This book is a classic that Hollywood keeps trying to make bc they’re all obsessed with how good it is

Somebody asked me for some football #takes the other day on certain of Michigan football’s player and coach additions and I guess there’s no reason not to actually document them somewhere for future reference

These dangerous plays just keep happening but really who can say what the word “intend” means good point Tom

O’Leary really knew what he was doing at WMU. Their best D in 20 years and a 2 TD improvement year over year.

Over at A City That Works: A key player on the Mayor’s Cut the Tape Initiative outlines another action the city can take to cut development costs.

coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown

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A genius.

“That shit changed me”

At a sporting event with a man who has apparently never heard of Red Panda and is absolutely thunderstruck by what he is witnessing “Nah” “Ain’t no way”

Baiting him into kicking a guy in the balls! So true!

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

🚨 HOUSING WIN 🚨 Today, Ald. Gilbert Villegas announced his support for 40 new homes to replace a now-demolished Advance Auto Parts store at 2652 W. Chicago Ave. AHIL members delivered over 100 letters to Ald. Villegas and attended multiple community meetings to express support for the project. 💪🏘️

NEW Pod! We break down everything from Michigan's statement win at MSU. How Michigan executed down the stretch, strategic decisions, Morez Johnson's defensive versatility and more. Tap in:

When your only offense is Jeremy Fears foul baiting and Izzo yelling at the refs, you know you’re screwed. Near-perfect defensive half from Michigan until the last 45 seconds.

📽️ How Dusty May led Michigan to basket after basket down the stretch in its massive road win at Michigan State: Sound ON 🔊

HIGHLY recommend this Izzo presser it’s hilarious

Really hate to see a Christmas Adventurer treated so poorly on his birthday

Fascinating stuff here for sure

Thoughtful piece from Parker. Not sure I have much to add other than perhaps how small the difference in a game is given how compressed success and explosive rate distributions are. There’s a lot of value in simply not busting your call.

New on the substack: Where'd the explosives go? cfbgraphs.substack.com/p/footballno...

2024 ACS updates for Chicago Population. Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here. Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.

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Pretty interesting tempo stat for Ohio State this year. They slowed waaaay down to the point of playing service academy level pace. Not sure I see the pay off. Ofc goes against the common wisdom that increased variance is bad for elite teams.

I hate that guy!

Another KILL KILL KILL another run for nothing

for no reason posting the best moment from all of the New Class era www.youtube.com/watch?v=_euk...

Best song I was most recently reminded isn’t on Spotify youtu.be/spk4yI2YZJo?...

Sure to cause a tiff? @rsday.bsky.social and #ConnorDurkin call for terminating the Red-Purple Modernization Project tax increment financing (TIF) district once the project is paid off. citythatworks.substack.com/p/sunset-the...

And ofc as Piketty found this is an identifiable trend throughout the West

The Illinois Supreme Court’s patronage system needs reform

The one game all year (half, really) where it looked like Indiana didn’t have the horses. Ope.

Nvm it’s Tampa. Can see the TE on the seam come open, guessing this is what they had been hitting. The slot going opposite seam occupies the pole runner to open up the boundary seam. Beck…does that instead.

holy shit Cig's smirk went full smile

Beck has settled in and they've really started to attack the seams. IU had been running a ton of Tampa early seems like maybe more C3 now and that's where the soft spot is.

Mario is still a moron.

This C1 from Miami having so much success is interesting bc that's what teams figured out last year about them. Wink moved to it and killed their O and every team after went the same way. Haven't watched enough of them to know if C1 is just so out of vogue that nobody's tried it this year or what.

The rest of the Saban quote is actually proving to be pretty relevant for this game. Miami is just going C1 and that's _mostly_ working for them.

Not that Indiana LB just got on wrong shoulder, he failed to even slow the RB getting to the second level. Really killed the safeties angle buzzing down. TD

Miami's been trying to run OZ vs. that reduced front. Looked like the safety and the edge ended up in the same gap. Guessing IU wanted to spill it bc that's generally their MO. Not sure if safety thought he had the angle or had an interior gap.

Saban said the line!

Think an underrated aspect of the parity era of CFB is just how high the returns are to your edge, whatever that is. If you practice better, have the better strength program, better scouting, better analytics, better organizational alignment, etc. all of it ends up on the field now.

Really jealous of how well Indiana executes combo blocks then you remember they somehow have Bob Bostad as OL coach and it’s just another coach on their staff that it’s crazy a bigger program hasn’t poached

IU getting back to make that tackle before giving up the first on that screen despite getting caught in a blitz from the side of the screen was a better rep vs. a screen than Michigan got all year. And hey, look, now the shutout is still intact. Extra effort and awareness is always rewarded. BDL.

Cig has the most potent eye topper since The People's Eyebrow

It’s taken me a while to get there but I think the secret to the IU O is just how good all these WRs are. They’re just much faster and stronger than they have any right to be. And any catch can turn into 10+ bc they never step out of bounds. They’re always turning it back and getting into the DB.

Important to remember we get very little data on freshman QBs in CFB and so little that it rounds to 0 for 18 year olds. If these guys were regularly P4 median or so, you’d see them playing a LOT more. Which tells you how good Bryce can be even if nobody was blown away with him this year.

2) I actually thought Lindsey did well from play design perspective. Got a lot of guys open in ways that didn’t heavily rely on complicated QB reads/progression. Issue last year was not play design 3) You also saw coming out of bye weeks clear intent of QB coaching with Bryce. He was being coached.