New Reporting Method For The NDIC? -- August 20, 2020

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12:06 p.m. CDT: this is very interesting. Readers have been very, very helpful. In fact, "AL" is routinely used here (see original post), but generally that appears after the operator has reported an IP.

What caught me off guard with the well in the original post was the fact that no IP has yet been provided. So, by most readers' opinion, this is nothing unusual. 

For me it was. This is what I expected to see when "AL" or "F" was provided under "completion data":

Note that in the above examples, perforations, dates, and spacing are included. In the scout ticket below, the method of extraction is provided ("AL") but we don't see perforations, dates, and/or spacing. The data above tells me that the well is off the confidential list. I can't tell from the scout ticket below whether it's still on the confidential list or not. The well file associated with the scout ticket in the original post (below) shows it as still confidential, but #35872 is not on the confidential list. 

This is all incredibly trivial but for some of us it is important. Discussion closed. Time to move on. Life is short.

Original Post

From the NDIC scout tickets:

NFL arrest tracker: link here. Huge "thank you" / shout out to a reader.  

Why does it not surprise me, with all that is going on in Minneapolis, that the Minnesota Vikings lead the pack? LOL. Disorderly conduct (oh, give me a break); drugs; and, domestic violence are top reasons for arrests. Good news for these guys: defunding police will leave a lot of "domestic violence 911 calls" unanswered. I've always said, if something doesn't make sense, google it or follow the money.

Speaking of football, the big fumble. As college football games vanish, so do their millions. The WSJ. 

This is going to be a huge story before it's all over. A year from now, college and university administrators are going to be asking, what were we thinking? 

Canceling college football will not change anything with regard to Covid-19; in fact, the case has been made, that without a doubt, things will actually get worse, with the tens of thousands of young men with a propensity for violence now without any adult supervision (and I use the term loosely -- think Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky). But I digress. Back to the linked story:

When college sports shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, university athletic departments started trimming expenses like they were peeling an apple. Now that the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences have postponed the fall season entirely, budgets could be slashed to the core.

Many departments in those conferences, and others that are now postponing fall sports, had already laid off staff and reduced salaries. Stanford eliminated entire teams, citing financial strain, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Without football, they’re now looking at radical changes to how they run college sports, and some are considering borrowing tens of millions of dollars to make ends meet. The pain will expand to the rest of college football’s giants if the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast and Big 12 conferences ultimately postpone football as well.

Oregon, the reigning Pac-12 football champion and philanthropic darling of alumnus and Nike co-founder Phil Knight, is looking at an unprecedented revenue drop. The Ducks could lose $50 million of a projected athletics budget of up to $130 million for the upcoming year, athletic director Rob Mullens said. That could rise to as much as $80 million if the postponed games aren’t played in the spring.

The schools collectively have a lot to lose. Pac-12 athletic departments generated a total of $1.3 billion in revenue in 2018-19, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Big Ten athletic departments generated almost $1.9 billion. Football accounts for the bulk, if not the overwhelming majority, of athletic revenue at most of those schools.

Stanford announced before the loss of 2020 football games that it was cutting 11 varsity sports at the end of the coming academic year to manage an anticipated $25 million deficit on a budget of nearly $120 million—due partly to the pandemic, and partly to longer-term financial woes.

And that's the bigger story: colleges and universities will use the Covid-19 pandemic as "cover" to eliminate Title IX-mandated programs that were losing huge amounts of money. 

The first "volunteers" to take the coronavirus vaccine: college football players.

Not that I care, but is anyone even watching the DNC convention? My wife is but that's about it. Please don't respond, it was a rhetorical question for the archives. 

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