Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Realignment talk not going away
They didn't lose any games.
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Smoky Mountains Knoxville/Gatlinburg/Asheville
Asheville is definitely a place I want to check out, and likely would on such a trip. I was just thinking specifically for access to GSMNP. Wouldn't need to be anywhere close to Asheville's size and scope.
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Smoky Mountains Knoxville/Gatlinburg/Asheville
Is there any place within daily commuting distance of the park that's just a nice mountain town with a brewery or two and some decent restaurants?
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
65 yesterday. 4-8" of snow today (closer to a foot 30 miles north or west). 50 on Friday.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
It’ll be interesting to see if WVU can grab McCollum over Iowa. Their AD hired him to NWMO.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
I think DeVries is pretty good, but I don't think he's "middle of a bidding war between 3 major conference schools" good. Whoever gets him is probably gonna pay too much.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
There are people that would rather live in Fairbanks, Alaska than Austin. If I've learned anything it's that there is no such thing as universal preference. Personally, I think Austin's great except for the traffic, but it's pretty easy to see that it wouldn't appeal to a lot of people.
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Realignment talk not going away
LSU went undefeated in 1958. Iowa lost to Ohio State and tied Air Force. LSU has a far more legitimate claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Iowa_Hawkeyes_football_team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_LSU_Tigers_football_team
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
100% this in my house. We'll be driving 20 miles away and the gauge says "100 Miles to Empty" and my wife will insist we should fill up right now.
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Realignment talk not going away
Ferentz did almost kill a bunch of his players in workouts about 15 years ago, then named the S&C coach his assistant of the year. When Brian Ferentz played for Iowa, he got to live in low income housing despite his father being the highest paid state employee. Kirk’s no pedo, but he’s done some fairly morally questionable shit in his tenure that never really drew a lot of fire because he maintains such an “aw shucks” persona.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Hopefully McCollum keeps focused on making a big run with Drake, before sewing up the Indiana job. Fuck Mizzou.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
WVU is probably a better hoops job than Iowa, honestly. Iowa's really stingy about NIL for some reason - especially MBB. Plus, they're so far behind us over the last 25 years in terms of actual results, fan support, and NBA development that it's basically 2nd fiddle in a small population state (despite being the generally more popular athletic department). Maybe DeVries will reignite their passion and they'll do something with that program, but they were awfully content to let McCaffery linger at just barely above average for 15 years. The Big 10 is an easier league too. I do think DeVries will do pretty good there, but I don't see him catching Otz.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
A lot of people here think it's a done deal. His brother is Hawkeye royalty, and he was at Drake for 5 years prior to WVU. Both he and his wife are Iowa natives.
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Realignment talk not going away
Without any real natties
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Realignment talk not going away
You’re absolutely spot on. They’re low key delusional. It’s not a cult like Aggy, but they just really don’t understand their place in the grand scheme of things at all.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
You’d think by now we would all be inured to Midwest weather by now, but it never ceases to amaze
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
The dust carried all the way up here. It was raining dirt at my in laws place Friday night
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
We hit 78 Friday. Its 21 now.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
This exists for a reason
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
He died as he lived.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
I do think I prefer the divorce songs to the love songs, in general. Although "Ride to Roberts" and "Wind Behind the Rain" are both pretty great. The love songs aren't bad by any stretch, but IMO it's never been his biggest strength as a writer ("Cover Me Up" and "Goddamn Lonely Love" being notable exceptions). "Bury Me" really stands out as wholly unrelated to anything else. He's definitely in a high point of his career lately. As is well documented in this thread, I wasn't a fan of much post Southeastern stuff until Weathervanes. But damn, he's been writing some of his best songs recently.
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College Hoops 2024-25
Nobody hates teams that they beat.
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College Hoops 2024-25
I’m gonna be honest - I fucking hate your squad. Thats a compliment, too.
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College Hoops 2024-25
They said it's a precaution. I wouldn't be shocked if we rolled with the same line up in round 1, assuming we get away with it.
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College Hoops 2024-25
It was our best win, and along with almost beating Auburn, maybe the best showcase of the teams we can beat/environments we can win in when healthy. You would beat us at any point since the Momcilovic injury.