#like its just so. much harder. bc the league is so much more competitive

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me when i say i love mcdrai and also will ALWAYS root for the oilers downfall... don't get it confused 👆

[footiehoemcfc]

People who do not understand why Cole is doing so good at Chelsea, clearly don't understand football i am convinced. Because and no disrespect but most of Chelsea's players currently are children compared to prem standards. Many of them have very little prem experience, little to no experience playing in a competitive league. And on top of that, they are being coached my Poch and no offense but getting coached by poch and getting coached by arguably the greatest football manager ever isn't the same. The biggest reason why Cole couldn't get into City's starting xi is because there were too many world class players. Cole is amazing but their was someone amazing with more experience to chose from. He's been coached by pep, played with so many world class players at city and has experience playing in cl and prem–no wonder he's doing great at Chelsea. And I mean if you're surrounded by not world class players (yet), you are going to look great with little effort if you already have good experience and skills compared to when you had to fight for your position against the likes of haaland, mahrez, alvarez, gundo—

Bottom line, Chelsea fans want a de Bruyne and Salah situation soooo bad cause now they look idiots for letting go of them.

Didn’t say he was doing bad at chelsea, i just said it’s annoying and dumb how people try an compare him to foden. People really believe this myth that phil has been on the bench ever since he started on the main team at city. And people use that to belittle him and his success. 100% its way harder to shine at city bc of what ypu said, but wouldnt that say much more about phil though? World class players and he has managed to be in the starting 11. I have also said and no offense (lol) that is kinda embarrassing that our “bench” academy player is chelsea’s best player. But again what you said, ofc he would be he was coached by pep, he played with arguably one of the best teams the prem has seen. Its not that i dont see why he is playing well at chelsea, my whole thing was why are people thinking he is doing better than phil and he chose the right path over phil? Yk?

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So! People in the submas tag have (recently?) been speculating/ writing about Litwick being a bad omen that gets Ingo a lot of flack as a kid. As in, Partner Pokémon is a significant role and many people say a person’s first partner says a lot about them. Since Litwick has a very spooky dex entry, and chandelure is the terrifying kind of ghost pokémon, there’s the idea that Ingo…there’s something not okay about him. There must be something off, something wrong. It’s then up to personal taste whether this has any merit and Ingo is not quite right, or it’s just superstitious garbage that gets him bullied for liking the ghost candle.

I love this take! Really, I’ve been consuming the content and really digging it, believe me. However, it’s kind of a bummer bc I like the chandelure line So Much. Thus, I have devised an alternative for myself and decided to share. The fact that Ingo’s partner pokémon turns out to be ghost type is actually a really good sign, at least for his prospects as a competitive trainer. Ghosts are hard to befriend, and even harder to power up through any means other than trainer-trainer battles (Most pokémon just out and about vibing in places kids/beginners can get to for grinding are at least part normal type, or otherwise too high a level to grind effectively).

Mostly though, 1/2 of ALL elite fours around the world have a ghost type trainer. If they don’t have a ghost specialist in the league building itself, they have a gym leader who uses that type. People have noticed this. This on its own isn’t impressive on its face, since there’s only 18 types in the first place, but it’s a long held tradition and known fact that ghost types wreck shop and the people who partner with them always end up in power.

Ingo caught a Litwick! That’s a great sign! He’s so young and he’s already on his way to doing great things! He must be so talented! Imagine how far he’ll go! …Are you catching my drift? The “imposter syndrome” and “gifted kid” and “crippling fear of disappointing people” drift? There’s plenty of angst potential in Litwick being a respected partner pokémon. There’s just also a lot more fluff potential for Ingo and Ghost Light bonding. They are besties. They are showing off for people so proudly. They are starting to wonder whether battling is even worth all of the comments and expectations.

Emmet will be essential in thwarting burnout. Ingo and Chandelure my beloveds. That’s it end of post.

[rvsangah]

idol project masterpost~

these are all my weekly challenges for sangah in one post! i did it this way bc i wanted to wait until the end so i could see what ~everyone~ did a craft a narrative if i get less points or something idc (honestly give me 0 lol im doing this so wrong) i just wanted to get this out there for character development!!!

episode one

sangah was excited at the song choice for their audition. with her and yihwa both being sent, it meant there was at least two power vocalists on the show, and she was relieved and grateful that at least she would get to show off too. yihwa was better than her, no doubt, but she was still good. and she got to show that. she just had to get over her nerves-- those would be her undoing.

and those nerves showed up. while she got praised, and eventually made A grade, she knew she fell back. mirae and yihwa were both so magnetic, and she hadn’t done her best, so she looked like the star students’ tag along little sister. 

but she made A. and she’d make sure she was more focused and grounded before her next performance.

episode two

though part of her wanted to be the team a leader, yihwa was far more confident than she was. it made more sense that everyone voted for her, logically. she was rife with insecurity. but it still kind of stung-- even if she knew she wasn’t really in the running.

the challenge was absolutely absurd, but at least she was in a team with mire-- there was some comfort there. and with yihwa being in another group, that meant that a lot of the vocals went to sangah, and she was more than happy to try to show up the week prior. though once mirae and taeri started going at it, her cynicism spiked.

the huge break for the scandal was a blessing. sangah practiced all the songs, getting confident with them, and even ran them with mirae. she was certain they’d do very well. when the show comes back and its time for performances, she feels prepared

the first song they got was pirate king, and that’s one of sangah’s weaker ones, as she is not the most talented dancer-- she can do it, but she struggles. but with a lot of the attention on mirae as the center, sangah limped her way to the end, where the final vocals to finish off the song really give her her moment to shine.

their next song is love me right-- easier choreography, but still harder than sangah was comfortable with. she had practiced hard, though, so she felt like she had the hang of it, and love me right just suited her so much better than pirate king. not to mention she felt like she had more opportunities to show off vocally.

their last song is i am the best, which has the easiest choreography, and is the most iconic in sangah’s opinion. she really stretched out haena’s vocals to show off. just so she could finish the right way.

