crispy. Crispy egg whites are delicious.
frothy egg white cocktails are a HSB-home-bar specialty.
once upon a time, a good HS friend of my mine was a pledge at Alpha Delt, i used to help him churn out 100s of game-day gin fizz cocktails made w/ gin, frozen lemonade concentrate and raw eggs.
Scrambled, as an omelet, poached, fried, hard boiled, sot boiled, in frittata, in quiche, and probably one or two other ways I'm not recalling at the moment.
[ACC] VA Tech beat BC 42-21, Duke beat FSU 23-16, Miami beat Lville 52-45, Clemson beat UVA 48-31, GA Tech lost to Notre Dame 31-13, SMU beat Furd 40-10, Wake Forest beat UConn 23-20
[Other former PAC teams} ASU lost to Cincinnati 24-14, Arizona lost to Colorado 34-7, Utah lost to TCU 13-7, USC lost to Maryland 29-28, Oregon State lost to UNLV 33-25, Wazzu beat Hawaii 42-10, UCLA did not lose to Rutgers 35-32, Oregon smashed Purdue 35-0
I was at the SC - Maryland game and god bless, the Maryland students rushed the field afterwards, I guess they didn't know that you're supposed to beat the patsies scheduled for homecoming lol
Posted this elsewhere, but it was so much fun, I'm re-posting:
There's the ficitious Wossamotta U from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show in the early 1960s. Wossamotta Board decides that in order to bring in more money, they need to have a good football team.
In order to afford a good football team, they fire a "bunch of English professors". Hire a coach and staff. And recruit Bullwinkle.
Natasha: "Boris! You went to college? Penn State?"
Referees reverse PI call when Texas fans pummel them and the field with whatever they could lay their hands on. Does not matter, there is still no one other than Alabama that can beat Georgia.
I saw that Texas is threatening to ban any students or others that they can identify as having thrown stuff on the field, a pretty minor consequence for the institution for what could be described as a successful intimidation campaign against the refs except for the fact that the original call on the field was dumb as hell
"the original call on the field was dumb as hell" is a circumstance that is occurring all too frequently, and is bound to have sub-optimal consequences of some sort.
I'd rather see the cause of the problem addressed, not reaction management.
In the first four days of voting, NC voter turnout was up 2% over record 2020 levels. Higher turnout is good for Democrats because GOP voter turnout in 2020 was 82%, so higher rates within the GOP hit asymptotic resistance. Meanwhile, voter turnout for under 25 years old was 60%. Trump took the state in 2020 by 1.34 percentage points. This state should be a nail biter.
According to University of Florida Election Lab, turnout in the 2020 Presidential Election:
Oklahoma had lowest turnout at 54.43% of eligible voters
Minnesota had highest turnout at 79.21% of eligible voters
Overall US turnout was 65.99%.
Contrast those numbers with the 2016 Presidential Elections -
Hawaii had lowest turnout at 43.19% of eligible voters
Minnesota had highest turnout at 74.67% of eligible voters
Overall US turnout was 60.12%.
One term of Donald Trump was enough to drive up voter turnout by about 5.87%. Consider also that the raw number of votes increased from 138,747,904 (in 2016) to 159,738,337 (in 2020; or about 20.990 million more ballots were cast). Just in terms of actual votes cast, there was about a 15.13% increase in the number of votes.
Where is/what facility is Cal's indoor football practice facility? I've never figured it out, and in looking at Google maps (assuming its reasonably up to date), can't identify any building anywhere near Memorial that is even big enough to contain it. I can find several open fields for Rugby, LaCrosse, & whatever Edwards Stadium is used for, but nothing that looks like a possibility.
More importantly, how does Cal expect to recruit, develop, & retain in competition with such a deficiency? This is a serious question, and casts a new light on why Cal's roster is consistently short on talent and depth.
Where does the acreage exist to put such a facility? It doesn't. And in order to make it exist requires campus administration support. Theoretically, you could convert Maxwell Family Field, but that would almost certainly result in a loss for intramural sports and possibly the Marching Band.
