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[OzJohnnie]

A great win for Hawthorn on Friday night up in Sydney against the heavily favored Swans.  It was quite a heated match. The Hawks now stand at 4-6.  They need to go 9-3 to finish the season with a hope to sneak into the finals.  Almost every week is a playoff game now. Sigh.

https://youtu.be/d3ps_CblGN0

[miac952]

Not to take this a slightly different direction, but what are the rules on D1 coaches "recruiting D3?" I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often, especially in individualized sports where it is easier to decipher a talent level match for D1. Track and swimming would be prime examples of that. It can also work in the big sports as well. Michigan has a former D3'er in hoops right now that has had a positive impact. Duncan Robinson transferred from Williams to Michigan after his Freshman year.

The NCAA discourages transferring up by making the player sit a year.  That might be less of a big deal in wrestling as they're mostly on partial scholarships.  Beilein really had to believe in Robinson to give him a full scholarship for the year that he couldn't compete.

Helpful summary. Much appreciated

[AO]

Not to take this a slightly different direction, but what are the rules on D1 coaches "recruiting D3?" I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often, especially in individualized sports where it is easier to decipher a talent level match for D1. Track and swimming would be prime examples of that. It can also work in the big sports as well. Michigan has a former D3'er in hoops right now that has had a positive impact. Duncan Robinson transferred from Williams to Michigan after his Freshman year.

The NCAA discourages transferring up by making the player sit a year.  That might be less of a big deal in wrestling as they're mostly on partial scholarships.  Beilein really had to believe in Robinson to give him a full scholarship for the year that he couldn't compete.

Helpful summary. Much appreciated

Did a little more research on the topic, apparently you can get an exception in sports other than football, baseball, basketball and men's ice hockey.   Webster would need a written release from Augsburg to get this exception.  He also needs that release to let the Gophers coaches talk to him about transferring.  D1s can't just go out and recruit from D2s and D3s, the athlete has to initiate.

[OldAuggie]

Not to take this a slightly different direction, but what are the rules on D1 coaches "recruiting D3?" I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often, especially in individualized sports where it is easier to decipher a talent level match for D1. Track and swimming would be prime examples of that. It can also work in the big sports as well. Michigan has a former D3'er in hoops right now that has had a positive impact. Duncan Robinson transferred from Williams to Michigan after his Freshman year.

The NCAA discourages transferring up by making the player sit a year.  That might be less of a big deal in wrestling as they're mostly on partial scholarships.  Beilein really had to believe in Robinson to give him a full scholarship for the year that he couldn't compete.

Helpful summary. Much appreciated

Did a little more research on the topic, apparently you can get an exception in sports other than football, baseball, basketball and men's ice hockey.   Webster would also need a written release from Augsburg to get this exception.  He also needs that release to let the Gophers coaches talk to him about transferring.  D1s can't just go out and recruit from D2s and D3s, the athlete has to initiate.

Makes sense because the Gopher fans had him penciled in the 2017/2018 starting lineup for months. I think it was just a matter of him qualifying academically at the U after he finished up the school year at Augsburg.

[DuffMan]

OA, sorry for your loss but Gophers >>> Auggies. 

[OldAuggie]

OA, sorry for your loss but Gophers >>> Auggies. 

Well the way I look at it, I can minimize the loss and sting of losing Webster by becoming the newest Gopher Wrestling fan, at least continue as an Owen Webster fan. I already follow the other Gopher sports; football since I was 12 years old sneaking in to Memorial Stadium, basketball, my daughter attends the U and now I have a reason to learn more about the wrestling team. But yeah this transfer will create a hole in a very promising class that should compete well in the future. That freshman class basically lifted AUG to their #2 finish last year.

[Smitty Oom]

As I just posted in the hoops boards... seems relevant to the current conversation.

Carleton bball player transfers to big 12 Baylor! Will be interesting to see how that ends up for him. He will be a junior during the 2018-2019 season, after his one year he has to sit out.

https://twitter.com/RyanJamesMN/status/871438249767686145

[OzJohnnie]

@stanbob

Gunshots, explosions, a dead guy and SWAT teams only 10 blocks from my house.  On our way to dinner when you were out here we drove by the serviced apartments that this took place in today.  i just found out from Tania (I'm in Singapore).  My guess is organised crime.

http://www.news.com.au/national/crime/emergency-crews-responding-to-explosion-in-brighton/news-story/02a8e18f3b12e2746b2cb663b3d447d2

EDIT: Two dead guys.  The Fuzz just shot the gunman, who had shot some other man in the lobby of the apartments and held a woman hostage for a few hours.