episode three

much like mirae and yihwa, sangah isn’t at all thrilled with their song choice for the disbanded group challenge. she loved deviant, but they barely had one power vocal, let alone enough room for both yihwa and sangah. she tries to stay positive though, and sees it as an opportunity to get her stage presence down, and to work as part of a unit.

when they perform, sangah is admittedly a little put off by yihwa improvising adlibs-- they hadn’t practiced it, and sangah had no opportunity to do her own. but it was a competition. yihwa was just looking out for herself. sangah couldn’t be too upset at that.

episode four

she was excited for the skill evaluation. singing, without the dance, was what she was most confident in. and she’d been criminally underperforming in the ranks-- her labelmates were leagues ahead of her. it was embarrassing. she hoped that showing what she could really do would get some people on her side.

sangah is overjoyed to be working with jinkyung-- she grew up listening to majesty with her mom, and even sang some majesty songs at church as a kid. and with thet leaving to go debut at her actual company, it meant more opportunity for the rest of them to show off.

when it comes time to perform, sangah was on the top of her game. she pushed her voice to its limit, and she showed all she could do. she did her harmonies well. and though they weren’t best of the week, they were close-- closer than sangah had ever gotten before on the show.

episode five

when she saw how far she’d shot up in the rankings, she burst into tears. she had gone from being on the verge of elimination to cracking the top ten. her talent was paying off, and she felt so blessed that people were noticing. and just in time to get original group songs.

she’s confident in the team A group-- Hyosang is a genuis producers, and she’s worked with both yihwa and mirae countless times before. however, she didn’t know minsuk or inho that well at all, and she’d never even heard of nemo. that song scared her. she was prepared for the worst there.

volume up was a dream. yihwa and sangah were both on a song that suited them and was made for their skill, and mirae got to be the sassy confident center to tie it all together. she did her best with angel, and sounded okay, but it wasn’t the best song. she and the boys tried to have fun with it onstage, but sangah knows that if she’s going to be saved from being cut, it will be because of volume up.

episode six

when she sees she’s actually made the cut again, and moved into top four territory, sangah sobs. she’ll regret crying so hard on camera, but it meant the world to her that people were taking a chance on her. and now she was going to have her own solo song because of it.

she chooses to not have much choreography on her song-- a little bit, so she’s not standing still, but she wanted her vocals to be the real focus of the piece. she’s sure it’ll be nothing compared to what yihwa pulls out, but she wants to give it her full try. especially since her vocals in the group song aren’t anything to really phone home about.

the concert is exhausting-- there’s so much that can go so wrong. but by the end, she feels like she’s done everythign she can.

[losangelesvalorant]

interesting things from tactical crouch’s interview w fusion assistant coach chrisTFer on 1/21

christfer talks abt hero bans, why fusion underperformed in s2, and why their roster is what it is. ill update this post w the youtube link once its out

On hero bans

Christfer thinks hero bans would change EVERYTHING, every team would have to be able to think on the fly, strong ingame leadership, makes coaches' jobs a lot harder, have to practice every hero on every map. you'd have to coach fundamentals into players a lot more and more focus on quickly IDing win conditions and the enemy gameplan. very seriously hopes they aren't gonna drop it this season

if the goal is to have genuine diversity in hero pool, bans is the way to achieve that, but christfer thinks itll fuck up the competitiveness, level of play will go down. but any aspect that helps spectators is better for league overall

volamel thinks hero bans will excite and drive the audience bc banning players specific heroes would be hype as fuck. lotta strategy, lots of analysis. however he's skeptical bc if it happens midseason it's gonna fuck over coaches

christfer thinks if theyre gonna do it they gotta do it today. there's no other good time

yiska thinks it would be bad to implement it midseason bc the # of games teams play across the season is sooo spread out. teams have different amts of games every month

on why fusion underperformed in s2

Internally, fusion was kinda "naive" coming into s2, thought they were the 2nd best team and acted as if they were 2nd best. rarely felt happiness after scrims bc theyre "supposed" to be winning all the scrims. losing scrims also was hugely negative for the same reason

smaller roster makes it harder to kick people into gear, so lack of motivation was a big thing. they were just waiting for goats to die

thought goats wouldnt continue into s2, stage 4 was where they finally got motivation, fusion never completely understood the goats style of play or the fundamentals goats taught teams, they lost games they shouldnt have as a result. Not one big issue, lots of small issues

fusion held themselves to such high expectations that when they failed them and weren't enjoying the game as much so morale fell. (paraphrased) "as long as my players enjoy playing the game, it makes my job easier"

Christfer says fusion changed a lot for playins, changed coaching structure, overwhelmingly positive result. best theyd looked all season

shanghai had very particular strengths on certain maps. fusion was winning brawl comps vs brawl comps. got nervous and dropped maps they were supposed to take, but theyd given away too many of "their" maps to be able to lose shanghai's maps. 

felt like they hit the ground running on playins, but other teams levelled up across playins and christfer believed other teams wouldve developed more than they would have

even if coaching wasnt problem if team is in a slump you need new coaches to re-fire everyone up, which is what happened w fusion. 

on carpe and sado

carpe was able to play heroes he excelled at in s1, in s2 zarya was entirely different in elements of what makes a player good at the hero. carpe holds himself to a very, very high standard and playing zarya killed his morale because he wasn't so good at it. christfer considers it a failing of himself as a coach that he didn't help carpe work through that more

nobody on the team is worried about carpe’s performance. Christfer confirmed carpe wont play if he isnt up to standard (in response to reddit worrying abt how long his contract is and how much sway he has over coaches)

christfer is very upset about how people treat sado. sado is the "single nicest person you will ever meet." every single player/coach had 1 on 1s with tucker, everyone said they wanted to keep playing with sado. yiska emphasized how important it is that every player on the team wanted to keep playing sado bc for example eqo and carpe want to win more than anything and if they thought sado was the problem they absolutely wouldve said so

Other teams came to fusion wanting to sign sado

christfer said sado wasnt the greatest main tank player last year, but playing rein in a "dysfunctional" team makes the rein player look bad. 

