US OPEN

Oakmont history makes this place legendary, but it doesn't play as gorgeous on TV.

It is possible that Fox is too new at golf, but it may be the openness of the course.
I do expect the difficulty of the course to take its toll on everyone and the best players with one or two surprises to be playing for win Sunday.

Because of the roll on the fairways, I really think big hitters only have an advantage from the rough and not the course itself.

I expect Jordan, Phil and Dustin to stay in the hunt.
Rose, Willet, Scott seem primed.

Day and Rory can struggle on really fast greens.

I hope Sam Burns makes the cut as amateur.

College Baseball Polls and Big 12 putting on Show.

The entire year the polls had the SEC and ACC with most of the top 15 teams.

Well it is down to Florida beating Fla State to have one SEC team and Fla State for ACC to have two.

I would not be surprised if Florida wins the entire thing, but the Big 12 needed some love.

The Big 12 has rolled and my new favorite player is the freshman called Thor at TCU.
Luken Baker, last years Gatorade player of the year from Spring is a beast, I knew he had a mid 90s fastball, But it is a joy to see someone sans the steroids era hitting mammoth shots.

J.

Wilt 100

I recommend watching "Wilt 100" on the NBA channel.

Sometimes, I forget why I still consider him the greatest that ever played basketball.
Jordan was the greatest all around player of the modern generation,
Kareem was the most important player that I have ever seen.

Wilt, words cannot describe what he actually did on the basketball courts.

1. Points- No words 
2. Rebounds - No Words  
1. Led league his last 3 years at  over 18. (For those naysayers, the Hall of Fame is full of centers he dominated in his old age.)
3. Blocks- Almost surely the best ever because of the minutes he played. 
1. Only 112 games of Wilts career are checked for Blocks... His Avg 8.8 per game. That includes the playoffs against Russell and Nate Thurmond. 
2. Hakeem one of our faves averaged 3.5 which is incredible. 
4. DWS- Defensive Wins - Underrated at fifth all time. Russell is 1, but blocks and steals were not part of the equation.  Let's consider Tim Duncan is 2nd ahead of Jordan and Wilt. An adjustment needs to be made on DWS.
5. OWS- Offense - Lets just say his bad night when he was triple teamed still is in another atmosphere to anyone. 
6. Win Shares- 2nd all time, not behind Russell, but it is Kareem again.  

These numbers are insane. 

j. 

Fun College Football Analytics

http://cfbmatrix.com/

This is a really good website to judge some of the questions regarding coaches and teams.
Specifically, I like the coaching rankings based on winning or losing against teams with more or less talent.

As you would expect two of the questionable fellows are on the losing end.
The author calls it Anti Coach Effect of the Year-2015, it is based on plus 1 for winning a game as underdog and negative one for losing. 

Charlie Strong leads the way with a negative 5.  But as the author comments, that is with a win over a Baylor team without a QB and it third or fourth string RB. 
His quote
"Charlie Strong finishes at -5 games after barely beating a hapless Baylor team down to running only with a wide receiver at QB.  He is following in the footsteps of two time winner Mack Brown."
That is priceless and shameful. 

Les Miles finished ahead of Malzahn and Spurrier they were plus 4, even though favoring that Gamecock team even early seemed ridiculous to most SEC fans.  Malzahn deserved his -4. 
Les and Sumlin sat at -2, yet for some reason I think Les had much more talent that the Aggies.  The Ags were 4-4 in conference and LSU 5-3.

On the positive side, the SEC was led by Saban, Freeze and Mullen. I had forgotten that Bama replaced basically the entire offense. But, Mullen had a huge turnover and far less talent. Freeze loss at Memphis State is still ridiculous. 

Nationally the winners were Ferentz, Leach and Whittingham.  I give it to Leach. 

j