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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Oh, I agree completely. I actively avoid shedding my accent and linguistic quirks. The world's boring when everything is the same. But alas, I'm not sure I would consider your birthmother a fellow Midwesterner. One of my personal hills to die on is "Ohio isn't in the Midwest", although I realize I'm not exactly in the majority on that one.
  2. I didn't even know that was a thing. Ope!
  3. I think the kind of snow and typical amounts matters a lot too. I know in the NE you guys get really wet heavy snow, and those noreasters can dump a metric fuck ton of it. As far inland as I am, we get pretty dry in the winter and 4-6" is a big snow any more. A lot of times that falls as a cold front is blowing in, so that snow is lighter and fluffier. We get the wet heavy shit in high amounts when the temperature crashes from 65 to 25 in a few hours during March and April. The good part there is that often times there will be above freezing temps in the next few days that take some of the pressure off of home snow removal.
  4. It was for you. We didn't get shit. My brother lives in the Highland Park area of St Paul and he was XC skiing at that golf course they groom every day, and I think I went out twice that year. Crazy how different weather patterns can be 150 miles apart. I sweater god they go slower once the temperature drops below freezing.
  5. I don't know that I've ever really "needed" one. I shoveled my last driveway by hand for years, but my mom gave me one for Xmas 5-6 years ago after a snowier than normal winter, and 3 out of the last 4 winters I've hardly touched it.
  6. I've run the snow blower once this season and I probably didn't need to. It would have melted a week later. Such a weird winter.
  7. Those were beautiful. That was a great win for you guys. Hell of an environment. I was talking to my dad yesterday morning and he was like “did you know they’re honoring Jerry West? And the game’s been sold out for a month? They really want to beat us I guess.” And they sure did. I was always impressed with DeVries at Drake, but the way he’s adjusted to Tucker’s injury and switched gears to low scoring brawls is incredible. Sounds right.
  8. We’re setting the sport back 50 years. Thank god this abortion was buried on ESPN+
  9. You guys have some of the best uniforms in sports when you want to, but my god those were bad.
  10. Closer to London, MN
  11. But man, "Partners in Crime" absolutely could have been on "All Shook Down".
  12. There's no doubt that both Slim and Dave were monstrous parts of the sound of the bands they were sidemen in. Both the Mats and Nirvana sounded quite a bit different after they joined. On a similar note whenever I listen to Bash & Pop I always wonder if that's Tommy wearing Paul's influence on his sleeve or a reflection of his contribution to the Mats.
  13. In college I lived off of Tuna Partner and Panburger Partner from Hy-Vee (think HEB for the western Midwest) as it was at least $.50/box cheaper than the real thing. Douse in hot sauce, and plate it up onto a saltine cracker, and that my friend, is L-I-V-I-N
  14. Yup. Just outside of downtown Austin*. *Austin, Minnesota that is
  15. I'm sure I've mentioned the name of the town I live in before.
  16. Right on the nuts.
  17. I appreciate the offer, but my wife wouldn't be real thrilled about it. Might have to take you up on the rice though. Of course, I don't get through Ottumwa often at all. No friends/family in the area and it's not really on the way to anywhere I go. I think I've been through there once.
  18. Like most, I know him far more for his role in Major League, which is still one of my favorite acting performances by a non-actor. RIP to a great one.
  19. I'm not Czech, but I live in a heavily Czech part of the world and kolaches are 100% serious business. So many little old Bohemian grandmas making bomb-ass kolaches all the time.
  20. I've always understood "kolache" to refer exclusively to fruit pastry.
  21. I honestly don't know cooler sizes. I would think my main cooler at home would hold 20 lbs of meat pretty easily. It can hold a couple cases of beer and ice pretty easily.
  22. For only 5 hours, I'd think most decent larger coolers would do the trick. You only need Yetis for multi day excursions. Just keep the fucker shut and it will be fine. Also, as someone who spends 3-4 months out of the year eating all of their meals out of a cooler, room temperature food really doesn't taste any worse. I've started to prefer it. Maybe it's just a Stockholm Syndrome situation.
  23. It's not just that she's ISU lore - Central Iowa is literally her adopted home. She's an Australian native who came here knowing no one and remains close to her host family. His family is in Milwaukee on top of that. His HS recruiting is almost exclusively based out of Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Kansas City, and even a large chunk of his portal targets are Midwest natives looking to get closer to home. Obviously Texas has way more money than ISU, and more in-state talent, but I just have a hard time seeing him leaving period at this point, especially for a job where basketball takes such a back seat in a part of the country he doesn't have many/any HS recruiting connections, so far away from both he and his wife's respective homes. It's a lot different situation than Hoiberg. Hoiberg and his wife both grew up in Ames and they felt smothered by the hometown hero/everyone knows their family/knows their business type of thing that can accompany life in a provincial smaller college town. Hoiberg ultimately felt trapped by his legacy as The Mayor and wanted out of the fishbowl. Otz and his wife both chose this place to put their roots down and build their life. This is his third stint at ISU (twice as an assistant). He's extremely invested here. Doesn't mean he'd never leave, but I just don't see a job like Texas being the one he'd leave for. Not that Texas isn't/can't be a great job, it just doesn't seem like a good fit for him. Frankly, I'd be more concerned about Wisconsin than Texas.
  24. It’s both. Otz is that good but we do have a billionaire down the road in Ankeny who is a big ISU hoops fan and is generous with NIL $. We don’t go after big name transfers, but rather mid-major all stars. Combine that with very good (but not quite elite) HS recruiting and you’ve got the Otzball recipe
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