christfer thinks this is the "season of sado." has complete faith in him

the complaints abt sado’s rein "[he] can understand," says to remember sado had never played pro before s1. he doesn't have as much competitive exp which hits him hard but he's grown wildly in the last year. 

sado's ability to hit every halt at the right time is incredible. compares him to alarm in how good his instincts are. excellent player in a team environment, kinda a big brother to some of the players on the team, sado is very important to the team

christfer agrees that if meta shifts and sado is sick, theres a problem, but says this is not a problem unique to fusion

on fusion’s new acquisitions

heesu surprised christfer the most. he’s “very, very, very very, very good.” hungry to learn, easy to talk to, they got a very good deal and christfer is surprised more teams didn't try to get him

heesu has a lot of respect for carpe, heesu said its a + for him to work under carpe

theyre trying to scrim w heesu daily, sounds like they intend to play him if the opportunity presents itself. excellent signing theyre very happy abt

the point of the chipsa signing was that they didnt need a 5th dps, their lineup is already perfect, they had to find someone that "made sense" from many levels. wanted a specialist. Christfer thinks chipsa understands the raw mechanics of doom better than any owl players, thinks he could legit play in a doom meta. also thinks chipsa could teach eqo doom in a doom meta. chipsa provides advertisement, no need for scrimming with him. if the situation is right he can play and if he's not playing he provides income, publicity, etc. christfer again restated he was originally against the signing. when tucker explained why hed be signed, christfer came around to the idea

having 2 way players is a headache in christfers opinion, so that was another reason why they didnt pick up a contenders player instead of chipsa.

chipsa has not had a scrim yet because he’s not in philly bc visa stuff, but christfer did not clarify whether or not he will scrim. 

of all players signed, funnyastro was by far the most in demand. they had to fight for him, almost every team wanted him. he's a "sponge" where he remembers whatever coaches tell him, incredibly coachable, very mature for his age, needs to adjust his playstyle a bit to fit into the team (bc he's going for plays he shouldnt sometimes) but if they can "tune him back" a bit hes great. want to find a middle ground bc astro's ability to kill everything and doing his job (brought up moth as the "glue guy" who enables everyone by doing his job perfectly)

alarm has insane awareness, has natural affinity for positioning, understands ovw instinctively. zero attitude issues, the nicest/perfect teammate. "the whole package."

yiska said ivy has a "special type of character," quickly clarified that it’s not a “problematic” character, but needs a dif type of coaching (christfer agreed)

thinks things got difficult for ivy on toronto bc he was moving roles so much, kdg puts a lot of stock into him, a lot of kr players do too. people from toronto think ivy is insane mechanically. volamel thinks ivy should have been toronto's standout

fury wasnt signed bc of bad synergy btween sado and poko. poko wasnt the problem. fusion is very serious abt winning everything and fury is a statement of that intent. fury/poko cover every base

on new coaches

Christfer really respects seita and kdg, happy to have gotten them. has worked w both of them in the past, considers kdg similar to crusty. they signed kdg like the second he became available, christfer asked for him specifically. 

seita will stay remote 

yiska says mobydik is nuts in terms of game knowledge. Christfer agreed, says he thinks abt the game in a very unique way, outside of the box

misc

Fusion has a system where all 3 supports are rotating in the current meta. nobody is benched. had main support play bap originally when bootcamping, but theres places u can play 2 flex sups, so fusion has a lot of flexibility. who plays depends on situations where you can always play zen/bap vs where you might have to flex to lucio

Christfer thinks main sups doing calling/single caller system is a bit outdated and more of a western concept, trying to build comm system where everyone communicates, everyone calls their own ults. can have ingame leaders, but wants everyone to call what they need to call. in this meta everyone has to make the plays and call their own ults bc its split second and only the person w the ult can see the optimal situation

Christfer thinks the positions where you need stability in ovw is main tank and main support. subbing dps players in and out is fine but you need consistency at mt and ms. 

really really think they dont need to fill their last roster spot

Christfer calls this season a "rebuild season" for fusion. if they dont do well this year christfer thinks it would be the fault of the coaches. too much talent to fuck it up. 

not taking home a title is not exactly a failure, but anything within the top 4 fusion is happy with

[sunnysaylorboy]

okay okay okay so my roommate and i were discussing this

∙ i’ve seen a few harry potter!aus written about kpop idols where they’re attending hogwarts

∙ but realistically, wouldn’t they attend the japanese school, mahoutokoro? its closer and it makes no sense to travel that far to learn magic in english

∙ so my theory is that they would attend mahoutokoro, but this still presents a few problems, mainly the language barrier

∙ my roommate and i came to the conclusion that since there is only one official wizarding school in Asia (mahoutokoro), that most Asian students would strive to go there, as it would be the best education for them

∙ however, there are several small magic academies that exist in Korea (and presumably other parts of Asia and in other continents too) for ppl who simply can’t afford to go there

∙ unfortunately since these academies are not part of the eight official wizarding schools in the world, some rich snobs people have the tendency to look down on students who go there, and it is harder for graduates to achieve high-paying, governmental jobs (but not impossible)

∙ but these academies do provide a better education than some give them credit for, and students who graduate from magic academies can and certainly do grow to become great witches and wizards (they just have to beat the stigma that they aren’t as smart as their mahoutokoro counterparts/that they come from a poor background)

∙ now for korean students who do go to mahoutokoro (and by default, other Asian students from China, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc)

∙ their parents send them there bc they KNOW it will look great on their resumes and it will open up so many more job opportunities for them when they graduate, so even lower-middle class parents will scrape together every cent they have to give their children the education they deserve

∙ at first korean first years just had to do their best to learn japanese all while learning magic

∙ but after the number of international, non-Japanese students grew exponentially after a decade (and after some of the more influential intl parents complained), the school added many of their classes in Korean (and Chinese, Thai, etc) and also added Japanese language classes for all ages, starting from first years, and just overall made education more accessible

