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Left Coast

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  1. Unfortunately for them it doesn’t seem like many people give a shit about the pipeline.
  2. Why is everyone saying WV is terrible? I watched them lose @ top 25 Pitt in their first game by 7, and they were in it to the end. They lost to KU at home but this year’s KU seems like a different beast. They steamrolled their cupcake and then beat VaTech on the road by 3 TDs. I don’t pay WVU too much attention but I don’t see the evidence that they suck as much as many here seem to think they do.
  3. I feel like I’m watching a real-life version of Atlas Shrugged when it comes to Russia. All the smart people (or people with resources) GTFO, government tells everyone else what to do and takes over everything, country collapses into poverty (and in this case, war). Regardless of what happens in Ukraine (and I think Ukraine emerges with most of its 2014 borders intact) Putin has single-handedly pushed Russia back 50 years, if not more.
  4. Probably a dumb question but why doesn’t Ukraine blow up every road, bridge, and rail line on the border between Ukraine and Russia? Just make it impossible for all these new recruits to get to the front lines? Do they want to give the Russians a way to get out? Are they not within range? I’m sure it’s easier said than done, but just curious.
  5. Can’t really disagree with any of this, except maybe swapping blOU and ISU. Not sure ISU deserves to be #2 for beating a pretty terrible Iowa team by 3.
  6. It’s not so much that only people educated by your state work in your state. It’s more that having world-class research universities foster whole ecosystems of R&D, business, and venture capital. Silicon Valley wouldn’t have happened without Stanford and Berkeley. LA as a center of defense and aerospace wouldn’t have happened without Cal Tech and UCLA. California is fucked up in many ways, but having these universities (especially the public ones) is one thing they are still getting right out here. Texas (the state) should be so much better from a higher education perspective.
  7. No, eh as in Fuck Baylor but fuck window Coug too.
  8. Seen on my commute this morning in SoCal: Fuck Putin indeed…
  9. To counteract this rule, Texas will ban the sale of EVs and allow neighbors to snitch on you to the government if they see an EV in your driveway. (probably)
  10. Disney bought the Fox studios assets, but Fox Sports/News/Channel is still a separate company.
  11. Friends and family gathered Sunday evening to mourn the loss of a tuna factory worker killed in an accident at a processing plant last week. The worker, now identified as 62-year-old Jose Melena, was cooked to death inside a steam oven last Thursday. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/worker-dies-after-being-cooked-in-tuna-plant-oven/
  12. How does this work if say, USC is at home vs Ohio State and both are highly ranked? Fox for sure wants that game for its Big Noon but they aren’t going to make them kick off at 9am Pacific. Do they swap time slots with an NBC or CBS to get the game later in the day? Or would they let that game go to a competitor?
  13. Seems like as good a place as any for this Randy Rainbow gem https://youtu.be/7hk4TGuedxA
  14. Surely you can see the % of capacity figures. Anything near 100% (or above) certainly doesn’t indicate “stadiums 3/4 empty”. Even the Clippers were near 100% 2 years ago. The A’s are really the only truly terrible attendance pro team in the state. Again, it’s completely ridiculous to assert California sucks as a sports state. Now, “more fair weather”? Probably. That’s why teams need to win.
  15. The ACC and the PAC 12 meet in the Sun Bowl every year and the stands are packed with dozens of people. Nobody cares, and this PAC/ACC trial balloon is a terrible idea. The Big XII and the PAC need to join forces and create the 3rd conference. It would be a good football league and a very good basketball league.
  16. Lol true. But the Dodgers, Lakers, Warriors, Giants, 49ers, Rams, Kings, etc etc are always at or near the top in attendance. Hell even the Padres are #5 in MLB in average attendance this year. https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Don’t give me this “California sucks for sports” bullshit. And we aren’t even talking about championships won by teams in this state even in just the past decade.
  17. I keep reading comments about the weather and I get that the perception of the PAC 12 is all sunshine and beach parties, but you do realize that SC and UCLA have had to play at places like Pullman, Salt Lake City and Boulder in November/December? Many times those games are in ice and snow. If not those places, you get the steady 40 degree downpours in Seattle, Eugene and Corvallis. Or the one kajillion degrees in Tempe in September. The weather angle is so overrated IMO.
  18. Well yeah but they sure as hell could have made it a condition of joining.
  19. I know everyone is assuming Oregon and Washington would be next into the B1G but this part of an analysis from the LA Times caught my eye: The Cardinal would be a more palatable West Coast partner for USC and UCLA than the Ducks and Huskies. Both L.A. schools are sick of Oregon with its Nike flash coming into Southern California and stealing top talent, and USC’s and UCLA’s move to the Big Ten has wounded the Ducks. https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-07-02/big-ten-expansion-impacts-usc-ucla-notre-dame-football So maybe SC and UCLA might not be so hot on Oregon joining them? Or may even try to actively block them? Wasn’t something I had considered before.
  20. Except unlike aggy, UCLA is better than the “flagship” across virtually every sport.
  21. Check out Alpine County, liberal AND in the Sierras. Honestly it sounds pretty good: A rural county in heart of red California votes more like San Francisco. Here’s why https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-05/alpine-county-democratic-speck-in-rural-california-republicans?_amp=true
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