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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I always love seeing those graphs, Mark... But with registration starting 2 weeks later this year because of the server issues, should we still show them all starting at the same time? My thinking is that the extra two weeks meant more teams had started up for the fall, figured out their finances, gotten grants, etc than we normally have on day 1, so it may not be a fair comparison to previous years. ....
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Jon's point is valid, of course. However, I expect it can be addressed by annotation of the graph, as Mark has done
previously, to indicate how key dates shift year-to-year.
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