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  1. 12 minutes ago, TxEx84 said:

    Missed this from a couple of months ago. So Kansas, KSU, ISU, etc. get roughly the same amount as Notre Dame.  That's amazing.

    From the playoff.  ND's making so much god damn money from every other aspect of their existence that I doubt they'll even notice.

  2. 28 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Once Texas and Oklahoma were no longer candidates to join the PAC16 USC was out. There was nothing in this world that could have saved the PAC. Turning down the LHN was the most expensive decision Stanford ever made.

    You say it like they give even half a fuck.

  3. 16 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Prairie Du Chien. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Used to visit Villa Louis on the reg (they offered classes on cooking on a wood stove) and loved the Ft. Crawford museum there. (the story about the doctor who treated the man with a window in his stomach was memorable) Pretty area with a lot of history.

    Stay safe!

    Yeah it is.  I live about 60 miles west and a little north of there, and really enjoy being down there for summer weekends.  Lots of fun bars, biking and hiking trails, and just cruising the Mississippi under the bluffs is always a good time.  This little corner of the world is one of America's best kept secrets.

  4. 18 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Yeah, the new angles provided by drones (how in the hell is it flying in those winds?), along with the high-resolution imaging, just make it seem, like you said, unreal.

    I have a small drone I use on the farm to scout problem areas and take pictures of the farms for landowners.  That kind of wind would have bitch slapped it straight to the ground.

    The strom chasing drones must be closer to the one we have on our fire department which is much larger and heavier, but I've never piloted that in mega-winds either.

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  5. 10 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    I gave it a listen. seemed decent to me.  the magic is never going to happen again so people just have to decide how much they care.

    It's rare when you have situations where you lose an integral member, get a "Mick Taylor", and the music gets better.

    I've been spoiled by other now ancient bands I like making surprisingly good late career records.  The last Pearl Jam and Foo Fighter albums come to mind.  The Crowes have just lost too much of what made them unique at this point.  I'd be more into a Chris and Rich acoustic album than what this was.

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  6. I tried it a couple times after that.  Nothin'.  I just don't have a need for any new Chris Robinson music at this point in my life (as much as I love pretty much everything the Black Crowes did prior).  It just felt stiff, brittle, and kinda put on for lack of a better term.

  7. 1 hour ago, Royalfan5 said:

    No need to concentrate the kids even if the schools are pretty well built. Was it this time of year when Parkersburg got drilled? I remember the school getting smoked in that one. 

    Yes.  Memorial Day week is a notorious window for F5s throughout tornado alley.  Moore, Joplin, and Parkersburg were all within a 5 day window on the annual calendar.

    Funny story about Parkersburg.  My in-laws have a boat slip on the Mississippi in Prairie Du Chien, WI and their slip neighbors are a couple from Parkersburg.  The first time we met them I asked "did you guys come out of the tornado ok?" and the wife goes "FUCK NO" and I respond, "sorry to hear that.  Can't imagine what it's like to lose your house".  She goes "no, we got spared.  I wanted a new fuckin' house like the rest of town!".

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  8. 3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Is it wrong to think this is going to destroy a lot of scholarship opportunities for student athletes as a whole?

    It's going to devastate them.  My wife and I were talking about this yesterday.  She was a heptathlete at Northern Iowa and we both think that there's not even going to be a scholarship track program in the next 5 years.  Shit, I wouldn't be surprised to see schools like us and OK State cut wrestling.

  9. 51 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I think it's crazy that the NCAA national title game is early April, the draft is like a week or two later, and the WNBA season starts a few weeks after that, it's such a bizarrely compressed timeline. She (and I assume most rookies) should be better their second year after a true offseason.

    I don't think people who liked her expected her to dominate immediately (at least the ones who know and understand sports in general), I think it starts with the haters (including misogynists) who like to mock "lol, y'all thought she was the next jordan and she sucks, lol, nobody cares, lol..." Basically them projecting a concept of immediate domination that most real fans of hers didn't really have, or they at least now understand that rookies rarely dominate.

