Yep, that's the 405 but I don't take it to work. (I don't take it ever, during commuting periods anyway.) The entire freeway was shut down this morning, an exceedingly rare event -- it's happened only once in all my years here, and that was for construction, very late at night, and with weeks of advance notice. The spillover traffic on the other freeways from people seeking alternate routes killed commutes all over L.A. Many people yet worked from home. I had a meeting that I had to run, so I came in. Took me a looong time.
We've been lucky for decades to avoid serious fires in the Santa Monica Mountains (Hollywood, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Woodland Hills, Malibu) but it looks like our luck may have run out. It's pretty bad. I'm on an upper floor and can see most of the LA basin and the smoke is everywhere.
What's really bad if that my helicopter is also undergoing repairs today so I had to drive.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
The American Football Coaches Association has named @Utah_Football one of seven winners of its 2017 Academic Achievement Award for recording a perfect percent NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR)! #goutes
7:43 AM - 7 Dec 2017
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That is pretty awesome.
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Today is the day we take home the RAY GUY and the LOU GROZA, or something like that.
Don't look at this link, LAUte; much love for Utah Punters: http://rayguyaward.com/
I was looking back in this thread to see what was being said about placekicking before the season started. Things looked pretty bleak. Now, we have a likely Groza award winner. If you look through the accomplishments of the 3 finalist, Gay should win. I'm not sure how much politics or beauty contest factors come into play in the award.
http://www.lougrozaaward.com/index.c...main&x=1823812
Carlson Eberle Gay Field goals 21 16 27 Field Goal % 75% 89% 87% Field Goals over 50 yards 4 5 Extra Points 54 45 37 Extra Point % 100% 100% 100% Total Points scored 117 93 118
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
OK, everyone knows that the real drama tonight is around the Ray Guy winner. A look at the finalists:
Punts Avg Long Total Yards
Michael "The Dick" Dickson, Texas, Jr: 73 48.4 76 3532
Mitch "the Bitch" Wishnowsky: 46 47.7 66 2035
JK "Rowling" Scott, Alabama, Sr: 42 43.4 64 1822
Now, I don't think the defending champ has to worry about Scott. Even though he is the offensive star of Alabama, this year has been his worst year. Not a good look. Like BYU seniors for the last 4 years, he will never taste the sweet, sweet taste of getting the one thing you truly desire.
Now Dickson is another story. Hopefully the committee can look past the phenomenal number of punts (did Texas ever score this year?), and realize that the stats are nearly identical. Furthermore, if you look at pinning an opponent within the ten yard line, Mitch wins this thing going away. I have no stats to back up the last sentencem but it has to be true.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
Looks like the Young talk was for real. He made some great plays for us this year...AT CB!!! Ha ha.
I think the OL started gelling by the end of the year. Took longer than I thought, but they will be the foundation of a very good offense next year (hopefully). I’m so glad we get a bowl game. Be nice to see if our offense takes another step after another “spring ball”.
TE’s...if they can stay healthy...well, that never happened. Dang.
Shyne at 100%...😩
Though Moss looks like the next NFL back out of Utah.
Ippolito at LB... 😂😂😂 who said that? That dude is clueless. Ha ha.
Safety, thin but with talent, could be better than last year...I stand by this, but we were hurt a lot.
K: I think we found someone.
P: I think I love someone.
LS: have we found one yet? Ha ha.
Talent wise, yah. Other stuff, I don’t know. Maybe at Utah, he’d do better. But I’m not sure he’d make it close enough to the field to play for us. Dude has had some issues for awhile.
And Kalani is finding out the “LaVell way” won’t fly these days. You can’t just sweep stuff under the rug and play this tough of an schedule and expect to win.
Last edited by Utah; 12-08-2017 at 11:01 AM.
Alright, I’m done mucking up this thread. Fun to look back.
I’ve seen all that. My biggest hangup with Koroma is his size. I don’t know if he’s at Utah as a freshman, if he ever gets looked at. That’s been my point all along.
Kudos to him though. He just keeps balling and proving everybody wrong.
All the reasons why I don’t think he’d play at Utah will be all the reasons why the second best center in college football goes undrafted.
I hope he proves me wrong, but I don’t think so. At a certain level, you just have to be big enough. He isn’t. And that is what would hold him back at Utah.
When you have Lo, who is 6 ft 5, 300 lbs vs Koroma, who is 5 ft 8 and 260...it’s tough to give him a shot.