∙ i’ve also theorized that the rich korean parents who can afford this, will also have the option to send their children to Korean prep schools before their first year at mahoutokoro for a few years (like maybe ages 5-7, before they start at mahoutokoro at age 7) where they take japanese and learn the basics of magic

∙ so when they do go to mahoutokoro even though they’re not fluent in japanese yet probably, they’re ahead of most korean students (and can skip to higher-level japanese classes) AND they’re ahead of all students, japanese and korean and other asian students alike, in terms of magic (this does happen to be the most expensive/privileged option)

∙ (i should mention it says on the mahoutokoro wiki page that students start there at age 7, and go to age 17, so unlike hogwarts they have at least ten years of schooling. it also says that they don’t let students board until 11, but i believe they’d make an exception for international students who can’t just fly back to korea or china every day)

∙ but not all hope is lost for witches and wizards in Korea who long to study at mahoutokoro (aka all the hermiones)

∙ my roommate did point out that language is not really a barrier when you reach non-verbal spells

∙ so we agreed that once Korean students have learned/are learning nonverbal spells, they can go as “exchange students” (usually on scholarship) to mahoutokoro in their 8th year (aka about 15 years old) to finish the last two years and graduate there (i know in hogwarts they start learning nonverbal spells when they’re 16, aka in hogwarts’ 6th year, but in my head canon I'm setting it back a year)

∙ so to recap, the options for Korean students (and probably other Asian, non-Japanese students) are: a) study at a smaller, less-respected but still decent Korean academy and graduate from there, b) study at a Korean academy until 8th year, when you go on scholarship to finish schooling at mahoutokoro, c) go to mahoutokoro and just learn japanese along with magic when you get there, or d) go to a Korean prep school early on to prepare you for mahoutokoro, so when you get there you already know most basic spells in Japanese and can speak basic Japanese.

∙ now whats interesting is that i think this may cause some tension between korean students based on class, namely the “prep” students and the “exchange” students

∙ like prep students are like “oh pls exchange student what do you know, you’ve been at mahoutokoro for a year and you think you’re smarter than me? i’ve been working for this since i was five” whereas exchange students are like “listen prep students i’ve worked for this too, you’ve never had to prove to ppl that you’re not dumb and poor. just bc i don’t have parents to ship me off to prep school doesn’t mean I'm stupid, your privileged will never know what actual hard work is like” etc

∙ 8th year would be real interesting for everyone

∙ unfortunately i think there would be some tension too between the japanese students and the korean ones (regardless of their class status)

∙ (personally i think the korean students, determined not to take their education for granted, would work incredibly hard and on average score higher than the average japanese students)

∙ like the japanese students might be like “these korean kids think they’re smarter than us, when they’re the ones going to prep school and they’re the ones getting scholarships bc they’re desperate to study here” versus the korean students who are like “lol you can call me dumb when you’ve also achieved top grades for years now in classes all while learning another language, it aint my fault that you can’t do magic for shit”

∙ i think there’d even be a history of fights and maybe even bullying, usually from japanese students, bc of the constant rocky relationship between japan and korea

∙ (but i don't wanna go too much into detail about that, bc i’m neither korean nor japanese, i only know about korean-japanese relations bc i’m an east asian studies major, so i don't wanna expand on that bc its not really my place and i don't want to be presumptuous)

∙ and anyways i think that japanese-korean relations have improved over the years, so maybe it was a problem when korean students started coming to mahoutokoro, but as with all generations, younger kids don’t care about that as much and are just happy to make friends obv

∙ but anyways!!

∙ i appreciate all of your hogwarts aus with kpop idols but pls!! consider them at mahoutokoro!!

∙ don’t be afraid to include idols of other ethnicities, like thai and chinese and taiwanese and japanese idols too, who can show them the ropes!!

∙ give me twice at mahoutokoro, and momo, sana and mina are prefects who help out a very confused exchange student named nayeon!

∙ give me a pentagon au where yanan, a chinese exchange student, and hyunggu, a korean exchange student, are assigned Yuto, a shy 9th year, as their guide

∙ pls give me ten, a thai student and a genius who knows like 5 languages, who loves to goof off but still manages to get top grades... then give me yuta, who hates ten, who busts his ass to get his nearly perfect grades, but is still one point lower than ten every time, who is in a constant mental competition with him to be the best

∙ give me a iz*one au where 10th year yabuki nako (often mistaken for a 4th year) actively works to learn korean so she can talk to her best friend jo yuri in her native language

∙ give me all of the hardest working idols who receive their pink robes on the first day that they arrive to school, who immediately resolve to make that robe turn gold in a few weeks time (the sign that they’re the top of their class)... and they do

∙ give me an innocent, sweet idol who no one ever suspects to be evil- and then one day in their tenth year their robe turns white (an indicator that they’ve practiced dark magic) and they’re expelled just weeks before they would have graduated

∙ give me the mahoutokoro quidditch team practicing in brutal conditions, through rain and shine, just bc its worth it when they graduate to make it to the actual major quidditch leagues and see the look on those british peoples faces when they beat them at their own game

∙ pls just give me idols at mahoutokoro

[lisafarmer-blog1]

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Sometimes having the knowledge that even if damage were to happen you can perform a repair without too much stress and hassle can make all the difference, and that is one of the many things EPDM offers.

Con: Finding the Right Installer

Rubber roofing has been around for 40 years, which isn’t a long time compared to other roofing methods! As a result, finding an experienced roofer nearby to carry out your project may be harder than you think.

The best way for you to find a certified installer is to visit a manufacturer’s website or contact them directly. Many have thousands of professionals that have attended courses and have a good track record which they can share with you.

Pro: Custom Made for you – cut to Size Service

The EPDM membrane that we provide will be cut to specification to fit your roof, including the necessary overhang to ensure easy installation. The best way to specify the exact sizes is to call us on 01303 769 990, but you can also send these to us on a web order form by including your dimensions in the delivery note section.

Having the rubber roofing cut to size means you can get a standard roof done with one membrane. If you have a couple of pieces of membrane to join together, you will need to use the 5” Flashing Tape.

Pro: No Blistering, Cracking or Rotting!

