D1 Pendulum Swinging Hard From Blue to Red

[SturgisJeff]

Re: D1 Pendulum Swinging Hard From Blue to Red

Geez Northern Illinois has a better record than the Gophers who they beat last week. They are 2-2 with losses coming to Ill and Iowa St. And wins over Minn and North Dakota. Maybe they should become the 11th Big Ten and Minn move to the MAC

[jackmd]

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I for one am amazed at how well you did, so my congrats to your team. I honestly didn't believe you could play within 14 anytime with Nebraska. I sincerely want to congratulate your team on what is a great job well done.

No one did take up my offer about Minnesota winning more than one game. The offer still exists, but it is more anxious on my end whether I can win that bet or not.

Lastly, I understand the pendelum comment, but I didn't make the original one on here. In all candor, I think we have done well in transition, but have a long long way to go. A couple of weeks ago when I blew up on here, I was angry that so many people dissed the U's win at Minnesota, but I was wrong doing so.

If and when we play, then the stage will be set for a great game. Until then, make hay off your fine performance Saturday and start winning some games.

I know you didn't make the comment and I also know exactly where you are coming from. It's unfair of anyone to discredit USD for going into Minnesota and winning. Coyote fans should be proud of that victory and I think most recognize exactly what it is, one win. Has a vocal SDSU supporter in a town near Vermillion I heard A LOT about the results of the games on that fateful Saturday. An ugly loss at home the next week didn't help.

I agree, we need to win some games. Watch out for the pendulum (intended for the proper recipient).

[goon]

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SDSU is 2-0 in our last 2 games, USD is 1-3 there last 4 games. Looks like the Minn game will be the easiest of the season. It is clear the D-1 pendulum is back to the blue. However I will not hold my breath for Stu to write an article clearning showing the 2 different directions the teams are going. Honestly I do not know what a D-1 pendulum is, but should be back to blue after how bad the U has been. Its like the teams traded offenses, our is scoring and rather effective now, USD is having a hard time passing and cant make a big play to save their skin.

[JackJD]

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I've checked with the Ministry of Weights and Measurers and Old-Fashioned Clocks, Office of Pendulums, and have been told there is no such thing as a D-1 Pendulum. That was simply a goofy notion dreamed up by a person known for goofy notions, struggling to find some method for making comparisons with the Jackrabbit football team. Epic Fail.

[SDSUAlum08]

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SDSU is 2-0 in our last 2 games, USD is 1-3 there last 4 games. Looks like the Minn game will be the easiest of the season. It is clear the D-1 pendulum is back to the blue. However I will not hold my breath for Stu to write an article clearning showing the 2 different directions the teams are going. Honestly I do not know what a D-1 pendulum is, but should be back to blue after how bad the U has been. Its like the teams traded offenses, our is scoring and rather effective now, USD is having a hard time passing and cant make a big play to save their skin.

But SDSU is only one game better at 2-2 in their last 4 games.

Not sayin....just sayin...

Let the season play out and then we can make a better assumption about it.

(And obviously I know who started this thread and don't agree with her either)

[MaddogJack]

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I've checked with the Ministry of Weights and Measurers and Old-Fashioned Clocks, Office of Pendulums, and have been told there is no such thing as a D-1 Pendulum. That was simply a goofy notion dreamed up by a person known for goofy notions, struggling to find some method for making comparisons with the Jackrabbit football team. Epic Fail.

From Carnac's bag O'answers:

Pen dul um - What Stu Whitney writes with and what it does to those subjected to his drivel.

[goon]

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But SDSU is only one game better at 2-2 in their last 4 games.

Not sayin....just sayin...

Let the season play out and then we can make a better assumption about it.

(And obviously I know who started this thread and don't agree with her either)

Common sense does not belong in a smack section. The proverbial pedulum swing does not start and end at start and end of a football season. it was during the season it apparently swung away from us, now it has clearly after the last few weeks clearly returned to its rightful place.

[SoDakJack]

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But SDSU is only one game better at 2-2 in their last 4 games.

Not sayin....just sayin...