EDIT II: Apparently a male phoned one of the news channels and said "This one is for ISIS".  So the police are looking at the terror angle.  But unlikely there was a terror den in this neighborhood, in my opinion.  There are neighborhoods in Melbourne were a Jihadi would have a much easier time staying out of sight.  I'm thinking the call was a prank and am instead going with drugs or domestic violence.

EDIT III:  Cripes.  The paper says the gunman was known to counter-terrorism police.  And the news channel says a woman could be heard screaming in the background of the phone call.

EDIT IV:  Dang.  Three cops were shot, all surviving.  The guy came out blazing and shot someone, apparently random, in the lobby then went back in the apartment holding the woman and trading fire with the police.  Mrs Oz tells me that she passed all the cops on her way home from the train station which is two blocks or so on the other side of the apartments from our house's location.

[OzJohnnie]

Well, he was a full on terrorist.  Previously acquitted in 2009 on terror charges, he was on parole from from a subsequent B&E with aggravated assault.  Counter-terrorism police considered him low threat.  Don't they always after these events?  I think the police may need to reassess how they judge that.

[BDB]

Well, he was a full on terrorist.  Previously acquitted in 2009 on terror charges, he was on parole from from a subsequent B&E with aggravated assault.  Counter-terrorism police considered him low threat.  Don't they always after these events? I think the police may need to reassess how they judge that.

Seems like the "lone wolf" is usually a "known wolf."

[BDB]

A Delta Air Lines passenger was left bloody and badly injured after being attacked by an emotional support dog aboard a flight at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Ok, now the guy who got his azz whipped by somebody's emotional support dog is going to need his own emotional support dog.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/dog-mauls-passenger-on-delta-flight/ar-BBC4LEY?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp

[OzJohnnie]

Hold the presses, folks. The wife just texted me an update we have an organised crime/terrorism double. The woman was a prostitute, the dead guy in the lobby was the clerk and the gunman was a jihadi that lost his cool for some reason.

So it looks like there was an unsavoury transaction going down, the gunman didn't like something and decided to go out in a blaze of glory.  Dang.

[sjusection105]

Hold the presses, folks. The wife just texted me an update we have an organised crime/terrorism double. The woman was a prostitute, the dead guy in the lobby was the clerk and the gunman was a jihadi that lost his cool for some reason.

Trifecta, the jihadi had to have lost his cool because the prostate (presumably) was not wear a hajib.

[HSCTiger74]

Hold the presses, folks. The wife just texted me an update we have an organised crime/terrorism double. The woman was a prostitute, the dead guy in the lobby was the clerk and the gunman was a jihadi that lost his cool for some reason.

Trifecta, the jihadi had to have lost his cool because the prostate (presumably) was not wear a hijab.

I'm cringing at the thought of what would be necessary to get one on there. 

[OzJohnnie]

Hold the presses, folks. The wife just texted me an update we have an organised crime/terrorism double. The woman was a prostitute, the dead guy in the lobby was the clerk and the gunman was a jihadi that lost his cool for some reason.

Trifecta, the jihadi had to have lost his cool because the prostate (presumably) was not wear a hijab.

I'm cringing at the thought of what would be necessary to get one on there. 

Ha!  Now that's funny.

Actually, I think this will all end up a more mundane thing than a pre-planned terrorist attack.  It looks to me like he belonged to Somali gangs that run the vice business in the north of the city and was trying to muscle into vice in the south which is run by Chinese gangs.  Something went south so he started shooting it up and thought, "What the heck.  Let's give this one to ISIS."  After he had shot the Chinese lobby clerk (pimp?), he tried to remove his probation tracker bracelet (He had recently finished a three-year stint for a B&E and assault an old Turkish shop-owner and his daughter in the northern suburbs.  Wasn't paying protection money?) and had backed himself into a corner.  Shoot 'em up.

Meanwhile the Italians, which own the inner city and the East must be feeling the squeeze.