FTRS: Why we're struggling (and where the '19 class is now)

QuadF said:
It's not as good as it was in prior years, but they do still tend to take a hard look at data and analytics as opposed to just gold colored glasses and talking about "the progress".
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The analytical stuff is interesting, but the problem is that most of the writers over there are current students or recent grads. Turbo nerds with no sense of history and very little appreciation for Tech culture in general - the kind of dudes that complain that The Varsity makes their stomach hurt.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
The analytical stuff is interesting, but the problem is that most of the writers over there are current students or recent grads. Turbo nerds with no sense of history and very little appreciation for Tech culture in general - the kind of dudes that complain that The Varsity makes their stomach hurt.

JRjr
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1. The Varsity has terrible food that gives you the runs
2. Their analytics lack a fundamental understanding of what they're analyzing and the result is that they throw a lot of numbers at you that aren't relevant and misrepresent the importance to support an opinion disguising it as fact. It's embarrassing especially considering that Robert Binion is a data analyst. I have data analysts who work for me and my best advice when I see bad analytics is to understand the engineering side of what you're analyzing, then revisit and try again. I've had people apologize, get better, then get promoted and thank me. I've also had to fire some. I would fire Mr. Binion. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertebinion
 
vapspwi said:
The analytical stuff is interesting, but the problem is that most of the writers over there are current students or recent grads. Turbo nerds with no sense of history and very little appreciation for Tech culture in general - the kind of dudes that complain that The Varsity makes their stomach hurt.

JRjr
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The Varsity mkes my stomach hurt, too.

With hunger pangs. Best onion rings on planet Earth, bar none. I'm craving some right now so bad I'd give my left nut for some . . . if I still had it.

BainbridgeJacket said:
1. The Varsity has terrible food that gives you the runs
2. Their analytics lack a fundamental understanding of what they're analyzing and the result is that they throw a lot of numbers at you that aren't relevant and misrepresent the importance to support an opinion disguising it as fact. It's embarrassing especially considering that Robert Binion is a data analyst. I have data analysts who work for me and my best advice when I see bad analytics is to understand the engineering side of what you're analyzing, then revisit and try again. I've had people apologize, get better, then get promoted and thank me. I've also had to fire some. I would fire Mr. Binion. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertebinion
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Pussy. How did you make it through Tech? Varsity food is terrific AND it toughens you up and builds character! Your stomach acclimates to it and then all that's left is the smile on your face from all that deliciousness. I haven't had the runs in 40 years since I left Tech.

When I started at Tech the motto that they used to print on the cups and boxes was "No Food Over 12 Hours Old." Sadly, it became all but impossible to meet a tough standard like that. So they changed it to "A Fun Place to Eat." And it still is that. I NEVER go to Et-Lanta without getting ring one, a chili cheesesteak, and a jumbo FO. God bless the V!
 
1982Jacket said:
When I started at Tech the motto that they used to print on the cups and boxes was "No Food Over 12 Hours Old." Sadly, it became all but impossible to meet a tough standard like that. So they changed it to "A Fun Place to Eat."
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They changed that at the same time that they dropped the Drownproofing requirement.
 
1982Jacket said:
The Varsity mkes my stomach hurt, too.

With hunger pangs. Best onion rings on planet Earth, bar none. I'm craving some right now so bad I'd give my left nut for some . . . if I still had it.



Pussy. How did you make it through Tech? Varsity food is terrific AND it toughens you up and builds character! Your stomach acclimates to it and then all that's left is the smile on your face from all that deliciousness. I haven't had the runs in 40 years since I left Tech.

When I started at Tech the motto that they used to print on the cups and boxes was "No Food Over 12 Hours Old." Sadly, it became all but impossible to meet a tough standard like that. So they changed it to "A Fun Place to Eat." And it still is that. I NEVER go to Et-Lanta without getting ring one, a chili cheesesteak, and a jumbo FO. God bless the V!
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Let me guess: you use A1 steak sauce too, don't you?
 
QuadF said:
It's not as good as it was in prior years, but they do still tend to take a hard look at data and analytics as opposed to just gold colored glasses and talking about "the progress".

Do you not agree that tech öööö the best for 3 years in a row and find it completely unacceptable?
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I agree that we're 0-0 and one week away from a big time matchup with a top 5 ranked team. As was stated earlier in the thread, the timing of this article is the sign of a horseshit, BETA, loser of a "fan". If you can't feel a little team hype before even the first game, then why do we even do this? There are not enough big cries on all of Stingtalk for the whiny articles they put out over there.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
That you use steak sauce shows that you know nothing of quality food. Sauce is only used for meats that are of a quality too poor to be deemed edible on their own.
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Right. That must be why Peter Luger, one of the oldest and finest steakhouses in NYC, which serves nothing but aged USDA Prime, makes their own steak sauce.

Same for many of the best BBQ restaurants in the country . . . Gates, Arthur Bryant's . . . Yeah, their meat is mosdef "of a quality too poor to be deemed edible on its own." :lol:

Not enough :facepalm: in the world for that post.

You have taken idiocy to hitherto unknown depths. Congrats.
 
1982Jacket said:
The Varsity mkes my stomach hurt, too.

With hunger pangs. Best onion rings on planet Earth, bar none. I'm craving some right now so bad I'd give my left nut for some . . . if I still had it.



Pussy. How did you make it through Tech? Varsity food is terrific AND it toughens you up and builds character! Your stomach acclimates to it and then all that's left is the smile on your face from all that deliciousness. I haven't had the runs in 40 years since I left Tech.

When I started at Tech the motto that they used to print on the cups and boxes was "No Food Over 12 Hours Old." Sadly, it became all but impossible to meet a tough standard like that. So they changed it to "A Fun Place to Eat." And it still is that. I NEVER go to Et-Lanta without getting ring one, a chili cheesesteak, and a jumbo FO. God bless the V!
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I'm definitely the kind of avocado-toast-and-sushi 20-something you'd hate, but gosh darn it, I have to admit that I do like the Varsity's food. I feel like a moron for saying it and I would never take someone there in a million years, but it tastes really good.
 
Here they are pouring steak sauce over the "meat that is of a quality too poor to be deemed edible on its own" at Wolfgang Puck's Michelin-starred CUT restaurant in Beverly Hills.

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You can't make this stuff up.
 
StraightFresh said:
I'm definitely the kind of avocado-toast-and-sushi 20-something you'd hate, but gosh darn it, I have to admit that I do like the Varsity's food. I feel like a moron for saying it and I would never take someone there in a million years, but it tastes really good.
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Nah, no way I would hate that.

True CSB. I took my mother to the Varsity the first time she visited me at Tech, and I told her that it was some of the best food I was eating there. She got some of the green french fries with about a quarter inch of grease in the bottom of the little container. She was horrified. I was on scholarship and had a couple of side hustles for spending money, so she wasn't paying for anything until then. After that, I got care packages from home with money and snacks and such every two or three weeks the rest of the time I was at Tech. LOL.
 
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