A group of friends owns a Copper Mountain, Colorado ski condo and we don't rent it but just apportion usage among our families. But, we just had a couple of partners who can't use their weeks so it'll be unoccupied for the weeks of Jan 14, 21, and 28 (Sat-Sat). The partners would like to produce income from it so I wanted to toss it to the board at what I think is a great bargain. Here is a link to a similar unit in our gated building at $800/night and I suspect that I can offer ours (#211 Anaconda) for $2,500/week plus $180 cleaning fee (so a substantial bargain): VRBO - Copper Mountain Anaconda

Our unit is on the second floor and is two levels. While formally 3 bedrooms (2 king master suites and another with a queen and bunk beds) with 4 full bathrooms, the downstairs has a partition that pulls across to create a 4th private sleeping space w/bathroom and two twin-sofabeds. Our common areas include sauna and hot tub and is less than 100 yards from the East Village lift and JJ's Tavern. We have a reserved heated garage space and are at 9,712 feet. Copper is 30 minutes from Breck, 30 minutes from Vail, 10 minutes from Frisco, and 15 minutes to Silverthorne/Dillon.

Frontier flies direct from BNA to DEN and the RT fare for the January 14 week is now $93 and only $79 for the January 21 and January 28 weeks! Copper Mountain is 90 interstate miles from the Denver airport. Beau Jo's in Idaho Springs is a fine place enroute for a Colorado Mountain Pie and pint.

Please DM with any questions.

I’m sure there are some that feel like firing Fisher was necessary and others who think you can’t ever rehire him because of his mistake. But… I’m willing to bet that the majority of the VU community thinks Joe has served his time and now would be a great time to rehire him.

Please share why you feel the way you do.

Know we have seen some drawings and permits recently courtesy of @baseballbros.

Is construction on the north end starting this quarter?

This may be old news (I was on vacation when it was posted) but Vanderbilt cracks Collegiate Baseball's first rankings at No. 9.

Did we ever figure out what actually happened in the alleged LSU gang bang? Because Big Cat put LSU in horny jail in his week 17 power rankings

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Here are three quick takes, two questions, and a prediction after Vanderbilt’s SEC-opening win over South Carolina: https://vanderbilt.rivals.com/news/vanderbilt-basketball-3-2-1-post-south-carolina-win

Sorry---my post about Stack and the anthem was misguided. My mouth (or in this case my fingers typing) was working ahead of my brain.

…bench in the country?

We’re not the best at a lot of things but last night the Bench Dores scored 64 points in relief of the starters.

Hard to imagine Wright, Filet and Robbins would have performed better as starters.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens at Mizzou. We can’t afford to get down 8 in CoMo, but if we do, we know we might have the best bench in all of college hoops.

It's embarrassing that our head coach cannot get out to the court in time so that he can stand in line with the team for the National Anthem. There is the "get back
' coach" in football. Perhaps our coach needs to make one of his many, many assistants the "get out coach" whose job it is to get him out to the court on time.

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All-America recruiting confidential: Elite ’23 prospects discuss NIL deals, photo shoots, best visits​

Is worth a read. 15 top recruits anonymously share details on recruiting. Interesting, to say the least.

Has to be the defensive equivalent, no? Amazing by Aiden Hutchinson

No more

I was really excited about Ezra and even more so when I found out that his last name paired so well with a nice Cab. After watching Filet Manjon for the past two games, I think we’ve found ourselves at a crossroads and I’m not sure what his role should be moving forward.

Defensively, he’s very good on the ball.

Bringing it up the court, he’s good.

I think the real disconnect with him is a lack of shooting ability. To me, unless you have elite drive and dish, you HAVE to be able to shoot to help space the floor. As it stands now, Filet is easy to defend because he poses zero threat of making a shot outside 9 feet (and thus far, really only a layup).

I have called Manjon the most important player on this team and it’s ability to have success and that appears to be true. If he can’t give any sort of threat of scoring from the perimeter, I don’t think he needs to be the guy moving forward.

As an aside, shooting is the easiest skill to develop in basketball. How in the world do you get to this point as a guard and just totally suck at shooting? How are you that completely unwilling to put in the hours? I don’t get it.

Jordan Wright and Myles Stute also need to either step up or slide to the end of the bench too.

Just an awful start from the 3 guys we absolutely had to get production from.

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Will have a 3-2-1 out in the morning.

1. THOMAS 2-2 100%
2. LEWIS 4-4 100%
3. ROBBINS 41-55 74.5%
4. WRIGHT 13-18 72.2%
5. LAWRENCE 32-45 71.1%
6. MANJON 11-16 68.8%
7. MILLORA-BROWN 9-14 64.3%
8. STUTE 7-11 63.6%
9. SMITH 15-24 62.5%
10. SHELBY 2-4 50.0%
11. DIA 1-2 50.0%
12. DORT 2-5 40.0%
13. ANSONG 2-7 28.6%

A couple of notes:
- It's incredible that Trey Thomas has played so many minutes (218 - 5th most on the team) and has only shot 2 free throws
- Granted, the sample size for both is really small, but by percentage, Ansong is the best 3-point shooter on the team (50%), and the worst free throw shooter (28.6%)
- Also a smaller sample size, but why isn't Stute a better free throw shooter?

Enter your game-related thoughts, I'll be there to cover in person.

They are trading blows with USC in the Rose Bowl. We should be able to look as good as they do, dammit.

Great to hear him again.

Make the move, Vanderbilt.

1. ANSONG 3-6 50.0%
2. STUTE 40-85 47.1%
3. THOMAS 19-56 33.9%
4. SMITH 10-30 33.3%
5. SHELBY 7-22 31.8%
6. DIA 6-19 31.6%
7. LAWRENCE 9-31 29.0%
8. WRIGHT 9-35 25.7%
9. LEWIS 1-5 20.0%
10. ROBBINS 4-22 18.2%
11. MANJON 1-12 8.3%

Good job by Joey here.