    Women's sports in general is having its moment in a way that just hasn't existed until now. Haters will call it social justice, dei, or some other derogative, but whatever it is, it's not just her. College softball has seen a huge increase in TV ratings in recent years and new stadiums are being built. Kansas City built a soccer stadium specifically for a women's professional soccer team. And the women's national championship basketball game literally had higher ratings than the men, something I would have never guessed would have happened in a million years, which of course was Clark driven, but Reese has her fanbase as well. I was at a local brewery during one of the women's tourney games, I think the final four, and a bunch of people asked for it on the tv, and people were enjoying it pretty intensely. Clark just happened to play and to dominate at a time that womens sports started to become more popular in general. I think it's great, whatever is driving the increase in viewership. I'm watching way more college softball these days and soccer somewhat, still haven't come around really to women's basketball, but will likely at some point, especially if the OSU women's team improves. I did watch some of their games this year which is not something I've really done in the past, and yes I did hop on the Clark train and watched some of the tournament games. 

    The entire sports media complex in this state basically figured she'd take the WNBA by storm.  I understand that's not a media circle you'd pay any attention to, but these people definitely understand sports but had become so infatuated with CC that they just can't bring any modicum of objectivity or reality to the discussion around her game.

  10. 41 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    She’s obviously a very good player. It’s the hype that I don’t understand. How is she better than when Parker, bird, or ionescu came into the league.  Is it a Midwest thing?  Didn’t some similar hype happen for Jackie stiles at Missouri whatever university?

    It was all the circus 3s she hit in college.  Topped with crazy passes.  She's not any better or more dominant than the players you named, but she was constantly making these highlight reel plays on a nightly basis.

    Combine that with how 1 and dones and the transfer portal destroyed star power in the men's game, and you had this whole rise of increased popularity in women's basketball because these players would face off against each other over multiple seasons, and the whole thing just kinda went wild.

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  11. Just now, Pam Cummings said:

    I think she will be way better in her second year. She's been playing a lot of high level basketball with not really any breaks since the start of her college season. Wouldn't be surprised at all at some burn out.

    I agree.  This is the biggest increase in competition she's ever seen.  She'll adjust in time, and be fine.  But people were expecting her to be as unstoppable as she was in college and that wasn't realistic.

    By the same token, her haters are clearly jumping the gun.

  12. 18 hours ago, 'stache said:

    JFC, she's a rookie drafted to one of the worst team in the league. It's been like a month and a half since she took her last shot in college. I swear, these haters just love to hate. She'll be great, but give it, I don't know, maybe more than her first few games?

    The flip side of this, being surrounded by her legion of sycophants, is how every media member in the state of Iowa is calling for the Fever to fire their coach because she clearly doesn't know how to properly employ God in the service of winning games.  Or how her teammates just aren't good enough to handle playing with Caitlin.  Everyone needs to get out of God's way and let her huck junk all night and all will be right.

    Both sides of the Clark argument need to realize that the WNBA, like any other pro sports league at the highest level of said sport, is full of the absolute best players in that sport.  Maybe more so because there are so few teams.  She's going to be fine, but there's going to be an adjustment period.  She was never gonna run through the pros like she did college, but that doesn't mean she's anywhere close to being a bust.

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  13. 8 hours ago, jTower said:

    No. It will kill it. 

    It will kill it as we know it for sure.

    I'm not convinced people who never went to college, but are still huge college sports fans, would care.  But you would disenfranchise the actual alums of these schools, and that would irrevocably alter what this product look likes.

    So I think we basically agree.  I think there would still be people playing football and people watching, but far fewer of them, and not enough to matter the way it matters now.  The budgets, the atmosphere, etc all would be dogshit compared to today.

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  14. 25 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

    Yeah, the obvious solution would be to decouple football from the universities, but I don't think people would still watch without that affiliation.

    If this just turns into the UFL in college towns, it will absolutely take a hit

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