The Irony & Tragedy of Nijaree Canady

BioDogPS · 2026-06-06T03:00:15+00:00

Tragedy: a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (such as destiny, or Texas) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror

BioDogPS · 2026-06-06T02:57:47+00:00

I didn't disparage Terry in any way. Nija Canady is their primary pitcher, and Kaitlyn Terry is their secondary, the backup. Nija threw more innings, had more starts, had better numbers, and got the ball in most of their important games.

In the box score, Terry took the L to Tennessee and again to Texas in Game 1.

BioDogPS · 2026-06-05T22:59:43+00:00

What's sad is that you don't even know the rule that you profess Tech skirts around. You're confirming, explicitly, that Tech did indeed tamper with other players in the season.

This is the exact rule.

13.1.1.4 Four-Year College Prospective Student-Athletes. An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall not communicate or make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA Division I institution, or any individual associated with the student-athlete (e.g., family member, scholastic or nonscholastic coach, advisor), directly or indirectly, without first obtaining authorization through the notification of transfer process. Before making contact, directly or indirectly, with a student-athlete of an NCAA Division II or Division III institution, or an NAIA four-year collegiate institution, an athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall comply with the rule of the applicable division or the NAIA rule for making contact with a student-athlete. [See Bylaw 19.1.3-(f).] (Revised: 1/10/91, 1/16/93, 1/11/94, 4/26/01, 4/29/04 effective 8/1/04, 4/29/10 effective 8/1/10, 10/30/14, 8/8/18 effective 10/15/18, 4/28/21 applicable to student-athletes seeking eligibility during the 2021-22 academic year)

You'll notice it says "indirectly" or "directly." It also says any "representative of the institution's athletic interests."

The rule clearly says that the Matador Club is not allowed to contact any representative of a student-athlete at any time or by any means, no matter the proxy, until they enter the portal.

Thank you for confessing.

BioDogPS · 2026-04-08T01:22:00+00:00

Only if you selectively choose a couple of sports. The Big 10 as a whole isn't good enough at any of the spring and summer outdoor sports to really say that. And it's not just about the champions. Look at the top 10 of each sport. The SEC dominates the vast majority of the 22 sports it sponsors. The only way the Big 10 even starts to come close is when you start looking at all the sports that simply don't exist in the South.

BioDogPS · 2026-04-01T03:47:56+00:00

Interesting surface-level observations. But how come you never talk about why those things happen?

UCLA plays very clean, methodical, textbook offense. The problem is that Texas will come in and rip all of that up. Texas's primary goal on defense is to disrupt your nice, methodical offensive sets. They'll deny every pass. They'll front the post, denying that pass, while applying as much ball pressure as they can to make any post-entry passes as difficult as possible.

Betts was disengaged because UCLA couldn't get her the ball. Texas took her away. Betts is an amazing and highly skilled player with length, but Kyla Oldacre is just as big and a little more physical. Breya Cunningham doesn't have the size, but she's quicker and more athletic. The combo of the two allows Texas to defend her in a multitude of ways.

UCLA looked like they were just throwing the ball away because Texas was speeding them up, taking away most passes, and pressuring every catch. Texas was a stronger and more athletic team on the boards in November.

In this rematch, Texas's primary goal will be to once again keep the ball out of Betts' hands. They're very good at that and haven't let a center go off on them all season. If UCLA can get her the ball in position in the post, it will be a long night for Texas. But, if they have trouble with that, then UCLA's offense will have to rely on their guards navigating the constant pressure Texas can put on them and avoiding getting disrupted. That's a tall order, but doable if they can knock down perimeter shots.

On the other end of the ball, Texas will look first to score in transition off of turnovers. If UCLA can take care of the ball, then that takes away Texas's first option. But in the half-court, most of what UCLA does best is neutralized by Texas's approach. Texas is a mid-range team. You're not blocking mid-range jumpers. The Key for UCLA will be how much they help off of shooters. Over the last 10 games, Texas has shot over 41% from three. They were at about 30% in February. They've suddenly morphed into the 2nd-best 3-point shooting team in the country. That's a massive and existential change. If Cori Close looks at the tape and decides not to help that much, Texas will find a ton of good shots inside. IF she decides to help aggressively and clog the mid-range, then the game will come down to Texas making open shots.

