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Brian Fantana

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  1. Genuinely lol Nah I read it. You might be right and you might be wrong. But honestly, your take is definitely outdated at the very least. I think the plan is portal heavy again in 2026 and less so moving forward, they have been focusing hard on 2027+ as far as high school recruiting goes. What Cody Campbell thinks doesn't really matter, he's just the one of the many money men. He's not making the decisions, he's not involved in talent evaluation, he's just the most visible dude writing checks (and not even the largest one). The money is effectively immaterial, it's not running out any time soon. These kinds of takes are pretty amusing, not because I think it's dumb or anything, it's just the default take that's been true for years and year so why not now? I can't really fault you for holding onto the same opinion, at least until we prove otherwise. That said, anyone that has actually watched us play and/or understands how our system is set up for us to continue to do what we're doing from a recruiting standpoint has a very different opinion. We pulled 21 transfers out of the portal to overhaul a team that had excellent/talented skill players but lacked talent and depth on defense and on both the O-line and D-lines. 15 have been high impact, and basically every defensive transfer we brought in has been a hit. So far, we're getting an excellent ROI by literally every available metric. We have talent and depth at every position. We have, by every measure, one of the best front sevens in the country, including probably two of the top 3 edge rushers in the country (the Miami dude is probably the best overall) and arguably the best linebacker in the country, etc. It's a pretty decent turnaround from year to year from a team that could barely block and couldn't play defense worth a shit. It was pretty jarring/telling to see one of our starting OTs from last season starting at LT for UH this year and just getting his ass absolutely handed to him the entire game by our D-line. Would we fall flat on our faces against a playoff team from the SEC/B1G/ACC? I think it's pretty unlikely, and so does pretty much everyone else that's paying attention. You mention the "Texas', Bama's, Oregon, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Georgia's", but if we're being honest here it's fairly questionable if half those teams are even good this year. I think we're much more comparable (this season) to a team like Indiana. I also am pretty confident that we are not just better than last year's ASU team, but better by a pretty decent margin. At any rate, there's still half a season to play and we'll certainly see how it all plays out.
  2. Wow I can't believe George RR Martin finally finished his novel
  3. Yeah we all know Texas fans would NEVER throw shit on the field
  4. Aid trucks roll into Gaza as dispute over hostage bodies is paused | Reuters
  5. Didn't realize this was just lifted from Laura Loomer before he asked lmao Trying to ask a loaded question, didn't get the answer he wanted
  6. You nerds that watch football on a Tuesday are a special breed
  7. Huh, weird! Thanks, I guess it didn't show up when I googled because the name is spelled differently. I'm trying to google all these people out of curiosity. This is all that shows up when I google the name in the Al-Jazeera piece:
  8. No I mean I googled the first guy (Samir Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Nameh) like he said and came up with nothing
  9. Can you link that? I tried to google him and came up with nothing other than the Al Jazeera article you linked and several non-English sources just repeating the same article.
  10. I read that the one remaining was the dead one somewhere but that was this morning and I could be remembering it wrong.
  11. IIRC, the only female hostage that remained after the January exchange is believed to have been dead since 2023.
  12. Anyway back to the news after baby dick made us derail again to explain words to him... https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-tighten-grip-gaza-clouding-future-ceasefire-2025-10-14/ It seems to me like part of this agreement should be Israel no longer being able to arbitrarily restrict aid, since this doesn't really punish Hamas, it mainly just punishes the other 2 million people that live there.
  13. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/us-government-review-no-evidence-widespread-theft-gaza-aid https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/idf-officials-say-no-evidence-hamas-systematically-stole-un-aid-in-gaza-nyt-reports/00000198-46ed-db91-a1df-efef44060000 I'm sorry, you were lying? Got a link to back up this assertion? I've got some. And be careful, your racism is showing through again, since no one is talking about "the Jews" except you, pussy. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250627-slaughter-masquerading-as-aid-msf-slams-us-backed-gaza-humanitarian-foundation https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000 https://web.archive.org/web/20250710014527/https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-gaza-contractors-aid-distribution-fe27f3ea83e06a09d66424eed7a5d56f https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eyewitness-says-american-subcontractors-at-gaza-aid-sites-fired-at-palestinians/ The number of links I could provide are practically infinite, and funny enough, not a single one of them mention Hamas forced marching civilians into GHF killboxes. Weird lie to tell, you little Nazi piece of shit. The people being killed are almost certainly linked to this piece of shit and other Israeli-funded and armed gangs/militias, who definitely were stealing aid. They are collaborators and I don't give a shit if they die or who kills them. Weirdly enough, we (the United States of America) seem to have given Hamas free reign to do exactly this for a period of time. Sorry, you little bitch, you don't get to claim to give a shit about Palestinian lives now after you spent two years fist pumping every act of slaughter. You're not fooling anybody.
  14. There was tiddies in that movie
  15. Better stop reading your own posts
  16. Makes sense
  17. I just mean the cutoffs seem weirdly specific.
  18. @statsman gone the way of Rex?
  19. That seems, uh, rather arbitrary.
  20. Seeing as the ceasefire has already been violated multiple times, I would say 0 seconds
  21. He wouldn't have wanted to but it literally doesn't matter. You have infinite leverage over Israel to force him to agree. We can make them do anything we want, they can't afford to say no if the alternative is losing the infinite money spigot. The US government just doesn't generally have the desire or stomach to do it. Like, I don't think people appreciate just how precarious their situation is from a fiscal standpoint. Their populace enjoys many social safety nets and things like free education and health care that we don't have in fucking America, directly as a result of our financial support. They can't even come close to being able to afford fighting wars on multiple fronts and keeping their society intact at the same time without us, that's just plain fact. Just the threat of losing all of their creature comforts would be enough for Israelis to start calling for Bibi's head more than they already do.
  22. Sounds like he's a perfect fit for Alabama senator
  23. It is what it is. They're not overlooking it, they just think it's good. Anyway, moving on... Surprised no one has posted this: Trump suggests Hamas has approval for internal security operations in Gaza | Reuters I was more than a little surprised at this. Not necessarily surprised that we would give Hamas approval to do stuff like this, but very surprised that the sitting President would just come right out and admit it. Especially considering, ostensibly, that Hamas must disarm and cede control of Gaza for this peace process to proceed fully.
  24. You might be right but, frankly, Bibi can't do shit about it if the President decides what is what. At the end of the day, we hold the cards, not Israel. There could have been so many fewer lives lost if we had put our foot down at the right time instead of giving them 2 years to destroy Gaza.
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