TomRollTideRitter

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Minimum 11 years post high school. 4 years college 4 year med school 3 year residency in like family med, internal med, pediatrics or emergency medicine. More if they want to be a surgeon or pursue fellowships.

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It’s definitely a long haul, and I think that does cause doctors to be a weird bunch.

That said, I’d say on average the doctors I work with post residency are in the low $400s in their early 30s. Even lower specialties like pediatrics get to $250K post residency.

Those are really good comp numbers for a path that’s as formulaic as it gets.

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Seems the SEC is (as most predicted) altering their program quite a bit.

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The problem for these former Big 8 teams plus Arkansas is they recruited above their geography historically because they were winning games and playing in big time games.

It’s easy to see this snowballing for Oklahoma long term. Lose more games playing in the SEC, prestige drops, recruiting drops, lose even more games.

Colorado, Nebraska, Arkansas (not Big 8 but similar geography), and now Oklahoma have had records well below their historic average since leaving their leagues. Mizzou is the only one that seems to be able to maintain their level.

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Well, they do get paid to play a lot of Big Ten teams I suppose.

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The guy’s dream job is probably to become Michigan president or even just a run of mill administrator at UM. Inherent problem with nonprofits is the people running them rarely have much interest in them.

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No it wasn’t. That call was atrocious, but PI calls are inherently subjective. There was no subjectivity about the time left in the western Michigan game. It was objectively over. The game was over. Zero doubt and argument. The refs gave Michigan extra time because they wanted Michigan to win

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This 100%

I haven’t heard any explanation for this call. On even the worst PI call, the most homer fans can always manufacture some reason it was the right call.

I don’t know how anyone defends this call.

Since joining FBS in 2012, UMass through 2025 was

- 26-130 (.167) over 14 seasons
- Zero winning seasons
- Zero bowl appearances
- Best record of 4-8 twice
- 0-12 in 2025
- Only 17 of their 26 wins have been vs FBS opponents (average of 1.2 FBS wins per season
- Average 5 losses for each win

Even in the high press era, you can’t outrun the ball. Spain dominated in the midfield, and when they lost the ball France could only ever hoof it long or just give it right back within a few passes.

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It always will be. I’m convinced there will never be a non Western European / South American champion.

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Only 3 times has a non European or South American nation even finished top 4

U.S., South Korea, and Morocco

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VAR is just used when it’s benefitting teams like England and Argentina.

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VAR overturned an England penalty kick today, and if we’re gonna scream corruption, can we at least wait till it’s not a clear cut dive?

Y’all are so against Argentina you’re gonna defend diving?

Everyone gets the script flipped when we get bounced from the World Cup. They will say “If our best athletes played…” and “we need soccer pitches all over the inner city…”

But soccer is a skill sport. Messi went to Barcelona at 13. He developed by playing in an exclusive group of the best players in the world.

The U.S. system optimizes for opportunity for the most athletes because our most popular sports are “off the bus sports.”

Because of this, the U.S. isn’t very good at most skill based sports especially on the men’s side. In the Olympics we mostly win at Swimming, Track, Basketball. All of those are much more natural athleticism than skill. Even in basketball all the most skilled players are now Euros, but our guys are athletic enough to still win.

Our system focuses on opportunity, which isn’t worse all around, but it is worse for maximizing skill. If you want the best possible U.S. soccer team, the solution is a handful of extremely exclusive academies across the country that get the best players in there by 10 years old. Not a million pitches where everyone plays hoof ball.

This is how the U.S. largely does winter sports now, and it’s been very successful. The U.S. hockey team has played together for years and years.

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Care that Pepi, Reyna and Weah looked like pure arse. We need those guys if we want to make a deep run.

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I mostly agree with this except on Weah. Weah hasn’t been in form for awhile for club or national team. I don’t want to see him again, and I don’t think we need him.

His only saving grace is that Aaronson was bad too.

Arda Guler is unreal.