Sentences with phrase «underachieved by»

Utah underachieved by 5.5 points in Wednesday's Foster Farms Bowl win, but Washington State underachieved by 12.5 points in the Holiday Bowl, and Colorado came up nearly five touchdowns short of the spread on Thursday night in the Alamo Bowl.

But Texas A&M was a touchdown worse than expected, Mississippi State underachieved by 12 points, and Vanderbilt underachieved by nearly 20.

South Carolina overachieved compared to the spread in Thursday's Birmingham Bowl loss to USF, and Arkansas only underachieved by about four points.

Not exact matches

The perennially underachieving Texas Rangers went from declaring bankruptcy last May to signing a 20 - year, US$ 1.6 - billion contract with Fox Sports Southwest in September, the largest deal ever made by a Major League Baseball club with an independent regional sports network.

This would imply that atheists tend to be intelligent, but underachieving, sad bitter men who watch others succeed in life and snipe at the fools who pass them by.

Richmond owns a career scoring average of 22.2 points and a gold medal from the 1996 Olympics, but his career has been tainted by his time with the underachieving Wizards.

By breaking these seeds into clusters with reasonably similar expected win totals — 1 - 3 seeds (2.1 to 3.4 wins), 4 - 7 seeds (0.9 to 1.4), 8 - 12 seeds (0.5 to 0.7), 13 - 16 seeds (0.0 to 0.3)-- we can, in theory, look at the general characteristics of teams that tend to overachieve or underachieve come tourney time.

Blown out by Buffalo and perennially underachieving.

By looking at that, I'm not sure how people can say we underachieved.

We are talking about a regular international, loads of UCL experience and a PL winner who has been schooled for almost his whole life by SAF — he is not your average underachieving 23 year striker.

I can see how you conveniently forgot the fact that Leicester and Spuds are overachieving by been where they are right now and we are underachieving....

As a result, three out of four spread bets remain committed to Philip Rivers and the underachieving Chargers winning by at least four points against MJD and the 3 - 8 Jags.

After a historic year of underachieving the board and our celebrated owner emphatically reward our French leader by extending his contract 2 years and predictably aquiesce when confronted with Wengers opposition to change.

You have the right to support Giroud as our first choice ST / CF but by default you are supporting another underachieving campaign where we don't win the EPL or CL.

The only thing that will save this season for the underachieving Pacers is, at minimum, a repeat of last year's dramatic playoff effort that ended in a five - game defeat by Boston.

The Mariners and Diamondbacks fired the opening salvo with last week's six - player swap that was highlighted by the Mariners adding slugger Mark Trumbo to an underachieving lineup in hopes of pushing the club into contention.

Roma paid a huge sum of money to sign Gabriel «Batigol» Batistuta after he had excelled for years in an underachieving Fiorentina team and he truly repaid the club's faith by scoring 20 league goals in sublime fashion.

Leeds United look to continue their good run of form by taking on an underachieving Norwich City side that sits in 16th place in the able, but only six points behind Leeds, who are in 7th place, four points behind Sheffield United for the final playoff place.

But then the season started and he crafted a perpetually underachieving team into Champions League group winners, dusting off the reigning Premier League champions in the process, and bit by bit my faith was being emboldened, but then it happened, the inevitable decline.

First selectmen and mayors were stunned by Malloy's plan for fundamental change in the education formula, which would have resulted in boosting money for 31 underachieving communities.

To receive that grand prize which he anticipates are his grandfather's millions, the underachieving ne'er - do - well is ordered to follow a set of detailed, step - by - step directions.

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

He plays Josh, an underachieving geek who finally beats the difficult video game Biotic Wars and then celebrates by masturbating to an image of the game's sexy female heroine, Tiger.

An underachieving vocal coach (Bell) is motivated by her father, the king of movie - trailer voice - overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star.

Worst - case scenario: It turns out like most of the other non-Statham action movies produced by Luc Besson's oft - underachieving EuropaCorp.

The Crow, Dark City, and, to an extent, his underachieving small - band - doesn «t - make - good dramedy Garage Days, feature main characters forced to come to terms with their identities before becoming empowered by them.

If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.

His new book, «Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School,» is reviewed by Nathan Glazer in «Underachieving in America»

Chinese teachers influenced by Confucian thinking tend to regard the possibility of overachieving or underachieving as under one's individual control rather than being predestined by natural ability.

«Research by the National Deaf Children's Society into the attainment of deaf children in 2017 shows that deaf children continue to underachieve throughout their education, compared with other children,» she said.

Approximately half of the 3 million gifted students in the United States are underachieving because they are not challenged by their school curriculum, and up to 20 percent of high school dropouts test in the gifted range, according to the Handbook of Gifted Education.

But the NUT is concerned that those working as advisers on daily pay rates of up to # 840 in schools which are underachieving could have their impartiality compromised by a potential pecuniary interest when inspecting a school.

I won't pick on any firms by linking to their underachieving Facebook Fan Page, but if you search for any given large firm's presence on Facebook, what you'll likely find will confirm this.

Furthermore, children may be victimised by peers because they underachieve at school whereas others may be bullied for overachieving.