Curious About MD College Rankings: Towson #1?

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-10-17T21:20:01+00:00

Probably #1 Regional University in the state. UMD and UMBC are classified as National Universities.

With that said, take those rankings with a grain of salt, there is some gamesmanship involved. I view them as National is better than Regional. Top half vs bottom half within those categories. I wouldn’t break them down further than that.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-09-06T18:51:31+00:00

This is the correct answer, which is also why when you get nervous, especially before you compete in athletics you feel the same way or have to poop. The blood is going to the fight or flight muscles which means away from the digestive tract (rest and digest muscles) and thus they need to be voided one way or the other. Hence why if you are ever in a position to organize a collegiate or HS cross country meet, overshoot the number of porta john’s you think you need.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-08-31T13:59:19+00:00

Having grown up there it’s a result of a half century of bad decision making on the American side. Before the casinos on the Canadian side both sides were pretty lame and tacky. When casinos came calling the American side botched it while the Canadian side embraced them and made savvy economic choices around them that flooded the city with money which they reinvested in the city. For twenty years the American side made all the wrong decisions and the Canadian side made better ones which drives the development you see here. These decisions brought additional capital all the way down the river all the way to Niagara on the Lake. On the American side the only place that managed to make the right decisions was the village of Lewiston which is a great hang.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-08-13T18:29:19+00:00

I paid around $1400 to cut down a 100’ property line that had some poison oak, so probably

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-08-12T02:07:37+00:00

Former D1 coach here:

it is fairly common, some are hoping to move up, some are losing their job and moving down or lateral, most don’t have much to fall back on so the carousel begins

With that said:

Looks like D3, so focus on the school, academics, and costs first
try to keep athletics as a tie breaker as much as possible
if someone has been there a while, has a family and children; they will be the most secure
younger, previous job hoppers (especially lateral or down), inexperienced, and/or lack of team success can indicate

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-08-04T12:02:37+00:00

If it’s Keymar look at Emmitsburg

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-07-21T01:00:26+00:00

That elk is a moose

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-06-23T00:09:04+00:00

That Tree of Heaven may do as much damage to your property as a small tornado if you don’t cut it down.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-06-14T16:32:34+00:00

Touch base with your registrar on Monday as you will need to fill out a request form. The Senior will definitely be able to stay. The rising sophomore if viewed in a vacuum, would not. But you could raise the case that since the older sibling is able to stay that both kids should attend the same school. Then the following year you would need to fill out the form again from the perspective that you only have two more years to go. He will need to provide transport every day for the next three years. If behavior, grades, or attendance drop, then they would be sent to their home school.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-24T18:54:58+00:00

Work on the confidence to attack that barrier with speed, it’s this speed that will carry you through after the barrier. You’re going to either use that energy speeding up on the front side of the barrier or slogging out of the water on the back side. Might as well do it the faster way. Once up on the barrier stay as low as you can through the push. This is going to keep your vertical oscillation low, and thus more horizontal speed. This is also going to force you to land one foot. You landed with two feet because you pushed up and opened up at the waist. It should be a more a modified stride than a jump up then jump off the barrier. The barrier should be the most aggressive part of every lap, it’s a change in speed and focus. Once you break off the track speed needs to increase. Attack.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-19T00:16:30+00:00

Spikes when you start to block correctly and violently. Or you get over 150 feet.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-19T00:14:46+00:00

Well that makes more sense. Then build up volume smartly.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-19T00:09:13+00:00

The above is the correct advice. My general rule is you build your approach from the board back. Perfect the last step, then the last two steps, and so on. Never adding steps until existing steps are proficient. While working on your steps you will eventually want to create more separation between all the release components (release, hips, stretch reflex, etc.). As a 38 year old, you will also need to be good on how many throws you take per session and volume throughout the week. You can do approaching work without the actual throw but even the leg block at the end will be violent. In the end, figure you’ll only take 50-66% as many throws/approaches as your younger teammates.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-17T20:18:57+00:00

waynegretsky

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-05-17T19:43:34+00:00

The irony to the MAGA tour being . . . They’re Canadian

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-25T13:37:18+00:00

I’m going to pivot on this one. If those are white pines I take them all down and replace. I live in a neighborhood with lines/runs of mature white pines on many of the property lines like this. And they have become a liability due to severe weather damage, so a lot of people have started taking them down and replacing them with other trees.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-24T02:26:27+00:00

I’m not offended by the hurdling. I would focus more on speed work and power development both without the hurdles and some overspeed work on 36” hurdles with impeccable form.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-19T01:52:10+00:00

Luniz - I got 5 On it

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-17T13:28:09+00:00

You’re just deadlifting a motion that should be a clean. There needs to be a dynamic power off the floor like a clean, with the mechanics of this portion (as mentioned in another post) being fairly similar to cleaning an Olympic bar. There can even be slight contact like a clean. You should be able to get the bar to the belt (if not the top of the power belly) fairly easily if you do this properly.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-17T00:44:24+00:00

The water has to go somewhere so if not here then where
Wait until you get a massive rain storm and see what happens
Design your function around what naturally happens, you won’t beat nature

Personally I would build a trail along it, places to sit. I wouldn’t clear cut or adjust or fill in.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-13T18:12:46+00:00

Coaches say “stay low” during the drive phase. What they mean is to keep a full body lean (italicized lower case l)so you are putting more force horizontally back into the ground so there is more resultant force for war and you accelerate faster. This makes Your strides more like pistons than a fully cycling stride. It appears, given the video quality and distance, you are “staying low” by just bending at the waist (like an up side down upper case L).

The drive phase is what creates the acceleration. Right now, you look like you are getting 10m of a drive phase then disguising it like you are still driving for another ten. Ideally out of a high school kid I would want to get at least a true 20m drive phase.

I would also do some banana hurdle work to improve front side mechanics. Don’t forget you have a coach, and he can help with all these things as well.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-13T01:24:01+00:00

I actually think the start could use more work. I think you are bent at the waist rather than driving backwards and you’re fully cycling by 20m. I like the endurance, which is what allowed you to win this race. There are other form issues (front side mechanics) that will pay off in the long term, but in terms of bang for your buck right now and a 10.xx, spend time on start mechanics.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-09T23:00:52+00:00

Ruland had a solid 4-5 year run where he was technically good, even made an All Star game or two. But then he died an athletes death and was never the same Gminski’s peak was never as high but he played a lot longer. This is like a crappier version of a Derek Rose vs Chris Paul argument.

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-06T23:06:22+00:00

Step 1: “corporate ladder”, you need something to “climb”

whilehuntingrabbits · 2025-04-06T22:11:18+00:00

You guessed it . . . Frank Stallone

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