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Al_4_ISU

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  1. I tried it a couple times after that. Nothin'. I just don't have a need for any new Chris Robinson music at this point in my life (as much as I love pretty much everything the Black Crowes did prior). It just felt stiff, brittle, and kinda put on for lack of a better term.
  2. Yes. Memorial Day week is a notorious window for F5s throughout tornado alley. Moore, Joplin, and Parkersburg were all within a 5 day window on the annual calendar. Funny story about Parkersburg. My in-laws have a boat slip on the Mississippi in Prairie Du Chien, WI and their slip neighbors are a couple from Parkersburg. The first time we met them I asked "did you guys come out of the tornado ok?" and the wife goes "FUCK NO" and I respond, "sorry to hear that. Can't imagine what it's like to lose your house". She goes "no, we got spared. I wanted a new fuckin' house like the rest of town!".
  3. It's going to devastate them. My wife and I were talking about this yesterday. She was a heptathlete at Northern Iowa and we both think that there's not even going to be a scholarship track program in the next 5 years. Shit, I wouldn't be surprised to see schools like us and OK State cut wrestling.
  4. This sport is like what would happen if you let the mafia run sports.
  5. The entire sports media complex in this state basically figured she'd take the WNBA by storm. I understand that's not a media circle you'd pay any attention to, but these people definitely understand sports but had become so infatuated with CC that they just can't bring any modicum of objectivity or reality to the discussion around her game.
  6. Local schools are letting out early due to the weather threat. Probably more of a function of not having to use many snow days in our near non-existent winter, but still catches your attention.
  7. It was all the circus 3s she hit in college. Topped with crazy passes. She's not any better or more dominant than the players you named, but she was constantly making these highlight reel plays on a nightly basis. Combine that with how 1 and dones and the transfer portal destroyed star power in the men's game, and you had this whole rise of increased popularity in women's basketball because these players would face off against each other over multiple seasons, and the whole thing just kinda went wild.
  8. That's more rain than we had all of last year in one shot.
  9. I agree. This is the biggest increase in competition she's ever seen. She'll adjust in time, and be fine. But people were expecting her to be as unstoppable as she was in college and that wasn't realistic. By the same token, her haters are clearly jumping the gun.
  10. Zach Bryan is country-ish. He has some really good songs, IMO.
  11. The flip side of this, being surrounded by her legion of sycophants, is how every media member in the state of Iowa is calling for the Fever to fire their coach because she clearly doesn't know how to properly employ God in the service of winning games. Or how her teammates just aren't good enough to handle playing with Caitlin. Everyone needs to get out of God's way and let her huck junk all night and all will be right. Both sides of the Clark argument need to realize that the WNBA, like any other pro sports league at the highest level of said sport, is full of the absolute best players in that sport. Maybe more so because there are so few teams. She's going to be fine, but there's going to be an adjustment period. She was never gonna run through the pros like she did college, but that doesn't mean she's anywhere close to being a bust.
  12. A buddy of mine went recently because his teenage son wanted endless shrimp for his birthday. Personally, I haven’t been since the last Bush Administration. In college we’d go sometimes to order the cheapest thing on the menu and fill up on the biscuits.
  13. It will kill it as we know it for sure. I'm not convinced people who never went to college, but are still huge college sports fans, would care. But you would disenfranchise the actual alums of these schools, and that would irrevocably alter what this product look likes. So I think we basically agree. I think there would still be people playing football and people watching, but far fewer of them, and not enough to matter the way it matters now. The budgets, the atmosphere, etc all would be dogshit compared to today.
  14. If this just turns into the UFL in college towns, it will absolutely take a hit
  15. Damn. Heal up quick!
  16. Pre-sliced braunschweiger? Now that’s up town
  17. Love jaeternice
  18. I would assume so. Lots of Czechs and Krauts in Texas
  19. This is very close to how I see it unfolding.
  20. Because those schools (not BC) will likely merge with the Big 12 for a large 3rd conference that competes in the same set of playoffs as the SEC and Big 10 (with less TV $ of course). I assume that Pac-ACC tier is the schools that don’t seem to care about big time athletics much getting together. I think this + unequal revenue sharing in the SEC and Big 10 is where it’s heading.
  21. Love the Kaui Brewing sticker
  22. It’s kinda wild how CUSA went from being one of the better mid majors to far and away the dregs of FBS so quickly.
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