Gadfly

In its current sorry state largely due to failure to make financial investments into the program.

I hope, as a NYT subscriber, that my article sharing privilege extends to chatboards.

Student-athletes whose head coach is fired in-season can enter the portal within 30 days of the change, starting on the day after the coach's departure is announced.

24 team and 54 individual national champions

as most dominant (historically) wrestling program, which might be Iowa. Certainly UNC women's soccer would be at the top. Also, Arkansas track and field, UConn wbb should be highly regarded.

Miss St (31.4%) were successful this past season shooting <32% from 3. While desirable, a high 3-pt shooting pct is not a necessity for making the NCAA tourney.

you? Different strokes for different folks.

do not provide as compelling and entertaining elite 8's and final fours as when the best teams are competing. The problem with this year's tourney (for me) is not that cinderellas are absent but fewer competitive games between highly seeded teams. The men's final four has a chance to provide 3 great games.

would condone the sharing of such information with a student.

I started wrestling nearly 60 years ago and have casually followed the sport since, so I have some bona fides.

provides interesting nuance to his coaching career. Lots of positivity to his style among the negative.

to instill some discipline. The time-frame would work as Tuchel wears out his welcome in about 2 years; however, bad blood with Pulisic will not be received well.

during the program's resurrection by Ara Parseghian in the 1960s. Then I lost my religion and ND fandom in the 1970s.

Loved his philosophy on living: Happiness increases as selfishness decreases.

It has been my experience that that best teachers are also among the best researchers at VT and elsewhere. There are exceptions, but talented faculty usually take great pride in their mission, whether research, teaching or extension. Those exceptional faculty with large research programs also offer great research/learning opportunities to undergrads. As a land Grant University, VT must address 3 missions - teaching, research, and extension. Appointments are typically joint between teaching-research or extension-research. The type of research that normally contributes to higher rankings of research universities is basic research, which attempts to improve our understanding of a particular phenomenon, study or law of nature. Basic research is designed to learn how processes or concepts work and often creates a foundation for applied studies. The federal government funds these from grants made from agencies such as National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD). Applied (or translational) research is designed to discover practical solutions to problems. Such research is often not valued as highly as basic research in the rankings of research universities, but land grant universities perform much of this research through their colleges of agriculture, natural resources, engineering, urban affairs, transportation, etc.. Such research is a bulwark of faculty who have extension-research appointments, as their research must directly inform their clientele's (e.g., farmers, foresters, land managers, health and nutrition specialists, civil and environmental engineering firms, local government, and the citizens of the Commonwealth) practical questions. However, many well-designed applied/translational research includes components of basic research so that the graduate students who conduct these studies develop a foundation for both basic and applied discovery. Federal agencies, such as DOE, DOD, Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce, etc. may be large funders of applied-translational research. Land Grant University research ratings can be hamstrung by their need to perform applied research, but many of the highest ranked research universities are land grants nonetheless, e.g., MIT, Texas A&M, Michigan State U, Univ of California-Davis, Purdue, Univ of Wisconsin. I have often been asked why universities so value research at the expense of teaching. The answer is complex, but realize that textbooks and other teaching resources can only be written and updated from contemporary research. An end to research will result in an end to new teaching knowledge. Because basic research often provides the foundation for applied/translational research to solve practical problems, the federal government must fund such research because private companies typically are interested in applied research from which they can profit. Most of the great advances made by private sector research have their basis in prior government-funded research. The continued reliance on both is necessary for a prospering economy and quality of life. ** Edited by Gadfly at 4/14/2024, 8:40:27 AM

re-match was a yawner. Walton-Burleson in 1974 was a classic.

causes concussions.

the 1980 Olympic hockey semi-final b/t USSR and USA (college kids from UMN, UW, BU, et al.). So many successful professionals came from the those schools.

but I was a fan of the sport and, especially, Beanpot while living in CT and MA for ~8 years. I've occasionally watched the Beanpot and followed it in the Boston Globe through the years. Thanks for the heads up. I hope to catch some of the action.

One of NCAA's best tournaments

for her work on bioaerosols and indoor air quality.

Love the mountains. Don't need no stinkin' beach to attract out-of-towners - I see enough of those a half dozen weekends a year. I'll continue to live here as long as it remains relatively quaint and our climate remains somewhat stable. I'll easily accept the quality of college sports that accompanies such a quality of life.

Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. RR and the Band were trend setters for many...George Harrison, Eric Clapton, et al.

She was the original Georgia Amoore.

professional career and other life hurdles to my hs and [abbreviated] college wrestling challenges. Few other sports are so physically, mentally, and emotionally demanding. I so admire Mekhi more for his tenacity than his skill. I fondly recall the relief of finally being able to heal from injuries. Unfortunately, many of those have re-appeared during my later years.

were the loudest VT WBB home games I recall attending. ** Edited by Gadfly at 3/19/2023, 10:01:40 AM

We often don't realize the wonderful humans under the helmets and behind the facemasks.