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Ouch, the possibility that the Committee might discredit the part of our season in which Pitts contributed, is an ugly thought I had not considered. Presumably there’s no formal policy on that, but just depends on what they are thinking at the time.

None of the prognosticators have very good guessing algorithms (I’ll call them). Yet, I’ve started to believe that Warren Nolan http://www.warrennolan.com/basketballw/2020/team-predict-schedule?team=Minnesota is the “least bad” among them. Last time I did the analysis based on that, it was...

Here’s an incredibly crazy statistic about that 19 point run over about 4.25 minutes. If (just for fun) you extrapolate that scoring pace to a full 40-minute game, you get approximately 179 points per game. If (for even more fun) you extrapolate that to a full 48-minute NBA game, you get over...

Just an oversight by the department. I suspect it will be gone by tomorrow, thanks to your reminder. That same or similar picture has been purged from their Twitter site. Replaced by a picture of the audience at a home game featuring Blanket Lady. Of course Destiny is gone from the roster just...

But in the second half, Iowa outscores the Badgers 50-28. Iowa wins it 85-78. Game review at https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.hawkcentral.com/amp/4519360002

> So far you can’t prove this part in bold yet. There had been one situation ... This isn’t rock bottom or truly anything to panic about yet. Yes I concur completely. In fact I gave a thumbs up since I probably didn’t sufficiently emphasize this. Pertinent is: My point is only a conjecture...

I see some potential partial truth in both the quoted post and the @JackFei post that it references. Leading me to realize that perhaps a hybrid conjecture is called for, which I state here. Circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that the ideal scenario to fit Whalen’s modus operandi...

Darn good thing I didn't go to law school, then. I would have flunked out. I have to resort to a quote that is attributed to just about everybody. "I would have made it shorter, but I didn't have enough time." I've found that in any business writing that I have to do, I generally have to do it...

Love your great joke, @let'sbeclear and @Veritas too. Let's hope that I'm not suspended indefinitely like Destiny was. I don’t have to go through the Athletic Department’s Disciplinary System for my infraction of verbosity, do I. If so, then I, like Destiny Pitts, refuse to sign their...

(By the way, for numbering purposes, this is my rant #3 in the "Destiny Pitts Suspended & Taiye and Kehinde Bello Do Not Travel with Team to Illinois" thread .) Hey, @46Gophers, I really like your post. In spite of it seemingly being critical of my posts (which I don't mind at all - that's...

> If a body language issue escalated to the necessity to have a "signed document", then both parties lost. See my latest "extension" to my original conjectures ... but my new impression is that the Athletic Departments requires "signed documents" all over the place. In fact, they (seemingly...

Nice point. Hopefully her new school will help her apply for an exception.

(By the way, for numbering purposes, this is my rant #2 in the "Destiny Pitts Suspended & Taiye and Kehinde Bello Do Not Travel with Team to Illinois" thread .) Some additional general information (still unknown if true or not, so still just a conjecture) might provide further insights on the...

OK, I'll accept that point. I used the phrase "oranges to tangerines" to express that there are a lot of similarities, yet some significant differences between shooting threes in the WNBA and in the NCAA (or even in the Power-5 conferences). So yeah, I intended to concede that point from the...

She did what she thought was right. And she (quite justifiably) thought that the right thing to do was to turn it over to the AD’s formal disciplinary process (admittedly, my assumption, but high probability). My guess is, that’s the point where things went south. Admittedly, a lot of...

Also (re whether or not this was the first time for such an incident), in her tweet, Destiny specifically states that (as of the time of the suspension for the Northwestern incident) she had never ever had any disciplinary action - either at Minnesota or in her pre-college career. I trust...

Not necessarily, since Whalen’s hands are potentially a bit dirty as as least some part of the problem. And plenty of WNBA teams will take her. She’s shooting threes at a percentage 1.5 times what Rachel Banham shot last year. In fact she shot higher than all WNBA players except about half a...

Yes, good point. And yes, the U legal beagles are good. That’s why the probably put a lot of distasteful legal crap in the document they were demanding Destiny sign. Just another reason why signing that document was untenable. The Transfer Portal was her only tenable option.

There might have been other prior incidents. We don’t know. If so, and there were gradual escalations and/or threats to her, then perhaps she was treated fairly. But I see no prima facie evidence of such. My gut tells me there were no prior escalating warnings, although I could be wrong. If...

No, I’m asserting that Destiny was not just benched and not just suspended for a game or two. She was benched indefinitely, as in from now til infinity. Or she could sign a document that would bench her for most of the rest of the season anyway. None of those were viable choices. So the Transfer...