I’m laughing at these hot takes accusing Virginia of having a poor offense. They had the 31st most efficient offense according to KenPom. Definitely they were a team focused on the defensive side of the ball, but the offense wasn’t anemic. This piece is right about what made UVA vulnerable — pace, not offensive…

*Summitt

Poor MTSU.

I miss Pat. I feel like she would have just given them The Stare and gotten 6 consecutive close calls to the Lady Vols.

I would be surprised if they wanted to stay knowing that the next coach will probably try to push them out to make way for more talented players. Stallings didn’t exactly attract a talented roster.

+1 weak OOC schedule

You’re talking about a genre that centers around the guitar. Aside from regional relationships with African American spiritual music, anything that uses a guitar relies on a lineage that descends from Spanish Moors, who brought one of the antecedent instruments from Africa. In America the history of the 6-string…

Bluegrass music is fundamentally African as well. Ever wonder where the banjo came from?

They should get in because their coach’s name is Kermit.

It’s still Middle Tennessee State.

Road salt just can’t cut it anymore.

The Highway Trust Fund received regular boosts from Congress to pull it from insolvency, to the tune of $35 billion between 2008 and 2010 alone. Never mind the fact that fuel consumption isn’t tied to the cost of road maintenance, and projects aren’t funded by the Highway Trust Fund on the basis of whether the traffic…

In this case the state’s laws are reinforcing Constitutional imperatives. The only “political” thing about it is context.

All transit in this country is massively subsidized by government spending on multiple levels. Valuing individual transportation over mass transit is arbitrarily favoring people who have access to personal vehicles over those who do not.

Or the red bloods, for that matter.

Nobody has to watch them for them to matter. They’re the state schools of two states in big markets. Because they’re the state school, they have to be carried by Maryland cable providers, which automatically brings in all of the DC market, and New Jersey cable providers, which automatically brings in all of the NYC…

It means getting their TV network on cable packages in more states, which actually netted them a ton of cash. Rutgers and Maryland don’t have to be good to be valuable.

The only reason that a dealer would want someone to spend more of their own time to go to the dealership and negotiate in person is to make them commit to a price that isn’t competitive. Everybody’s time is valuable to them, and the dealer is counting on you considering the sunk cost of your invested time in the visit…

I’m thinking that Title IX will be a bigger deal than you’re making it out to be. Plus most of the smaller schools will simply bow out of participation, since it will be harder to justify intercollegiate sports when they are not nominally amateur for universities that use public funding for sports. I think the big…

How is Crossville just out of Nashville? The Cumberland Plateau is a very different place.