So, where are you likely to place an indoor practice facility on the Cal campus? And whose ox are you going gore to do it?
So, Cal fans would prefer to lose by 2 instead of 1? I saw another post and comments about this, but the likelihood of converting a 2 point conversion is much less than the kick, and far below 30%. Even less likely with the Cal offense, as was demonstrated multiple times fairly recently.
But it wasn't even close to late in the game. This happened in the 3rd quarter! I agree about the late in game modifications to shift to unlikely to succeed strategies because of the impact of limited remaining time, but this was WAY too early to start futilely chasing points. "Late" generally is at least the last half of the 4th quarter, and usually last 3-4 minutes. With proper game management, and especially with the addition of the 2 minute timeout, there is time for a lot of diverse game progressions until very late. I would worry more about how, on 4th & 5, a 3 yard pass play was run.
Play calling should be based on probability of success, not potential benefit of unlikely to succeed gambles. This is a common mistake at the college and high school level, and why NFL coaches are paid to pay attention to probability.
Definitely possible scenario with more than 15 minutes to play is NC State gets a TD & a FG, and then a long end of game FG will beat you instead of it resulting in OT. If that happens, Cal fans are rightly hanging Wilcox in effigy for not maximizing points when he should have.
While 14 is > 13, in football scoring, 13 is much > than 12, and going for 2 at that point is much more likely to result in 12 than 14, as it in fact did.
Reminder. We're ten days out from Halloween. (You'll note that Halloween decorations were put up over the weekend.) As usual everyone is expected to wear a costume. In the afternoon there'll be various activities and games and the straw hat band will drop by. The first floor conference room will be converted into a haunted house. And don't forget the Halloween Party at Hey Alumni Go's house that evening. All are invited. And oh by the way....boo!
Speaking of Halloween week. You kids play nice. I'm in Mexico City most of next week celebrating my silver anniversary. I'll be going to Dia de Los Muertos stuff, watching a luchador match, eating street tacos and Michelin star food, and generally taking in the vibes.
congrats on that. we had 25 yrs just last year.
that sounds very civilized
well, the Mets lost. so i am not dressing up as Grimace for Halloween anymore!
Will you be dressed up as Oski?
Indubitably.
I had a math teacher in junior high (7th grade) who used that word. I remember it because I had never heard it before.
Pain au chocolat
what is the latest update from Paris on these, HAG?
I'm going to Paris in 6 weeks. Hook me up with the deets on the best pain
Xmas in Paris? sounds amazing.
Actually, coming back for Xmas, but spending early Dec in Paris and skiing Val Thorens
hopefully you get some good early season snow
we are hoping to ski in Europe around Xmas next year when older child is finishing up study abroad in Rome
we did a choux-pastry making class last time we were there. mostly eclairs and things.
PRO
Yankees vs Dodgers in 12th World Series meet up. 41st time for Yankees, 22nd for Dodgers
Dodgers spend a billion dollars on a few guys and the NLCS MVP and unlikely cleanup batter is 5'10" Tommy Edman.
We could have just played a Yankees-Dodgers series at the conclusion of spring training and saved a lot of time.
back and forth game between Lions and Vikings. Goff lead game winning drive and brand relatively new FG kicker kicks game winning FG as time expires.
Bates, who was plucked from the United Football League after incumbent Michael Badgley got hurt at the beginning of training camp, is 10 for 10 on field goals this season.
* sigh *
It's like Cal done right.
Deshaun Watson apparently tears achilles in 21-14 loss to Bengals
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41906271/browns-deshaun-watson-carted-noncontact-leg-injury
Raiders O'Connell break thumb; Raiders lose 20-15 to Rams
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401671663/raiders-rams
49ers lose game 28-18 to Chiefs and apparently Brandon Aiyuk for the season with an ACL injury. Purdy and Mahomes combined for zero passing TDs and 5 INTs.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401671777
The list of people who are out is longer than the list of people available for the 49ers. Only because of the ridiculous length of the NFL season is this not already a lost year; there is still time for collapses elsewhere that eclipse SF's. But prospects do not look good.
