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Posts posted by Beau Vine
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12 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
If Haden DID have dealings with Singer, he's fucked. Cuz that dude is gonna sing like a canary for the feds.
Exactly, and I think it would have come out early if he had dealings with Singer.
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Why the hell would any of these guys want to coach in the Big 10? OK, I guess O'Connor is from Omaha, but still...
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1 hour ago, smoky said:
For those going and didnt read their emails like me, they have the same clear bag policy as they do for sporting events.
Fuck that for a musical... Or all events in general. I dont need "Safety Theatre" before I go to the Theatre.Abe Lincoln did, smartguy.
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4 hours ago, satyanash said:
Haven't heard much on Flowe.
Just saw George committed to Bama, are you hearing if Evans is sticking to his timeline and “package” offer?
Wouldn't surprise me, but I haven't checked in with North Shore sources in a bit.
Have you had a chance to talk to Wilson yet? Did Texas gain any steam on his unofficial?
I haven't been able to reach him yet, and I've heard he's hard to get in contact with
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On 6/4/2019 at 1:22 PM, Tex Pete said:
Zavaia (not Zavala)?
Motherfucker is using the same avatar that Zavala does, but has made zero posts. He has negged me twice ala lighthetower or whatever that fucker's name was.
Anyone else?
If he doesn't bitch endlessly about officiating in every sport, that's an upgrade.
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Has anyone called Greg?
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Just days ago, the University of Southern California cried “victim” and asked federal judge Edgardo Ramos to punish Tony Bland, a former assistant basketball coach. Bland pleaded guilty to accepting a $4,100 bribe to steer any NBA-bound Trojans to the business management company of Christian Dawkins as part of the college basketball fraud scandal.
“The actions of Mr. Bland and his co-conspirators have significantly damaged the reputation of USC as an institution, the USC athletic department, and its men’s basketball program,” wrote Michael Blanton, USC’s vice president for professionalism and ethics (seriously, that’s his title and, seriously, he actually wrote the above sentence).
On Wednesday, Judge Ramos appeared to have dismissed that line of thought, as well as the government’s request for Bland to spend up to a year in prison. Ramos instead sentenced him to two years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
“Can the institution be victimized if people at the very highest levels of the institution are corrupt?” Ramos asked from the bench, according to CBSSports.com’s Matt Norlander.
The answer should be no (and the issue will be answered in federal appeals court), but don’t tell these whiny athletic departments that just love to play martyr.
It’s embarrassing, except, none of them appear capable of realizing how pathetic they sound.
USC, after all, has been involved in numerous wild NCAA infractions cases through the years and just had a coach and a senior administrator arrested for taking bribes from rich parents to admit their non-athlete students into the school via the water polo team.
Now, that actually was a scandal.
An anonymous assistant hoops coach taking a few grand on an ill-advised side hustle?
Shrug.
USC isn’t alone. Former Arizona assistant coach Emanuel “Book” Richardson will be sentenced by Ramos on Thursday in New York. Arizona couldn’t help but pout and pile on, of course, claiming in a letter to Ramos that Richardson’s “arrest was devastating news to every student, coach, administrator, staff, trustee, and alum.”
Really? Every single one of them? They were all devastated by this news?
Congratulations to the tens of thousands of students and hundreds of thousands of employees and alumni for soldiering on.
Bear down, Arizona, bear down.
Who the hell writes this stuff?
View photosSean Miller of the Arizona Wildcats reacts during the second half of a college basketball game during the 2018-19 season. (Getty)MoreLook, everyone knows competing at the highest levels of college basketball is an intrinsically risky proposition. It is also profitable, fun and can do wonders for alumni and prospective student engagement. But it has been corrupt for, oh, 60-70 years.
As such, having an assistant prone to some shenanigans (and let’s be honest, this isn’t that big of a deal) is just the cost of doing business. Eventually every program gets touched by scandal.
Arizona even tried to claim that due to Richardson’s arrest, “the recruitment effort for future players became substantially more challenging.” While “substantially more challenging” is a relevant term, the Wildcats managed to sign a consensus top-five recruiting class with all five players ranked in the top 100 this year.
So, no, he didn’t bring the place to its knees. Claiming otherwise was a substantial distortion.
Richardson, 46, is by almost all accounts a good guy, a family man and a hard worker. He recruited and coached scores of players in his career (which includes working under Sean Miller since 2007 at Xavier). Almost all of them continue to swear by him to this day.
Yes, he did wrong. He shouldn’t have taken the extra money. He admitted all of that when he pleaded guilty and accepted his punishment. Doing so immolated his career and his ability to support his family.
In court on Wednesday, it was revealed Richardson, a college graduate who worked for J.P. Morgan as a banker before getting into coaching, was recently turned down for a job in retail due to the scandal.
Yet he declined to point fingers at others. He never flipped on Arizona or Miller, both of whom have been enveloped in the smoke of allegations. Had he taken his case to trial, who knows what comes out, but it certainly would have been a nerve-racking period for Arizona and Sean Miller.
