Big Blitz

Population collapse: …..the current class of high school seniors is the last before a long decline begins in the number of 18-year-olds — the traditional age of students when they enter college. This so-called demographic cliff has been predicted ever since Americans started having fewer babies at the advent of the Great Recession around the end of 2007 — a falling birth rate that has not recovered since, except for a slight blip after the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Demographers say it will finally arrive in the fall of this year. That’s when recruiting offices will begin to confront the long-anticipated drop-off in the number of applicants from among the next class of high school seniors. But the downturn isn’t just a problem for universities and colleges. It’s a looming crisis for the economy, with fewer graduates eventually coming through the pipeline to fill jobs that require college educations, even as international rivals increase the proportions of their populations with degrees. “The impact of this is economic decline,” Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. As fresh data emerges, the outlook is getting only worse. An analysis by the higher education consulting firm Ruffalo Noel Levitz using the latest available census figures now projects another drop in the number of 18-year-olds beginning in 2033, after a brief uptick. By 2039, this estimate shows, there will likely be 650,000, or 15 percent, fewer of them per year than there are now. These findings sync up with another new report, released this month by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE, which says that the number of 18-year-olds nationwide who graduate from high school each year — and are therefore candidates for college — will erode by 13 percent, or nearly half a million, by 2041. “A few hundred thousand per year might not sound like a lot,” Strohl said. “But multiply that by a decade and it has a big impact.” ….The drop in the number of high school graduates through 2041 is projected to be most severe in the Northeast, Midwest and West. In all, 38 states will see declines, WICHE estimates, some of them much steeper than the national average: 32 percent in Illinois, 29 percent in California, 27 percent in New York, 20 percent in Michigan, 17 percent in Pennsylvania. More…… https://hechingerreport.org/the-impact-of-this-is-economic-decline/ Somehow, college costs will manage to only increase. Make that make sense.

Still a loser.

Put this thread in the Louvre with all other liberal insanity circa 2008-2024

Crazy. Delusional. Has cut ties with reality

Cooper is back. per McD

They get sacks. They have Surtain. Jones is a nice S I think he leads their team in tackles. We’re going to run it at them to slow down the pass rush but I think we can throw it to Shakir all day and they won’t be able to stop him.

Yep

Woo boy

Last we saw him on the field he was hurt. Personal issue - don’t rule out they’re hiding he’s banged up. Nothing wrong with that either. Just the vagueness of this with the uncertainty tells me it’s injury related.

Teams have adjusted to Steelers Russel Wilson. It’s over for them.

Ok then This could be multiple weeks. Don’t have audio yet.

Early forecast High of 30 Wind 5-10 mph

I’ll stay in the NFC. Commanders over Bucs. Rams over Vikes (not sure who’s favored). So imo the Lions path will be Washington Philly (beats Pack and then the Rams)

Flores blitz happy nonsense isn’t like Spags. Spags is disciplined targeted and everything is still covered. Flores blitzes are like kamikaze missions hoping to get inferior QBs to screw up.