Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
You are correct as an abstract proposition. But the information was considerably more difficult to acquire then than it is now.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Right, I wasn't and my excuse is that I was 14, which is pretty fucking valid, as I wouldn't be able to vote for four more years. And I didn't have the internet to do a deep dive on what Reagan really stood for. Incidentally, I remain a big fan of federalism and often think that states should "act first" in matters of government rather than defer or default to the federal government, except in particular and relatively unique situations. And the thing that made me not a Republican anymore was the increasing appearance of retrograde social and cultural conservatism. That angle caused me to delve deeper into more subtle bad policies. But now the hate is in your face. It's impossible to ignore, as is the constant lying.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I was 14.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
But it's the mask that makes all the difference. Elaborating. As I see it, the "excuse" you're making is that people a) have to accept a mixed bag of policies they agree with and disagree with from a party or candidate allegiance (true enough) and b) they don't delve too deeply into the distasteful policies because they're dumb or disengaged. But when the hateful policies are front and center and impossible to ignore, it changes the game.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Literally speaking, yes. But a whole shit ton of IU's "transfers" followed their coach from JMU. Yes, Cignetti has been good in the portal, notwithstanding the JMU players, but they are "quality depth" and long-term developed under Cignetti. Not necessarily something Cignetti or anyone else can repeat on the regular.
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So, like, it's just a-ok to call people faggots now?
Well and a few pretty prominent people....
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Texas -- a failed state
Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.
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Lazy-eyed Brett Jensen's audible obesity on my television during football watchin'
At least you don't have to listen to MAGA Mayes Middleton.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
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.
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Rob Reiner found stabbed
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.
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So, like, it's just a-ok to call people faggots now?
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.
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Trump’s America
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.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
Yeah, he may continue to completely kick ass. But the world has changed since he was Saban's RC (and Saban ran away from it) and Cignetti has been able to avoid the worst aspects of it for the last couple of years. For one thing, he's probably not going to continue to have 2-3 years of quality, developed depth for much longer.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)