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  1. They just canceled 3 shows.  Rumor is everyone but Felker was there.

    Hes a brilliant songwriter, but it's hard not to think that he's going to get kicked out real fucking quick.  RC Edwards has written some really good songs.  Maybe he'll take the reins.  I could go watch that band play covers and not get sick of it.

  2. 1 minute ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


     

     


    Yea I'm a lifer here...winter of 96-97 I'm sure we had 30 days of school off + historic flood to cap it.
     

     

    We had a lot of school off that year too.  No 30 days, but it was bad.

    I remember the Red River flood being all over the news.

  3. 7 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

    So I think a lot of us were suspicious of Bobby and Tadych after season 1 came out, even though it didn't implicate them in any way. Now that we've seen the kiddy porn and murder porn that Bobby had on his computer, his contradictory statements concerning Halbach leaving/not leaving, and his absolute perfect timing of leaving his place right at the exact same time she would be leaving so he could "go hunting" behind his dad's trailer, the hiding of his computer porn evidence by the prosecution and investigators, etc..... pretty clear he did it right?

    That's the way I'm leaning.

    The way Tadych responds to Avery in that phone conversation at the end of Season 2 did not give the vibe of an innocent man.  That sounded like a guy who was fucking terrified lashing out.

  4. 10 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    I don't brag about our winter weather like I do summer weather..... but I think Wednesday might be the coldest day of my life. I wonder if the governor will call school off for the entire state. b79f0b341d087bd898a185bfd2c0ee2e.jpg

    Were you in MN in '96?  I think that was worse.  That's still pretty horrific though.

    It was -15 this morning and didn't seem THAT bad due to lack of wind.  We've get -11/-24 predicted for next Tuesday.  Last year it was 55 the last weekend of January.

  5. My main gripe with Hopslam in recent years is the sweetness/maltiness of it.  I can't tell if the beer changed or if my taste buds did.  The first couple years I knew of it, it was the best IPA I could find, and we'd have to go to Minnesota to get it because they didn't distribute to Iowa in those days.

  6. Chick-fil-A is fine.  Hate the "no Sunday" thing, because the place we stay in Ames for home games is right across the road and it always sounds awesome when I'm hungover after a day of tailgating.

    @'stache is on point in the coffee discussion.  Starbuck's is overrated, but it's still pretty good and when you're travelling it's the kind of place you can find near the highway and it blows McDonald's out of the water.

  7. 1 minute ago, BurntEyes said:

    For the record, people in Stillwater OK care very much about men's wrestling.

    I'm aware.  I figured my previous descriptor covered them.  OU has an active program as well.  Mizzou as well (at least they did before the SEC).  By "Plains Midwest" I meant anything north of Texas between the Mississippi and Rockies.

  8. 4 minutes ago, lateshow said:

    Is football or basketball more popular in Iowa? 

    Probably football, but it's relatively close.  Basketball is a lot more popular in Iowa than it is in Texas, for example, but we aren't on the level of Indiana, Kansas, or Kentucky in terms of it being the most popular sport.

    There aren't many sports fans who have a strong interest in one, but lack interest in the other.  At the high school and college levels you see a pretty equal interest.  It's the pro level where things change.  The NFL is very popular in Iowa, and the NBA isn't at all.

  9. 1 minute ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Sounds hilarious and awesome. We need the modern day Hunter S. Thompson to do a Rollingstone story on this weekend.

    I should have been taking notes when I partook my freshman year at ISU.  My cousin was doing filming for a school that wanted him to document their school's experience.

    In hindsight, it was very much the "Fear and Loathing" experience.  He rented a hotel room from Thursday night through Sunday AM at Hotel Fort Des Moines.  I drove down from Ames, and we just kind of went wild.  Running around the skyway with open beers (I was 18, he was 21), hotel room full of drunk late high school/early college kids listening to the bad pop hip hop of the day (February 2004).  Getting a handjob in the hotel pool.  Ducking out on Friday afternoon to drive up to Minneapolis (drinking the entire way, mind you) to go to an OAR concert on the U of M campus, and then driving back immediately after.  Running a drunken gambling ring to bet on the finals on Saturday night, and eventually ending up at a Perkins in South Des Moines at 3AM watching a 17 year kid from podunk northern Iowa recoil in horror as he got hit on by a table of transvestites.

    The wrestlers he was supposed to cover got bounced early on Friday, and thus he was free of responsibility and (relatively) flush on cash.

  10. 13 hours ago, CrownKing said:

    Bells Hopslam is out, found some at my local HEB. Just a really great  DIPA.  

    It was one of my gateways to hoppy beer, but it’s been really not that good IMO for 6-7 years.

    I always buy a 6 pack out of a sense of loyalty to that initial memory, but I always come to the conclusion it wasn’t worth it.

  11. 12 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

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    Oddly enough, the "milk and bread before a blizzard" shit happens in the Midwest too.  We got a ton of snow last Saturday, and on Friday the grocery store in town was a fucking zoo.

    It could snow two feet, and I could still walk up town to the grocery store in a matter of minutes.  Also, even the worst snow storms here result in the roads being plowed out within 24 hours.  If you're financially capable of stocking your home with food, how do you not already have enough of it to survive the next 24 hours, maximum?

  12. 16 minutes ago, 'stache said:

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    I think you're spot on. I think he can coach and he's not putting up with shit. And for what it's worth, his incoming recruiting class is better on paper than any class Eddie ever brought in. Eddie was a master at taking average talent and making them really good, and when he got really good talent, they usually were great. If Boynton can coach, which I think he can, he can have more success than Eddie overall I think. But I also don't think he'll stick around too long if he succeeds. If he becomes a desired coach, I just hope he  holds out for a blueblood and doesn't take a lateral move. Lot of ifs, but I'm optimistic next year will be completely different. 

    I'd probably pump the brakes on the "better than Sutton" talk, but I agree that he has a high ceiling.

    I don't know that he'll be in a hurry to get out of Stillwater if he can win there.  It seems like your fanbase has really embraced him, and OSU definitely went out on a limb to hire him (sounds suspiciously like what transpired between us and Hoiberg).  If he wins, and the crowds come back to GIA, I think he'd hang around for awhile.

     

    Also, your team reminds me a ton of our squad last year.  Some talented starters who aren't that experienced, and have absolutely no depth.

  13. 9 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    JFC, where has Ok state basketball gone?  Iba must be rolling over in his grave.  

    I think it's obvious that Boynton is trying to establish his culture in a throwaway year.

    If last year is any indication, the guy can coach when he has some horses, and it seemed like he was starting to draw fans back in.  I think if they give him another two years, OSU basketball will be doing pretty well.  Not Eddie Sutton good, but better than Travis Ford.

  14. 13 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    I still can't believe he was there for 8 years.  He owes Phil Forte and that other tiny white dude at least half of his paychecks.

    Just looked at his record.. Somehow we was awful at eastern kentucky and fell up to UMASS.  Essentially rode one good season there (I know he had 2 20 win seasons but only 1 would be "good") to OSU.  That is why you don't hire from the midmajor level when there isn't a ton of mm success.  UT fans will tell ya...

    Keiton Page.

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    https://www.widerightnattylite.com/2012/1/18/2713314/the-flight-of-his-life-a-keiton-page-story

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