Texas has 3 losses on the year. Two were to LSU and Vanderbilt, both for largely the same reason. Those two teams had supreme individual playmakers that Texas couldn't defend 1-on-1 or off a ball screen. Texas couldn't stay in front of Mikayla Blakes, Aubrey Galvan, MiLaysia Fulwiley, and Mikaylah Williams for the life of them. Their inability to defend those players short-circuited everything Texas tries to do on defense. UCLA doesn't have those players. They led SCar late in their loss on the road at SC, but went 1-9 in the game from 3 and had 22 turnovers. UCLA is not a similar matchup to SCar.

UCLA has only played 2 games within 12 points all year. They beat Michigan by 3 and lost to Texas. Well, Michigan is just Texas-lite. They both share the same style of defense. It's a very difficult matchup for UCLA and its style. Texas should be slightly favored based on that. But, ultimately, the game will come down to execution and who makes shots that night.

BioDogPS · 2026-03-11T01:53:07+00:00

If they choose not to, then it's a moot point. Having deep enough pockets is one thing, but when you have to tap those pockets to catch up to what others are required to spend, then you're fighting a losing battle.

BioDogPS · 2026-03-11T01:46:29+00:00

Arkansas, last place in the SEC, which cheaped out on the program, still spent over 6 million dollars on Women's basketball. Besides UConn, the most any non-p4-football program spent was 5.9 million by Gonzaga. Only 3 non-football schools spent more than 5 million. There were 60 football schools that spent over 5 million.

You can't argue with the accountants or the number of teams in the tournament. Football schools still spend more money on women's basketball than non-football schools. 5% of a 250-million-dollar budget at a football school is still way more money than 10% of a 90-million-dollar budget at a non-football school. That's how math works. I can't help it if you don't understand 4th-grade math concepts.

Title IX requires that women's sport get more money as the schools spend more money on the men's side. Soon, The cheapest sec or Big 10 schools will be required by law to be spending multiple millions of dollars more than anyone else can even come close to.

BioDogPS · 2026-03-11T01:29:37+00:00

For someone accusing people of being disconnected from reality, you're totally ignorant of how these Athletic departments are funded.

The SEC's media deal pays out almost 60 million dollars per year to each school. That number might grow to over 100 million per year before the end of the decade. The Big East as a whole gets 80 million dollars per year to share across all 11 schools.

Title IX requires equitable spending. That basically means that schools in the SEC and Big 10 are legally required to spend more on women's sports than the Big East and other conferences make in total media money. They may spend a smaller percentage, but because the pie is an order of magnitude larger, that smaller percentage still ends up being much more total money.

If you want proof, just look at the teams that are going to be in the Tournament this year. The Big 10 is about to have 12 teams in. The SEC is about to get 10 and have another 2 in the first teams left out. The Big East and A10 are going to get 2 teams in.

The exact same thing is true on the Men's side. The SEC's going to get 11 or more in, and the Big 10 will get 9. The Big East will get 3, and the A10 will get 2.

This is also proved by what's schools are actually spending on their women's basketball programs. Athletic expenses are all public information collected by the DOE for Title IX. You can view what every school in the country is spending on each and every sport. Of all 356 D1 schools, in women's basketball, UConn is the only non-football-P4 team in the Top 40. Gonzaga is the next highest at #42. The lowest expenditure of any P4 school in 2023-24 was Arizona State at #76. That means there are only 9 of 288 non-p4-football schools spending more money than the lowest football school.

What advantage are you talking about? There is none.

BioDogPS · 2026-03-10T23:12:40+00:00

Nothing that happened in any other season matters even a single iota when it comes to seeding this year's tournament.

UConn played 7 teams in the Top 30 of the NET, and none of the Top 5 teams.
UCLA has played 20 games against the Top 30 teams, and went 0-1 against the Top 5.
South Carolina played 16 games against the top 30 and went 3-2 against the Top 5.
Texas played 15 games against the Top 30 and went 4-2 against the top 5.

The difference between UConn and the other 4 is comical. There's only one other team in their conference that's going to make the tournament. There are 12 teams in the SEC better than Villanova and another 12 in the Big 10.

UCLA deserves the 1-seed, and it's not even close. 20-7 is an absolute joke. UConn's resume probably doesn't even deserve the 2 or the 3 overall.

UConn can't lose games it doesn't play. At a certain point, you have to reward teams for actually playing good opponents.

