Sentences with phrase «better team year»

> They filledmany of their needs with quality players and will be a better team this year, but they don't have much depth.

I believe Michigan was a better team this year, even though the metrics say otherwise.

They were sure as hell a better team this year than last.

Chelsea have easily been the best team this year, and yes of course they have been aided by their lack of European competition, but to claim Europe will stop them next term is jumping the boat slightly.

Oddsmakers expected Memphis to be a very good team this year, yet they find themselves as underdogs at home after just one week.

Many don't like it, but we get the best teams every year.

These guys were among the best Teams a year ago, as evidenced by their run to the title Game, and now they are back with some experience for their second go - around in All Sports Series.

We have a good team this year playing winning football so just get behind your team.

«People disagree a little more respectfully [in politics], but in sports, you can say something like «well I don't think they really have such a good team this year» and somebody will want to take your head off,» Paterson said.

Not exact matches

For years, Harvard — once a top performer among universities, but in recent years an also - ran — pursued a «hybrid» approach, employing multiple teams of in - house investment managers as well many outside managers.

In the coming year, Silverman says he and his brother strive to have better and «more open» conversations — which will mean having more frequent team meetings to discuss plans.

Always know Wembley would be home to the England national teams, and that we would strive every day of the year to be the best possible steward for a venue that is iconic and beloved here and throughout the world,» Khan added.

Earlier this year, his Toronto - based startup was one of 20 selected for C100's 48 Hours in the Valley program, which introduces teams to successful Canadian entrepreneurs as well as influential Valley VCs.

Like if you go to a 4th place team and recommend changes and people say, «That ain't the way we do it...» Well, maybe the way you do it is why you've been in 4th place for the last few years.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

A couple of years ago, one of our best developers quit on us mainly because the team we had built wasn't good enough for him.

Our management team has a good track record of making the right bets, which has led to a greater than 1,000 percent average annual growth over the past three years and enabled us to make the Inc. 500.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

Over the next few weeks the best teams in college football will meet for one final game before heading back to the weight room and recruiting circuit to get ready for next year.

Kerr likes to deflect the attention and credit by saying he simply inherited a good team, but according to SI's Chris Ballard, Kerr's coaching philosophies have been two years in the making.

Our record was not very good as a team (4 - 12) but we still managed to have 12,000 at our final game of the season last year.

He's done quite well for himself over the years, collecting five championships with his one and only team, the Los Angeles Lakers.

That involved providing teams and racers with sets of Rev - x wheels, as well as sponsoring a team, to the tune of about $ 750,000 a year.

The fundraiser tool for users is the latest product from Facebook's social good team, which launched last year and is responsible for the social network's safety check technology that's switched on after natural disasters or emergencies and lets users notify friends that they're okay.

Kaiser avoids this trap by delivering care to patients through teams of providers (doctors, nurses, nutritionists, etc.) and physicians --» who quarterback this care,» Tyson says — get a flat salary, receiving end - of - year bonus payments if their patients achieve better health.

If someone with 10 years work experience can do this in a tough investment period following this approach, a team with more experience and execution intelligence should be able to readily best them.

Team 8, as it's identified in the affidavit, made an average annual profit of more than $ 1.8 million and better than a $ 3 - million profit in its best single year.

My first year in Israel, in the final game of preseason, our team won against one of the best teams in the world outside of the NBA.

The 11 footballers on stage all made the cut in FIFA's Team of the Year, an award unveiled at the Best FIFA Football Awards show in London on Monday.

It is possible to keep a great team together for years or even decades so long as everyone feels they are treated well and fairly.

«Well, he's in his 70s and I'm sure, as all of us do, he's thinking about what he wants to do with the years we've got left and wanted to select the right team to continue with his company,» Grossman says.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

«I think one of the things that this team is lacking that hurts them the most is not having the true leaders like we had last year and guys that, when things go bad... I feel like when things go bad, this team struggles a little with bouncing back and making good plays.»

It's actually the same exact team — they've only gotten a whole lot better over the years.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

If you haven't promoted them lately, now is as good a time as ever to remind the team about finishing up the year strong.

He was the best player on a 67 - win Spurs team, finished second in MVP voting, and won his second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year Award.

Since 1999 I've been running my digital marketing agency, but over the last few years I've turned most of the daily operations over to a team that can run the agency better than I can.

The logic: Dabo knows what he's doing when he's playing Alabama, and while the Crimson Tide are strong every year, they lacked a significant win that made me step back and believe they were a degree better than every other team in college football.

As I saw with my parents, who were happily married for 39 years, couples who tackle life's inevitable ups and downs with a true team mentality have a much better chance of going the distance.

We have a great team, I'm training other people, I trained the winner of this year's Best Sommelier in the World, Arvin Rosengren...

Phil Knight, who was still good enough at 43 to run a brisk 800 - meter leg in this year's Beer Relays, traces Nike's roots all the way back to the late»50s when he was on Bowerman's track team.

UCLA Anderson B - school students bested other MBA teams at this year's North American preliminaries for the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, one of the biggest amateur wine tasting competitions.

The good news is that the 15 bowl teams without a winning record is actually well down from last year when 20 teams were at.500 or worse, including some teams that entered the bowl season with a losing record.

«I went from just me in this business doing around three - to - five thousand dollars in sales per month and now, four years later, we're a team of 11 and we're doing well over $ 200,000 in sales per month,» Grant says.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

«For Nike, the Roshe run has performed really well over the years,» the team at Flight Club says.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

During an interview last year with Fortune, Apple's head of HR, Denise Young Smith, said that 43,000 employees had visited one of seven on - site doctors during the first year and that the center has an average wait time of less than five minutes, as well as a team of chiropractors, physical therapists, and dietitians.

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating «psychologically safe environments.»