I'm in Delhi this week and was thinking about the new AI search engines and how powerful they are. Using Grok, Twitter's LLM which I have found is the best search engine available by a long way and leaving Google well in the dust.  Anyway, I took a generic street picture, removed all the meta data and loaded it into grok. It not only picked the city, it picked the building behind me that I was standing outside of.

I wonder if the AD dept has the computer science department using some student job spots for training analytical models on opposition analysis. Play/scenario deep dives and trends, etc.  OC's and DC's will really be able to lift their games at the lower levels like DIII. 

The SJU home schedule is excellent this year. I'll be subscribing again and up at 4am on a Sunday for these games.

Also, Herberg needs to hit the gym.  His arms are a bit puny, eh?

Well, reading the press release, it seems Herberg presented a plan to improve the defensive performance, which is needed for a championship-quality team. Let's hope the pine curtain slams down on our opponents.

I would love to see our offence balance better as it's far too dependent on AirJohnnie, IMO. That being said, it was a real thrill when AirJohnnie made a triumphant return about 15 years ago after a good period in the wilderness.

Maybe some nice changes are in store. UI of D3 here we come!

Quote from: DuffMan on February 02, 2026, 01:19:47 PMA couple of changes on SJU's staff: Dumonceaux Elevated to Assistant Head Coach, Herberg Named SJU's Defensive Coordinator

What do you reckon this means for game plan emphasis, duff?

I just found out that Hawthorn's 6'6" midfield brute, Conor Nash (seen here just after putting Geelong's Grian Miers to sleep last season), was born in Fond Du Lac before his good Catholic parents returned to Ireland where he captained the national under-18's rugby union side for Ireland before deciding to take a chance in the antipodes playing Aussie Rules.

He coulda been putting the MIAC competition to sleep for the Johnnies if things had gone a little differently. He probably would have played for Oshkosh just up the road, really, but a guy can dream.

Quote from: BDB on January 21, 2026, 08:07:26 AMDear Oz,

Cut a hole in the ice, get a plastic bucket to turn over and sit on and face northwest for luck. You may hook onto the elusive muskellunge.

As far as the Hamm's commercial, I do feel like I remember it, or perhaps it's just a Grizzly Adams flashback.

Good you got out of town for awhile, I hear on the news the sharks are feasting down under. Welcome home. 

Heh, or my other crazy Scandinavian friends who fished for crappies in the winter.

On sharks, #1 and her boyfriend were back in Aus for Christmas and he swam the Pier to Pub in Lorne, about a 20-minute open ocean swim from the pier to... the pub.  A week before the swim, a great white was seen swimming around the end of the pier, which is rather rare for this area. They tend to hang around Adelaide and further west. But one will show up around Melbourne every four or five years. Regardless, he lived, which was good. He's all right.

I'm up in the Rapids visiting my folks for a little over a week. I'm super excited to have arrived just in time for the annual January cold snap. I was sweltering in 107 degrees just five days ago, the low 90's when I left on Sunday. As I sit here in their kitchen, it's -18 on their thermometer.

I never could understand how my crazy Finlander high school friends used to love running from the sauna to jump in a hole cut in the ice.

An old Hamms commercial that I don't remember ever seeing. Does anyone here remember this one?

https://x.com/super70ssports/status/2010767845282443403?s=61&t=KbCNsWeom8KlUt8-D0TUlw

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Quote from: USee on December 15, 2025, 02:10:59 PMThe play did not affect the outcome nor the momentum IMO.

That's a laughably indefensible position to take, but it's your luxury to do so.

The better team won. How we got there wasn't great and should not be allowed to happen again. Both things can be true, and they are.

Seems to me NCC had a convincing win and some of you guys just don't want to accept it. Believe me, I was not rooting for NCC either!

You're arguing with your own straw man; carry on, by all means.

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story......

You unreasonably want them to both accept that the tent issue doesn't exist AND that BU got their butts kicked.  No BU supporter has suggested BU would win absent that event, but it's clear that the tent event and subsequent call were wrong.

They, entirely reasonably, wish they could have seen a second half that started tied rather than quickly going down 21-7.  What's unclear to me is why you insist on not letting them, despite their acceptance of the loss, want to see a second half on clean terms.  You may not be supporting NCC, but you are certainly supporting yourself as the arbiter of what supporters are reasonably allowed to say in support of their team.  Who appointed you president of the supporter behaviour committee?

Good luck, BU.  I hope this is your year.

Sigh, another year comes to a close. Thanks for the play, boys.  I look forward to next season.

And to get a jump on the beer posts, a bit of Aussie humour that had me thinking of the janesvilleflash.

https://x.com/mickamiousg/status/1997408744242577469?s=46

It ain't over, boys!  Show 'em some magic. Everyone fears it!

Quote from: sju56321 on December 06, 2025, 02:28:57 PMRF is clearly better-but SJU still has a chance at half. The D front-not too much pressure and their QB has 88 yards rushing. Can SJU contain that in second half? Feeney needs to be better in second half.

We're gonna need a bag of extra fresh magic beans. It's never over until Hilda gets out the spear and shield.