Let the season play out and then we can make a better assumption about it.

(And obviously I know who started this thread and don't agree with her either)

How many of the opponents in the Jacks last four games have been ranked?

How many in Udot have been ranked?

[RabbitObsessed]

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But SDSU is only one game better at 2-2 in their last 4 games.

Not sayin....just sayin...

Let the season play out and then we can make a better assumption about it.

(And obviously I know who started this thread and don't agree with her either)

You should have went the other way. In their last two games, USD is 0-2 while SDSU is 2-0.

[Jacked_Up]

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Look out! Hope no one dressed in red got hurt when the pendulum swung back so hard and so fast to its home position. Looks like it will be a long stay with the blue and yellow.

[1stRowFANatic]

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You should have went the other way. In their last two games, USD is 0-2 while SDSU is 2-0.

make that 0-3 and 3-0, respectively.

[MaddogJack]

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...but they beat Minnesota.

I remember hearing that from every Green & Yellow Bison backer a few years ago. It was nice to stuff it down their throats and send them North that brisk fall day.

Back to Blue for the foreseeable future.

[SturgisJeff]

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Gridiron pendulum
Main article: Gridiron pendulum
The most widely used compensated pendulum was the gridiron pendulum, invented in 1726 by John Harrison.[8][68][71] This consists of alternating rods of two different metals, one with lower thermal expansion (CTE), steel, and one with higher thermal expansion, zinc or brass. The rods are connected by a frame as shown, so that an increase in length of the zinc rods pushes the bob up, shortening the pendulum. With a temperature increase, the low expansion steel rods make the pendulum longer, while the high expansion zinc rods make it shorter. By making the rods of the correct lengths, the greater expansion of the zinc cancels out the expansion of the steel rods which have a greater combined length, and the pendulum stays the same length with temperature.
Zinc-steel gridiron pendulums are made with 5 rods, but the thermal expansion of brass is closer to steel, so brass-steel gridirons usually require 9 rods. Gridiron pendulums adjust to temperature changes faster than mercury pendulums, but scientists found that friction of the rods sliding in their holes in the frame caused gridiron pendulums to adjust in a series of tiny jumps.[71] In high precision clocks this caused the clock's rate to change suddenly with each jump. Later it was found that zinc is subject to creep. For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks. They became so associated with quality that, to this day, many ordinary clock pendulums have decorative 'fake' gridirons that don't actually have any temperature compensation function.

A better tool for the use discussed on this thread would be a Momentum Meter.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5239563.html

[filbert]

Re: D1 Pendulum Swinging Hard From Blue to Red

Gridiron pendulum
Main article: Gridiron pendulum
The most widely used compensated pendulum was the gridiron pendulum, invented in 1726 by John Harrison.[8][68][71] This consists of alternating rods of two different metals, one with lower thermal expansion (CTE), steel, and one with higher thermal expansion, zinc or brass. The rods are connected by a frame as shown, so that an increase in length of the zinc rods pushes the bob up, shortening the pendulum. With a temperature increase, the low expansion steel rods make the pendulum longer, while the high expansion zinc rods make it shorter. By making the rods of the correct lengths, the greater expansion of the zinc cancels out the expansion of the steel rods which have a greater combined length, and the pendulum stays the same length with temperature.
Zinc-steel gridiron pendulums are made with 5 rods, but the thermal expansion of brass is closer to steel, so brass-steel gridirons usually require 9 rods. Gridiron pendulums adjust to temperature changes faster than mercury pendulums, but scientists found that friction of the rods sliding in their holes in the frame caused gridiron pendulums to adjust in a series of tiny jumps.[71] In high precision clocks this caused the clock's rate to change suddenly with each jump. Later it was found that zinc is subject to creep. For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks. They became so associated with quality that, to this day, many ordinary clock pendulums have decorative 'fake' gridirons that don't actually have any temperature compensation function.

A better tool for the use discussed on this thread would be a Momentum Meter.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5239563.html

Ah.

Engineering.

[zooropa]

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Ah.

Engineering.

So what? They still own all the farms.

Or so a USD alum informs us.