Bob Chill

I tend to agree with one issue... they aren't deep at guard and shooting forward. Take Cowan and Smith out of the game and they can lose first round. Especially Smith because he's the complete package. Last I looked I felt KU and Duke had the most talent and depth. Odds are the terps have to beat at least one of those to get to the final and that's off the top of my head. Majority of the top 10 teams are as good or better. I'd absolutely love and absolutely dread a UMD Duke matchup. Haha

I just couldn't squeeze it in today... I tried but was working on wife's car doing all scheduled maintenance except for 1 extra thing... rear brake job. Which is actually easy except when the rotor screws are crusted and rusted and you have to fight, kick, and scream before finally giving in and drilling them out. Lol. No other car or truck I've owned has screws like that. It's been a great car (Honda). No compaints except stealing my bike ride. Haha. Oh, I did not replace the screws because they aren't necessary. All rotors on practically every car are held by pressure from the wheel and a little rust.

I'm in a pretty big bracket pool every year and the most common winners are those that don't follow basketball. lol. I did hit first place my first year in the pool and took a lot of flak from the "old schoolers". I've since made up for it by sucking 5 straight years since.

The fun thing about duke and nc is they were always scared to play md. Always a threat even unranked. Gary Williams was an absolute master of preparation for those big games. I saw Gary on a golf course years ago shortly after be retired. Didn't talk to him but watched him scream profanity and slam a club when he shanked a shot. Old habits die hard I suppose. LOL

Agree 2-3 seed would be ideal. 4--5 seed is worse than a 1 seed though. Trap games lurking in the first 2 rounds. MD has a knack at failing during trap games.

That game was true vomit worthy. I watched on TV as I wasn't around here. I've seen the final minute replay a few times. It's like undivine intervention because even trying their hardest to lose shouldn't be enough to fail to fail like that. I always hated Duke games. That one made me a lifetime hater with no cure.

I hated the move to the big 10 at first but I really like it now. Miss the Duke and NC games of course but the Terps have had better recruiting since the switch. When they were in the ACC there were a lot of bummer recruiting seasons where players just wouldn't commit. I'm seeing less of that now. Doesn't seem to be a coincidence. Big 10 is the best conf in the league this year and the Terps are flourishing. In other news... doesn't look like the terps will bump up more than 1 place in the rankings. Louisville is the only loss above them this week. I really want a 1 or 2 seed in the tourney so they can have an easier time getting to the sweet 16. Long ways to go tho

It's not a neat pretty cycle because always some opposite years during cycles. If there wasn't compelling evidence that these cycles exist I would start thinking new normal stuff but that's not the case and anyone who thinks otherwise is not being objective. We had some opposite years that were ruined by something else (ak vortex usually). We live in a boom/bust area and that's just part of normal life. Deal with it or move. Complaining over and over every year isn't constructive. If it gets to you that bad then set goals, make a plan, and gtf outta here Eta: not speaking directly at you at all. Just in general

Terps just made up for this disgusting winter. Izzo and MSU at home can be impossible to win sometimes. When md went down 7 I was 100% sure they were done. I'm not even sure what I just watched. Mind boggling S right there. Top 5 is possible next week. At least move 2 places to 7th.

It's going to flip on us here soon. Go back and look at the AO monthlies. There's a pretty clear cycle of biased positive and negative over decadal timeframes. What we've been dealing with since 2011 is not uncommon. Will it end next year? No idea but it will go back to a neg bias in the not too distant future. I'm very confident in that. Just thank your lucky stars for 2013-15. We had back to back deep winter with a hostile AO. That may never happen again in our lifetimes

It's nice to see and far better than a repetitive -pna +nao storm track. Geps finally dropped the western trough. If this was happening in the early season I would be stoked but after an incessant kidney punching disaster for basically all of met winter... I'll (all of us) remain skeptical.

Zamboni piles! Remember the old cabin john skating rink? I used to play peewee hockey and if my mom was late picking me up I'd start working on a snow cave. Lol. Made some big ones too. Which is dangerous AF if the pile collapses. You'd prob make it for 30 mins before lights out.

When we flip from utter crap to something half decent we rarely immediately get a storm. Maybe a light event but larger storms typically hit in the middle or towards the end of the good period. Assuming we get a good period my thoughts are prob early March for a shot at something decent. And for that reason and the fact that things will be terrible for at least another 10 days (barring a lotto storm) I'm not really interested in much.

It won't stop until everyone agrees with Decoy. So what I'm really saying is yep, it just never ends.

DCA is 600% above 97-98 and 01-02 so no futility records getting set this year. At least at DCA anyways.

Yea, they had a perfect chance to lock it down mid 2nd half but decided to implode instead. My son asked me how the game was and I said the Terps tried their absolute hardest to lose but somehow accidentally won

2014 is never mentioned with the 79 83 93 96 2003 2010 2016 The sleet and slight warmup before the ULL took some fun away. I know I got 19 and some change. The ULL piece was great. Between 3-4" in my yard with true high ratio large dendrites. Like 15-20:1 similar to the Rockies. We don't get that type of snowfall often.

Lol. I said the same thing recently. DCA's biggest decadal disasters since I've been alive are 11-12 (2.0"), 01-02 (3.2"), 97-98 (.1"), 80-81 (4.5"), and 72-73 (.1") We talk about 01-02 a lot but there are 2 years with only .1". DCA currently has 6 times that amount of those years right now. Rockin it!

Yea, we need to root hard for a ++AO for another decade... said no one EVER

+AO's do unfortunately. Mid latitudes in NA and Europe have been on fire most of the winter. Europe has been worse than the eastern half of the conus. This ugly pattern is affecting a giant piece of real estate. Our region is far from being alone. That actually helps me just shrug my shoulders at this point. Won't be the last time this happens either. Every decade since the 70s has had at least one epic disaster.

@psuhoffman the abrupt vertical rise of JH is one of a kind. The Wasatch is similar but not the same because the resorts are up in the canyons. JH is a straight wall of vertical off the valley floor. The views from the top and bottom are ridiculous. Glad you got some bluebird conditions. Nicely done. Now get home safely and get back to suffering

The big flukes usually involve a closed ULL tracking just right so dynamics overcome the torch at the surface and lack of cold air. Feb 2006 was never below freezing for most but I still got 14 or 16 inches or something like that. If you want a big fluke in this pattern it will require something similar. However, we're in such a crappy temp pattern that even a perfect track bowling ball can be all rain. This year is so persistently bad that even fluke storms will need to be surrounded on all sides by other wierd fluky features. Looking across all guidance the only shot we have over the next 10-12 days would be a quick trailer after a front. Air is moving fast so the "cold windows" are literally less than 48 hours long. Miss that by 15 minutes and we get another free car wash

That's true. If I wasn't such a cold weather baby riding bikes I would take advantage but man, cold like this weekend steals all the fun out of riding. On topic: I agree with everyone who thinks something can pop up out of nowhere when the PNA ridge builds. No idea if it's really going to build and even less of an idea of whether or not it sticks around for more than a few days. During +AO/NAO periods the most common theme for surprise events is a +PNA. We'll know soon enough but for now my expectations remain quite low (like everybody). If it works, great and if not, oh well.

Apparently a lot of unfrozen ground, mud, and water. If we tracked mud this would be the 09-10 of mud winters

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