Washington favored by 39

[ordigger]

Stranger things have happened. I would've think the odds of the Griz beating Washington much better than if someone told me Donald Trump would be President in our lifetime. And look he is!

And I work in the fresh air every damn day!!!

Touche, Perhaps I pegged you wrong. You're a rock-licking geologist aren't ya!

Well quick story.....there was this legendary professor that taught Geology at Tech in my day. Petroleum Engineers hated him. They gave him the name Doc Rock, but to his face he was Dr Dresser.

2nd year of school, we are in a class where you take geology field trips each week - and we were over in the canyon near Lewis & Clark Caverns. This other student comes up, Dr Dresser, Dr Dresser, I found this rock - and I cant figure out what it is. Dresser goes, did you try tasting it? (which you may for example to see if it was a salt). So the student goes, nope, and starts licking on this big rock.

Dresser says loud enough for all of to hear, "that's not a rock - it's bat dung".

So yes technically geologists have to lick rocks.

I took his class. Sat next to an upperclassmen who was trying to pass on third attempt. Needless to say I hated his damn slide shows of rocks and his class overall. Later took a class in geology from Dr. Alt at UM (author of roadside geology of Montana)....loved his class.

I never had the pleasure of taking a Dr Alt class. I did post-graduate work at the UM for a year. Dr Dresser was my advisor at Tech. I bump into Petroleum Engineers on occasion in the field, just bring up Dr Dresser's name - and the reactions are great. I got those slide shows for classes every year for 4 years. His Structural Geology was brutal.

He told me once that I would remember more in his classes 30 years down the road with lower grades, then the classes down the hall that I was pulling top grades in. Son-of-a-gun was right....I still remember specifics from his approach. By my 3rd year, he was a pretty good guy....but we had been weeded out pretty good by then.

 

[Ursus1]

Touche, Perhaps I pegged you wrong. You're a rock-licking geologist aren't ya!

Well quick story.....there was this legendary professor that taught Geology at Tech in my day. Petroleum Engineers hated him. They gave him the name Doc Rock, but to his face he was Dr Dresser.

2nd year of school, we are in a class where you take geology field trips each week - and we were over in the canyon near Lewis & Clark Caverns. This other student comes up, Dr Dresser, Dr Dresser, I found this rock - and I cant figure out what it is. Dresser goes, did you try tasting it? (which you may for example to see if it was a salt). So the student goes, nope, and starts licking on this big rock.

Dresser says loud enough for all of to hear, "that's not a rock - it's bat dung".

So yes technically geologists have to lick rocks.

I took his class. Sat next to an upperclassmen who was trying to pass on third attempt. Needless to say I hated his damn slide shows of rocks and his class overall. Later took a class in geology from Dr. Alt at UM (author of roadside geology of Montana)....loved his class.

I never had the pleasure of taking a Dr Alt class. I did post-graduate work at the UM for a year. Dr Dresser was my advisor at Tech. I bump into Petroleum Engineers on occasion in the field, just bring up Dr Dresser's name - and the reactions are great. I got those slide shows for classes every year for 4 years. His Structural Geology was brutal.

He told me once that I would remember more in his classes 30 years down the road with lower grades, then the classes down the hall that I was pulling top grades in. Son-of-a-gun was right....I still remember specifics from his approach. By my 3rd year, he was a pretty good guy....but we had been weeded out pretty good by then.

Nail on head about weeding out. Every difficult major has one...econ, A/P, etc. Tech's was Geo 100. One thing was for sure he knew his stuff and was not going to lower standards for anyone. Respect.

 

[Cuervohola]

I read that a $100 bet for Howard to beat UNLV outright would have paid about $55,000. Putting juice on our game is dumb but oh so tempting.

Yeah, I wish I lived in Vegas for that reason, just dropping a C-Note on tennis matches ALL THE TIME...

 

[DuCharme]

Loser attitude. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand where you're coming from and yes I do think you'll get destroyed but can you imagine if App State would have gone into the Big House in Michigan thinking "God I hope these big meanies don't hurt us!" Nope, they went there to win and they pulled it off. For those that don't remember, Michigan was ranked #5 in the country at that point.

Yes, Michigan was ranked high pre-season but where did they end up? Michigan wasn't very good that year. App St was.

The players don't worry about injuries. But fans and coaches do.

True, and nobody knows yet how good UW will be this year either.

True, but we know how not good Michigan turned out to be that year. Let's bet $100 that UW will end up higher ranked this year than Michigan did that year? I say UW higher, you get lower.

Michigan went 9-4 with a Capital One Bowl win over Florida.