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Mens Soccer-let’s just win it.

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Fk_Pitt said:
Not at all because obstruction does not occur when both players are in proximity of the ball. Furthermore Gilman made a play on the ball but missed the ball. If there was contact then it’s an obvious yellow card infraction. But obstruction doesn’t even come into play in this situation. And certainly not red.

As far as contact, I don’t even know. I wasn’t watching for that as I assumed there was contact, otherwise why give the red? What I was focusing on was whether he got ball which he didn’t so I assumed there was a foul. So then my next consideration was if there was another defender back, and there was. Furthermore, the distance away from goal made it as so it was not a DOGSO scenario.

Just a horrific call. I know a couple guys who often ref Pitt games. Both said that it should not have been a red. Easy to say in hindsight. But going to the monitor should have provided enough hindsight to the ref…and he blew it.
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I watched it again in super slow mo and Gilman did not many any contact with the player. It was kinda stupid actually for the Cornell player to try that hard to avoid contact. I would honestly like to know what the ref's thinking was. Is there an "intent to commit a foul" foul? Like maybe he thought Gilman didnt make a serious attempt to play the ball and his only intent was to foul the player but then actually failed at doing that since contact was avoided.
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The Narduzzi Contract

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Alliance 41Duzz:

By my estimation, Narduzzi is overpaid by about $2M/year. The gift tax limitation in 2024 is $18,000. In the interest of making everyone's lives easier, he should write 111 trustworthy people a check for $18,000/each, and they should turn around and sink that money into our NIL collective. No need to retire; we all win.

But what is honestly stopping schools/coaches from doing this as a way to funnel money into the collectives? Obviously if it were as easy as I just described it, DeBoer would get a $10M/year raise next week and they'd be doing it even bigger. But why isn't it that easy?
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Mens Soccer-let’s just win it.

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mike412 said:
I hope we play better because I thought we were very lucky to beat Cornell. Coupled with the loss to UVA in the ACC tourney, that is two straight games with basically no offense. And, if I recall correctly, at one point this season we were one of the top scoring teams in the country.
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Well, they played a man down for virtually the whole game but I was surprised we were dominated that bad.
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Congratulations to Coach Franklin

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CentPaPittFan said:
Those games… the teams got their asses kicker
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You are correct. It's not like the Ole Miss - Florida game was a seven point game that came down to the last play of the game. And it's not like the BYU-Arizona State game was a five point game that came down to the last play of the game. And it's not like the Auburn-Texas A&M game didn't go to four overtimes.

I mean if any of those would have happened, then sure, but come on, those games were all ass kickers.

Wait a second....
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*** Pitt vs Wisc - game thread ***

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TheWerewolfFromTwilight said:
I feel like I do see ESPN do a highlight every week where a team makes an improbable comeback and they say something to the effect of "Now check out with win probably when X team threw that interception... 99.8%!"

Obviously I don't mean literally every week, but it happens often enough to make me question the accuracy at least somewhat. All it takes it one play to completey change those percentages so quickly (I get it: you could say that was factored into the probability to begin with).

Bottom line: I'm not throwing in the towel that early in a two-score game.
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I haven't paid much attention to the ESPN numbers in a while, but a couple of us on the football board used to laugh at how comically bad their in game football win percentage numbers were.

If you really want to pull your hair out, I've said this before but at the end of women's basketball games teams just basically don't foul to extend games. It really is weird when you are at a game and there is like 40 seconds left and a team is ahead by four points with the ball, and the other team just falls back and doesn't foul. I can tell you there have been numerous times over the years sitting there at the Pitt women's game that I am sitting in the stands yelling "foul them! you have to foul them!" and they simply don't. Or they let 20 seconds run off the clock and then they foul. I've said before, it's almost like the women's coaches find fouling like that unsporting, so they aren't going to do it.
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Congratulations to Coach Franklin

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Joe the Panther Fan said:
This is so obviously true, and clearly the reason why Alabama beat Oklahoma this weekend. And Ole Miss beat Florida. And BYU beat Arizona State. And Texas A&M beat Auburn. And Colorado beat Kansas. Why I'll bet if these refs weren't cheating, either consciously or unconsciously, at least one of those games would have ended up in an upset.

Wait a second...
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Those games… the teams got their asses kicker
When it’s 24-3 one call doesn’t change the game
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The bloody weekend that was in the ACC

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Franb said:
From the NCAA website:

"With the changes announced in May 2020, the NET will no longer use winning percentage, adjusted winning percentage and scoring margin."

If scoring margin is not used, why do we keep hearing that we need to win by as many points as possible?
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They don't use scoring margin, they use offensive and defensive efficiency. Which is basically just a different way to figure out the same thing.

For example, they don't say Pitt won 77-63 so we give Pitt a 14 point margin of victory. But they do say Pitt scored 77 points in a 70 possession game, that's 1.10 points per possession, and they gave up 63 points in a 70 possession game, that's 0.90 points per possession. And they use those numbers instead. Which is really just a different way to say the same thing.

And for the record, it's surely not that simple. The NCAA won't tell anyone exactly what they are doing, but they are surely adjusting those raw numbers somehow. Although knowing the NCAA, maybe they are just that stupid.
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*** Pitt vs Wisc - game thread ***

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Joe the Panther Fan said:
Pomeroy has a win probability graph for every game. After Wisconsin made the foul shots to go up six with 30 seconds left he had Wisconsin with a 99.5% chance to win. So after Ish missed his three and they got the rebound Pitt's chance to win would have been much, much lower than that. So what, 99.95% or something like that?

3% is clearly way, way too high. If a team down six with 23 seconds left in the game had a 3% chance to win (not even taking into account that we didn't have the ball then) then you'd see a comeback like that pretty much every week. Sometimes multiple times in a week. And yet an actual comeback like that is really rare.
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I feel like I do see ESPN do a highlight every week where a team makes an improbable comeback and they say something to the effect of "Now check out with win probably when X team threw that interception... 99.8%!"

Obviously I don't mean literally every week, but it happens often enough to make me question the accuracy at least somewhat. All it takes it one play to completey change those percentages so quickly (I get it: you could say that was factored into the probability to begin with).

Bottom line: I'm not throwing in the towel that early in a two-score game.
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So Bell is interviewing at Oklahoma?

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Chairman Moe said:
You know, it's kind of funny as I think back to the Youngstown State game - when Duzz wore a short sleeved white shirt and royal blue tie in honor of his dad. He may have coached the best game of the year that afternoon. Granted, it was against the Penguins, but he looked more the part of a HC and seemed even more involved in the play-by-play of the game. Maybe he should dress like his dad more often?
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Jackie Sherrill wore the sport coat in honor of Bear Bryant. Worked pretty well for him....
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