Boston NWSL team decides to call itself BOS Nation FC, and launch ad campaign around "Too Many Balls". Experiences backlash.
https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/10/20/why-bos-nation-fcs-name-and-brand-launch-was-such-a-flop/
Ha!
Who could have foreseen there might be problems with this strategy?
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
Lacy
It's a sunnyside-up egg with a bit more oil, tilted in the pan so that you get the whites to create little trails across the pan, and then you just let it cook longer. All the trails on the egg and the edges of the white get all crispy. Crispy egg whites are delicious.
i do not like them, Sam I am!
frothy egg white cocktails are a HSB-home-bar specialty.
once upon a time, a good HS friend of my mine was a pledge at Alpha Delt, i used to help him churn out 100s of game-day gin fizz cocktails made w/ gin, frozen lemonade concentrate and raw eggs.
Was that Rob?
yes
Scrambled, as an omelet, poached, fried, hard boiled, sot boiled, in frittata, in quiche, and probably one or two other ways I'm not recalling at the moment.
Scrambled, as an omelet, as a quiche. Just yesterday, I enjoyed a fried egg on my burger. I feel like my taste for eggs has expanded as I age.
Over easy usually. Fluffy scrambled on occasion. Hard boiled once in a while. Can always have some in a breakfast burrito.
Used in omelets is also ALWAYS a good alternative!
DBD AV CLUB
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
[ACC] VA Tech beat BC 42-21, Duke beat FSU 23-16, Miami beat Lville 52-45, Clemson beat UVA 48-31, GA Tech lost to Notre Dame 31-13, SMU beat Furd 40-10, Wake Forest beat UConn 23-20
In good news U$C lost again and Stanfurd got pummeled again.
[Other former PAC teams} ASU lost to Cincinnati 24-14, Arizona lost to Colorado 34-7, Utah lost to TCU 13-7, USC lost to Maryland 29-28, Oregon State lost to UNLV 33-25, Wazzu beat Hawaii 42-10, UCLA did not lose to Rutgers 35-32, Oregon smashed Purdue 35-0
I was at the SC - Maryland game and god bless, the Maryland students rushed the field afterwards, I guess they didn't know that you're supposed to beat the patsies scheduled for homecoming lol
Posted this elsewhere, but it was so much fun, I'm re-posting:
There's the ficitious Wossamotta U from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show in the early 1960s. Wossamotta Board decides that in order to bring in more money, they need to have a good football team.
In order to afford a good football team, they fire a "bunch of English professors". Hire a coach and staff. And recruit Bullwinkle.
Natasha: "Boris! You went to college? Penn State?"
Boris: "No. State Pen."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Igc5kXHNFE
That may have been Jay Ward's commentary on the Marv Levy teams.
Cal really should consider this strategy.
Referees reverse PI call when Texas fans pummel them and the field with whatever they could lay their hands on. Does not matter, there is still no one other than Alabama that can beat Georgia.
Would that work as well if they threw cards instead.
I saw that Texas is threatening to ban any students or others that they can identify as having thrown stuff on the field, a pretty minor consequence for the institution for what could be described as a successful intimidation campaign against the refs except for the fact that the original call on the field was dumb as hell
"the original call on the field was dumb as hell" is a circumstance that is occurring all too frequently, and is bound to have sub-optimal consequences of some sort.
I'd rather see the cause of the problem addressed, not reaction management.
POLITICS
Trivia: which states have the highest and lowest percentage of requested absentee ballots?
In the first four days of voting, NC voter turnout was up 2% over record 2020 levels. Higher turnout is good for Democrats because GOP voter turnout in 2020 was 82%, so higher rates within the GOP hit asymptotic resistance. Meanwhile, voter turnout for under 25 years old was 60%. Trump took the state in 2020 by 1.34 percentage points. This state should be a nail biter.