Due to its natural properties, once installed, the rubber will be completely resistant to blistering, cracks, and any rot. This gives EPDM rubber roofing many further advantages to other types of flat roofing and gives you as the customer fewer things to worry about.

In Conclusion…

As you can see after going through our list, EPDM rubber roofing has more benefits than most other roofing methods. It is a strong, durable and resistant material which is easy to repair should damage happen. It is no wonder that this product is getting more and more popular with our shoppers.

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[thecollegefootballguy]

2018 ACC Coaching Power Rankings

One of my favorite offseason projects is to do a power ranking of the coaches in every major conference, starting with the ACC. My personal power ranking take a look at a variety of factors and I try to balance out how well a coach has done recently with his total career success.

The ACC has had a very good run lately and I think a lot of it has to do with good coaching hires. Don’t feel bad if your favorite is low on the list, there is some very tough competition. If your coach keeps performing well he’ll move up, don’t worry. Oh yeah, and I’m including Brian Kelly among the ACC’s coaches because I don’t do a list for the football Independent schools.

The conference lost one of its best coaches with the bizarre season-long soap opera that saw Jimbo Fisher leave Florida State, but the league appears to be as strong as ever despite the loss of coaching talent.

If you want to see last year’s list go here.

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15. Willie Taggart

Record Overall: 47-50

Movement: N/A

The only new hire in the whole conference is Willie Taggart, who I consider a very good hire. However, Taggart has to start at the bottom of the list because he is up against a pretty tough field. I wouldn’t worry too much if I was an FSU fan. Taggart turned hapless Western Kentucky into a bowl team and then rebuilt a collapsed South Florida from the ashes. His one year at Oregon put the Ducks back on the right path after their disastrous 2016 campaign. I think there’s a lot of reason for optimism in Tallahassee.

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14. Steve Addazio

Record at Boston College: 31-33 Record Overall: 44-44

Movement: Up 1 spot

Steve Addazio has taken Boston College to a bowl in 4 of his 5 seasons at Chestnut Hill. He’s doing a decent job considering BC’s position in the ACC Atlantic and the recruiting difficulties he has to face. The Eagles managed to tie for 3rd place in the division this year, which is pretty impressive. Still, Boston College has never managed more than 7 wins under his watch, he won’t rise much higher than that if this continues.

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13. Bronco Mendenhall

Record at Virginia: 8-17 Record Overall: 107-60

Movement: Up 1 spot

I don’t think we’ll have to worry too much about Bronco Mendenhall. He feels a bit low on this list, but I am confident he’ll rise up higher as time goes on. His placement is mostly due to the tough competition around him. Mendenhall took Virginia to a bowl in his second season after the Cavaliers struggling mightily to do so during Mike London’s tenure. I’m cautiously optimistic for UVA and I think they can continue to rise with Bronco at the helm.

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12. Pat Narduzzi

Record at Pittsburgh: 21-17

Movement: Same

Pitt finally had a setback in Narduzzi’s third year. The Panthers went 5-7 and finished tied for fourth in the Coastal. I wouldn’t worry too much, I think the Panthers will improve next season as they develop their younger players. Pitt isn’t the kind of place where you can expect to go bowling every year, not yet at least. I think Narduzzi can change that if given the right tools.

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11. Dino Babers

Record at Syracuse: 8-16 Record Overall: 45-32

Movement: Same

I know, Syracuse has had identical 4-8 records in Babers’ two seasons, but it has been pretty tough to win there for a while now. I think that Babers is building a solid foundation for the Orange. The win over Clemson is proof that, if they get more consistent, Syracuse can start to compete more regularly with the better teams in the conference.

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10. Dave Clawson

Record at Wake Forest: 21-29 Record Overall: 111-108

Movement: Up 3 spots

Hey, when you win 8 games at Wake Forest you move up a couple of spots. Clawson has led the Demon Deacons to back to back bowl games and given his past success at other schools it looks like he can be reasonably expected to keep winning in Winston-Salem.

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9. Justin Fuente

Record at Virginia Tech: 19-8 Record Overall: 45-31 Division Championships: 1 (2016)

Movement: Up 1 spot

It gets harder to move up the closer you are to the top of the list. Justin Fuente has done just fine in his first two years at Blacksburg, finishing first and second in the division. Virginia Tech still isn’t quite competing with the best teams in the conference but the Hokies look like they’re rebounding from the fall off they had at the end of the Beamer era.

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8. Dave Doeren 

Record at NC State: 34-30 Record Overall: 57-34

Movement: Up 1 spot

NC State had a breakthrough season in 2017. Dave Doeren has the Wolfpack playing to the peak of their historical potential in the fifth year of his tenure where they finished second in the Atlantic behind Playoff participant Clemson. Doeren could be on the cusp of something big in Raleigh, and with the division in flux the time is right to consolidate his gains.

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7. Larry Fedora

Record at North Carolina: 43-34 Record Overall: 77-53 Division Championships: 1 (2015)

Movement: Same

North Carolina was atrocious in 2017, but I really can’t put much of the blame on Larry Fedora. The Tar Heels were a young team and sustained terrible injuries early on in the year which continued all season. This was a mulligan. If UNC stays bad I’ll have to drop him down, but for now I think he can still be expected to keep doing the good job he accomplished before last season.

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6. David Cutcliffe

Record at Duke: 59-67 Record Overall: 103-96 Division Championships: 1 (2013)

Movement: Up 2 spots

Duke has gone bowling in five of the past six seasons. That in and of itself is something to be celebrated, but 2017 was a rebound year for the Blue Devils, who came back to the postseason after going 4-8 the year before. Cutcliffe is truly a special coach and one of the most respected head men in the game for winning at a place like Duke.

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5. Bobby Petrino

Record at Louisville: 75-27 Record Overall: 117-48 Division Championships: 1 (2016) Conference Championships: 2 (2004, 2006)*

*C-USA/Big East

Movement: Up 1 spot

All told, this was a pretty disappointing season for Bobby Petrino and Louisville. He had the reigning Heisman at his disposal but a porous defense meant that the Cardinals only managed to tie for third place in the Atlantic. Given Petrino’s track record, I’m pretty confident that this is an aberration. Louisville will remain a relevant force in the ACC for the foreseeable future.