Richardson didn’t do that though. He stood tall for his former employer and boss.
Rather than return the favor by either writing the judge and asking for leniency, or at least just sitting it out, Arizona cried about being wronged. It couldn’t help itself.
“Mr. Richardson’s actions caused real harm …” the school wrote to Ramos.
Of course, just when you think USC and Arizona couldn’t take themselves any more seriously or behave in a more hypocritical manner, they still haven’t yet approached the chutzpah of Kansas.
The Jayhawks wailed so much about being victimized by Adidas and executive Jim Gatto that they wrote to his sentencing judge. Then they demanded about $1 million in restitution from Gatto, an act that is financially crushing to a former middle manager with a family.
Once that was done, Kansas promptly went out and signed a new $196 million endorsement deal with Adidas, the supposedly evil company with evil employees that caused them so much harm.
The Jayhawks know full well that they weren’t the victims of anything or anyone. They understand they need Adidas’ money and recruiting connections to continue to field nationally prominent teams.
Everyone in college basketball realizes that. It’s how the game works.
They just don’t tell that part to the judge.
Note for Jhawk -- Wetzel went to UMass, so he certainly doesn't have an agenda against Kansas.
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3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but didn't Haden have some shady charity/foundation that was paying him an exorbitant amount to be on the board and also paying lots of his relatives?
Yes, you dumbass, it's mentioned in the article that SDG posted. RIF, fucktard.
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Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but didn't Haden have some shady charity/foundation that was paying him an exorbitant amount to be on the board and also paying lots of his relatives?
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On 1/22/2019 at 3:58 PM, wild_turkey said:
The teenage version of myself paid to see them in 2001. I remember the restrooms and food being fine at the amphitheater.
I saw them then, too. Green Day opened for them, which is what I actually paid to see. How in the fuck did Green Day open for Blink 182? Lots of people left after Green Day played. I should have, because Blink 182 sucked.
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1 hour ago, Elmer_Fudd said:
I'd love it if Thompson could bulk up to 220-230 lb. range and be a LB for us.
Yeah, I see him turning into this guy:
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Ahh, pifane. Just got it.
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17 hours ago, Bullneck said:
There's probably that nude of her still floating around the internet. And the one of her in a tOSU jersey. Oh, look . .
When are she and Zack Smith going to hook up and live happily ever after?
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I guess I should have waited a few days to start that other thread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/05/30/feature/my-grandfathers-secret-d-day-journal/?utm_term=.445fbb49014d
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10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
It's too bad she didn't get into a good school. Having to settle for Mines is terrible.
That is quite shitty that they do that, though.
Yeah, she only applied to UT because her mom (the alum) wanted her to, so it wasn't a big deal to anyone other than the wife.
I literally could not be happier with the experience she's had at Mines. There have been several times where I've walked into my department chair or dean's office and said "Here's what my daughter's school does... Can we do that?"
And she texted me this yesterday:
Fuck you, Cockrell.
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53 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
UT used to deal with that with a 2/3 attrition rate. But that is no longer a good look, so they have to be ultra-selective in admissions. I imagine they are using some obscure criteria to attempt to assess whether applicants have that aptitude and interest to complete the degree.
??? Then wouldn't you think that this obscure criteria might consider not immediately denying admission to those applicants who applied to their most competitive major as their first choice and didn't get in?
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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Damn. I remembered the biomed/ME angle, but I didn't remember Cockrell turned her down.
That's almost Aggie-like in its fuckery, as in "let's make sure we don't admit stellar candidates on their second choice because hey, they could be trying to trick us".
It's just fucking lazy is what it is.
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12 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Details? Trying to wade through all this shit is exhausting.
She put biomedical as her first choice. We knew that was really hard to get into, so we weren't surprised when she got turned down. She put ME as her second choice and didn't get that either. Wife was furious, called around and finally found someone on campus who told her that they don't consider second choices unless it's in a low-demand program. 34 ACT, 2nd in class, 6 varsity letters, drum major, NHS VP, all region band 4 years, a parent who donates to UT ever year, and Cockrell didn't admit her. On the bright side, wife doesn't waste our money donating to UT any more.
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I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and that it's fake but it's the Texas A&m Aggies we're talking about here. Weird and sad is their m.o.
SECRant gets them.
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2 hours ago, Mach 1 said:
My old boss was a UNT grad. He claimed this series was a defining moment for both programs. Said at the time they were roughly the same, power wise, both smallish upstarts on the upswing. I kind of laughed and said, what? UNT and Florida State? He was adamant that if the series were reversed, and UNT had won both games (76 and 77), UNT would have been ranked in '77 at the end of the season, and ranked going into '78. And with that Fry would have stayed, negotiated UNT in the the SWC, and turned UNT into what Florida State eventually became.
Sounds like alumni bullshit, but I liked my old boss, and kind of hope he was on to something.
I was at this game, and this is pretty true. FSU basically killed NTSU the next year in Tallahassee, so that showed that the difference in the two had widened. Then HF went to Iowa and NT hired Corky Nelson to replace him IIRC.
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