Although early turnout is usually good for Dems, Trump has been encouraging his base to vote early. I hope your asymptotic resistance theory holds up.
Trivia: which state had the highest and lowest voter turnout rates in 2020?
According to University of Florida Election Lab, turnout in the 2020 Presidential Election:
Oklahoma had lowest turnout at 54.43% of eligible voters
Minnesota had highest turnout at 79.21% of eligible voters
Overall US turnout was 65.99%.
Contrast those numbers with the 2016 Presidential Elections -
Hawaii had lowest turnout at 43.19% of eligible voters
Minnesota had highest turnout at 74.67% of eligible voters
Overall US turnout was 60.12%.
One term of Donald Trump was enough to drive up voter turnout by about 5.87%. Consider also that the raw number of votes increased from 138,747,904 (in 2016) to 159,738,337 (in 2020; or about 20.990 million more ballots were cast). Just in terms of actual votes cast, there was about a 15.13% increase in the number of votes.
The only thing more of a dumpster fire than Cal football!
(Checks notes...nope)
Stanford & Florida St football are definitely worse dumpster fires just now.
But perhaps you were taking a 21st century view?
It would almost be better to suck completely as the path in a way would be clearer
Have never looked forward to the end of election season as much as this year.
Unfortunately now we know “election season“ lasts through January.
sci-fi movies and dystopian novels are not that different from our current reality
At least some of the house & senate and ballot measure races will quiet down.
Curious if ACCN changed up its ads much for west vs east--- here in GA during the game we still saw lots of NC political ads.
CAL
Where is/what facility is Cal's indoor football practice facility? I've never figured it out, and in looking at Google maps (assuming its reasonably up to date), can't identify any building anywhere near Memorial that is even big enough to contain it. I can find several open fields for Rugby, LaCrosse, & whatever Edwards Stadium is used for, but nothing that looks like a possibility.
No such facility exists.
?!
How is that possible?
More importantly, how does Cal expect to recruit, develop, & retain in competition with such a deficiency? This is a serious question, and casts a new light on why Cal's roster is consistently short on talent and depth.
Where does the acreage exist to put such a facility? It doesn't. And in order to make it exist requires campus administration support. Theoretically, you could convert Maxwell Family Field, but that would almost certainly result in a loss for intramural sports and possibly the Marching Band.
So, where are you likely to place an indoor practice facility on the Cal campus? And whose ox are you going gore to do it?
Go Bears!!!
We just seem so hopeless - like you know if it’s close we will blow it. Would be nice to keep Cade and Nando for next year…
So, Cal fans would prefer to lose by 2 instead of 1? I saw another post and comments about this, but the likelihood of converting a 2 point conversion is much less than the kick, and far below 30%. Even less likely with the Cal offense, as was demonstrated multiple times fairly recently.
But it wasn't even close to late in the game. This happened in the 3rd quarter! I agree about the late in game modifications to shift to unlikely to succeed strategies because of the impact of limited remaining time, but this was WAY too early to start futilely chasing points. "Late" generally is at least the last half of the 4th quarter, and usually last 3-4 minutes. With proper game management, and especially with the addition of the 2 minute timeout, there is time for a lot of diverse game progressions until very late. I would worry more about how, on 4th & 5, a 3 yard pass play was run.
Play calling should be based on probability of success, not potential benefit of unlikely to succeed gambles. This is a common mistake at the college and high school level, and why NFL coaches are paid to pay attention to probability.
Definitely possible scenario with more than 15 minutes to play is NC State gets a TD & a FG, and then a long end of game FG will beat you instead of it resulting in OT. If that happens, Cal fans are rightly hanging Wilcox in effigy for not maximizing points when he should have.
While 14 is > 13, in football scoring, 13 is much > than 12, and going for 2 at that point is much more likely to result in 12 than 14, as it in fact did.
According to official stats,
California Golden Bears
TD 0:24 3rd Qtr
Jaivian Thomas 7 Yd Run (Derek Morris Kick)
2 plays, 16 yards, 0:57
It was not in the 4th quarter.