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4. Paul Johnson

Record at Georgia Tech: 75-54 Record Overall: 182-93 Division Championships: 4 (2008, 2009, 2012, 2014) Conference Championships: 1 (2009)

Movement: Up 1 spot

Paul Johnson is hard to categorize. He’s up so high more or less because he’s done a good job over a long amount of time. However, I can’t imagine he’ll stay in the top five if Georgia Tech misses more bowl games. The Yellow Jackets have missed the postseason in two of the past three years and it’ll drag his recent success number down compared to the other good coaches in the conference. But for now he’s propped up by having done a pretty good job in his ten years in Atlanta and he moved up in the rankings because a better coach left the conference.

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3. Brian Kelly

Record at Notre Dame: 69-34 Record Overall: 240-91-2

Movement: Up 1 spot

Notre Dame fans might be a bit upset with how the Irish’s season ended, but Kelly continues to do a good job as head coach. ND rebounded very well from their very unlucky 4-8 season in 2016. The Fighting Irish were in the Playoff hunt most of the season and aside from the blowout loss to Miami they were competitive in every game they played. Kelly hasn’t done a lot to distinguish himself in the past few seasons, but Notre Dame is in a pretty good place right now because of him.

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2. Mark Richt

Record at Miami: 19-7 Record Overall: 164-58 Division Championships: 1 (2017)

Movement: Up 1 spot

No, it’s not The U Part III just yet, but boy was that 10-0 start indicative of how well Mark Richt’s short tenure has gone at Miami so far. The Hurricanes had a very encouraging 2017 season, finally winning the ACC Coastal for the first time and getting that monkey off their back. If Richt does what he’s supposed to, the Canes will dominate the Coastal for the foreseeable future.

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1. Dabo Swinney

Record at Clemson: 101-30 Division Championships: 6 (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017) Conference Championships: 4 (2011, 2015, 2016, 2017) National Championships: 1 (2016)

Movement: Same

For the second year in a row, Dabo Swinney is the #1 coach in the ACC Power Ranking. This time, it isn’t even close. With Jimbo Fisher’s complete collapse at Florida State, it’s safe to say that Clemson completely owns the ACC for the time being. Swinney has turned the Tigers into a full fledged national power where it isn’t only likely, but expected, that they win the conference and make the Playoff every season. Things have never been this good in Clemson and it’s all thanks to Dabo.

[junker-town]

Which teams should leave FBS? Here’s a serious answer

Plenty of schools might be best served by dropping down. Let’s make a rough plan for how it could work.

There are lots of reasons a smart school might consider dropping out of FBS, college football’s top division, and moving to FCS.

The financials of the sport are changing. Coaching salaries are skyrocketing at an ahistorical rate. In a few years, the average head coach salary in the AAC, a non-power conference, could be north of $2 million. Programs are feeling pressure to increase assistant salary pools, with top coordinators easily clearing $1 million a year.

That’s just coaching salaries. There’s also pressure to invest in expensive facility projects and pay analysts, recruiting staffers, and other full-timers. Travel costs aren’t getting cheaper either.

Other future obligations are unclear. The NCAA, its conferences, and its schools might have to defend a class-action lawsuit over concussions. A court case could force schools to spend more on athletes — or even eventually pay players.

That might not be so bad if revenues were rising as quickly as expenses. Attendance has declined all over. With the decline of cable TV, the rise of media fees should slow, especially outside the Power 5 conferences. Many state governments have slowed their support for higher education, leading schools to charge students heavy fees to subsidize athletics.

Many teams aren’t going to win anything significant. They’re often the same ones in financial peril.

To free themselves from that wasteful cycle, an FBS team could consider dropping to FCS. There are a few structural differences between the two levels, the biggest being the different scholarship limits. FBS lets you have 85 full-ride scholarships, while FCS is limited to 63 (and in some leagues, even less than that).

The cost savings over scholarships is suspect (the schools are cutting checks to themselves, after all), but the costs for virtually everything else, from facilities to coaching salaries to support staff, are substantially less. The revenues are smaller too, but for some G5 programs without lucrative TV deals, the future savings may outweigh the costs.

The median non-power FBS football program was losing about $20 million per year a few years ago, according to the NCAA, while the median FCS team was down about $12 million.

That math isn’t perfect for a lot of reasons. But broadly speaking, it gives credence to the idea that playing at a lower level could help mitigate financial losses for some programs.

Dropping down could help a team win more and spend less. Attendance could reveal some candidates.

The NCAA technically requires that FBS teams average 15,000 in paid attendance per game over a rolling two-year period. Schools typically pad their official attendance numbers, but in real life, many schools actually have fewer than 15,000 butts in their seats every game.

In 2017, 34 FBS schools had fewer than 15,000 people actually scan tickets into their average home game. Some schools don’t have to comply with records requests for data like that, so the number could be even higher.

But we know these teams didn’t scan 15,000 fans into their games: ULM, Coastal Carolina, Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Ball State, UMass, Kent State, San Jose State, Miami (Ohio), Central Michigan, Charlotte, UL Lafayette, Akron, Northern Illinois, UTEP, Arkansas State, New Mexico State, Ohio, Western Michigan, Middle Tennessee, Texas State, Nevada, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, UNLV, Old Dominion, Toledo, UTSA, Southern Miss, Marshall, Louisiana Tech, Connecticut, and Western Kentucky.

A few of these teams have had enough FBS success that it’s probably not worth discussing them as candidates to drop down.

NIU’s a perennial MAC contender and made a BCS game once.

Toledo’s made bowls seven of the last eight years.

Marshall has bowled seven times in 10 years.

Southern Miss was highly competitive in the late ‘90s and 2000s.

The jury’s still out on teams that recently jumped to FBS.

Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, UMass, Charlotte, Texas State, Old Dominion, and UTSA might not be suited for FBS. But let’s leave them out of the conversation for now.