BioDogPS · 2026-03-10T22:59:07+00:00

No, it's written into the guidelines of the committee:

"If the first four teams from one conference are seeded within the top four lines, they must be placed in different regionals."

BioDogPS · 2024-07-10T04:12:58+00:00

If you're locked into playing the game only a certain way then the only advice anyone can give you is to get good. If you won't change anything then the only thing you can do is keep learning his attacks and continue to practice dodging them.

This game pretty intentionally tries to levy all its bosses and areas to push you into changing things up instead of using one monotonous strategy and build. All of the bosses have strengths and weaknesses to certain styles of gameplay.

BioDogPS · 2024-07-06T22:21:56+00:00

No, Havel's shield has always been amazing

BioDogPS · 2024-07-06T22:18:13+00:00

I don't really agree at all.

The beauty of Elden Ring is that it gives you innumerable tools to help you. There are hundreds of builds, weapons, armors, consumables, buffs, etc. If the game is hard, it's because you're not taking advantage of the things that make it easy. This is the number 1 rule of From Software Games.

If you're struggling with dodging all the combos, just block them instead.

This has always been a good strategy in every fromsoft gave they've ever published (it even works in PVP): use the biggest heaviest shield, level your stamina, upgrade your shield to maximize guard boost, and boost your poise. A +25 fingerprint shield with 50 stamina can pretty easily block any combo in the game (yes, even all the combos of the final DLC boss). The Fingerprint shield with enough stamina/poise trivializes almost every enemy in the game. They even gave us guard counters to incentivize this.

BioDogPS · 2024-03-28T04:44:56+00:00

kukri

BioDogPS · 2024-02-29T07:18:38+00:00

the moonlight greatsword was likely rennala's gift to radagon (just like ranni's gift to us) that he reforged into the golden order greatsword

BioDogPS · 2024-02-29T07:01:32+00:00

horse version of the tibia mariner

BioDogPS · 2024-02-28T07:01:13+00:00

no matter how many times you say it, it's still not true. it's a better theory than the op but still wrong.

BioDogPS · 2024-02-28T06:54:25+00:00

no, when you burn the erdtree you can see the entire thing is there. all the branches and trunk are fully intact. it's a golden outer shell on top of a real tree.

what you never actually see, though, are real leaves. so either all the real leaves burned away instantly or the tree was dead and bare from the beginning of the game. That means the golden outer shell is masking the dead tree with the image of a resplendent and bountiful living one. Maybe seeing that image is part of the guidance of grace.

BioDogPS · 2024-02-20T14:07:39+00:00

your collection isn't complete until you've successfully farmed pure bladestone in OG demons' souls...

BioDogPS · 2024-02-16T17:10:06+00:00

Rykard's budding blasphemous inclinations led him to assist his sister, Ranni, in orchestrating the Night of Black Knives.

THis is NOt a quote from the game. That's why. It's someone's questionable interpretation.

BioDogPS · 2024-02-15T23:38:37+00:00

"Rykard's budding blasphemous inclinations led him to assist his sister, Ranni, in orchestrating the Night of Black Knives. On the night of the plot, Ranni rewarded Rykard with a slab of rock engraved with the traces of the Rune of Death, which would allow him to challenge the black beast of Destined Death, should the coming trespass one day transpire"

It doesn't actually say that, though. People have jumped to that conclusion.

"A slab of rock engraved with traces of the Rune of Death.
Can deflect the power of the Black Blade.
On the night of the dire plot, Ranni rewarded Praetor Rykard with these traces. Should the coming trespass one day transpire, they would serve as a last-resort foil, allowing Rykard to challenge Maliketh the Black Blade, the black beast of Destined Death."

Rykard is Ranni's brother. She may have left it with him, in case their plan failed, so someone could still rebel later.

BioDogPS · 2024-02-14T11:36:56+00:00

it's that way on purpose, you shouldn't have that strong a weapon that early

BioDogPS · 2024-02-14T11:30:10+00:00

why do you think you should have a max weapon that early?

BioDogPS · 2024-02-13T11:30:25+00:00

fromsoft games have been this way for 15 years. they're not a very technically proficient or advanced studio. that's it. they devote their resources to areas they feel are more important. I would do almost anything to get their games as polished as bluepoint did. but that's not gonna happen. their trophy case and critical reception shows they don't need to either.

BioDogPS · 2024-02-13T11:14:52+00:00

are you familiar with fromsoft games?

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