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  1. Well and a few pretty prominent people....
  2. Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.
  3. At least you don't have to listen to MAGA Mayes Middleton.
  4. Clearly, she failed the attitude test. But she also kept her distance and didn't physically interfere with the asshole anymore than he was interfering with her and her partner's daily lives. It's strange how that video he took makes it seem like he got hit or almost got hit while what was actually happening is he sidestepped her car and took three potshots.
  5. This is the goal, yes. To give someone the dignity to face the consequences of their own actions. @Pokoloco I know this is brutal, but it is the right thing to do. For better or worse, that "rock bottom" doesn't come on our schedule, or any schedule at all, and may not even come. Here's hoping that's not the case.
  6. It's the dismal tide. We had actually made some progress at at least forcing bigotry underground. There's an (un)healthy current of unvarnished bigotry overtaking the country these days.
  7. You're not completely wrong. But this is the same sort of argument advanced against the CFPB. One thing that I think most of this fails to properly account for is just exactly how uncollectable most bad consumer debt is, even without bankruptcy. It varies quite a bit from state to state as far as collection mechanisms, but in a whole lot of states, like Texas, it's practically uncollectable within six months or a year of default. You're not completely wrong. But this is the same sort of argument advanced against the CFPB. One thing that I think most of this fails to properly account for is just exactly how uncollectable most bad consumer debt is, even without bankruptcy. It varies quite a bit from state to state as far as collection mechanisms, but in a whole lot of states, like Texas, it's practically uncollectable within six months or a year of default.
  8. I kind of hope IU systematically pounds them into the dirt.
  9. It's widely reputed that IU/Cignetti uses less than the allotted practice time and their practice schedule is quite moderate. They were saying earlier that his assistants love him because they go home at night.
  10. He may well be able to use the portal to keep it going for a while. Probably easier to actually find good culture fits that way.
  11. Well, we've always said, or have said about us, that being recruited by Texas is worth an extra star all by itself. There's a lot of truth to that. It's going to be harder for Cignetti to find those "lunch pail" guys and keep them away from other programs and keep them on the roster. IU is big-time now. Anyone they recruit is going to become big-time in pretty short order.
  12. Why the "Eeyore" and "Debbie Downer"? I'm just interested in why coaches succeed. Cignetti has some great characteristics of a coach, no question. But he's also kind of "curated" his environment and I think very intentionally. Probably because he sees some of these problems.
  13. Like I said, he could very well continue to whip ass. But he's in a pretty different environment now and it is changing even as we speak. Curt Cignetti is officially big-time now. And it's only going to get bigger-time with an NC.
  14. Cignetti is currently "getting by" with a goodly number of JMU transfers and native IU recruits. He's certainly done well with some targeted acquisitions like Coogan. What's going to be interesting is when he continues to target certain 3 and 4 stars that are instantly going to become high 4s and 5s when recruited by IU. And then their interest list broadens. And they start to think highly of themselves, and so do their agents. It's gonna be a lot harder to keep those guys around than a bunch of dudes that signed with IU and JMU from 2021-2023. Development efforts are going to go to waste, culture will deteriorate, etc. I think Cignetti may understand this and that's why he took the IU job rather than some higher-profile job and has stayed low-profile most of his career.
  15. Getting in the portal is one thing and if you're a good evaluator a fairly easy thing. Having 1/3 of your team run away is another thing entirely and something he hasn't really had to deal with.
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