Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Best Breakfast Food
Is that the Cuban place in south Minneapolis?
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Getting old sucks
Yeah, I donāt have a visible bald spot yet, but I probably would by Xmas if I did nothing. Just stopping loss is good enough
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Getting old sucks
I do have a lot of spray paint...
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Getting old sucks
Anyone have experience with Rogaine? I'm 39 and had a completely full head of hair until maybe a month or two ago. At my last haircut (early September) my barber confirmed it was starting to thin on top. I still appear to have a full head, and want to keep it that way if possible. Just ordered a shot of Rogaine and curious if I completely wasted $ or not.
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Who decided that a TD should be called a "Tuddy"?
It inadvertently rolled out of my mouth the other day, and I almost vomited.
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Realignment talk not going away
This is one of the most logical moves put out there in the last month.
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Realignment talk not going away
I like the rivalry games being spread out. Gives them a better spotlight
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Realignment talk not going away
I think the SBC is clearly #3 in the current G5 landscape, and is probably better at football than the new MWC is going to be. It's really a pretty damn entertaining league with some invested fanbases and good players. It seems like a pretty solid model for G5 football at this stage.
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Realignment talk not going away
As a fan of a Big 12 school, I'm glad it's not us adding them.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
That clip perfectly encapsulates why I quit listening to that podcast
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Realignment talk not going away
UNI in the MAC would be a lot of fun.
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Realignment talk not going away
I mean, I wish the entire sport would do this, but right now it would really make a ton of sense for the G5 to get together and sell their media rights as a package like the NFL. Pair off into geographically logical divisions (which would allow ALL sports to follow suit), and create some kind of season format where the G5 winner/best team plays in the 12 team playoff (you would still have early games against the larger schools). They seem to be utterly cannibalizing each other at this point for absolutely no gain at all, and I don't think it's creating a more interesting product, whereas I think we are seeing (at least while the novelty of the new matchups is there) an even more compelling product in not just the Big 10 and SEC, but definitely in the Big 12 and possibly in the ACC too. But that's more a result of consolidation with (so far) very little shedding of schools in the aggregate. The G5 is splintering into smaller factions, which seems dilutive to me.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
YouTubeTV has it
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Strongly prefer to it to ESPN+ or U
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
The articles indicate the extra games will be on big CBS and CBSSN. They want more college hoops and the Big 12 is the best college hoops conference. They aren't doing this to push content onto an app.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Really pumped about this. CBS did the ISU/KU game in Hilton last year, and it was a stunning broadcast. If some of our ESPN+ content gets farmed out to CBSSN that would be great too. It's far and away the best broadcast of the "Ocho" layer sports channels.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
We all understand that in order to get money from a collective, the player must perform actions unrelated to sports to get paid, ergo it's not "pay for play". However, we all also know that if they aren't good at playing sports they aren't going to get the opportunity to make money from attending a charity function, doing an ad for a car dealership, or whatever non sports related activity they're being formally compensated for. Arguing about whether it's "pay for play" is pure semantics. No collective is going to offer some out of shape 40 year old fucks to sign autographs at a dealership. The people who get these opportunities from these groups are people who are good at playing sports, and take on these other obligations with the understanding that they will also compete for whatever university that collective is connected to. OJ Simpson wasn't a convicted murderer. We all know he unjustifiably killed 2 human beings. I definitely agree that all sides are going to look shitty in this, because so much of this sounds like handshake deals with little proof of what was actually offered and what was actually tendered.
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Who should we blame for Bro Country?
Exactly. Just they aren't a monoculture stars.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
I'm starting to believe that's the case as well.
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UNLV starting QB: fuck this shit, I'm outta here (check bounced)
Whoever broke the deal is the asshole here. If UNLV isn't paying him what they said they would, I'm Team Sluka. If Sluka's just bailing because he thinks he'll get more money for it, I'm Team UNLV.
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Realignment talk not going away
This is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
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Realignment talk not going away
Why donāt these morons just merge? This is getting dumb as fuck.
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NFL Week 3
Iām starting to believe in this Vikings squad. The eventual catastrophe is gonna hurt real bad this year.
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2024 Random Games thread
Christ, this is entertainment
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Realignment talk not going away
Nebraska would have gotten skull fucked by half the Big 12 over the last decade. Iām not sure they would be a Top 5 Big 12 team this year. The schools in your 2nd paragraph would absolutely be among the better Big 12 programs, but not a single one of them would run the place on a year in year out basis. There are 4 Big 10 schools (out of 18) clearly a tier ahead of the Big 12/ACC. The SEC is more like 8 out of 16. I think that gap will show in playoff selections and lead to some resentment of some kind.