That leaves 24 drop-down candidates to seriously look at from this list.

The Western schools here should try to join forces with Big Sky teams and form a couple of smaller FCS conferences. If that can’t happen, at least one of these FBS teams should probably drop anyway.

San Jose State, UTEP, NMSU, Nevada, Wyoming, and UNLV are in difficult spots. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, Wyoming was one of the first real powers from outside a major conference. But the rest of these schools have a combined one AP Top 25 finish in their histories.

You can talk yourself into UNLV’s potential in the Raiders’ new stadium. If you try, you can talk yourself into UTEP succeeding by being the only program in a big city, despite all the hard things about that job. But winning and financial sustainability will likely remain hard for all these schools.

Western schools have to consider geography. New Mexico State’s athletic director has cited travel costs as a factor in decisions about which league to play in. Long commutes across the West could eat into FCS savings, after all.

It could make sense for some of these FBS teams to join forces with the 13-team Big Sky, split that league into two FCS conferences of eight or 10 teams each, and give a school like Utah’s FCS independent Dixie State a home.

But it may make more immediate sense for San Jose State, a school in a high-cost area without much fan support or success and with the smallest revenues in the Mountain West Conference, to drop down regardless. The Spartans would save money and have a more feasible postseason path. The Mountain West could replace them with NMSU or UTEP, or leave that slot open and pay a little more to each remaining member. Everyone wins.

The Midwestern schools could reshuffle, too.

If we’re just using attendance as a benchmark, the entire MAC could drop to FCS. But that isn’t fair, as the MAC’s TV-focused strategy (with games on Tuesday and Wednesday nights) has to depress turnout. If MAC teams played all their games on Saturdays, then Toledo, NIU, and WMU would sell more tickets.

But the MAC’s situation has gotten worse. The state of Ohio no longer produces FBS-caliber recruits like it did in the 1960s. The Rust Belt is losing population relative to the Sun Belt and West, sapping potential support for smaller schools. Building fanbases in the shadows of Big Ten programs might only get harder.

One idea: three of the 12-team MAC’s lowest-revenue programs — Kent State, Ball State, and Eastern Michigan — keep their MAC membership in other sports, but play football in the Missouri Valley. To get back to 10 football schools, the MAC could try to woo FCS power North Dakota State. If the Bison don’t want to come, maybe ask UMass to come back.

Failing that, the MAC could just sit tight at nine teams, and play an eight-game, round-robin schedule. Giving fans a chance to see everybody in the league isn’t so bad.

Once North Dakota joins the MVC in 2020, the conference has 13 football teams under this plan. That’s an odd number, yeah, but the OVC currently has nine schools, and there’s no rule against odd numbers. Here’s how that might look:

Kent State gets to focus on basketball. Ball State gets a more feasible postseason path and a chance to build a rivalry with Indiana State. EMU gains an identity as the only FCS school in Michigan. The MAC gets to split its football money among fewer schools. We finally get to see NDSU beat up on Big Ten teams more regularly, or UMass gets more of a path toward football relevance after sitting in independence purgatory. Everyone wins.

Let’s get even weirder for the South. Let’s combine Conference USA and the Sun Belt, and send some other teams to FCS.

ULM and UL Lafayette each report under $30 million in athletic revenue, including other university subsidies. (ULM’s under $20 million.) Given the precariousness of Louisiana’s fiscal health, there’s an argument for cutting costs. Similar arguments can be made for Middle Tennessee, Arkansas State, and Louisiana Tech.

Make a new conference from a group like UAB, North Texas, ODU, Southern Miss, Marshall, Louisiana Tech, App State, Troy, Georgia Southern, Arkansas State, FIU, FAU, Coastal Carolina, and Georgia State.

It’s not like combining Conference USA with another league is a new, radical idea, after all. Heck, other writers have suggested variations of this merger too. Heck, I did once.

Everyone else can start a new FCS conference or spread out among the OVC, Southland, and Big South. That’s a better future for the consumer, the fan, and the TV executive.

Now, I know I said earlier that I’d leave some of the FBS newbies out of the discussion for now. Here, a few do go down to make the numbers work. But if you feel strongly that UTSA, Texas State, or Charlotte should be here, feel free to swap out someone else in this thought exercise. The financials and attendance markers are similar across many C-USA schools.

If that’s too drastic, just send the two Louisianas to FCS (in difference conferences, so they can both call themselves Louisiana), and let the Sun Belt sit at eight teams. The Sun Belt can play a seven-game round robin, with an extra FCS home game per team per season.

That way, everybody can schedule a paycheck game and still keep a home game, helping everybody balance their books a teensy bit more. Everyone wins.

Oh, and UConn also needs to drop to FCS. Or drop football entirely.

I have like, another 1,000 words on that. The AAC could sit at 11 teams, make a run at BYU, kick the tires on Army, or whatever. UConn could focus on basketball. Everyone wins.

Another important group to consider here is the players, who’d lose scholarship slots if a lot of teams dropped down. But there’s a solution.

It might make good sense financially. But if even just five teams dropped to FCS, that would mean DI had more than 100 fewer football scholarships. That’s a significant hardship.

But one way to mitigate the loss of scholarship opportunities for football players would to raise the FCS scholarship limit — maybe to 65, from 63. Two more scholarships wouldn’t break the bank for most budget-conscious FCS programs. Depending on what schools did in FCS leagues that don’t allot the maximum scholarships, that could make up a big chunk of the scholarship slots lost by teams going down from FBS.

Administrators should be unsentimental about cutting athletic spending to control costs. But they should try to make sure players’ scholarship opportunities are shielded.

This sounds like a lot, but it might prove to be a conservative proposal.

Dropping a level is hard. There’s a reason only Idaho has done it in recent memory, and the Vandals dealt with fierce initial backlash from fans.

Just about every program, even the most resource-starved, is one good hire away from cracking .500. And there are benefits to FBS that don’t easily show up on a balance sheet.

But drastic times could call for drastic measures. Idaho bet that in the long run, its athletic department would come out ahead. Others may do well to consider similar bets.

