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Al_4_ISU

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  1. That UNLV throwback logo is siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
  2. It comes down to how badly Matt Campbell wants to try and beat Kirk Ferentz at his own game. If we run a similar game plan to what we ran against you guys last year, we'll win. If we run the game plan we've run against them every year for the last 6-7 years, not a chance in hell.
  3. You have far more to offer this thread than I do. I'd like to get back, and my folks go regularly, but I just haven't made it.
  4. It's the only hike I've done there and I just have real fond memories of it. I'm no Sedona expert.
  5. Mine's still 13 months. Plan though is to watch the game at a friend's house across town where there's a mix of kids her age, as well as some of their older siblings (3rd gradeish) who love playing with my daughter when we hang out, but aren't quite old enough for unsupervised sitting. I'll just have to handle the mid-game diapers, and getting her some food off the pot luck line that she'll inevitably throw on the floor of my buddy's garage, or out in his yard for the dogs.
  6. Loy Canyon Trail is incredible. Could be more than you're willing to bite off, but you can always turn around.
  7. You a hiker Kenny?
  8. My cousin sent me a snap showing a bunch of the recent construction at the Gathering Space being complete. Looked great. That's one of my favorite parks anywhere.
  9. This is the best description of this stupid fucking game I've ever seen. I hate it so god damn much, and it's worse this year because I'm a single parent for the weekend and have to do dumb things like "be sober" and "keep a small helpless human alive" and "be an attentive loving parent", when all I'll really want to do is get drunk in my garage and break my lawn chairs before I build a fire in the backyard and stare at it while listening to Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" on repeat, only to wake up with a headache on Sunday and say something stupid like "maybe the Vikings will save my weekend".
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    I love Danger Boys.
  11. Had a real solid brunch at Bramble in The Pearl district of Tulsa when I was down there in March.
  12. We used to beat Iowa on the reg and then go 3-6 (at best) in the Big 12. I can live with losing to them and winning 6+ conference games. But occasionally winning this game would be cool too.
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    I love "Merry Go Round" and have really grown to appreciate "All Shook Down" as I've gotten more into Paul's solo stuff the last year or so. I agree with pretty much everything you said. For whatever reason, writing about his little sister brought a certain characteristic out of his writing ("Achin' to Be" is the other one that comes to mind) that's got that mix of wistfulness and tension that just hits you square on. I'm definitely in the "grew into the Mats" camp. Despite growing up very much in the shadow of their influence, they just weren't something people I got musical recs from growing up were into. I started reading about them as an influential band when I was in HS ('99-'03) and continued to see them referenced by bands that I was into. I didn't really get into them until maybe 2009 or so. It was getting into The Hold Steady that made me need to just sit down and listen to the Mats. "Tim" was my first album (it was one of the remastered/expanded editions) and that ragged version of "Can't Hardly Wait" is what really got me into them. I was already pretty into the alt-country thing, so despite my high school punk phase, I've always a bigger of fan "Let it Be" and beyond than I was the "Hey Ma"/"Stink" era. I didn't truly get the Bob era until I heard some of the high quality live shows from the end of it (I think the Ed Stasium version of "Tim" really shows his potential too).
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    When I was in my early 20’s I lived in a drafty dump with 6 other dudes. It was a really bad winter and after an insane December heating bill, we turned the heat down to the low 40’s. We wore hats and gloves inside. I slept in my Carhartts. So yeah, that’s a thing young broke Midwestern guys are known to do. I never took Skyway to be from the perspective of a homeless person, but rather a low wage maintenance type worker (a janitor perhaps, like Paul was) who walked a stretch of it in his daily commute. This song will always remind me of when my wife were going through IVF. The Mayo Clinic is about an hour south of Minneapolis (an hour north of us) and uses a lot of skyways to connect parking ramps where we’d park for the appointments to the clinic facilities. We were hopelessly pining for kids, not unlike the way the narrator hopelessly pines for the object of his affection. We just put our 13 month old daughter to bed. She spend the past 15 minutes falling asleep in my arms.
  15. LT bumps this thread a lot. It’s definitely weird.
  16. Spoiler alert: we’re gonna run the ball a bunch and get nowhere. Then we’ll have a flukish turnover that gives Iowa a TD. We’ll start throwing the ball with about 10 minutes left, and it will look closer than it is. 13-10 Hawks. Rinse. Repeat.
  17. To be fair 2/3rds of the Big 10 plays in similar stadiums. Once you get past the blue bloods, that conference is no different than the Big 12. Most of those schools are just beneficiaries of Ohio State and Michigan’s altruistic benevolence.
  18. Yeah, no one in the Midwest pronounces “coyote” properly. It’s always “Kiy-Oat”.
  19. Travis Hunter is proof we’re living in a simulation
  20. Pearl Jam and FF are two of my favorite bands from that era and I've never seen either. PJ was my favorite band in my early 20's. FF was right in the mix at that time as well. It would be driven more by the idea if that I don't see them at that point I never would, as opposed to an expectation that it would be a truly great show (although I've watched a ton of both live and have no doubt I'd enjoy it). I've seen a lot of clips of Oasis live and they were always pretty good. They just never struck me as the kind of band where people traded bootlegs of legendary shows and shit like that. The biggest Oasis bootleg is just a recording of Liam and Noel fighting with each other backstage.
  21. This is becoming a recurring theme for with music. With the exception of Pearl Jam and maybe the Foo Fighters, there isn't a single "Big" legacy band that I'd pay the cost of seeing to see. I love Oasis, but I don't think their strength has really ever been being an amazing live show.
  22. You're not wrong on the reason for the South having more good football players, but if you don't think the off the charts "give a shit" level of SEC fanbases hasn't been a major contributor to both the league's on-field success and the way it had completely won the narrative battle off the field long before it actually was the best conference, I don't know what to tell you. It makes a difference, and it makes a difference in Big 12 basketball. It's part of the reason the Big 12 outlasted the Pac 12. Those schools and fanbases just didn't care enough to fight for it and be proactive with their organization.
  23. Most of the people following college sports view this quite differently than you do. You've been wishcasting the Big 12's demise just as hard, if not harder, than Big 12 fans have been wishcasting it's survival.
  24. Look at you, arguing in bad faith like normal. The SEC's tagline RE football is literally "It just means more".
  25. Yeah, that's all logical. I've said before that I think the conference model is really useless at this point. But I do think that the Big 12's push to shore up being the best basketball league is directly tied to those universities doing all they can to continue having a seat at the highest competitive levels of revenue generating college sports.
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