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Ignatius

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  1. 7 hours ago, 'stache said:

    I'm pretty sure it's locked in with Jerryworld for the forseeable future. The bball tournament is fixed in KC, Mo. forever too, unfortunately. 

    The B12 tourney should be in KC as long as this conference is alive.  Great atmosphere, great location - way, way, way better than when it was in Dallas

     

    EDIT - By location I mean the area immediately around the arena, not KC itself.  You can walk out of a bar in the P&L District with a mixed drink in a fucking glass for Chrissake....

  2. 14 hours ago, Pimphand said:

    Vernon Maxwell was the only player who could get MJ's goat during a game.   The Rockets were 5-1 vs the Bulls during their 1990-1993 three peat when mad max was on the team.  Obviously the Bulls not having any answer for Olajuwon was also a massive reason.

    Gerald Wilkins could get under MJ’s skin as well...

     

     Vernon got cut from the Rockets the day after the Game 1 loss to Utah in 1995 after bitching to the media about playing time (even though he was selected to take the game tying/winning shot).  Then we went out hit set an NBA record for 3s in Game 2....

  3. On 2/28/2019 at 8:17 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:


    The new law only applies to the required donation level to keep your tickets. It doesn’t apply to any donation made above that which also gets you loyalty points (actually at a higher rate). We’ve had the same tickets since 1970 so the required donation is really low, almost all of the donation is voluntary so the new law doesn’t effect us much.

    It also had an impact on people who were relying on their company’s match of ‘charitable contributions’ to effectively cut 40% (since only 80% was tax deductible prior to the new law) off the cost of their re-up. 

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  4. 4 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    I think a lot of the cap experts are hibernating during offseason. I was pissed last year (2017?) that they wasted a 2nd round pick to unload Osweiler’s salary, and then didn’t do anything with it. WTF? You just traded a #2 for $20M with no intention but savings in Mr. McNair’s pocket? I thought if they didn’t sign a FA, they could restructure Hopkins, Watt, Clowney, Duane brown, whoever to give them more money then and less money later, freeing up space for FAs in future seasons. I was told that unused cap space rolls over to the next year. There are minimums for each year, and a maximum if there is no rolled over space. Or so I was told. 

    The Texans made that deal because they were trying to free up space to either sign Tony Romo or trade for Jimmy Garrapolo.  

  5. 7 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I'm far from a cap expert but can you explain how a team can stockpile cap space? I realize that they all employ accounting tricks but I don't believe they can drastically push back cap space for future years. And when Cleveland is listed as the example, any argument falls apart. This isn't the MLB where you can take your team down to Triple AAA level spending (Astros) and win a World Series a few year later.

    As a former Texan season ticket holder, I gave up a long time hoping that the Texans do much right. Every owner wants to win a Super Bowl but it obvious that some owners have zero idea on how to do it. McNair fell into that camp. Luck plays a factor but when some teams remain at the top for more than a decade, it's more than luck. 

     

    Teams have to spend 89% of the total cap in cash (not in cap hit), but this is aggregated over a 4-year period.  The first one was from 2013-2017, and the one we’re currently in runs through the next 3 years.  Any cap space you have at the end of a season carries over to the next; Cleveland essentially has a $56MM credit in salary this year because they were that amount under the cap at the end of the season.  

     

    Ultimately the Browns will have to spend up to the 89% number, but they’ll have until the end of next year to do that.  This is why the Brock Osweiler deal two years ago made sense for them; they essentially ate $9MM (or whatever the number was) of guaranteed salary for a player they had no intention of keeping because ultimately they have to spend up to a certain amount anyway.  In exchange, they got a 2nd round pick and gave up a 7th, just because the league wouldn’t let Houston trade Asswiper and a 2nd rounder for literally nothing.

    You can’t do this kind of deal in the NBA because the combined salaries have to be within a given percentage of each other, but In the NFL it’s fine you just have to find a team that knows they’re tanking for a couple of years with plenty of cap space.

     

  6. 55 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Everyone putting our NC DBs out there as greater. I get it. But when I think of the long storied tradition of DBU, and the hard hitting, knock a mother fucker out and take his lunch type of play that we expect, Jammer is the first to my mind. 

    Bryant Westbrook also deserves a shout out. 

    Bryant Westbrook in 95 and 96 was as good as any CB we’ve had since we became DBU.  Not saying the best necessarily, but as good as....

  7. On 1/26/2019 at 1:08 PM, PilotsError said:

    Can you install MS Office on an external hard drive?  A google search was vague.

    IIRC you can but you have to make quite a few manual edits to the registry after the default install completes to make it work smoothly....

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  8. 19 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    The Texans also need to revamp their RB stable.  I cannot think of any team that has a worse combo than Miller and Blue.  Blue is probably the worst second string back in the NFL.  Foreman may never be the same.  Which sucks, because pre-injury Foreman as RB1 and Miller as RB2 is not bad.

    Seriously, the Rams went and signed CJ Anderson's fatass off the street and he looked 10x better than Blue.

    The Rams have one of the best OLs in the league....

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  9. 1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

    Sacramento getting screwed by the NBA for the Lakers and their tv ratings was the tipping point where I basically gave up watching pro ball.  I'll sometimes tune in for the playoffs, until getting disgusted to see Jordan Rules still in effect.   The only regular season NBA games I've seen in the last decade were during holidays at relatives' houses.  Screw the NBAWWF. 

    You're missing out.  The NBA is far more entertaining than it was 15 years ago...

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