[leaughrilke]

What are the superbabies individual talents/hobbies that are not limited to their powers

so!  i have v weirdly specific ideas for this so hang in pals

finn

video games

listen………my boy is sweet and soft but he is brutal when it comes to video games.  he will destroy u and laugh.  he will dance on ur metaphorical grave, like it does not matter if yall are playing mario kart or whatever.  he will.  Destroy u

piano

so when he’s little, kara and lena sort of just sign him up for anything he shows interest in, and he’s on a music kick but hates violin, hates brass and woodwinds, so they sign him up for piano just to see and holy shit he loves it and is so so good, sticks with it his entire life tbh

gardening

what a green thumb like…..its kind of out of nowhere tbh like eliza has this habit of taking the kids out whenever she’s in town and letting them each pick one thing to get and this one time finn drags them all into a nursery and picks out this very fussy plant and eliza is like ??  okay kiddo, but it’s going to be a lot of work and finn’s just all in for it

and somehow??  it stays alive???  and flourishes???  and then finn’s asking for plants for every birthday and asking for seeds and a little planters box and he’s like……..v particular abt his plants.  like he’s got a time table for all of them, knows which should bloom when and what fertilizer works best

cooking

this sort of developed from his gardening actually!!  lena’s a p good cook and she asks if finn wouldnt mind growing a few herbs for her and ofc that sweet child said yes and then he sort of??  naturally got interested in cooking from there??  lena teaches him everything she knows and like that’s their thing u know??

basketball

he plays on a team when he’s younger, but when he gets older he only does pick up games bc he doesnt think its fair otherwise??  but he and kara will shoot hoops sometimes and he joins this underground alien league??  so he plays at the rec center downtown with them a lot

maia

debate

my argumentative child……she verbally eviscerates ppl on the daily, ofc she joins debate and ofc she easily becomes one of the best members like.  other school’s debate teams literally shudder in fear when they see maia danvers on the roster at a competition.  full body shudder.  Full Body

ballet

so kara and lena sign her up for ballet when she’s v little bc her friends are in it and maia wants to hang out with them and she’s rlly good at it??  but she never lets on that she actually likes it and her moms are rlly adamant abt never making the kids stick with anything they dont like so they’re kind of shocked when, after maia’s friends quit, maia doesnt ask them to pull her out.  she finds it rlly calming??  she doesnt have to think too much, just has to know her body and focus on that

volleyball

bruh.  she’s vicious but she is probably the biggest team player, like she always makes sure to pass to her teammates and never gets too nasty with her trash talk, always makes sure to high five the other team after she’s demolished them 

to be clear, she’s on the suppressant all through her childhood and well into college, never plays if she hasn’t taken it so its all fair and even

~science~

she’s actually the only kid that shows an interest in science at all??  like finn has always been good at it, but its just one of those things that he’s good at, he doesnt find any actual joy in it, but maia fuckin loves it oh my god.  she LOVES it, like she does every science fair and the science olympiad and its such a weird thing like no one expects maia danvers to be grinning as she blows some shit up…….or maybe it makes perfect sense

she bonds with both her moms a lot over it and with alex and eliza too!!  like lena takes her to the lab a lot and helps her with whatever her idea of the week is and when she’s a little older, kara teaches her everything she remembers from krypton, watches with pride as her daughter adapts it, does the correct conversions in order to obscure the origins.  alex gets used to having a shadow at the deo, grins and rolls her eyes good naturedly when maia appears and starts asking questions abt the samples alex is studying.  eliza learns to expect biweekly emails from maia

theatre

for a child so dramatic that she would often fly up to the ceiling when she was having a temper tantrum bc lena couldnt reach her, ofc she gets into drama.  she’s a solid actor, not the absolute best, but she’s solid and reliable and has a pretty, strong singing voice that makes her a top pick for musicals

the entire family takes up an entire row every opening night.  lena cries, without fail.  any performance that maia danvers is in is kind of infamous bc ur sure to see at least half of the most influential ppl in national city, sitting in the front row

programming

maia’s actually rlly technically minded!!  like she’s the math/science geek of the family tbh.  when she’s ten, she’s supposed to be training at the deo, but theres a supergirl emergency so kara had to leave for a bit and finn’s wandered off to nap, probably, so maia’s sort of hanging out by winn and watching what he’s doing over his shoulder (which……never fails to freak him out a little) and she startles him by abruptly asking how he did something and he’s like ??  uh.  i can show you, if you want?

those kids have had him wrapped around their fingers since the moment he laid eyes on them tbh, it takes v little convincing for winn to teach maia everything he knows

she actually ends up as a programmer as her day job when she’s an adult!!

stella

soccer

she’s small and fast and super determined and like……gonna b real, her powers do help a bit here, like she’s able to be more in sync with her team and she’s not the best player??  but she does enjoy it and her team improves a lot with her being on it actually

she’s not mvp or anything but that doesnt stop her whole family from coming out to her games.  lena actually blows out her voice cheering for her and kara for sure got t-shirts made that say stella danvers biggest fan and finn and maia make obnoxious glittery signs that say #12 is #1 and DANVERS IS OUR QUEEN

chess

i cried abt this here but chess is honestly one of stellas fave things to do, it rlly is, and when she gets to high school and finds that her school doesnt have a chess club, she starts one, like she’s That Nerd

piano

this is one of those things that she started bc she wanted to be like finn, but ended up actually loving???  she loves it so so much actually, loves the easy feel of the keys beneath her fingers.  she’s not as good as finn, has to work a little harder bc her hands are a little smaller, but its calming and fun and that’s what matters

kickboxing/boxing

jiu jitsu

krav maga

so i grouped these together for a Reason and she picks up kickboxing with kara and alex, but its as she gets older, starts to feel a bit more useless bc maia’s fighting crime on the up and up now, works with kara at the deo and stella’s just…..never going to be given that chance??  like why would she, she’s not bulletproof or anything, so she takes up these different martial arts just to feel more powerful, to feel better and then maybe becomes a vigilante