00W's AIO Smorgasbord

[CoralB]

ok guys. im clueless. whats dinos?? everyone gave me a sad face. it this like a deal breaker or something?

I think TheNative 192 has you covered

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Last supper of the year! (Sparkling grape juice not wine, haha)

 

[CoralB]

@smitten with ocean life

It looks like Dinos & GHA together. I am almost 90% ceartin its Dinos. Maybe try shutting the flow off and removing it with a pipette to see if its all one piece or some algae and Dinos on top.

Also after the lights are off see if the air bubbles go away.

Here we go here is the treatment guide:

Step 1 is to test nutrients though and post here what Phosphates and Nitrates are.

A Dinoflagellate Treatment Guide

As the title suggests, this is intended as a short guide on what to do when you suspect dinoflagellates are trying to overtake your system. It is an attempt to boil down the protocols discussed across 11,000 posts in this "Are you Tired" thread...

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ok guys. im clueless. whats dinos?? everyone gave me a sad face. it this like a deal breaker or something?

 

[CoralB]

And there we are ! Night Kevin !

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Good night everybody and see you next year . You all have fun and dont get hurt !

Goodnight CB, until next year

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Hitting the sack to whatch as much of the game as I can, @kevgib67

 

[kingranch2003]

Before NIL, most top players gravitated toward the SEC because the conference had more lenient admission pathways for athletes and offered the strongest pipeline to the NFL. If you wanted the best chance to go pro, the SEC was simply where you went.

Now, take a program like Indiana. They invested roughly $60 million into football and, after going nearly six decades without a Big Ten title, they were suddenly able to transform their roster in essentially a single cycle through NIL.

Yes, SEC schools can spend money too and have a ton of it — but basic market economics have changed. Now instead of having all the top recruits there is a lot more competition. With NIL, the landscape is driven by market size, donor pools, and bidding power, not just NFL exposure. There is now enormous financial opportunity outside the SEC, and players are increasingly choosing schools based on who pays the most, not where the traditional football prestige lies. Also other schools have money to spend and some like Indiana may see it as an investment to attract Donors & sponsorship deals etc.

I am a stats man, so here's some stats. Numbers are down with recruiting for the SEC since NIL came to be and I think it will only get worse as a school like Indiana is going to profit from NIL and that can incentivize other schools to break the bank to lure talent from the SEC.

This is why we dont talk about religion or politics on the Smorgasbord lol


There's plenty of logic here, Thomas.

Eventually the money will be the same. No conference or single team is going to be able to offer THAT much more money than any other. Wisconsin isn't going to spend 100 million dollars more than Ohio, just to land all the good players. There are too many of them out there one team cant afford everyone.

Then there are schools that aren't football schools and wont be as competitive in NIL.

The numbers being down for SEC recruiting isn't a one factor situation. You no longer have Nick Saban, and some of the better recruiting coaches that were in the SEC over the past decade. The bar was set extremely high, of course you cant sustain those extremely one sided numbers forever That plays into it a lot as well.

Im not sure that the drop in recruiting numbers in the SEC puts them at any disadvantage. I couldn't find that particular stat in the article, but id imagine that SEC is still far superior in that regard.

The SEC area as a whole is extremely passionate about CF and these schools are gonna buck up (so to speak). That means more visits to the region as a whole as these players visit the schools. The recruiters can point to a lot of banners and trophies as reasons to accept their cash and come play for a title, instead of giving it a shot with a perennial non contender who just started investing in NIL funds. And with the money advantage that you may be expecting being more balanced or probably still higher in the SEC as I believe it will, it'll come back down to Championships, NFL exposure, coaching, fan bases, history, prestige, stronger competition, legacy etc.

 

[kevgib67]

Hitting the sack to whatch as much of the game as I can, @kevgib67

Good night Jimmy, have a good day tomorrow.

 

[Rocks reef]

This is why we dont talk about religion or politics on the Smorgasbord lol


There's plenty of logic here, Thomas.

Eventually the money will be the same. No conference or single team is going to be able to offer THAT much more money than any other. Wisconsin isn't going to spend 100 million dollars more than Ohio, just to land all the good players. There are too many of them out there one team cant afford everyone.

Then there are schools that aren't football schools and wont be as competitive in NIL.

The numbers being down for SEC recruiting isn't a one factor situation. You no longer have Nick Saban, and some of the better recruiting coaches that were in the SEC over the past decade. The bar was set extremely high, of course you cant sustain those extremely one sided numbers forever That plays into it a lot as well.

Im not sure that the drop in recruiting numbers in the SEC puts them at any disadvantage. I couldn't find that particular stat in the article, but id imagine that SEC is still far superior in that regard.

The SEC area as a whole is extremely passionate about CF and these schools are gonna buck up (so to speak). That means more visits to the region as a whole as these players visit the schools. The recruiters can point to a lot of banners and trophies as reasons to accept their cash and come play for a title, instead of giving it a shot with a perennial non contender who just started investing in NIL funds. And with the money advantage that you may be expecting being more balanced or probably still higher in the SEC as I believe it will, it'll come back down to Championships, NFL exposure, coaching, fan bases, history, prestige, stronger competition, legacy etc.

Way to deep for me at this point. The beer and gummies are taking over my frontal lobe!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

well shoot. what next.... sigh

 

[Rocks reef]

They are calling for 6 more inches, so is my wife!
But, I'm grilling steaks!!!
We learn to survive in the north

 

[CoralB]

Goodnight CB, until next year

Night Jimmy !

 

[Rocks reef]

well shoot. what next.... sigh

You have dinos Jill?
Buy a couple bottles of pods! They will destroy dinos!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

its just on the powerheads

 

[kevgib67]

its just on the powerheads

That’s beautiful Jill, how many gallons?

 

[kevgib67]

Again!

 

[Rocks reef]

its just on the powerheads

Wow!! Jill you are killing it!
Soak the wetsides of your powerheads in either citric acid or 50/50 peroxide. It will clean them off

 

[Rocks reef]

Again!

Kevin. I have always said, you are a p......magnet!

 

[Üter]

Cheers Luis, to cold to go out and into the garage each time I want a beer. Catching up.

 

[kingranch2003]

In the last three years only one SEC team made it to the CFC

Also Big Ten had 4 of 6 teams.

P.S. That was also the year NIL

2 of those 3 years, an SEC team won the Championship. In that small sample size the percentage of SEC titles has actually risen. While I do agree that NIL may even things out SOME, that's no proof, just yet of their reign being over.